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The Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal
1,254 wordsIn early October 1945, the four powers victorious after the Second World War issued an indictment against 24 men and six organizations. Fifty years ago the Prosecutions opening statement was read by Associate United States Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson. Just eight months prior to that reading, the very building in which the historical trial took place was "an enemy fortress in the hands of German troops" The Nuremberg Trials are historically significant because they represent the first ti...
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Hate Crime Prevention Act
513 wordsThe Hate Crimes Prevention Act Will Not Prevent Hate Crimes I am not anti-gay, nor am I opposed to gay rights. I believe that same sex couples should be allowed to marry and to adopt children. Also, openly homosexual individuals should be eligible for service in the military. Despite this acceptance of peoples homosexuality, I hold that the Hate Crimes Prevention Act is unnecessary in the United States. I understand that gays and lesbians live in fear of being attacked, but who can be sure that ...
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Gay Rights To Marriage
2,017 wordsMy aunt, who lives in Missouri, has had a loving partner for about four years. They are both lesbians and want to get married someday when the law allows. I asked them to send me a letter on some of their thoughts on same-sex marriage. Out of her four-page letter I pulled this reply out, "If two people of the same sex choose to make a life together I feel that they should have the same rights as a man and women would have once they are married, but the real kicker is... That a man and women can ...
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Equal Employment Opportunity Civil Rights Act
4,325 wordsI. The History of Diversity in America Known as the Melting Pot, America is a country with a more diverse population than any other. But America also has a long, painful past of discrimination that has been based on sex, race, color, disability, religion, sexual orientation and various other characteristics that stray from the average white American citizen. Through the years, government has played a major role in trying to correct the past wrongs due to discrimination by enacting legislation an...
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American Indian Religious Freedom Act Of 1978
1,519 wordsTHE AMERICAN INDIAN RELIGIOUS FREEDOM ACT OF 1978 The American Indian Religious Freedom Act of 1978 Some people want the medicine man and woman to share their religious belief in the same manner that priests, rabbis, and ministers expound publicly the tenets of their denominations; others feel that Indian ceremonials are remnants of primitive life and should be abandoned. - Vine Deloria (NARF article) Religious freedom is an autonomy that most people living in the present take for granted. For m...
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Physician Assisted Suicide Terminally Ill Patient
764 wordsPhysician-assisted suicide presents one of the greatest dilemmas tothe medical profession. Should someone who is mentally competent, but deemed terminally ill, be allowed to engaged physician-assisted suicide? According to the First Amendment of The Constitution of The United States, one haste freedom to petition the government for a redress of grievances. The Fourteenth Amendment states, The State cannot deprive any person of life, liberty or property, without due process of law; nor deny any p...
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Affirmative Action Equal Protection
760 wordsAffirmative action in theory and in thought is intended to promote the welfare of this countrys minorities by supporting the idea that individuals are equal and should not be judged by race or sex. Therefore, in situations like job and university applications, we should consider minorities to be as feasible a choice for hire as a white male candidate, taking into consideration their background. In short, it tries to give minorities that have been at a disadvantage their whole life, an advantage ...
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Allowed To Marry Gay And Lesbian
499 wordsThe right to marry is a basic human right that every human being deserves (HRW 1). However, people don't seem to agree with that and discriminate against the homosexuals who desire marrying their partner. With that said, homosexuals should be allowed to marry their partners regardless of their sex, and should have equal rights just as any other human-being. One example of equal rights and the right to marry is how Governor Jon Blagoveich made it a point to Extend equal protection for its gay and...
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Abortion Birth Control Or Legal Murder
1,342 wordsApproximately 1. 6 million murders are committed legally each year. With the exception of laws in few states, the mutilated bodies of the victims are thrown into dumpsters like pieces of rotten meat. While these victims lay waiting in the infested dumpsters to be hauled off to a landfill, the murderers are in their offices waiting for their next patient -- the accomplice to the murder. This is the murder of an innocent child by a procedure known as abortion. Abortion stops the beating of an inno...
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Marine Corps Fifth Amendment
1,186 wordsThe idea of women in combat is not unusual anymore. They should be able to hold combat positions because although physical strength matters, the military still needs the intelligence that women can bring. Also, banning women from the combat hurts their military careers. Although women account for a very small percent of the enlisted personnel they are still a major part in the armed forces. Their performance recently has generated support from Congress and the public for enhancing the role of fe...
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President And Vice President Citizens Of The United States
458 words. Constitution: Fourteenth Amendment Fourteenth Amendment - Rights Guaranteed Privileges and Immunities of Citizenship, Due Process and Equal Protection Amendment Text | Annotations Section. 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any Stat...
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Blacks History In Education Part 2
1,979 words... white student, while only $ 17. 04 was spent on black students. The history of black education after the civil war has many different histories. The three main groups that make up this history are southern blacks, southern whites, and northern whites. Whose history it is to tell is a tough question, considering that all groups have a firm stake in the development of black education. All of their ideologies and attitudes toward black education shaped the place of education in the South. (Leve...
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Equal Protection Clause Separate But Equal
314 wordsBrown v. Board of Education In 1896 the Supreme Court had held in Please v. Ferguson that racial segregation was permissible as long as equal facilities were provided for both races. Although that decision involved only passenger accommodations on a rail road, the principle of separate but equal was applied thereafter to all aspects of public life in states with large black populations. Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, decided on May 17, 1954, was one of the most important cases in...
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Supreme Court Ruled Gay Rights Movement
2,831 wordsIt was Friday June 27, 1969. New Yorks crime syndicates are extorting large sums of protection money from gay bars. Any who can, or will, not pay are either persuaded or closed down after a visit from NYCPDs Public Morals Section, who enforce the Mafias stranglehold on the citys gay bars. The detectives from the Public Morals Section have no reason to believe that tonights raid on the gay Stonewall Inn will be anything but brief and businesslike. They arrest two bartenders, three drag queens, an...
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Bill Of Rights Fourteenth Amendment
776 wordsThe Fourteenth Amendment was adopted in 1868 as one of the longest amendments to the Constitution with five parts in total. The most significant part is section one. In the very first sentence of section one, All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, as citizens of the United States and of the state where in they reside citizenship was universalized. The Amendment was designed to prohibit state governments from curtailing the rights of former s...
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Board Of Education Of Topeka Appellate Courts
600 wordsScott Colson Chris OConnell To Kill A Mockingbird March 5, 2000 GOMILLION ET AL. v. LIGHTFOOT, MAYOR OF TUSKEGEE, ET AL. The unprecedented Gomillion v. Lightfoot came to the Supreme Court because the borders of Tuskegee, Alabama were redrawn. They went from a square shape to an irregular one to exclude black neighborhoods, on the outer edges of the city, violating the 15 th Amendment, denying them a vote because of race. This practice is also known as racial gerrymandering. On October 18 and 19 ...
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Bill Of Rights Fourteenth Amendment
1,710 wordsGriswold v. Connecticut appealed to the Supreme Court on errors of the state court of Connecticut. This case deals with the right to prescribe the use of birth control to a married female. This action is found unconstitutional under the state laws, but this law invades a person? s rights under the constitution. Here the problem evolves and must be decided upon in the courts. The appellant Griswold is an Executive Director of the Planned Parenthood League of Connecticut (Janosik, 1035). Appellant...
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Persian Gulf War Armed Forces
702 wordsThe idea of women in combat is not unusual anymore. They should be able to hold combat positions because although physical strength matters, the military still needs the intelligence that women can bring. Also, banning women from the combat hurts their military careers. Although women account for only ten percent of the enlisted personnel (Time, 8 / 21 / 95 / Pg. 31), they are still a major part in the armed forces. Their performance recently has generated support from Congress and the public fo...
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Supreme Court Decision Dred Scott V
3,507 wordsRoe v Wade is undoubtedly one of the Supreme Courts most controversial decisions. Handed down in January of 1973, the Court declared, by a vote of 7 to 2, that abortion was a right guaranteed by the Constitution under an implied right to privacy. Justice Harry Blackmun, the author of the majority opinion, stated that the Constitution does not explicitly mention a right to privacy but, in varying contexts the Court or individual justices have, indeed, found at least the roots of that right. The r...
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Civil Rights Movement Civil Disobedience
732 wordsThe progress toward equal rights for blacks in the U. S. has been going on for over two hundred years. Since the first colonists settled in the Americas, slaves were a common piece of property. This identity as property was reinforced when the United States Constitution counted slaves as 3 / 5 of a human. After the civil war, a series of laws and the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth amendments tried to set all citizens on the same level. Unfortunately, as a result of Please v. Ferguson, Jim ...
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