First Amendment Megan Cresse His/301 June 18‚ 2013 Karen Levosky Reflections on the First Amendment The First Amendment is one of the most important Amendments in the Bill of Rights. The forefathers felt that the Bill of Rights was needed in the Constitution to assure the rights of the people and proceeded to add such protection in the First Amendment. Presently and throughout history the First Amendment stands as an important role in America. Many believe it is the most valued Amendment that
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of the Nineteenth Amendment to the US Constitution that occurred on August 18‚ 1920. Sources such as Wikipedia detail the extensive process of the approval of women’s suffrage that took place over the span of about forty years and the opposition it overcame to become an amendment‚ however it fails to explain the men’s role in the women’s suffrage movement‚ particularly in the state of Tennessee‚ which was the last state’s vote needed to approve its ratification as an amendment to the US Constitution
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Indeed‚ the legal protections afforded by the Bill’s amendments were and still are to some degree‚ unprecedented in the world we live in. But‚ despite the lofty mythos surrounding the awesomeness of the Bill of Rights‚ there exists substantial controversy over the interpretation of some amendments. Namely‚ the 2nd and 4th amendments; the 2nd amendment assures the right to bear arms and maintain a well regulated militia‚ and the 4th amendment prohibits searches and seizures of property without probable
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The thirteenth Amendment played a major role in American History. President Lincoln issued Emancipation Proclamation on January 1‚ 1863 stating that all slaves should be free. It took many years and revisions to pass the amendment that would allow all slaves to be free worldwide. The 13th Amendment declared in section 1 “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude‚ except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted‚ shall exist within the United States‚ nor any place
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to the states‚ by the due process clause of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution. During the case of Barron v. Baltimore‚ the U.S. Supreme Court expressed that the Bill of Rights implemented to the government‚ but not to the states. Some claimed that the creator of the 14th Amendment intention had been to reverse this particular precedent. This Amendment is one of the reconstruction Amendment‚ and was adopted in 1868. The fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause forbids local and state governments
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The 19th Amendment The nineteenth amendment was an enormous step in history. It gave women the right to vote. For many years‚ women had been fighting for this. This amendment drastically changed the lives of Americans and others. It all started in 1848. In this year‚ the Women’s Suffrage Movement was organized. Some of the key leaders of this movement were Elizabeth Stanton‚ Lucretia Mott‚ and Susan Anthony. These three women‚ with the help of many others‚ were vital in swaying the public’s
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Reflections on the First Amendment On December 15th‚ 1971‚ the first X amendments to the Constitution went into affect. The first X amendments to the constitution were known as the Bill of Rights. The First Amendment was written by James Madison because the American people were demanding a guarantee of their freedom. The First Amendment was put into place to protect American’s freedom of speech‚ freedom of religion‚ freedom of assembly and freedom of petition. The First Amendment was written as follows;
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Define and discuss the purpose of the 14th and 15th Amendments? How successful were these Amendments? Specifically‚ address the safety of African Americans during the reconstruction? How did the Compromise of 1877 affect the South for future decades? Volume I‚ Chapter 12‚ pages 299-323 & Chapter 13‚ pages 324 -345 The Fourteenth Amendment changed the Constitution by compelling states to accept their residents as citizens and to guarantee that their rights as citizens would be safeguarded
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States by which the people and states must abide by‚ we hold to our amendments; however‚ like most things‚ some amendments are under scrutiny‚ as they can be such a controversial topic. One such controversial topic would be our Second Amendment under the Bill of Rights of the Constitution‚ wherein resides our first ten basic‚ natural rights‚ which are guaranteed to citizens of the United States. As stated by the Second Amendment of the United States: “A well regulated Militia‚ being necessary to
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all the nation ’s citizens‚ ranging from the freedom of exercising one ’s inborn rights to the constitutional rights given to each of the unique and individual thirteen colonies‚ now part of the United States of America. Specifically‚ the First Amendment includes the most important rights for a truly democratic society: the rights of religion‚ speech‚ press‚ assembly‚ and petition. Without these valued rights
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