Explore the US Constitution Assignment The three facts that I chose from the 1787 Constitution are as listed: 1. The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States‚ and of the Militia of the several States‚ when called into the actual Service of the United States.(Article II‚ section 2) 2. The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government‚ and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the
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Second Amendment reflects the right of all Americans to own weapons for a legal purpose‚ such as self-defense in the home. It also recognizes the need for weapons to ensure safety for the citizens and keep a well-regulated militia. The prefatory clause refers to the concept of the militia being allowed to bear arms for the safety of the state. The operative clause is very controversial‚ as it discussed the average citizens ability to own a weapon. The District of Columbia vs. Heller case was centered on
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the oppressive Sudanese government complaining about the lack of protection from attacks led by nomads on civilians. The government responded by unleashing Arab militias‚ the Janjaweed‚ who attacked hundreds of villages. The Sudanese Government devastated many rebel areas‚ and as Zoe Chafe of World Watch believed to “empower roaming militias to assist with the killings.” Over 400 villages were entirely destroyed and millions of citizens were killed or forced to flee their homes. The ten years of carnage
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himself is a Hutu‚ however‚ his wife‚ Tatiana (Sophie Okonedo) is a Tutsi. Although in the beginning Paul only wanted to protect his wife and his three children‚ his conscience made him protect his Tutsi friends and neighbors as well. He bribed the militia to spare his family and his neighbors lives and brought them all to Des Mille Collines hotel. During the atrocities‚ instead of helping‚ all of the United Nations officials are called back and the European guests and staffs are being evacuated from
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The city had a two-thousand-man militia‚ a three-thousand-man regular Emerstarian Army‚ and the 4th Artillery and Tank Battalion. "Aaron over here‚ what’s in this bush." Corporal Erwin Greene said while unmounting his horse carrying a rifle. Private Aaron Thompson rode over there getting
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On average over 100‚000 people are killed by guns in murders‚ assaults‚ police intervention and accidents ("Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence."). Many people say that it isn’t the guns that kill people‚ it’s people‚ but this is incorrect because if people didn’t posses guns they wouldn’t be able to murder people in a simple quick way. The debate on the second amendment and gun control laws has been going on for the past couple decades in the United States. Recently deadly mass shooting have
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Canada‚ Great Britain‚ or to British colonies in the Caribbean. When the war began‚ the Americans did not have a regular army (also known as a "standing army"). Each colony had traditionally provided for its own defenses through the use of local militia. Militiamen served for only a few weeks or months at a
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The alleged misunderstandings were that the War Guilt Clause was to prevent Germany from any counter-arguments and asking for reimbursement. However‚ it was later associated with Germany and its "war guilt". This illustrates that "In politics‚ perception is reality" because despite the true purpose of the War Guilt Clause‚ the perceptions of the Allied nations of Germany’s role in World War I became reality for them. Not only did it become reality‚ it completely altered their perception and believed
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our Bill of Rights guarantees that “A well-regulated Militia‚ being necessary to the security of a free state‚ the right of the people to keep and bear Arms‚ shall not be infringed.” It is not a mistake‚ these two passages reconciled under the title of one amendment; they are related in more ways than one. The courts try to interpret these statutes as accurately as
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particularly on their movements off a plantation. 7.Caudillo: A caudillo is a a type of militia leader with a charismatic personality and enough of a populist program of generic future reforms to gain broad sympathy‚ at least at the outset‚ among the common people. The root of the caudillo lies in Spanish colonial policy of supplementing small cadres of professional‚ full-time soldiers with large militia forces recruited from local populations to maintain public order. Militiamen held civilian
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