Understand the Civil Rights and the Bill of Rights.

Assignment Objectives: 

Understand the Civil Rights and the Bill of Rights.

Understand the intersection between the Civil Rights and the Bill of Rights.

Purpose:  Explain to students why you are asking them to complete this task.

The purpose of this assignment is review a fundamental Civil Rights case to see how it can impact future cases regarding similar Civil Rights issues.

Assignment Description: 

Go to the Oyez Project and listen to the oral arguments at  http://www.oyez.org/cases/1960-1969/1966/1966_395.   

Then Discuss the following items:

(1) Discuss the ruling in the case of Loving v. Virginia.  In doing so, include the Facts, Issue(s) in the case, the relevant law that applies to the case, how the facts applied to the law, and what the Court decided and why. 

(2) Discuss how the Supreme Court might rule in a future case regarding this issue using Loving v. Virginia as precedent.

Parameters: 

Using APA formatting, write an essay of around 500 words (excluding the title and reference page).

All papers will be graded for content, clarity, grammar/spelling, and appropriate use of APA formatting guidelines. A minimum of two references must be utilized.