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- 1181: The Death Penalty
- ... Amendment's guarantees of equal protection of the laws and due process. But in 1976, in _ Gregg v. Georgia_, the Court resuscitated the death penalty: It ruled that the penalty "does not invariably violate the Constitution" if administered in a manner designed to guard against arbitrariness and discrimination. Several states promptly passed or reenacted capital punishment laws. Thirty-seven states now have laws authorizing the death penalty, as does the military ...
- 1182: Is The Death Penalty Just?
- ... punishment, various polls report that seventy percent of Americans are in favor of the death sentence. That is a clear majority. So called experts are free to petition grievances and speak freely according to our constitution. But the fact of the matter is seven out of ten Americans have evaluated the dilemma of capital punishment according to their own values and beliefs. Their conclusion was favorable to the death penalty. At ...
- 1183: The Death Penalty
- ... possibility that has been discovered is life without the possibility of parole. Is capitol punishment a desire for revenge or is it a purpose of a policy? The death penalty should be questioned against the Constitution.
- 1184: Law Does Not Drive Us, Reason Does
- ... Both of these violate the laws of sovereignty, jurisdiction, and extraterritoriality (Huston). It is very easy to show that these two acts of the U.S. government are in complete contradiction to our very own constitution. So now it easy to say that laws sometimes need to be broken for the good of the masses. When Dr. King wrote that he would aid the Jews even though he would be braking ...
- 1185: Law of Nations: An Overview
- ... United States' raid on the home of the Nicaraguan embassador in Panama. This clearly violates the idea of extraterritorality. These actions are interpreted to be in violation to the very law that the United States constitution promises to up hold. Because of these actions and many others that are frequently taking place all around the globe, an underlying disregard for law in the international community exists. One could conclude that there ...
- 1186: The Banning of Guns Is Ineffective
- ... of self-defense. To fully understand the reasons behind the gun control efforts, we must look at the history of our country, and the role firearms have played in it. The second amendment to the Constitution of the United States makes firearm ownership legal in this country. There were good reasons for this freedom, reasons which persist today. Firearms in the new world were used initially for hunting, and occasionally for ...
- 1187: Capital Punishment: Injustice of Society
- ... Court has steadily reduced the availability of habeas corpus review of capital convictions, placing its confidence in the notion that state judges, who take the same oath of office as federal judges to uphold the Constitution, can be trusted to enforce it."(Bright 768) This makes for the biased trying of a defendant's appeals, "
given the overwhelming pressure on elected state judges to heed, and perhaps even lead to, the ...
- 1188: Why Gun Control is Needed
- ... country where it appears to be safer to live. We need to have background checks on gun purchasers and people need to have a gun permit (only nine states require this). The framers of our constitution had no idea of the various types of weapons we would have today. But suppose they did, do you think they would have encouraged every person to own a gun? I don't think so ...
- 1189: Capital Punishment: Justice to the Victims and Their Families
- ... value of all life in contempt. This upholds the value of all life. Many would argue that this so-called "eye for an eye" approach is unconstitutional, citing the 8th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Th 8th Amendment states "Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted." This was meant to limit the severity of punishment imposed on an offender by judge ...
- 1190: Prohibition
- ... the reform. Backed by the Voluntary Committee of Lawyers, Roosevelt got the repeal. On February 20, 1933, the Twenty-First Amendment was proposed and on December 5, it was ratified. The newest Amendment to the Constitution repealed the Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead Act. After its repeal it took a long time for the consumption rate of Alcohol to get back to the pre-Prohibition level. In closing, the Noble Experiment ...
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