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A 5 page paper. The essay explains the key points found in a paper written by William J. Brennan, Jr., former Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. The paper is entitled Why Have a Bill of Rights? The reasons are discussed in this essay. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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WHY HAVE A BILL OF RIGHTS? For The PaperStore, June 2001 properly! * Brown v Board
of Education: Declared separate but equal education for blacks and whites was inherently unequal. * Miranda v Arizona: Declared that a police officer must advise an individual of their
rights to have a lawyer and to inform the person that anything they said could be used against them in a court of law prior to interrogation. * New York
Times Co v Sullivan: Declared public officials may collect damages for libel only if they can prove a defamatory statement was made when the press knew it to be false
or if the press demonstrated reckless disregard for accuracy prior to publication of the statements. * Roe v Wade: Held that a woman had a fundamental right to choose whether
or not to bear a child, a right that could not be taken away by a states legislature. These are just some of the monumental decisions made by the United
States Supreme Court based on the Bill of Rights. Lacking the Bill of Rights, Court Justices would not have had a constitutional basis for these decisions. Justice William J.
Brennan, Jr. points out that it is only during the last forty or fifty years that the Bill of Rights has been enforced by the courts. Brennan also points out
that the Bill of Rights were not even a part of the original Constitution. The first ten amendments, which was entitled the Bill of Rights was later framed and used
as a bargaining point to have the states ratify the Constitution. Two years later, the Bill of Rights was presented as the first ten amendments to the Constitution adopted in
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