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    Constitutional Amendment #22 Can you think if your president had more than two terms???Well I can because Barack has leaded us into the right path for our future. He helped to lower taxes and helped us a little bit with our debt crisis. So Obama should want to choose how many times he wants to be president because if he wants to make this a better place he’s going to have to keep moving forward. So there shall not be any amendment limiting the presidential terms. Taxes on the other hand

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    Cynthia Ms. Conboy AP U.S. History 25 January 2012 After the 13th Amendment was passed‚ African American slaves were freed from their lifetime involuntary servitude‚ and life for them seemed to be on the way to happiness (Document A). An economy that worked without slaves was a new concept to the South; freedmen were joyous about it‚ and white planters loathed it. The United States underwent a sort of revolution in its economy and its social hierarchy (Document D). After the Civil War ended

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    A lot of people including myself doesn’t always say hello when I see someone familiar in public. It’s just a basic manner we need to learn. In our bill of rights‚ the first amendment we have the freedom of speech. People speak their mind and sometimes don’t have enough words to explain so they turn to the vulgar words. Shoot even kids curse. One curses and doesn’t even realize. But what if it slips out during church? Today’s

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    population to meet the electoral quota (Corwin et al.‚ 1978). The senate allocations are extremely less problematic provided by section 3 of article one it simply states there will be two senators for each state‚ and even the addition in the 17th amendment does not change much but adds the basis if there are any vacancy (Corwin et al.‚

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    No other amendments in the United States Constitution has caused as much controversy as the Second Amendment. The amendment states that the people of America are allowed to bare arms and maintain a well regulated militia. This has caused a lot of controversy and issues with gun control in recent years. The Second Amendment should be amended in order to have more rules‚ regulations‚ and provide a safer America for people. People in favor of guns suggest that there is a need for guns for all citizens

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    13th Amendment History

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    been taken away. Slavery in the Unites States dates back to the year 1619 in Jamestown‚ Virginia January 11‚ 1864‚ the 13th amendment was proposed by Senator John B. Henderson of Missouri if passed it would abolish all slavery in the United States. By April 8‚ 1864‚ the thirteenth amendment is approved on a vote of 38 to 6 where it was sent to be ratified. The thirteenth amendment was passed abolishing slavery. After 245 years of slavery‚ approximately 3.9 million slaves are freed by Abraham Lincoln

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    During the 18th century in Britain‚ rural areas became more efficient in agriculture‚ leaving many people living in these areas without work. They moved into the cities in search of work as there there were may new and growing industries. Between 1760 and 1870 the population of Britain doubled‚ causing many problems throughout these industrial cities. Disease accounted for many deaths in industrial cities during the industrial revoloution. Diseases such as typhus‚ cholera and tuberculosis spread

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    addictive and they have mood-elevating effects and these may have made some‚ if not all of them potent drugs of abuse. These with other complex characteristics of these stimulants are major causes of the titanic consumption of these drugs in the 16th and 18th century. The stimulants gained strong believes for medical purposes‚cultural believes and social status. As a result of those causes‚ this stimulants found themselves in abundance in most parts of the world‚basically due to mass-production witch results

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    A plethora of acts throughout the time period also showed a development in the attitudes of society and the government. The Capital Punishment Amendment Act (CPAA) of 1868 focused on the ending of public hangings and aimed for a more humane approach to hangings with professional hangmen and the process of moving hangings inside the prison walls to make them less of a fun event‚ and more to actually represent why they were being hanged because society had lost what the fundamental meaning of the hangings

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    In the fourteenth amendment it states no person is allowed to be denied life‚ in that case‚ should we have the right to die? In 1983‚ the supreme court ruled in favor of Nancy Cruzan‚ in the case of Nancy vs. Missouri‚ by vote of the Supreme Court 5-4. Yes‚ the Supreme Court made the right decision. My reasonings are because Nancy Cruzan died by choice.Next‚ a few days before she died nineteen doctors actually tried to reinsert the tube. Lastly‚ Missouri life support were taking away her right to

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