{"id":95648,"date":"2022-09-17T10:28:27","date_gmt":"2022-09-17T10:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/individual-liberty-and-equal-protection-of-the-law-individual-project\/"},"modified":"2022-09-17T10:28:27","modified_gmt":"2022-09-17T10:28:27","slug":"individual-liberty-and-equal-protection-of-the-law-individual-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/individual-liberty-and-equal-protection-of-the-law-individual-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Individual liberty and equal protection of the law individual project"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Read the case of Obergefell v. Hodges<\/em><\/u>, 576 U.S. ____(2015)<\/u><\/a>, and write a 4\u20135-page paper addressing the following:<\/p>\n

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  1. Summarize the plaintiffs\u2019 arguments that their substantive due process had been violated.\u00a0<\/li>\n
  2. Summarize the plaintiffs\u2019 argument that their rights to equal protection under the law had been violated.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n
  3. Explain the Court\u2019s ruling and any prior U.S. Supreme Court cases that may have laid the foundation for this case.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n
  4. Explain what societal changes influenced the Court\u2019s decisions from the time of the 1986 Bowers v. Hardwick<\/em><\/u>, 478 U.S. 186 (1986)<\/u><\/a> case, in which the Court upheld a Georgia statute that criminalized homosexual sex, to Lawrence v. Texas<\/em><\/u>, 539 U.S. 558 (2003),<\/u><\/a> that overruled Bowers, to the 2015 Obergefell case that recognized same-sex marriage.\u00a0<\/li>\n
  5. Summarize why the dissenting justices disagreed with the majority opinion in Obergefell.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n
  6. Do you\u00a0agree with the majority opinion or the dissenting justices? Explain why.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    References<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Oyez. (n.d.a). Bowers v. Hardwick<\/em>. https:\/\/www.oyez.org\/cases\/1985\/85-140<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n

    Oyez. (n.d.b). Lawrence v. Texas<\/em>. https:\/\/www.oyez.org\/cases\/2002\/02-102<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n

    Oyez. (n.d.c). Obergefell v. Hodges<\/em>. https:\/\/www.oyez.org\/cases\/2014\/14-556<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n

    Your assignment will be graded in accordance with the following criteria. View the grading rubric<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Read the case of Obergefell v. Hodges, 576 U.S. ____(2015), and write a 4\u20135-page paper addressing the following: Summarize the plaintiffs\u2019 arguments that their substantive due process had been violated.\u00a0 Summarize the plaintiffs\u2019 argument that their rights to equal protection under the law had been violated.\u00a0\u00a0 Explain the Court\u2019s ruling and any prior U.S. Supreme […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}