The second amendment of the US Constitution states that “a well regulated militia” is “necessary to the security of a free state” and that “the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed”. The second amendment is outdated. In the time it was created and passed was a time when the militia was the people. It was made so that people could fight the British‚ which isn’t the case now‚ especially now that we have our own full-functioning army and law enforcement. It was
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The Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution was ratified in January 1919 and executed in January 1920. It banned the “manufacture‚ sale‚ or transportation of intoxicating liquors”. This amendment was the finishing touch of decades of realization and fulfillment by organizations such as the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union and the Anti-Saloon League‚ and was also built upon the dry laws of eighteen states. The Prohibition Amendment had heavy consequences. It categorized the brewing and distilling
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Prohibition The 18th Amendment‚ ratified on January 16th 1919‚ which prohibited the manufacture‚ sale‚ export‚ import and transportation of alcoholic beverages‚ happened because of the Temperance Movement. It was believed at the time that alcohol was the main problem in society and that it needed to be removed. This moral issue divided people up between those who were “dry” and those who were “wet”. Either way‚ it was eventually repealed because of the problems that came from it. While that was
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My issue is under amendment number one. It states that congress can not take these rights.some people believe that a lot of people take advantage of the right to talk freely without getting arrested or anything.Others believe that it give people a them a chance to exercise their rights. Some people take advantage of the freedom of speech.According to the observer it states that “these same people would claim that the right of freedom of speech has a limit that ends once a speaker’s words turn offensive
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18th Amendment. The 18th Amendment is a change to the constitution that vetoed the making‚ transporting‚ and selling of alcoholic beverages. It was ratified in January of 1919 and repealed in December of 1933 ‚making it the only amendment in history to be rescinded. Alcohol was known as a threat to the nation by many people in the 20th century‚ therefore alcohol consumption became prohibited throughout a number of states. The amount of consumption of alcohol had entirely reduced‚ and so had the amount
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Jackson D. Despite the overwhelming expectations for the eighteenth amendment to repair America and slay the problems plaguing it‚ people were crestfallen when the fingernail of austerity scraped away the gilded layer of the presumably hallowed doctrine‚ revealing the lead core that was the eighteenth amendment’s effects on the American society. In 1920 the U.S prohibited the sale and production of alcohol and the purpose of it was to lower crime rates‚ lower tax burden of prisons‚ solve social
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Joseph Cruz 3/22/2012 Annotated Bibliography: 13th Amendment The genre of “Saving the Right to Organize” would be an article. This would be a secondary source because it is an article‚ and it refines the primary source. The topic of this source would be that it focuses on the 13th Amendment replacing the Wagner Act on labor movements in the U.S. Percentage of U.S. workers who were unionized in 1953. A good thesis from this source would be Mark Dudzic’s words‚ “Articulating [worker] right[s]
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Amendment Essay By: Christina Ramler Neil Gaiman once said‚ “The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed the freedom of speech. Other countries don’t have that.” At the time of the amendments’ creation‚ a vast majority of operating countries had not yet granted their people such freedoms. Granting every citizen of the United States this right seemed to have been an important landmark in this nation’s history. Along with others‚ this right is declared
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The Second Amendment of United States reads‚ "A well regulated Militia‚ being necessary to the security of a free State‚ the right of the people to keep and bear Arms‚ shall not be infringed." This amendment has a very strong controversially from the public nation. Also‚ I think it’s one of the most vague and complex sentence among all the Amendments. Until the Supreme Court’s decision in (2008) where they decide “in a five four decisions the Court held that it did‚ striking down a Washington‚ D
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The fourth amendment is the protection from unreasonable search and seizure unless probable cause is present and in most cases‚ a warrant is issued. This amendment was included in the Declaration of Independence due to searches that the colonists were subjected to. The colonists did not want to pay the taxes being enforced by the King‚ so they began to smuggle goods into the United States via boat. The King of Britain obviously did not agree with this‚ so he sent British ships that could stop and
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