The Supreme Court Case Of Buck V. Bell

The American legal system hears many cases relating to liability, but surprisingly, most of these cases concern the prosecutors within their own legal system. In the Supreme Court case Connick v. Thompson, a district attorney’s office denied liability for the extreme misconduct of its prosecutors. The Supreme Court decided that the D.A. office was not liable for the actions of their prosecutors because they did not have a pattern of Brady violations. Contrary to the decision in Connick v. Thompson, the D.A. office should have been held liable for the misconduct of its prosecutors. Brady violations appeared throughout the case, other cases of Brady violations in that D.A. office, and the office’s blatant neglect to properly train its prosecutors.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, pioneer and activist for women’s rights, women’s suffrage, and even abolition, was the head of the Women’s Suffrage Movement well into the Antebellum Period. Along with other trailblazers of the women’s movement, such as Lucretia Mott and Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton paved the way for not only women’s rights and abolition but the right to protest in America. Therefore, Elizabeth Cady Stanton reserves the title of one of the most compelling figures in history for her efforts in establishing the right to protest and free speech that is so important today. By the ratification of the 15th amendment in 1870, suffrage in the United States of America was supposedly achieved for the male half of the country. However,

Before 1948 Julius A. Wolf had been arrested and tried for reasons not stated in the Supreme Court case, but the evidence that was used against Wolf was taken unlawfully, the police had no warrant for his arrest as well as no warrant to search his office. Wolf was able to get an appeal to be tried one more time. In 1948 the trial Wolf v Colorado Supreme Court had begun. It was a very controversial topic because the case was based on the violation of the Fourth Amendment right of protection from search and seizures.

Eugenics Movement and Carrie Buck The 1920’s in America was an era designated to an emerging new culture for the typical American society. Society’s values were changing and new ideas were coming about socially and morally. After World War I, the movement of eugenics swept through America and heavily influenced society. Eugenics was the reasoning for the coercive sterilization of men and women who seemed to have undesirable genetics. After the war, immigration laws were put in place to control the growth of the population and naturalization.

Wicked Silence is a short documentary that focuses on the 7600 forced sterilizations that occurred in North Carolina even after World War II, making North Carolina among the worst in state sterilization programs. The film began with a forum for victims and their family members, in which the audience is introduced to the concept of feeblemindedness as the criterion that the Eugenics Board of North Carolina used to target victims for these forced and coerced sterilizations. Social workers would target people and form petitions based on this for the “operation of sterilization or asexualization by the Eugenics Board of North Carolina” (Haq, YouTube, Wicked Silence), most often not obtain consent from the patients, and send the cases to Raleigh

According to “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, Harriet Jacobs shares the story of her life, under the pseudonym “Linda”, to inform her audience of the many challenges she faced having been born into slavery in the 1800’s. From the challenges that she faced in childhood, which carried through into adulthood and motherhood, Linda exhibits tremendous courage as she confronts the struggles brought on by the grueling world of slavery. Although she was able to escape from it later in life, she never really knew what freedom was supposed to be. Jacobs starts her story by reminiscing on her past, of being born into slavery, telling us what growing up was like for her living under that circumstance. As the slave laws were still in effect then,

“Eugenics and Compulsory Sterilization Laws: Providing Redress for the Victims of a Shameful Era in United States History,” is an article by, Michael Silver, that addresses the issue of eugenics and involuntary sterilization laws. He specifically looked at the sterilization laws that were practiced in the 20th Century in the United States. Silver brings forth the argument that sterilization laws violate the constitutional rights of Americans of procreation and childrearing. Throughout the article, Silver explains the history of how the laws were created, practiced, and how they affected those that were involuntarily sterilized. As the article progresses, Silver gave examples of how individual states and the United States, collectively as a

“Defending the unborn against their own disabilities.” Margaret Sanger is known for being a birth control, population control, and a eugenics activist. As a eugenics activist she believed that the science of improving a human population by controlled breeding to increase the occurrence of desirable heritable characteristics. But before getting into too much detail about how she was the founder of “Planned Parenthood”, let's hear her backstory.

Rhetorical Strategies in :Now we can Begin- Crystal Eastman In the 1920’s there were many problems regarding women’s rights. The fight for the right to vote was extreme and women did all they could in order to achieve the passing of the amendment. After the 19th amendment was passed, Crystal Eastman was one of the many women that saw this as an opportunity to expand and to make more improvements in women's rights.

Taylor Hurst Kaiser AP Lang 11 November 2015 Analysis of Margaret Sanger’s Speech on Birth Control Margaret Sanger, an American birth control activist, made an announcement titled “The Children’s Era,’ at the first national birth-control conference in March of 1925. In this speech, Sanger attempts to influence her ideas and beliefs on the importance of birth control and contraceptives to the health of society’s women. She also vividly explains how controlled childbearing would apply to children who would eventually be born.

State of Georgia V. Marcus Dwayne Dixon (2003) Marcus Dixon was a highly recruited high school football player. His life suddenly took a tragic turn when he was falsely convicted of raping a 15 year old girl. The elements around his false conviction could have been avoided with some reform to the criminal justice courts system. Dixon initially had many charges against him but were narrowed down to statutory rape and aggravated child molestation. There was much racial disparity surrounding the jury on Dixon’s case, in that the county that Dixon committed his “crime” was a predominantly white population.

Trying to prevent neglected children and back-alley abortions, Margaret Sanger gave the moving speech, “The Children’s Era,” in 1925 to spread information on the benefits and need for birth control and women's rights. Margaret Sanger--activist, educator, writer, and nurse--opened the first birth control clinic in the United States and established organizations that evolved into the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. During most of the 1900’s, birth control and abortions were illegal in the United States, causing women to give birth unwillingly to a child they must be fully responsible for. This caused illness and possible death for women attempting self-induced abortion. Sanger uses literary devices such as repetition and analogies

The Birth of Birth Control “A free race cannot be born of slave mothers” - Margaret Sanger (Brainy Quote). Margaret Sanger was a nurse, a feminist and an early women’s rights activist. She devoted her time towards the legalization of birth control and educating women about family planning options. Although she received opposition, Margaret Sanger revolutionized women’s battle for reproductive rights in America. Margaret Sanger went through many obstacles but still managed to spread her message and educate women about family planning.

Herzog, through his depictions of the immensity of American industry, confining framing, and use of poignant costuming to criticize American culture, effectively portrays how the broken expectations alienates Bruno; the failure of America to live up to its heightened reputation makes the disappointment drastically more

The ability for one to control when he or she will have children is something that most people take for granted in contemporary America. The advancement of the understanding of reproductive biology has led to remarkable technological innovations that have allowed men and women to prevent pregnancy through a variety of methods such as physical barriers, spermicides, and hormonal pills. However, the manner in which society has viewed these various forms of birth control has greatly evolved in the past two centuries. For much of the nineteenth century the majority of America adopted the conservative Christian doctrine that people should not meddle with their ability to have children. However, this changed remarkably throughout the twentieth century.