The Texas legislature is made up of an upper house and a lower house. The Senate is the upper chamber and has thirty-one members while the House of Representatives is the lower house and has one hundred and fifty members (Texas Library). Members of the current legislature are predominantly from...

Texas Court System has five levels of courts: State Highest Appellate Courts, State Intermediate Appellate courts, State Trial Courts, County Trial Courts and the Local Trial Courts. At the State Highest Appellate Courts, there are two courts: Supreme Court and the court of Criminal Appeals. Supreme Court has appellate jurisdiction...

In the second half of the 17th century, Baruch Spinoza, a philosopher from the Netherlands, wrote a persuasive defense of freedom of speech and thought. According to Spinoza, freedom of expression should be regarded a universal and unalienable right. He described “the authority which is exerted over the mind” as...

In the state of Alaska, lenders are allowed to foreclose on defaulted mortgages or deeds of trust utilizing either a non-judicial or fully judicial process. Foreclosure is a legal procedure in which one who lends attempts to recover the missing balance of a loan which a borrower failed to make...

Mixed Martial Arts is a combat sport that has made significant inroads into all major sporting markets in the United States and is increasingly popular in Europe and Latin America. MMA is among the fastest rising sports in the world with the largest promotion, the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) generating...