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- 41: The Case for Euthanasia: Should Physician-Assisted Suicide be Legalized?
- ... death, without the physician's being held civilly or criminally liable for having caused the death" . The "passive" form of euthanasia was first deemed legal by the New Jersey State Supreme Court in 1976 In re Quinlan . In the Quinlan case, the court allowed a competent patient to terminate the use of life- sustaining medical machines to prolong life. Since New Jersey's decision, all fifty states have enacted similar statutes which ...
- 42: The Case for Euthanasia: Should Physician-Assisted Suicide be Legalized?
- ... death, without the physician's being held civilly or criminally liable for having caused the death" . The "passive" form of euthanasia was first deemed legal by the New Jersey State Supreme Court in 1976 In re Quinlan . In the Quinlan case, the court allowed a competent patient to terminate the use of life- sustaining medical machines to prolong life. Since New Jersey's decision, all fifty states have enacted similar statutes which ...
- 43: United States v. Nixon, President of the United States
- ... system of checks and balances has been installed into the Constitution. No one branch of government stands above the law in this setup. This point was reasserted in the the Supreme Court case of 1974, United States v. Nixon. This case involved the President of the United States, at that time Richard Nixon, and the people of the United States. The case ... have possibly incriminated him. Nixon attempted to quash this subpoena by claiming executive privelege. The Special Prosecutor argued this claim successfully. The President then appealed this ruling from the District Court to the Court of Appeals. In the Appeals Court, the Special Prosecutor filed for a writ of certiorari which was petitioned by the President. Both petitions were granted and ...
- 44: Capital Punishment and the Death Penalty
- ... defendant is a very arduous and time-taking ordeal. After he has been arrested as the suspect of a crime the defendant will either tried in a state or federal court system. The lowest court that a litigant can be sent to is the Court of General jurisdiction (state level) or the US District Courts (federal level). Any time in the trial the defense may choose to appeal. Even if a suspect is sentenced ...
- 45: Capital Punishment
- ... defendant is a very arduous and time-taking ordeal. After he has been arrested as the suspect of a crime the defendant will either tried in a state or federal court system. The lowest court that a litigant can be sent to is the Court of General jurisdiction (state level) or the US District Courts (federal level). Any time in the trial the defense may choose to appeal. Even if a suspect is sentenced ...
- 46: Racism
- ... states, The District of Columbia, Japan and Germany. This association for 89 years has made itīs way through political pressure, marches, demonstrations and through the courts. Fighting several important court cases has brought significant consequences in what concerns the fight for equal rights ( ending discrimination through legal action). Among some we find, Guinn vs. United States in which the supreme Court in 1910 brought down some old traditional clauses of state constitutions as an "unconstitutional barrier to voting rights under the Fifteenth Amendment . In 1917, the Court declared as unconstitutional ...
- 47: Internet Pornography: Freedom of Press or Dangerous Influence?
- ... Internet freedom or censorship cites the U.S. and bases arguments on the First Amendment. With this precedent setting responsibility, one must look at what is going on in the Supreme Court with regards to the Internet. Peter H. Lewis, a reporter for the New York Times, has been covering the Computer Decency Act since passing of the law. The Computer Decency ... purpose of this section was to halt the "flow of pornography and other objectionable material on the Internet..." (1). This section, however, was declared unconstitutional by a panel of the Supreme Court in June 1996. This overturn caused an uproar among the anti-pornography groups in the United States. The case will be heard once again in June 1997 to ...
- 48: The Life of Adolf Hitler
- ... 1889, he was born in the small Austrian village of Braunau Am Inn just across the border from German Bavaria. Adolf Hitler would one day lead a movement that placed supreme importance on a person's family tree even making it a matter of life and death. However, his own family tree was quite mixed up and would be a lifelong ... young boy he idolized the priests and for two years seriously considered becoming a priest himself. He especially admired the Abbot in charge, who ruled his black-robbed monks with supreme authority. At home Hitler sometimes played priest and even included long sermons. At age nine, he got into schoolboy mischief. He was caught smoking a cigarette by one of the ... music and old-world European culture. With money in his pocket provided by his mother, he went there intending to see operas and study the famous picture gallery in the Court Museum. Instead, he found himself enthralled by the city's magnificent architecture. By now Hitler had developed a big interest in architecture. He could draw detailed pictures from memory ...
- 49: Censorship and the First Amendment: The American Citizen's Right to Free Speech
- ... well as others. These groups, religious or otherwise, believe that publishing unorthodox material is an abuse of free expression under the First Amendment. As we will come to find, our Supreme Court system plays an exceedingly important role in the subject of free speech and expression. As well as, understanding that the court system is the nucleus of the construing our First Amendment rights. First we must focus on the motivation and foundations behind these individuals attempting to challenge the right to ...
- 50: Censorship and the First Amendment: The American Citizen's Right to Free Speech
- ... well as others. These groups, religious or otherwise, believe that publishing unorthodox material is an abuse of free expression under the First Amendment. As we will come to find, our Supreme Court system plays an exceedingly important role in the subject of free speech and expression. As well as, understanding that the court system is the nucleus of the construing our First Amendment rights. First we must focus on the motivation and foundations behind these individuals attempting to challenge the right to ...
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