John Marshall Harlan

The Fourteenth Amendment has, overall, been a great incorporation into the Constitution through its equal protection clause, due process clause, and other specific feature such as the ability to be show the presence of the separate but equal mindset invested amongst individuals in the Court case of Plessy v. Ferguson, the implementation of said mindset in the decision of the Brown v. The Board of Education Supreme Court case, the usage of the due process clause in the 2000 presidential election between

In December of 1865, Congress passed the 13th amendment abolishing slavery in the United States. By July of 1868, the 14th amendment was passed to grant citizenship to anyone, regardless of race, born in the United States and prohibiting states from depriving any person of his life, liberty, or property without due process of law, or rejecting to any person, within their jurisdiction, the equal protection of the laws (Jim Crow Stories). Immediately following the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln and Republicans

With all of our technology advances today, for example, drones, it is hard for the laws to keep up to date on what is legal and what is illegal. Our privacy is one of those things that technology is able to invade. With technology, it is getting easier and easier to invade people’s privacy and their personal data. People want to feel safe and secure if they want to share their data with others and not have to worry if someone is trying to steal the data. If people knew that there data is more secured

William Howard Taft once said “Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law” (Brainyquote.com). Taft was the first U.S President to throw a first pitch at a baseball game. President Taft was easy going even with the nickname of Big Lub (because of his weight). After his Presidency, Taft lost about 70 pounds within a few years of leaving the White House. Taft attended Yale university and came in second in his class. In college

Restricted from ruling that Blacks are neither people nor citizens, the Supreme Court ruled that separating people on the basis of race was Constitutional, so long as the facilities were equal. According to the Court, "When the government has secured to each of its citizens equal rights before the law and equal opportunities for improvement and progress, it has accomplished the end for which it is organized and performed all of the functions respecting social advantages with which it is endowed."

The history of Affirmative Action dates back to the days when the nation tried to rebuild its society after the civil war. Reconstruction tried to establish virtuous relations between the white Europeans & black Africans that made up a giant part of the American society. The nation was torn on how to establish these relations. Lots of call Reconstruction the low point of race relations in the United States. This period included the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment, defining national citizenship

Brian Dominguez GPH – 704 Public Health Ethics – Legal Analysis (Patient w/Tuberculosis) Introduction: In the fall of 2005, a homeless man from another state arrived in Maine who has been incompletely treated for tuberculosis (TB). He had several incarcerations within the next year and exposed the disease to other inmates. In addition, he exposed the disease to people at the homeless shelter; more than 100 persons were exposed between the shelter and county jail and transmission to 6 homeless

Small town Holdrege, Nebraska is where I decided to look a little further into law enforcement on the State level. There are quite a few State Troopers in this area, or it seems to be that way anyways. I contacted Sargent John Wagner for an interview. I have to say these men/women in uniform are slightly intimidating. I’m not sure if it is the uniform, or the fact I grew up thinking these officers of the law are just that scary. I guess we shall see once we begin the interview. I began by asking

In no juncture of this nation's history has there been an era when any American citizen that was deprived of their essential rights and equal opportunities, has not been plagued with the struggle to be validated as full American citizens. America has long been encompassed by countless conflicts in this struggle to reach the full equality promised to every American. The Civil Rights Movement has always had to grapple with an unsympathetic legislature and impassive executive branch forcing these citizens

Equality of Educational Opportunity in the United States About 3 days ago, a lot of newspapers as well as websites reported that Malala Yousafzai, 17-year-old young teenager from Pakistan, got the Nobel Peace Prize as the youngest winner ever. Since I did not know much about why she got this prize, I looked up some background information about her. What I found was that her most significant and remarkable statement in her speech at the United Nations headquarter in New York. In her influential speech