The 8th Amendment‚ "cruel and unusual" clause. The "cruel and unusual" clause in the eighth amendment states that "cruel and unusual punishment" such as torture or lingering death can not be inflicted on anyone as a form of execution. It is however permissible under the 8th Amendment to execute a convict by means of hanging‚ shooting‚ electrocution‚ and lethal gas. There is still confusion about what is actually constitutes "cruel and unusual punishment." There have been several court cases
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History of Fourth Directive Company law directives are published under the authority of the Treaty of Rome (Article 54(3) (g)). The council and the commission want to co-ordinate safeguard to protect the interest of member state and others‚ in such a way that these safeguard are become similar across the EU. The objective of EU is to convey a common market that allows freedom of capital‚ goods‚ persons and services between member countries. EU adopted so many directives which are dealing with accounting
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The Constitution of the United States has twenty-seven amendments and out of those twenty-seven‚ I believe the first amendment is the most important. The first amendment protects your most basic needs. The first amendment consist of freedom of speech‚ freedom of religion‚ freedom of assembly‚ freedom of press‚ and freedom to ask the government to right their wrongs. The freedom of speech allows a person to say what they think within reason. When speaking your opinion‚ you should be careful not slander
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Prior Restraint and 1st Amendment Rights The American government has long feared that the release of classified information may jeopardize national security and has made special efforts to prevent publication of information considered top secret. There has been extensive debate over freedom of the press versus the right of the government to prevent publication of certain material. When the government intervenes before publication has occurred‚ it is called prior restraint. This paper seeks
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BUS230 23 April 2013 Gun Control & The Second Amendment The second amendment states “A well regulated militia‚ being necessary to the security of a free state‚ the right to the people to keep and bear arms‚ shall not be infringed.” To an average person this means that anyone at anytime should be able to possess a gun without being questioned. However‚ if you interpret the amendment based on vocabulary I believe this means that a trained group of people who have the countries best interest at
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Americans scrambling through the streets to buy every last ounce of their final legal drinks from liquor stores and salons. Well‚ this is what the streets would have looked like on January 15‚ 1920‚ because the next day the 18th amendment would be passed. The Eighteenth Amendment made “the manufacture‚ sale‚ or transportation of intoxicating liquors” illegal. This time where buying‚ selling‚ and transporting alcohol was illegal‚ was known as the prohibition. It came with many unintended consequences
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supposed to be protecting‚ begin to be ignored? Fourteen words protect all of our guaranteed rights as citizens of the united states-“...the right of the people to keep and bear arms‚ shall not be infringed.” That is why gun control violates the second amendment. “By restricting gun ownership only to law enforcement officers and the military‚ the government violates individuals’ rights to possess firearms that they might need to defend their basic freedoms.” When the Founding Fathers wrote the Bill of Rights
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The End of the First Amendment This article talked about how the students of UC Berkeley were protesting against a speech being given at their school‚ and how the sponsors of this group were forced to pay $15‚000 in security fees. Then on top of that fee the school paid an additional $600‚000 to create cemented barriers and have armed forces on campus during the meeting. Personally I feel these precautions were unnecessary however due to the way students were reacting it had to be done. Another
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the due process of law provision of the 14th Amendment. Second‚ during the 1950s and 1960s‚ the national government became viewed as the principal promoter and defender of civil rights and liberties. In a series of very important decisions‚ the U.S. Supreme Court struck down state-supported racial segregation‚ state laws that discriminated against women‚ and state criminal proceedings that violated the due process of law provision of the 14th Amendment. Cooperative federalism
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The Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution is known as one of Reconstruction Amendments‚ along with the Thirteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. The purpose of these amendments was to provide equal protection to former slaves. Previous to this amendment‚ the state governments didn’t have to respect the Bill of Rights and give all citizens the rights stated in it. Consequently‚ the newly freed slaves were not given the privileges and immunities of citizenship. Therefore‚ one of the most important parts
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