Essays on Constitution

The Constitution helps keep our country in order in many ways. It has laws to keep us safe, it gives of the freedom of speech, and all of our basic rights. We also have to keep our government in balance. Due to the constitution, we...

The Constitution of the United States established our government and the laws we have today, and also promised basic rights for its citizens. In 1787, delegates from twelve states met together to try and come up with something to make the Articles of Confederation stronger....

Question 1 The Framers of the Constitution chose a Federal system for several reasons. Possibly, the most justified reason would be that the framers knew that there would be threats posed to individuals freedom. As we all know, federalism includes that national and state governments...

Although there have been debates around the world regarding the Nature of the UK constitution and its success and failure in the modern world, we all can see and understand that UK has a unique system of governance which is termed as uncodified constitution. Referring...

When it comes to parliamentarians and their decision making in parliament, foundational studies into the issue have been made resulting in a number of findings and issues for open debates. Citizens delegate the representation of their political preferences to members of Parliament (MPs), who are...

The Constitution works because of the balance between the three branches of the government, and the amendments that can change the Constitution. The three branches of the constitution are the Legislative, Judicial, and Executive branches. These branches are kept equal to power by checks and...

In this essay I will be discussing one major change that was introduced by the Care Act 2014 which was the way adults were safeguarded. The term ‘safeguarding’ is used to describe a wide range of duties, measures and powers that are across the criminal...

Rule of Law has always been championed as one of the building blocks on which the modern society rests. Derived from the French phrase ‘La Principe de Legality’, which translates to the principle of legality, it refers to a government based on principles of law...

A law can be defined as a system of rules that are “enforced to govern behavior”. Laws have been around for hundreds of years and without them the U.S and other countries would be chaotic. There are changes constantly being made to improve current laws...

Over the years, the domestic courts of the United Kingdom have faced difficulties in interfering with Parliament’s role in the legislation of human rights’ issues. One of the main difficulties the courts have faced is whether or not they have the supremacy to declare domestic...

Question TMA 2 The case study preferred to Shahida, a fashion designer, who is in dispute with a local art gallery, Benjamin’s Looking Glass. The dispute is about Shahida taking legal action against the art gallery for selling her a wrong piece of painting, due...

The United Kingdom written law is known as statute law, also identified as legislation. These laws are created and implemented by Parliament and enforced by various authorities. This assignment has the objective to give a better explanation of statutory interpretation and the methodologies associated with...

India has an extremely detailed and well-defined legal system in place. Numerous laws have been enacted and implemented and the foremost amongst them is the Constitution of India. We have inter alia, amongst others, the Indian Penal Code, the Indian Evidence Act 1872, the Reserve...

Law takes different forms because its been made by different variety of persons, that’s why English law has many and different sources the major ones are, EU law, the common law, legislation and human acts law. There has been another source called custom, however custom...

The idea of Rule of Law is one of the integral building blocks of a Modern democratic society. Furthermore, the laws are made for the welfare of the people to maintain peace and harmony between the conflicting forces in society. Moreover, one of the prime...

An effective system of public procurement enhances the government’s ability to regulate business, creating forms of the impact of the system of state orders on the economy, stimulating its development. This is an effective way for the state, when choosing the most acceptable method of...

This essay argues various aspects of constitutional and contract law. This discussion continues in four sections. The first section explains the nature of constitutional law including its originations, by what rights are laws made, and who interprets the laws. A discussion of seminal constitutional and...

This is intended to be a brief outline of steps to be taken and requirements that must be met to adequately and legally start recruiting for the new office which is set to be opening in our neighboring state of Louisiana. Recruiting Process A needs...

While I don’t think that completely rewriting the Constitution every generation is the correct move, I will say that it is both possible and advantageous for generational leaders to look at the Constitution as the foundation of our country and make changes and adaptations to...

History of Hong Kong The history of Hong Kong is a very interesting and unique one. However, due to the limited scope of this paper, only a brief overview will be provided. From 1842 to 1997, Hong Kong was a British colony. Firstly, Britain gained...

On January 8, the US Supreme Court refused to review two cases challenging a Mississippi law that would permit businesses and government employees to deny services to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual And Transgender (LGBT) people to safeguard a persons’ sincerely held religious beliefs and moral convictions....

At the hour of the production of the Constitution, the issue of slavery had been put off and maintained a strategic distance from, a choice that would later prompt the debate presently known as the American Civil War. The composition, which was at one time...

The first Amendment is one of many that the country of the United States of America follows. It is known where “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of...

The difference between the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution is that the Articles of Confederation lasted from 1776-1789. They were also replaced with a more informed government that gave them power for the federal government. They were poor in debt because Congress couldn’t be...

“The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights – these are not simply words written into aging parchment. They are the foundation of liberty and justice in this country, and a light that shines for all who seek freedom, fairness, equality, and dignity...

The challenges associated with imposed and fractured constitutionalism could be solved by adopting transformative constitutionalism. Klare (1998), views transformative (objective) constitutionalism as a meaningful change in constitutional settings, culture and attitude; that is, practical change in terms of progressive realisation of democracy and rights on...

If the West Indian States are truly to progress from colonialism to sovereignty, then there has to be recognition that their constitution now generates their own authority rather than deriving it from any Westminster model or colonial past. The Westminster system was a system used...

The recent past has seen a rise in the number of rape cases around the world, although some countries hardly witnessed a rise in rape cases; some countries have seen a very drastic rise, this is causing fear and unrest in societies ; mostly faced...

Since the beginning of modern American history, scholars have gone back and forth about whether politics, economics, morals, or religious bigotry motivated the nineteenth century attack on the Mormon Church. Overall it appears to point to a single conclusion; all of these sects were motivated...

Dismissing most of the instances of counter-majoritarian interventions by the Courts as marginal, it has been argued that the principled core to the countermajoritarian difficulty has been understood in overstated terms; the factoring in of the Court’s ability to align itself with public opinion feeds...