[PDF] United States Of America V Beck eBook

Author : Source Wikipedia
Publisher : Booksllc.Net
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 38,32 MB
Release : 2013-09
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ISBN : 9781230690209

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 159. Chapters: United States v. Wong Kim Ark, Communications Workers of America v. Beck, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, Hoffman Estates v. The Flipside, Hoffman Estates, Inc., Wilko v. Swan, NLRB v. Mackay Radio & Telegraph Co., Shearson/American Express Inc. v. McMahon, Waters v. Churchill, Mitsubishi Motors Corp. v. Soler Chrysler-Plymouth, Inc., Mancusi v. DeForte, Northwest Austin Municipal Utility District No. 1 v. Holder, District of Columbia v. Heller, Ontario v. Quon, Roe v. Wade, Hein v. Freedom From Religion Foundation, O'Connor v. Ortega, Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association, Morse v. Frederick, Fellows v. Blacksmith. Excerpt: United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649 (1898), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that virtually everyone born in the United States is a U.S. citizen. This decision established an important precedent in its interpretation of the Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution. Wong Kim Ark, who was born in San Francisco to Chinese parents around 1871, had been denied re-entry to the United States after a trip abroad, under a law restricting Chinese immigration and prohibiting immigrants from China from becoming naturalized U.S. citizens. He challenged the government's refusal to recognize his citizenship, and the Supreme Court ruled in his favor, holding that the citizenship language in the Fourteenth Amendment encompassed essentially everyone born in the U.S.-even the U.S.-born children of foreigners-and could not be limited in its effect by an act of Congress. The case highlighted disagreements over the precise meaning of one phrase in the Fourteenth Amendment's citizenship clause-namely, the provision that a person born in the United States who is subject to the jurisdiction thereof acquires automatic...

Author : James M Beck
Publisher : Blurb
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 41,44 MB
Release : 2021-10-23
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ISBN : 9781006364372

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The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States of America. This founding document, originally comprising seven articles, delineates the national frame of government. Its first three articles embody the doctrine of the separation of powers, whereby the federal government is divided into three branches: the legislative, consisting of the bicameral Congress (Article I); the executive, consisting of the president and subordinate officers (Article II); and the judicial, consisting of the Supreme Court and other federal courts (Article III). Article IV, Article V and Article VI embody concepts of federalism, describing the rights and responsibilities of state governments, the states in relationship to the federal government, and the shared process of constitutional amendment. Article VII establishes the procedure subsequently used by the 13 States to ratify it. It is regarded as the oldest written and codified national constitution in force