In the dissenting opinion Justice Field said that based on the majority's interpretation the Fourteenth Amendment was, "a vain and idle enactment, which accomplished nothing, and most unnecessarily excited Congress and the people on its passage. " (Kommers et al., 115) The ruling is also interesting because it set a precedent against the incorporation of the Bill of Rights to the states, yet it did not take long at all, relatively speaking, for the Bill of Rights to become incorporated after all. ... (Kommers et al., 117) Black and Frankfurter's views were most noticeably on display ...

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Affirmed Discrimination The phrase affirmative action was first used by John F. Kennedy in the context of racial discrimination in 1961, however the phrase today conveys a different message then in 1961. The reason for this difference, lies in the courts. Over the past several decades the Sup...

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The premise of this theory of thought revolves around the concept that the acts of individuals who are deranged as a direct result of being psychotically mentally ill should not be judged in the same manner as the criminal offenses of rational people (Miller et al., 2006). ...

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There is no doubt that white collar crime has increased over the last hundred years. Of course, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, there were reports of numerous scandals and reports of kickbacks, and other various types of shady activity within corporations and the government. One of the...

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