In 1868‚ the 14th Amendment was ratified into the Constitution‚ and has since become a key component in the construction of democracy in the United States. The amendment is broken down into five independent sections of impartial notions that forbids states from rejecting the civil rights and liberties‚ and to accord fair chance of life‚ property‚ and due process regardless of race. The 14th Amendment outlined civil liberties and rights while limiting state’s intervention‚ therefore making it an
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Outsourcing enhances competitiveness‚ modernization‚ and bigger market opportunities. Correct Answer: Outsourcing enhances competitiveness‚ modernization‚ and bigger market opportunities. Question 4 5 out of 5 points According to Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission‚ which of the following is not a reason to allow corporations the right to spend money and advertise for political candidates? Answer Selected Answer: The immense wealth of a corporation allows it to be the most
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The Preamble of the US Constitution is similar to the thesis of an essay. The Preamble gives the reader an overview of what the Constitution hopes to accomplish. The five principles stated in the Preamble are expressed throughout the Constitution. I believe that the Constitution lives up to the bold goals stated in the Preamble. The first goal of the Constitution is to "establish justice." This phrase is used to express that every citizen is equal under the law‚ so that justice will uphold. Therefore
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Plessy v. Ferguson Plessy v. Ferguson is one of the most important and controversial cases in United States history. In 1896 the case was brought to the Supreme Court after defendant Homer Plessy was arrested for sitting on the white side of a train. Plessy who was 1/8 black was arrested and convicted of violating one of Louisiana’s racial segregation laws. The Supreme Court upheld that states were allowed to have segregated facilities for blacks and whites as long as they were “separate but
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Civil War Amendments For four long years‚ a war raged on‚ a war being fought for the freedom of slaves. These men and women were held in bondage and seen as property by their owners. Brothers fought against brothers‚ to preserve the union‚ but also for the rights of African- Americans held in slavery. The war’s end brought a victory for the Union and freedom for the slaves. With Lincoln’s influence‚ constitutional amendments were ratified that provided the newly freed slaves with the right to vote
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of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution states‚ in simple terms‚ that everyone who is born or naturalized in the United States are citizens of the United States and of the state they live in. No state can enforce laws which limit the privileges or immunities of United States citizens nor can they deny any citizen the right to life‚ liberty‚ or property without due process of law. The states cannot deny any citizen the right to equal protection of the law. The Fourteenth Amendment is made
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The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified on July 9th‚ 1868. It helped grant citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States (Primary Documents in American History).” One of the reasons the amendment was made to help former slaves become citizens after the civil war. They were being denied the right to become citizens after slavery had been abolished. One of the main points in the Amendment was that states can not denounce land‚ freedom or life from
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organized racial segregation in the United States. This was achieved because it was thought that blacks were believed to be inferior to whites. This organized segregation was done by a series of changes to the law in the south known as the Jim Crow laws. The first time that the United States government made a ruling whether or not these laws were actually legitimate under the US constitution was with the Plessey v Ferguson case. They were upheld granting states the ability to institute segregation
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The First Amendment "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion‚ or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech‚ or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble‚ and to petition the government for a redress of grievances." -- Amendment One‚ Bill of Rights‚ United States Constitution Perhaps the most well known of all the amendments to the Constitution‚ the First Amendment contains many of the fundamental freedoms that American
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In 1868‚ the Fourteenth Amendment was added to the Constitution because of the concern related to the status of protection extended to the newly freed slaves against mistreatment by the states recently freed slaves. The Fourteenth Amendment offered a solution to these discriminatory laws simply guaranteeing “due process of law”‚ requiring the legal system to provide fundamentally fair trial procedures and “equal protection of laws”‚ and thereby requiring the government to treat all persons with equal
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