The Fourteenth Amendment addresses various aspects of citizenship in the United States as well as the rights citizens are afforded. The most profound clause used in this Amendment is the due process clause which addresses equal protection of the laws. Overall the goal of the 14th Amendment was to ensure the enactment of the Civil Rights Act (1866) remained valid to ensure that every person born in the United States were citizens and were entitled to full and equal benefit of all laws. Nonetheless
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Although the Second Amendment stops the federal government from entirely banning guns in America‚ limited restrictions are permitted on the possession and distribution of firearms. The ease of obtaining a firearm in America fosters a dangerous environment and crime. Hence‚ the Second Amendment should be reinterpreted so that sterner gun laws can be implemented because current background checks are flawed‚ gun accessibility has been abused by foreign and domestic criminals‚ and some people cannot
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University Abstract This essay will attempt to clarify when it is legal to defend yourself and when defending yourself becomes criminal behavior. There is some confusion on this subject. The United States Court of Appeals‚ Second Circuit addressed this issue in the case United States v. Thomas. The defendant stated he shot and killed a man in self-defense while attempting to rob him so therefore in the defendant’s mind he cannot be charged with murder. The content of this essay will include discussion
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For years now our country has been in a heated debate on the second amendment. Some people feel that it is not safe to let citizens have and carry guns‚ while others agree it is their right as an american to own a gun. In America‚ there are approximately 270 million firearms possessed by civilians‚ and only 897‚000 carried by police.Close to 33‚000 Americans were victims of gun-related deaths in 2011 and an average of 268 citizens are shot every day. In the past decade our country has witnessed 142
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The Lost Amendment Although the Second Amendment was adopted in 1791 there are still two different interpretations to whether the amendment refers to all individual rights to bear arms or strictly the right to bear arms when forming militias. The Second Amendment is an amendment that is a part of the first ten amendments that are referred to as the Bill of Rights. Adopted in 1791 these amendments protect the citizens from the gov’t in order to prevent a tyrannical gov’t. The New Yorker article
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The Second Amendment: A Threat to Civilized People? Gun control has recently created a massive uproar throughout the United States because of the recent‚ and sincerely unfortunate‚ Sandy Hook school shooting that occurred last December. In response to this tragedy‚ Democratic leaders have been attempting to capitalize on the incident and push forward their respective agenda of limiting gun rights. As one can imagine‚ there are a surfeit of opinions on the subject‚ but despite this fact‚ I have come
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In Bret Stephens‚ OP-ED article “Repeal the Second Amendment” he states the point that the Second Amendment needs to be repealed‚ just as the title insinuates. In the article‚ many points are brought from different standpoints are brought up and discussed‚ including a standpoint based on the law‚ one based on personal-safety‚ one on national-security‚ and another on the point of personal liberty. The first point that is mentioned is the standpoint based on law which states‚ that with a more prevalent
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are elected in different ways and also ensures that the decisions that are arrived at by the representatives are of quality. 3. Several amendments have been made in the constitution of unites states to ensure that the constitution is efficient and protects its people as well as eliminating the clauses which are not important. Some of the amendments are; an amendment which was to ensure that individuals were secure wherever they were even in their houses. The people were to be protected from seizures
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Without the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution‚ America would be a very different place. The framers of the United States Constitution anticipated the necessity of an amendment that would protect citizens from a government that would potentially overstep its boundaries. The Fourth Amendment was included in the Bill of Rights as one of the guarantees afforded to all citizens protecting rights to privacy and illegal search and seizure. In today’s society with the new technologies for surveillance
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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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