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    Oliver Stone’s Born on the Fourth of July an adaptation of the memoir by Vietnam veteran Ron Kovic. Tom Cruise ‚ in a role that was a brave departure for him in 1989‚ plays Kovic in his adult years. Kovic grows up as a child of the American dream in 1950s Long Island. He’s a God-fearing‚ baseball-hitting‚ patriotic man who lives in an environment full of parades and malt shops. As a high school senior‚ young Ron doesn’t think twice about signing up for the Marines‚ believing that he’s doing the

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    Within Chapter 2 of The New Jim Crow‚ Michelle Alexander talks about the Fourth Amendment‚ which warrants against unreasonable search and seizure‚ which is rarely mentioned today. I then realized that the problem now is that we are not told about our civil rights and liberties‚ which results in our loss of agency and power. This especially happens to more disenfranchised groups such as African Americans and Latinos‚ in addition to other racial and ethnic groups deemed “suspicious”. To those who believe

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    4th Amendment Essay

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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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    Amendments

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    April 11‚2015 Several amendments have been added to the constitution . These amendments changed our government and our society. Amendments like the 19th amendment that was place for the women suffrage and the 18th amendment that allowed alcohol to be sold and drank all were placed for a reason. All the amendments including the two stated have a historical circumstance that led to the adoption of these amendments. Along with that these amendments changes society and te government and

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    3 important amendments

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    of 10 amendments that were ratified to insure the new government did not have too much power and to make sure the citizens’ rights were protected. Of these 10 amendments‚ I feel there are 3 that stand out and are the most important. The 4th amendment‚ which prohibits unreasonable searches. The 5th amendment‚ which protects the right to a fair and speedy public trial by jury. And most importantly‚ the first amendment‚ which protects the freedom of speech and religion. Without these 3 amendments‚ I believe

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    The Fifth Amendment places constitutional boundaries on police practices. The police officers has an obligation to warn the suspects that they have a right to remain silent‚ that anything they say may be used against them‚ and that they have the right to counsel.[1]‚[2] The Fifth Amendment can be broken down into five distinctive constitutional rights such as grand juries for capital crimes‚ a prohibition on double jeopardy‚ a prohibition against required self-incrimination‚ a guarantee that all

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    The Equal Rights Amendment

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    The Equal Rights Amendment "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex." In 1923‚ this statement was admitted to Congress under the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). The ERA was a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution granting equality between men and women under the law. If the Era was passed‚ it would have made unconstitutional any laws that grant one sex different rights than the other

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    over the Fourth Crusade Research Paper Brandon Rosty The Crusades-HIST-239 Prof. Moran Cruz For much of history‚ the papacy has been viewed as a driving force behind the Crusades‚ the papacy of Innocent III being a particularly good example. Ever since the days of Gregory VII from 1073-1085‚ and his early ideas of Crusades‚ and Urban II’s call for the First Crusade in 1095‚ the papacy has served as an instigator of plans that have often gone awry. The Fourth Crusade is

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    4th, 5th, and 6th amendment

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    The Fourth Amendment protects the right of the people to be secure in their persons‚ houses‚ papers and effects‚ against unreasonable searches and seizures‚ and provides that no warrants shall issue but upon probable cause supported by oath or affirmation‚ and particularly describing the place to be searched and the persons to be seized. In order to establish probable cause‚ the officer must establish that there is a fair probability that the area to be searched contains evidence

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    2nd Amendment.

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    Introduction For more than a century‚ the 2nd Amendment has been at the forefront of political upheaval. Great politicians and lawyers such as‚ Joseph story‚ speaking on the preamble of the 2nd amendment‚ stating that the “true office” of the preamble “is to expound the nature and extent‚ and application of the powers actually conferred by the constitution‚ and to substantively create them” § 462 (F.B. Rothman 1991) (1833). What Story meant by this was that the preamble to the constitution only

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