The 5th Amendment Basically‚ the 5th Amendment states that no one shall be charged with capital crimes without a Grand Jury’s permission‚ except in cases regarding the military while under service in wartime or public danger. No one can be put on trial again for the same crime. You can’t be forced to testify yourself. That no one should be executed‚ jailed‚ or have property seized without a legal precedent. Also you can’t be put through cruel or unusually punishment.
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The 23rd amendment gives residents of Washington DC the right to vote for representatives in the Electoral College. Remember that the Electoral College chooses our next president‚ based on the voting within their state. Since DC is not a state‚ its residents were not allowed to vote for President as well as elected voting representative to Congress. Today‚ DC sends a delegate to Congress who may speak on behalf of those that live in DC‚ but that delegate may not vote. HdbjbjhjjbhjThe 23rd amendment
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The Fifteenth Amendment (Amendment XV) to the United States Constitution prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to votebased on that citizen’s "race‚ color‚ or previous condition of servitude". It was ratified on February 3‚ 1870‚ as the third and last of the Reconstruction Amendments.In the final years of the American Civil War and theReconstruction Era that followed‚ Congress repeatedly debated the rights of the millions of black former slaves. By 1869‚ amendments had
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the cops search your car and every motorist stares. Unfortunately if you grew up in New Jersey‚ had a parent with a license and you’re African American you have most likely experienced this reality and do not have to imagine‚ for it has created a vivid image that has stained your memory. “In New Jersey the data showed that only 15% of all drivers on the New Jersey turnpike were racial minorities‚ yet 42% of all stops and 73% of all arrest were black motorist. Despite the fact that blacks and whites
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legislation.” Was the final goal of the nearly century long battle between the women rights activists and the rest of the nation to make the right to vote equal for all who live under the colors of this great nation. Ratified on August 18‚ 1920‚ the 19th Amendment granted American women the right to vote‚ a right known as woman suffrage. At the time the U.S. was founded‚ its female citizens did not share all of the same rights as men‚ including the right to vote. It was not until 1848 that the movement for
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is ultimately vague and the definitions applied to terms like cruel and unusual change over time. Customs also change over time as societies viewpoints and ideologies adapt to into the future. An example of changes in the definition about the 8th amendment is seen in the landmark case of Weems vs United States (1910)‚ where Weems was imprisoned for falsifying a public and official document and as a result was sentenced to 15 years. On top of his
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14th Amendment: After the 13th amendment was ratified‚ all the slaves were set free from their masters. But as time passed‚ the white people still treated them like a minority and in many ways it was as if they were still slaves. Yes‚ they were free to go wherever they wanted without being punished‚ but they were still not able to do many of the things that white people did. It was as if they had never really been freed. The Emancipated slaves suffered through terrible injustices and faced major
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People in today’s society have learned to love the wolf and see it as a gentle and beautiful creature. It has taken along time for the wolf to get the respect it deserves. Throughout history‚ the wolf has gotten a very bad reputation. It started in fiction where the wolf was represented as an evil‚ conniving carnivore that would prey on livestock‚ or would become infested with rabies and attack people. But that’s just the start of it; we can blame werewolves‚ folklore and fairy-tales‚ or even
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Eng. 112: Argument-Based Research / Source Incorporation Primer Distinguishing Between Paraphrase‚ Summary‚ Direct Quotation and Plagiarism Consider the following excerpt from p. 53 of Allison Lurie’s book‚ The Language of Clothes: “Interestingly enough‚ the disappearance of the conventional hat was accompanied and paralleled by a severe simplification of formal etiquette. On all but the most formal occasions‚ rules of precedence and seating were forgotten. Strangers were introduced by their
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Probable Cause: Probable cause is the legal standard by which a police officer has the right to make an arrest‚ conduct a personal or property search‚ or obtain a warrant for arrest. While many factors contribute to a police officer’s level of authority in a given situation‚ probable cause requires facts or evidence that would lead a reasonable person to believe that a suspect has committed a crime. Common examples of probable cause include the sight or smell of contraband in (plain view or plain
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