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Law and Action: What Should the Supreme Court Decide?: Home

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What issue that is prevalent today should go to the

Supreme Court to be decided?

Sources Required

Directions:

Select, read, and cite 4 sources for the Research Project; complete:

  1. Research and take notes from at least 4 sources on the background, legislation and court cases related to a controversial issue.
  2. Establish your opinion on why the issue should be decided by the Supreme Court for the entire country.
  3. Create an outline
  4. Write an essay with in-text citations (parenthetical documentation)
  5. Final list of Works Cited in MLA Format, exported from NoodleTools 
    • Enter all sources into NoodleTools; when finished logging sources, export the List of Works Cited to turn in
    • Take notes using the notecard feature in NoodleTools

Consider the Issues

Issues to research:

  • Abortion
  • Religion in School
  • Students rights in school
  • Immigration
  • Environmental issues
  • Marijuana legality 
  • Women’s Rights/ Birth Control
  • COVID
  • Colleges/education
  • State rights vs federal government rights
  • Individual Rights in the court system
  • LGBTQ+ rights
  • Guns/Gun Violence
  • Police
  • Civil Liberties (would need to narrow this down)
  • Racial discrimination 
  • Social Media 
  • First amendment rights