Constitutionality

A plea bargain is a procedure that prosecutors use to avoid a trial as juries or even judges can be unpredictable in their behavior and may rule against them. Prosecutors like sure things as does the State and a plea bargain gains an admission of guilt without the right to an appeal in exchange for leniency. However, a plea bargain may induce prosecutors to over-charge a suspect in an attempt to bully them into gaining a plea bargain. Plea bargains are also not conducted in open court so there…

year old boy became the first juvenile sentenced to death in colonial America. Over three centuries later, the Supreme Court established 16 as the very minimum age for an offender to be sentenced to death. Despite the courts recognition of the constitutionality of the practice,…

The Supreme Court decision in the Lochner case ushered in what is often referred to as the Lochner Era, which occurred between the years 1905 and 1937. During this time period, the doctrine of laissez-faire constitutionalism reigned within the Supreme Court. While many justices came and went during this era, the ideology of the majority of the Court remained the same. Lochner is viewed by some as a symbol of a conservative judiciary 's resistance to change. Despite the fact that support by…

There are conflicting views on the degree of damage that access to Internet can do to our society. A large number of people claim that as more and more people become familiar with Internet, the potential of its damage grows to an uncontrollable rate. Whereas some people claim that any regulation to limit the access of Internet is an act of violation against their first amendment rights. Because in some cases there are no restriction to what can be put one the internet, what can be viewed on the…

If the Supreme Court didn't have the power to overturn unconstitutional federal laws, then who would? Without the supreme court, the other two branches will be overpowering. The United States can’t have a workable system of the government without the judicial branch. The Judicial branch act as a tiebreaker for the legislative branch and executive branch. And those three are the reason to prevent the government from overpower. Without them, it will lead to chaos, and nobody makes a decision. The…

Tara Mikaelian POL 343—Fall 2015 President Nixon’s Infiltration of Cambodia In 1970, President Richard Nixon invaded Cambodia, on behalf of Khmer Republic and South Vietnam. Although this action kept with the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, regarding constitutional authorization, the bombings lacked congressional awareness; thereby stripping Congress of the opportunity to rescind their prior granted authorization. The bombings of Cambodia failed to give Congress the opportunity to rescind…

And when we went to the internment camp, guard towers, double security fence and all that, I really wondered what’s going to happen to us. You know, that this is just the beginning and they may very well send us back to Japan. And that, to me, was horrible. I, in my heart, knew my loyalty belongs to America. I went to school, pledged allegiance every morning in grammar school. And for me to think that I may be sent to Japan was horrendous. And so that was sort of a nightmare. —Susumu Satow, THE…

The “Separation of Powers” has been included as part of the U.S. Constitution and also divides them into the three branches: the executive, the legislature, and the judicial. The government limits the roles in equal amount, so that no other branch becomes more powerful than another. The reason for the separation of powers is important because they have roles which are laws we must obey and not break the laws when it comes to the three branches. They wrote the U.S. Constitution and the division…

passed by congress. We also have the lower number of judges and law, not the constitution, dictates the structure of the lower courts. Then we have Supreme Court. This is the highest court in the judicial branch. They have the final say on the constitutionality of all cases. The legislative branch consists of Congress. Therefore the Congresses main purpose is to create laws and legislation. The Congress sees over the execution of these laws, and checks the judicial and executive branches…

After the dramatic and horrible acts committed on September 11, 2001, the world was in shock. The magnitude of the terrorist attacks were nothing to be overlooked. The United States knew they had to find a way to keep the people calm and in a safe place. Forty-five days after the terrorist attacks on the nation, Congress passed the USA PATRIOT Act, acronym for the “ Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism” Act. The acts…