Essays on Law

When the Bill of Rights was first ratified, the first amendment had a certain meaning. The first amendment was created to be able to say or publish whatever the people wanted. It was created so the people could practice whatever religion they pleased. In England,...

After reading the constitution and the bill of rights, I have learned a lot and come down to my favorite amendment. The one I have chosen was the 5th amendment. Not only is this one of the most important ones due to it keeping its...

The methods that some states have chosen to implement into their legal system to determine what extent insanity should be classified as a legal excuse the M’Naghten insanity defense, Irresistible Impulse Insanity Defense, the Substantial Capacity Test, and the Durham Insanity Defense. Charles Patrick Ewing’s...

Throughout history, a plethora of battles have been fought in hopes of gaining one thing; liberty. Whether it was the French Revolution or America’s Civil War, the goal of the the oppressed was to gain freedom. These individuals sacrificed their time, money, and lives for...

Debate around legal moralism is divided in to 2 arguments, first is irrespective of state and society there are certain moral values inherent in the society and these inherent moral values if violated, should be criminalized. In this it presupposes that morals predates the society....

The Sixteenth Amendment, as understood in the 21st century, has fueled our government economically since its ratification in 1913. The idea of income taxes wasn’t new or revolutionary, the concept had been drafted and used to finance the country’s Civil War to later be repealed...

Over the past decades, forensic science has evolved and has been used by most states as a vital need in modern legal practice. It is widely used in courts as a major source for the outcome of a verdict. Forensic science has attained a merit...