Rules and discipline are important to solving these very serious problems facing the nation's schools. ... Teachers and administrators spend too much time taking care of the few students who tend to cause the majority of the problems, while the rest get left with a sub-standard learning experience. ... Discipline Patterns Eventually, the continued presence of a "bad apple" in the classroom results in the student being thrown from the group to preserve the majority. ... Some sociologists have noticed that the majority of the students being punished and or removed in schools are African...

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The Ninth Circuit Court ruled that the use of the thermal imager was not in violation of Kyllos privacy. ... With this criterion, the Supreme Court ruled that the government's use of thermal imagining was unconstitutional. ... The opinion of the court was that of a majority opinion. ... Of course, with the majority of all cases, there are some dissenting opinions. ... The court ruled justly in striking down the use of the thermal imager. ...

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Analysis of the Case The Supreme Court ruled 7-2 in favor of Griswold and found that Connecticut statute was invalid as an unconstitutional invasion of the right of privacy of married persons. The Supreme Court ruled that the "statute forbidding use of contraceptives violates the right of marital privacy which is within the penumbra of specific guarantees of the Bill of Rights." According to Justice Douglas, who wrote the majority opinion, the rights people have are more than what can be read in the literal language of the Constitutional text. ... The Vote Majority: Douglas Concurring: B...

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The prime function of the judicial branch is to interpret the law in such a way that rules made in the past can be applied reasonably in the present. ... These rules were established so that justices would be free from political pressures that might influence their decision. ... One of the justices writes the majority opinion, a statement of the court's decision and its reasons. ... A justice who disagrees with the majority opinion may write a dissenting opinion. ... The court as crossed into areas traditionally left to that of the lawmaking majorities, so the legitimacy of the courts hav...

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In the case the court ruled that the states are not forbidden to use evidence obtained from unreasonable search and seizure. The court ruled in favor of Mapp. ... Justice Clark presented the majority opinion. The majority opinion said that the right of privacy is an important value that has to be upheld. ... Majority opinion said that Federal and State laws should have the same approach in similar causes. ...

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In 1981 the Supreme Court ruled in R. v. ... The logic upon which Wray was based, and which led the majority in Rothman to conclude that a confession obtained by a police trick could not be excluded, finds no place in the Charter. To say there is no discretion to exclude a statement on grounds of unfairness to the suspect and the integrity of the judicial system, as did the majority in Rothman, runs counter to the fundamental philosophy of the Charter. ... Section 24(2) rejects the American rule that automatically excludes evidence obtained in violation of the Bill of Rights . . 9 Hebert...

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The Federal Government The Federal Government The three branches of the federal government provide a base for the way we live our lives. The process by which the Judicial, Legislative, and Executive branches operate is long, but necessary. Each branch has a duty to watch the others th...

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The rules can vary as to location, in particular, where the vehicle has stopped. ... However, when it comes to your electronic devises the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recently ruled that border agents must have reasonable suspicion before they can legally conduct a forensics search of laptops, mobile, phones, camera memory cards, and other electronic devices. ... Sitz, 496 U.S. 444, 445 (U.S. 1990), a majority of the Supreme Court Justices determined that the needs of the state to prevent drunk-driving accidents outweighed the minimal intrusion on sober drivers who happen to get caught up...

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The supreme court ruled that Gertz's involvement in the civil case had nothing to do with what was written in the magazine and ruled that in this case Gertz was a private citizen (Pember, p. 167-168). ... In 1991, however, the Supreme Court ruled that the "First Amendment protects deliberately altered quotations of a speaker, unless the alteration results in a material change in the meaning (Broadcasting, p.80). ... The court ruled in favor of Eastwood and granted him $800,000 (Beam, p.6). ... Therefor, the court ruled that there was no actual malice on behalf of the reporter. ... T...

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To limit this control, it was ruled that only Congress could declare war. ... The President can veto any laws made by Congress, but at the same time, the Congress can override that veto with a two-thirds majority. ... This issue on judicial review was not solved until 20 years later, when the Supreme Court ruled that judicial review was ok. ...

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Four justices ruled to admit Bakke and against preferential treatment; and one, to achieve some kind of judicial consensus, upheld Bakke's claim of unfair discrimination and ordered Bakke into the medical school while also upholding affirmative action on the right of universities to seek diversity. ... Affirmative action brought out many worries in the caucasian majority of the population due to the fact that several minorities were receiving entrance into programs, and that the level of skill required for the position was being lowered in order to ...

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Sexual Harassment in the Business World Today In this day in age there are many laws, guidelines, and rules that are to be followed no matter what. There are some people that do not choose to follow some of these rules and this is a problem. Sexual harassment is one of these rule which should, and I say should, be followed no matter what. ... By far the majority of sexual harassment is done by men towards women (50-67%), but sexual harassment does happen to working men (15-30%). ...

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Emerson's slave in the year 1830, where for 12 years there after, he accompanied the Emersons to posts in Illinois and the Wisconin Territory, where congress prohibited slavery under the rules of the Missouri Compromise. ... In 1847, The Circuit Court ruled in favor of Mrs. ... In fact a majority of the Justices that sat on the Supreme Court at that time were prominent slave holders as well. ... In the absence of such laws, Slavery cannot exist; and a Republican ascendancy in the nation, insuring Republican rule over the Territories, will prove a shield against the enactment of any such ...

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The Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the right belongs to the people, while also stating that the right is not unlimited and does not prohibit all regulation of firearms and similar weapons. ... Since January 2013, support for gun rights has increased seven percentage points – from 45% to 52% - while the share prioritizing gun control has fallen five points (from 51% to 46%). 3 A majority of the people think that gun ownership when it is law related protects people from being a victim of crime. ... Within the group of people who have not attended college, majority of them sa...

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"To forbid the majority the right to pray because the minority objects, is to impose the irreligion of the minority on the majority (Geisler 2)." ... Prayer in school existed 200 years before the court ruled it unconstitutional (Geisler 2). ...

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Betts sent an appeal to the Supreme Court, but the Court ruled against Betts because, the court's opinion was "in the great majority of states, it has been the considered judgment of the people, their representatives, and their courts that the appointment of counsel is not a fundamental right, essential to a fair trial" (Goodman 64). ... After the Florida Supreme Court ruled against Gideon's petition for habeus corpus, Gideon appealed his case to the United States Supreme Court in forma pauperis, which means that if the case is approved to be considered the governme...

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The distinction however, is not entirely clear, for where the Supreme Court finds no binding rule of precedent or statue and lays down a rule of law. ... To achieve the position of Supreme Court justice, a qualified candidate must be nominated by the president and confirmed by a majority vote of the Senate in a procedure similar to other important government appoint them. ...

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Hello everyone. My name is Dave and my paper is on the Israeli legal system. The state of Israel is a western - style democracy that has its roots from the British mandate over the Ottoman Empire after the defeat of Turkey in World War One. The area of land where Israel is located used to be par...

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Bowder, on November 13, 1956, ruled that bus segregation in Montgomery was unconstitutional. ... Volunteers, both black and white, blatantly violated segregational rules while traveling through the south. ...

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