For adults at least, most pornography — material of a sexual nature that arouses many readers and viewers — receives constitutional protection. However, two types of pornography receive no First Amendment protection: obscenity and child pornography. What is the bad tendency rule? Bad tendency — The bad-tendency test finds itsRead More →
In the ratification debate, the Anti-Federalists opposed to the Constitution. They complained that the new system threatened liberties, and failed to protect individual rights. … One faction opposed the Constitution because they thought stronger government threatened the sovereignty of the states. When did states ratify the Constitution? September 17, 1787Read More →
The president can refuse to enforce Supreme Court decisions. If a group or individual has not been harmed by an action of the federal government, but they still disagree with it, how may they make use of the judicial system? They may file an amicus curiae brief when someone elseRead More →