Monday, October 8, 2007

Why Study Constitutional Law?

"He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither" is a quote that has been attributed to the great Ben Franklin. It is for this reason, among others, that it is important to study Constitutional Law. I spent a little time on YouTube today and found this interesting clip about habeas corpus rights which are the rights for those detained to question the reasoning for their detention and receive relief if they are being unlawfully detained.



Regardless of your political persuasion and how you feel about this issue, knowledge of Constitutional Law and your rights guaranteed by the Constitution are important to good citizenship!

Constitutional Law Case Briefs - Why I created this blog!

Let me start by saying that I am totally against plagiarizing and you do not have permission to copy and paste my Constitutional Law case briefs and turn them in as your own work. I have created this blog because I know that it can be difficult doing these briefs when you have never done them before. The briefs I list on this site are only for use as a guide in creating your own. I recommend that you do your own brief first and compare it to mine to get additional insight. I am a good student, but these briefs are not necessarily perfect. Also, you should know that I am not a law school student. I am an undergrad taking this course in the political science department at a public university. If you are attending a Tier One law school and you turn my brief in, your professor may make fun of you :)

So far, Constitutional Law has been a very interesting course and it definitely has caused me to consider pursuing a career in the legal field. We'll see if I still like it after another 8 weeks of briefing cases. Note that I am only listing my briefs here that I had to type and turn in for credit. I briefed many more cases but they are handwritten; if you want to pay me, I might type them up for you. Since you are not paying me, you only get the ones that I have already typed and I can easily copy and paste.

So if you're taking Constitutional Law right now, good luck! It will probably be a very demanding class, but it will also probably be very fun too! Enjoy!

P.S. Let me reiterate - no plagiarism! You have come to far in school to get to this point; don't screw it up by copying my second-rate case briefs :)