25th Amendment The 25th amendment defines the succession of the president‚ and it ensures someone is always prepared to lead our government incase of tragedy. It also provides for the president’s removal if he/she is unable to act as president. It makes it clear who’s to be in charge in almost any given situation that may rise. The 25th amendment provides two remedies when a president is disabled. First: the president of his own volition may turn over the power of his office
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The First Amendment The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is part of our countries Bill of Rights. The first amendment is perhaps the most important part of the U.S. Constitution because the amendment guarantees citizens freedom of religion‚ speech‚ writing and publishing‚ peaceful assembly‚ and the freedom to raise grievances with the Government. In addition‚ amendment requires that there be a separation maintained between church and state. Our first amendment to the United States Constitution
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Preston Nguyen English 350 M-W 8:45-9:45 November 3‚ 2010 24th Amendment The amendment was one of the last legal vestiges of segregation that tried to keep the black population and the poor people from participating in the vote. As today‚ the 24th Amendment to the Constitution guarantees that no person can be denied the right to vote due to an inability to pay a tax prior to voting. The "poll tax" is now considered unconstitutional. The poll tax was levied on an individual used as a prerequisite
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and think and want to do more research on the laws that both define and take away freedom. The nineteenth amendment was ratified in 1920 and gave women the right to vote. While I am aware there was a long struggle in the time between the ratification of the 15th and the 19th amendments‚ I don’t think I truly understood the urgency of the situation between those points in time.
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Amendment XII Have you ever wondered if the presidents and vice president votes would be counted as one? After the 1800 Presidential Election‚ the 12th Amendment was adopted to fix a flaw in the Constitution that had allowed Thomas Jefferson to tie in the Electoral College with his vice presidential candidate Aaron Burr. The election was then sent to the House of Representatives‚ which required 36 ballots to finally elect Jefferson president. The 12th Amendment specifies that electors should
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Darius henry The First Amendment In my opinion freedom of speech and First Amendment rights are crucial to higher education because For One‚ Freedom of speech is the right for an individual to speak their mind without interfering with the law and the First Amendment is the law respecting an establishment of religion ‚ the right to free expression‚ infringing on the freedom of the press‚ and freedom of belief. Which all ties into education itself sine the majority of it is sourly based on
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The Instant Runoff Amendment It is time for America to stop choosing its president by an archaic‚ confusing‚ and undemocratic method. As the 2000 election has shown‚ using the Electoral College lets a candidate win the Presidency even if a larger number of voters prefer and vote for someone else. Getting rid of the Electoral College may be very hard‚ but by writing a 28th amendment‚ it will definitely get rid of them for sure‚ but there is
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16th Amendment- Status of Income Tax Clarified. Ratified 2/3/1913 What it is- The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes‚ from whatever source derived‚ without apportionment among the several States‚ and without regard to any census or enumeration. Reason for ratification- In 1895‚ in the Supreme Court case of Pollock v Farmer’s Loan and Trust (157 U.S. 429)‚ the Court disallowed a federal tax on income from real property. The tax was designed to be an indirect
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Failed Amendments Essay The amendment that was proposed but never ratified was the second proposal which happened in 1810. The Titles of Nobility Amendment proposed that any citizen who accepted a title of nobility from a government that is overseen by a monarch would automatically renounce their sovereignty and be prohibited from ever maintain a Government office. A period where the United States was still hostile toward Great Britain (leading to the War of 1812) and also Emperor Napoleon’s regime
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17th Amendment The Seventeenth Amendment made it so there would be two senators from each one of the states‚ voted in by the people. The senators would be given a six year term and have one vote each. They added an article to the amendment so when vacancies happen in the senators seat the state legislation would assign someone until the people voted a senator in. The old way of picking state senators was by state legislatures choice. This way was used to make sure that the federal government
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