In The second amendment is a recipe for police killings Michael Wood explains how the Second amendment is a danger to police officers. Wood used the shootings in Baton Rouge as an example of how the Second amendment‚ which grants Americans the right to be armed‚ is a threat to police officers due to the easy access everyone has to all different types of weapons‚ guns especially. Anyone can simply walk into a store and purchase a gun‚ of course there is a process you are required to go through before
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informs Americans the rights and wrongs of being an American.The three amendments I think is the most important are the first amendment freedom of speech and religion‚ second the right to bear arms‚ and also The fourth The right of the people to be secure in their persons. The constitution has a document called the bill of rights which states the those right are equal amongst the citizens of the United States. The first amendment states congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion
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first ten amendments to the U.S constitution. The purpose of The Bill of Rights is to protect individual liberties. This document was created September 25‚ 1789 and was then ratified on December 15‚ 1791. This took two years after being created to be put in the government’s records. This document added certain safeguards of democracy. This provided personal freedoms as well as personal rights. The author of The Bill of Rights is James Madison. I will be discussing the 1st amendment ‚ the first
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Should the 2nd amendment give citizens the right to own assault weaponry? Introduction: Does anyone know what people were the first to invent guns? The Chinese were the first people to invent guns. The first hand gun was called the Hand Cannon. What the second amendment means. The Second Amendment of the United States Constitution‚ which is part of the Bill of Rights‚ declares a well regulated militia as being necessary to the security of a Free State‚ and prohibits infringement of "the right
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Fifth Amendment Indictment of Grand Jury The grand jury originated in England‚ under the rule of King John. The king selected the grand jury to be a body of his reign that would accuse no innocent person‚ and would shelter no guilty person. The Fifth Amendment of the United States protects people from self-incrimination by forcing the prosecution to obtain an indictment (complaint) from a grand jury before the case can be presented in trial before a court. Today‚ grand juries are virtually inexistent
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attitudes‚ and ethics. A highly well-known right given to American’s is the freedom of speech which stems from the first amendment. This prohibits the government from creating any laws that could stop the people from exercising their feelings‚ or speaking their thoughts. American’s deserve the right to share their opinions as well as criticize our government. The first amendment is often seen as our most important right as American’s. In some countries‚ citizens are not allowed to criticize or question
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The First and Second Amendment When the Constitution was written‚ it was not the intent of the authors to assure human rights to its citizenry‚ it was written in order to set up a federal government that would allow the United States to be a self-governing entity‚ and to put in place a system of government that would serve the citizens of the country in the way that they saw fit. After the ratification of the Constitution in 1787‚ “people soon began to notice that it did not list many of
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COMMON LAW ORIGIN OF THE 4TH AMENDMENT As is the case with the majority of the legal pronouncements that comprise the Bill of Rights‚ the Fourth Amendment is based on the English common law that was extant in England in the 1600s and 1700s. In fact‚ the Fourth Amendment was directly inspired by three British legal cases – two of which were adjudicated in England and one that was tried in the American colonies in the 1760s. The two cases tried in England‚ Wilkes v. Wood (1763) and Entick v
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The 8th Amendment‚ "cruel and unusual" clause. The "cruel and unusual" clause in the eighth amendment states that "cruel and unusual punishment" such as torture or lingering death can not be inflicted on anyone as a form of execution. It is however permissible under the 8th Amendment to execute a convict by means of hanging‚ shooting‚ electrocution‚ and lethal gas. There is still confusion about what is actually constitutes "cruel and unusual punishment." There have been several court cases
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A critical point to be noted is that the Fourth Amendment only applies to government action‚ which includes deputized individuals or those acting at the direction/behest of law enforcement. Additionally‚ the Fourth Amendment requires not only an actual expectation of privacy‚ but also‚ a societally recognized‚ reasonable expectation of privacy in the place or area searched. The Fourth Amendment has been interpreted to: require that searches and seizures be reasonable; and prohibit warrants except
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