One of the most important parts of the Constitution is the Bill of Rights‚ also known as the ten amendments. The ten amendments were ratified December 15‚ 1791. The ten amendments were written by James Madison as a response for the great demand for greater constitutional protection for individual liberties (Bill of Rights...). Commonly violated amendments are the 5th‚ 6th‚ and 7th. Everyone has the right to be accused but us still innocent until proven guilty and cannot be tried for the same crime
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The first Amendment to the United States Constitution states that Congress should make not laws against free speech. The first Amendment states that Congress will make no law "abridging the freedom of speech‚ or of the press." There are many ways in with the law‚ and people restrict those right. The right of freedom of speech is the most important and fundamental part of a free democracy. The first Amendment of the U.S Constitution allows people to state their opinions without fear. But over the
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The 8th amendment to the constitution prohibits the government from inflicting cruel and unusual punishments because they exhibited an inhumane way of executing "inmates"‚ tortured their guilty victims to death and were considered to many as unjust. It also prohibits high bail or excessive fines against the defendant. However‚ it has also been deemed Unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of the United States (according to the Eighth Amendment) to inflict physical damage on students in a school environment
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State of the First Amendment Q1. As you may know‚ the First Amendment is part of the U.S. Constitution. Can you name any of the specific rights that are guaranteed by the First Amendment? In the First Amendment I can name three specific rights that are guaranteed by this Amendment. One of them is the Freedom of speech‚ the second is freedom of religion and lastly freedom is the press. Two of the freedoms that I could not name were the right to petition and the right of assembly. Most of the people
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The First Amendment of the US Constitution allows for a US citizen to have freedom of speech. This is an inalienable right that allows us to express our ideas and opinions and to communicate with each other. Some people use this amendment to justify something wrong that they did. They think that they can do or say anything that they want without being punished because they’re still following the law. If a person says something to harm or insult someone then there should be a limit placed under the
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the uncharted franchise the novel follows the adventures of Nathan Drake‚ a modern day Indiana Jones. He is on a quest to find Daedalus’s Labyrinth‚ a maze believed to be the hiding place of the monster from Greek lore‚ the Minotaur. Uncharted: The Fourth Labyrinth is meant to be a standalone adventure novel for the video game series though it is not necessarily a prequel‚ sequel neither does it impact the continuity of the video games. The series itself has had a lot of impact and been syndicated
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United States was founded based on the belief that its citizens should have the ability to vote for who they want to be represented by. The constitution signed in 1787 became the official document that gave a legal status to the word democracy. Within the process of instituting a new government an opposite side arose the Federalist and the Anti- Federalist. To comply with the demands of the Anti-Federalist and make the Constitution the law of the land the Bill of Rights was ratified to protect individual
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The Bill of rights‚ the constitution and the amendments of the constitution are the national foundation of freedom. The 14th amendment has become one of the most important parts of the constitution. The 14th amendment is divided into four sections. The 14th Amendment was designed in 1868 to stamp out lawless tyranny. Section one is to make former slaves citizens. The 14th amendment states‚ “All persons born or naturalized in the United States are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein
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Is Abiding by the 8th Amendment Constitutional? The government has laid out an array of civil rights to protect the liberties of the people with the induction of the United States Bill of Rights in 1791. The large majority of these amendments are appropriate and remain prominent in the modernized American governmental system but these basic human rights carry substantial controversy‚ the most arguable being the eighth. This amendment states that there shall be no cruel or unjust punishments inflicted
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In this weeks module I learned about the eighth amendment and what it entails in this country. The Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution prohibits the federal government from imposing excessive bail‚ excessive fines‚ or cruel and unusual punishments. That being said the founding fathers set this right into the Bill of Rights because of the cruel punishments the king of England had set in place in Great Britain. To live back then was crazy. The king could sentence you to execution without
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