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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"U.S. Constitution"”.
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The Missing Founding Fathers: The Need to Teach the Role of the Antifederalists in the Adoption of the Bill of Rights
… the 1787-88 debate over the adoption of the U.S. Constitution to high school history and government students. The cited research shows the Antifederalist role is now underemphasized in high school history textbooks, despite the fact that accepted state and national standards encourage it. The …
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A case study of the American public's reaction to the expansion of NAFTA between 1993 - 1998
… to expand NAFTA. While according to the U.S. Constitution, the Congress also has a key role in the foreign policy making arena, the examples from NAFTA and NAFTA ratification indeed illustrate that the foreign policy process had a lot more domestic influence in the period between 1993 -1998. …
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Misguided Instructions: Do Jurors Accurately Understand the Law in Death Penalty Trials?
<p>The Sixth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees individuals’ right to trial by an impartial jury. However, empirical research indicates that the jury system is flawed, especially regarding judicial sentencing instructions. More specifically, jurors frequently misunderstand or …
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Validity and Constitutionality of Inter Parte Reviews Before the U.S. Supreme Court
… partes review violate Article III of the U.S. Constitution. A case analysis of Oil States v. Green's Energy Group, et al. will show that more likely than not correcting an error of an administrative agency is not in violation of one's constitutional right to a jury. Permitting the U.S. Patent …
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Summary of Essays on the Constitutional Application of the 1996 CDA Section 230 and Separation of Powers
… theory such that the U.S. Constitution applies to its conduct, whether social media platforms are common law “common carriers,” and the state regulatory approach for “quasi” state actors. Chapter 2 explores the nondelegation doctrine using James Madison’s view of the …
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John Rawls and the Supreme Court : a study in continuity and change.
… and securing his realistic-utopian vision of a constitutional democracy. This is highlighted by his calling the Court the exemplar of public reason; it is to take the institutional lead in re-founding the U.S. Constitution upon an overlapping consensus on issues of public morality based upon a …
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The Impact of State Exemptions on Personal Bankruptcy Filings
… authority over bankruptcy law through the U.S. Constitution (Article 1, section 8), the Federal Government has historically left bankruptcy law for state governments to enact. In 1978, the U.S Congress tried to create a national bankruptcy law, but a last minute compromise allowed states to …
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Educating Individuals With Intellectual Disabilities: The US Constitution, Citizenship And Disability
… population is required to pass the U.S. Constitution test. However, in spite of a mandate that students with disabilities should have access to the general education curriculum, students with significant intellectual disabilities are not required to learn about the constitution or their …
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Constitutional Rights in a Common Law World: The Reconstruction of North Carolina Legal Culture, 1865-1874
… and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, which were ratified in the aftermath of the Civil War, abolished slavery, established national citizenship and made equality before the law a constitutional requirement. These national constitutional amendments brought revolutionary …
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Effective Practices in Citizenship Education; We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution
We the Peopleâ ¦The Citizen and the Constitution is a course of study that enhances the civic knowledge, skills, and dispositions that lead to responsible citizenship. The curriculum, published by the Center for Civic Education, is intended for students in grades 5, 8, and high school. Students …
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Indecent Traffic: Shifting Understandings of the U.S. Commerce Clause
… paper focuses on the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution and explores how its scope has expanded throughout history. This paper, organized chronologically, evaluates the alterations to the scope of the Commerce Clause through the American Industrial Revolution, anti-vice and purity movements. …
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Cup of salvation : race, religion, and anti-prohibition in Texas, 1885-1935.
… to ratify the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. This amendment banned the alcohol trade in the United States and took effect from 1920 until its repeal thirteen years later in 1933, though many statewide or local prohibition laws began earlier and lasted longer. Most studies of …
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“The Amazing Iroquois”: Haudenosaunee History in Myth and Memory, 1776–1955
… influenced the structure and scope of the U.S. Constitution. My study examines the lives of four related (by blood and by claim) Seneca leaders: Red Jacket, Ely S. Parker, Harriet Maxwell Converse, and Arthur C. Parker. These four stand out because each was one of the most famous Native …
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A more perfect union : Joseph Story's synthesis of natural rights philosophy and the common law.
… Story by evaluating his Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States as a project of civic education. Reading the Commentaries on the Constitution in this light directs attention to the Nullification Crisis, the context for Story's Commentaries. As such, Story's project of civic …
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The Contributions of the Unwanted
According to the U.S. Constitution as construed by the Plyler v. Doe, 457 U.S. 202 (1982) Supreme Court Case, all children in the United States - from kindergarten through grade twelve - have a right to a free public education regardless of citizenship; however, undocumented students seeking to …
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A Re-Analysis of the Role of Race in the Federal Death Penalty System
… to Court-approved standards under the U.S. Constitution. After the death penalty was reinstated in 1976, it was believed by many that the deficiencies cited in sentencing outcomes in capital cases four years earlier in Furman would either be eliminated or at least brought within …
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The interplay of judicial review and federalism choices in Brazil after the Republican Constitution of 1988
… how federalism choices adopted by the Brazilian Constitution of 1988 impacts judicial review. In order to address this central question, this work was structured in three sub-questions designed to study specific federalism constitutional options pertinent to all distinct levels of Brazilian …
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A historico-legal overview on the impeachment system under the United States and the United Kingdom constitutions and any relevance to Malta
… of the relevant Articles under the United States Constitution and a legal analysis of these provisions, namely Article 1 Section 2, 4, 5, 6 ,7, Article 2 Sections 2 and 4 and other provisions which refer to, or may influence the interpretation or rules of procedure of impeachment both directly or …
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Navigating Through U.S.-China Policy: An Investigation of China National Off-Shore Oil Corporation's Proposed Acquisition of Unocal Corporation and How Domestic Politics Plays a Role in Balancing U.S. Trade Policy with National Security Policy
… the case study. Sources of data include the U.S. Constitution, statutes, judicial opinions, congressional hearings and reports, White House papers, administrative rules, and published biographies. Secondary sources include the media, journals, and think-tank publications.</p> <p>The study examines …
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