America’s Second Amendment The text of the Second Amendment of America’s constitution is as followed “A well-regulated Militia‚ being necessary for the security of a free State‚ the right of the people to keep and bear Arms‚ shall not be infringed” (U.S. Const. amend. II). This small portion of text has been widely debated and analyzed over the years to determine exactly what it entails in order to discover what rights it actually grants United States citizens‚ if any. Over the course of our nations
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colonists did when King George III took away the colonists’ right to trial by jury. Colonists knew the importance of the 7th Amendment because it prevented judicial bias and allowed
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Fifth Amendment of the constitution Student name: Institution: ABSTRACT This paper examines the boundaries of the Fifth Amendment Clauses. It concentrates on the parts of the amendment that has been ignored. It is aimed at achieving a reasonable balance between the state ’s interest and the individual ’s. It will also try to evaluate the relevance of the Fifth Amendment to the constitution. Different clauses will be drawn of the fifth constitution to determine whether
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The Constitution includes the amendments. The first ten amendments are known as the Bill of Rights. The first amendment states that we have the freedom of religion‚ speech‚ press‚ assembly‚ and petition. In other countries‚ people are being tortured and killed because of their religion. In America there isn’t too many people being killed just because they believe something different than other people. My family and I are very religious and if the first amendment didn’t say that the people have
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Congress‚ but on prime time news networks is the passage of a Balanced Budget Amendment. A Balance Budget Amendment (as recently seen in House Bill HJR2‚ 28 NOV 2011) would require that Congress balance its budget every fiscal year unless a three-fifths majority of both houses approved of maintaining a deficit[1]. In a CNN Poll‚ conducted by ORC International‚ 74% of Americans surveyed would be in favor of a constitutional amendment to require a Balanced federal budget. So‚ why did it miss passing by the
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A Different Perspective on the Law The United States has had an effective law enforcement system for hundreds of years‚ which has revolutionized itself starting with the implication of the Constitution to the lawless west and effectively to where it is today. The American criminal justice system has many branches and occupations‚ all of which focus on a common goal of keeping our nation as safe as possible. In the following paragraphs‚ I will discuss an interview with a San Diego Police Officer
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The statement‚ “The Fourth Amendment protects people‚ not places‚” is one of the most controversial statements in Criminal Procedure. The amendment’s purpose is to secure individuals’ rights to privacy within their houses‚ papers‚ and defends them against unreasonable searches and seizures. However‚ to what extent does the law preserve a person’s privacy? The Law of Search and Seizure and the Search Warrant‚ give the government strict to stipulations as to how they are able to rightfully obtain information
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In this weeks module I learned about the eighth amendment and what it entails in this country. The Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution prohibits the federal government from imposing excessive bail‚ excessive fines‚ or cruel and unusual punishments. That being said the founding fathers set this right into the Bill of Rights because of the cruel punishments the king of England had set in place in Great Britain. To live back then was crazy. The king could sentence you to execution without
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State of the First Amendment Q1. As you may know‚ the First Amendment is part of the U.S. Constitution. Can you name any of the specific rights that are guaranteed by the First Amendment? In the First Amendment I can name three specific rights that are guaranteed by this Amendment. One of them is the Freedom of speech‚ the second is freedom of religion and lastly freedom is the press. Two of the freedoms that I could not name were the right to petition and the right of assembly. Most of the people
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and fifteenth amendments were measures taken by the American government to ensure equal right after the civil war. The thirteenth amendment was declared to abolish slavery. The fourteenth guaranteed equal protection for everyone and the fifteenth guaranteed equal voting rights regardless of race. Together these are known as the Civil War Amendments. To a certain extent these amendments had an impact because it presented blacks with many opportunities. Although the civil war amendments granted equality
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