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Trial By Jury President And Vice President
1,048 wordsa. Creates Congress - House and Senate 3. Senate tries impeachment proceedings a. President is Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces b. President has appointment power for officers and judges c. Has the power to negotiate treaties 1. Pocket veto - if President does not act in 10 days and Congress is not still in session, bill dies and must be reintroduced; if Congress is in session and President does not act in 10 days, bill becomes law a. Federal judges are appointed for life c. Article 78 - m...
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Searches And Seizures Probable Cause
1,074 wordsThe book, Terror on Highway 59 was about a reporter by the name of Steve Sellers. Steve was in his second week of his new job, for the Austin American Statesmen, when his city editor handed him a letter containing weird behavior on Highway 59. The letter was from a man named J. E. Foley. Foley complained about the San Jacinto County Sheriffs department. Foley was on his way home from Kentucky after visiting some friends in Houston, and had bought a new car. The officers pulled over the car he wa...
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Equal Protection Clause Due Process Clause
2,413 words... ter the 14 th Amendment was created in 1868. Conversely, although some of the framers of PIC 14 believed that the privileges and immunities of Article IV were strictly limited to fundamental and ancient rights (as discussed in Cornfield v. Coryell), that was not the prevailing view either, in the sense that equal rights for out-of-state visitors was never limited to a narrow range of fundamental and ancient rights. The plain language of PIC 14 ("No State shall make or enforce any law which s...
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Allowed To Play Fourth Amendment
583 wordsShould High School Students be Drug Tested? Many schools feel that the students that play sports are the leaders in their schools and should have to take a drug test to be eligible to play sports. The schools do not want drug users on high school sports teams because in many cases, students on the teams are the ones that are looked up to in their schools and are supposed to set the example for others. Drug use by people playing sports also has very serious health consequences on and off the play...
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Fourth Amendment Drug Abusers
618 wordsA current issue that is going on today is welfare recipients that are drug abusers. Welfare is supposed to meet the basic needs. Drugs seem far from one of the basic human needs to me. If the recipient gets all the benefits from the programs they will more than likely turn around and sell their food stamps for their fix rather than go to the store and get their family some food. Drugs also go hand and hand with family problems, violence, and crime. It is estimated that between 50 % and 80 % of F...
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