Constitutional law attorneys handle cases involving the construction and interpretation of federal and state constitutions, including individual rights and governmental powers. Constitutional law cases can involve issues like First Amendment rights -- such as freedom of speech, press, and religion -- and the checks and balances on authority among different branches of government. Most of the federal constitutional rights are found in the Bill of Rights, that was created originally as a limitation on the action by the federal government, but many of those rights are also applicable to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment.
Clarksville is a city in Red River County, Texas, in the United States. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 3,883. It is the county seat of Red River County. Clarksville is the birthplace of: John Edward Williams, author of the National Book Award fiction co-winner for 1973 Augustus and of the novel Stoner. Euell Gibbons, author of cookbooks and foraging guides, proponent of natural diets, and television personality popular in the 1960s and 1970s J. D. Tippit, a Dallas police officer who was shot and killed by Lee Harvey Oswald a few hours after Oswald assassinated President John F. Kennedy. Barney Cannon (1955–2009), a Country music deejay long associated with radio station KWKH in Shreveport, Louisiana, got his start in Clarksville in 1972, as a 17-year-old announcer. William Humphrey, author of National Book Award nominee "Home from the Hill", this book was also made into a movie directed by Vincent Minnelli shot on location in and around Clarsville in the late 1950s. Author of 5 other novels including "The Ordways" and "Hostage to Fortune", and the memoir "Farther off from Heaven".