article "Suspect Searches: Assessing Police Behavior Under the U.S. Constitution‚" by Gould and Mastrofski explores the police usage of unconstitutional searches. Unconstitutional searches are those that are in violation of the fourth amendment. The fourth amendment rights‚ along with certain case laws put forth the guidelines for legal stops‚ frisks‚ and searches. Gould and Mastrofski perform a direct observation study which concludes the frequency of unconstitutional searches. This article puts
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against infractions; one amendment that I feel is very important is the Eighth Amendment. That amendment protects the citizens against cruel or unusual punishments for breaking the law. When analyzing the different rights that the Eighth Amendment protects one must also look at all the aspects of the law including: the history of the law‚ the modern uses and abuses of the law‚ and the laws current effectiveness. The first aspect to deduce when looking at this amendment is the
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negative and people have begun to push the boundaries of the First Amendment rule while asking the
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Argumentative essay The second amendment has been the one of the most controversial topic in 2018. First the second amendment‚ what is it? Well‚ the second amendment states that people have the right to bear arms. But should we now with shootings that have happened? Sure people think that the second amendment shouldn’t get be repealed because they need the guns to protect themselves‚ owning a gun is within the canon of natural rights or if the second amendment has been there for this long why
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The Fifth Amendment of the US Constitution was signed into law on September 25‚ 1789 and ratified December 15‚ 1791 (Benjamin Franklin‚ 2011). The Fifth Amendment establishes rights that can be applied to both criminal and civil sectors of law. The most used protections of the Fifth Amendment are the right to a grand jury‚ the protection against double jeopardy‚ the protection against self-incrimination‚ the protection against testifying against yourself‚ and you can’t be deprived of life‚ liberty
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the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution states‚ in simple terms‚ that everyone who is born or naturalized in the United States are citizens of the United States and of the state they live in. No state can enforce laws which limit the privileges or immunities of United States citizens nor can they deny any citizen the right to life‚ liberty‚ or property without due process of law. The states cannot deny any citizen the right to equal protection of the law. The Fourteenth Amendment is made of of
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Sandy Hook Shooting: Is It Time to Change the Second Amendment? Sandy Hook Shooting Is It Time to Change the Second Amendment About 80 million Americans‚ representing half of U.S. homes‚ own more than 223 million guns. The debate about the Second Amendment has been fierce‚ but after the horrible atrocity that just happened in Newtown‚ Connecticut‚ the time has come to rethink the amendment and change it. The change of the amendment in terms of availability of weapons‚ and who has the right to possess
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The 14th Amendment states that no state can make/ enforce any law which it takes away privileges or immunities from a person that is a citizen of the United States or that was born in the United States. The 14th Amendment has been used in an awful way for the past five years by the certified peace officers of other communities. An example of this is the death of Trayvon Martin in 2012. He was brutally murdered by a peace officer Stanford‚ Florida because of something that was portrayed as something
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America would be much different if the Bill of Rights was not in the Constitution to protect the rights of the citizens. Amendment nine gives a lot of rights to the citizens in the Bill of Rights. The ninth amendment protects the rights of the citizens that are not listed in the Constitution and in the Bill of Rights. The ninth amendment in the Bill of Rights says‚ "The enumeration in the Constitution‚ of certain rights‚ shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."
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Scholarly Commons 1989 The Fifth Amendment: If an Aid to the Guilty Defendant‚ an Impediment to the Innocent One Peter W. Tague Georgetown University Law Center‚ tague@law.georgetown.edu This paper can be downloaded free of charge from: http://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/702 78 Geo. L.J. 1-70 (1989) This open-access article is brought to you by the Georgetown Law Library. Posted with permission of the author. ARTICLES The Fifth Amendment: If an Aid to the Guilty Defendant
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