National Do-Not-Call Registry and the CAN SPAM Act are both attempts to protect individuals from corporate marketing strategies. The National Do-Not-Call-Registry attempts to limit the ability of corporations to place unsolicited commercial calls to Continue Reading...
Law Fourth Amendment Common law affirmed that evidence even that which is obtained through illegal means was admissible and was never excluded simply because it was obtained through illegal means. Common law evidence of the guilt of a defendant pro Continue Reading...
Statutory Law Define Common law. Include examples and what U.S. Constitution amendments were implemented to protect the rights of businesses and organizations. Common law is based upon the decisions from previous court cases. They are binding in a Continue Reading...
Better still, don't let it happen. (para. 61) In the United States, citizens take a dim view of unbridled police powers. They were condemnatory of Samuel a. Alito, a young U.S. President Ronald Reagan administration lawyer, and Supreme Court nomine Continue Reading...
The U.S. Constitution also included many of those Magna Carta rights from the first state constitutions. Equally important in developing the rights delineated in the Bill of Rights was another 17th century English document, the 1689 English Bill of Continue Reading...
Moreover, the risks posed by felons with known propensities (or stated intentions) to respond violently to law enforcement apprehension efforts are usually subject to judicially approved no-knock arrest warrants; therefore, they can be excepted from Continue Reading...
Rule of Law and Extra-Legal Doctrines The rule of law does not need to be supported or expanded by "extra-legal" doctrines of morality. The laws as they exist today in this country are based upon a system of morality that has evolved over thousands Continue Reading...
Introduction: The Structure and Sources of LawThe American government comprises three distinct branches at the state and federal levels: the legislative, judicial, and executive. Each branch contributes to creating laws within its jurisdiction, formi Continue Reading...
Under the provisions of Title VII, all employers involved in interstate commerce with more than 15 employees are prohibited from discriminating against their employees on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. Title VII makes it Continue Reading...
Law of Contract Contract law As to concerned definition of law there are many definition among various schools of thought of law such that no particular definition is acceptable to them as universal definition of law, but nevertheless there is a co Continue Reading...
Constitution/Homeland Security FISA FISA -- The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act dictates the way the United States government carries out communication surveillance (e.g., telefaxes, emails, telephone calls, Internet websites, etc.) that pass Continue Reading...
Constitution for a Club Rules and laws are a vital component of any civilized society. No human community can function effectively without them. All areas of life are governed by some sort of rule. In general society, for example, there are governme Continue Reading...
Male voters had to own property. Thus voting was still the province of land-holding elites rather than all the people under the rule of constitutional, national, and state law. The fact that Senators were appointed by the state legislature not only Continue Reading...
Most nations have let slip the opportunity, and have been compelled to receive laws from their conquerors (Paine). Democracy, the republic, voting, the Supreme Court, debate, etc. are no longer foreign concepts -- the great American "experiment" of Continue Reading...
" To quote the Encyclopedia of World Biography's entry on Thomas Paine (2004) "his contributions included an attack on slavery and the slave trade. His literary eloquence received recognition with the appearance of his 79-page pamphlet titled Common Continue Reading...
Q: Do you think continual education and/or training in police ethics would reduce incidents of police corruption? A: Again, it depends entirely on the type of continual education and training we're talking about: repeating simplistic ethical traini Continue Reading...
That with the limitations articulated in the constitution that gives the people some declarative authority in how government is suppose to run then the common man would feel his or her best interest would be represented (Brandes 2009). That is, in Continue Reading...
" (Berns, 28). The assertion that these rights are innate places them before the structuring of society and government, and makes the task for a society built out of these principles to find some way to attain them. This broad perspective sets the s Continue Reading...
Each state and many banks eventually developed their own currencies, greatly complicating trade and issues of security, both through increased potential for fraud and a lack of reliable knowledge about the strength of a particular currency at any gi Continue Reading...
In addition it was agreed that issues of federal budget, revenue and taxation would originate with the House of Representatives. The Great Compromise issued in a spirit of success to the convention and essentially ended the division between the sma Continue Reading...
The Virginia debates over ratification highlight two key issues which are still subject to debate today: the power of the state vs. The power of the government and whether more government enhances our liberties or suppresses them. Anti-federalists Continue Reading...
The trouble with this is that employees often assume that their email conversations are personal in nature, and therefore fail to find out whether in fact this is actually the case. In general, "They tend to believe that their e-mails are private be Continue Reading...
Criminal laws in the United States are largely and totally considered as the result of the constitutional authority and legislative bodies that enact them. The American constitution normally provides the basis for the development of legislative agenc Continue Reading...
U.S. Laws Americans have been gathering together to make laws since the colonial times. This process is continued today in order to maintain a well-regulated society. Even though specific procedures for creating law have developed over time, democr Continue Reading...
Company Law The functions of company law What is covered in the company law? The legal implications of 'pre-registration contracts' The Australian corporate law has seen major reforms in the last couple of years (Tomasic, Bottomley & McQueen Continue Reading...
U.S. CONSTITUTION The effect that ever changing societal values have on the Supreme Court's interpretation of the U.S. Constitution The effect that ever changing societal values have on the Supreme Court's interpretation of the U.S. Constitution Continue Reading...
This essay provides a brief overview of several of the key factors in conflict of laws, including the areas where choice of law is likely to be at issue. Domicile Domicile is one of the key factors in choice of law. Domicile is not the same as loc Continue Reading...
Criminal Law Due Process Due process is an essential guarantee of basic fairness for citizens based on law. It has two basic goals; to produce accurate results through fair procedure to prevent wrongful deprivation of interests and to make people fe Continue Reading...
Volition and Contract Law In the everyday life, people make choices on various subjects. The personal rights in the constitution grant every individual the chance and ability to choose. This cognitive process, which facilitates the individual to dec Continue Reading...
Origins and Characteristics of the Law and Legal Systems in the U.S. The Origins and Characteristics of the Law and Legal Systems in the United States The origins and characteristics of the law and legal systems of the United States It is a commo Continue Reading...
Canadian Business and the Law Does Canada have too much business law? This is paper is based on the Canadian business law and all the information so mentioned are related to the book titled "Canadian Business and the Law" which is written by author Continue Reading...
Further, these writs, once issued, could be reused, and did not expire until the death of the reigning monarch (Knappman, 33). In Massachusetts, a group of colonial merchants, represented by James Otis, petitioned the Superior Court to refuse any n Continue Reading...
U.S. Constitution: Discussion Questions A) The Fourteenth Amendment: the Case of Whitney V. California 274 U.S. 357 Whitney V. California (No. 3) Argued: October 6, 1925 Decided: May 16, 1927 453 Affirmed Location: Socialist Convention at Lori Continue Reading...
(The Sixth Amendment, http://civilliberty.about.com/od/lawenforcementterrorism/p/6th_amendment.htm. Retrieved 6 December 2009.) The Fourteenth Amendment, although not (obviously) a part of the Bill of Rights, presents rights that are as central to Continue Reading...
Neo-Liberalistic Legal Concepts on Nations With Distinct Legal Tradition (Common, Civil, Socialist) This review of the related literature focuses on broad definitions of the law as historically legislated and then as practiced in three countries: M Continue Reading...
' (Johnson, 2003; paraphrased) Congress's work is "initiated by the introduction of a proposal in one of four forms: 1) the bill; 2) the joint resolution; 3) the concurrent resolution; and 4) the simple resolution. (Johnson, 2003) There are two t Continue Reading...
Politics of Administrative Law An Examination of the Challenges Presented by NLRB vs. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. To the Political, Economic, and Legal Philosophies Developed from Munn vs. Illinois and Lochner vs. New York As the 19th century Continue Reading...
Not all offense levels are entitled to a jury trial and each jurisdiction has its own standard in this regard. As a general rule, however, any offense involving the possibility of incarceration as a sanction is entitled to the benefit of a jury tria Continue Reading...
