The Second Amendment America has given many rights and has offered protection to US citizens. Like the second amendment states‚ “The right of people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” However many riots and shootings have recently broke out in the last couple of years. So therefore the right to bear arms has been taken advantage of and as lead to many malicious events like The Columbine Shootings‚ Virginia Tech‚ Aurora Shooting‚ and New Town Shootings. In 1999‚ a failed bombing which
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Article Regarding the Possible Violation of the Eighth Amendment Payton Iannarino The article I found was written on March 14‚ 2011 about the controversy of the constitutionality of the treatment of Private Manning. There have been many articles about this topic‚ but the one I looked at was an editorial in the pages of the New York Times. Private Manning was convicted of leaking restricted military files to WikiLeaks and was arrested on the twenty sixth of May in Iraq. Since then he has been imprisoned
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The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution reads: The right of the people to be secure in their persons‚ houses‚ papers‚ and effects‚ against unreasonable searches and seizures‚ shall not be violated‚ and no Warrants shall issue‚ but upon probable cause‚ supported by Oath or affirmation‚ and particularly describing the place to be searched‚ and the persons or things to be seized (The Free Dictionary 2013) In 1973‚ the Supreme Court case Cady v. Dombrowski created the “community caretaking exception
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The fourteenth amendment covers equal protection as well as due process. One of the most influential amendments that is still playing a huge role even today in the court system is the equal protection clause. This clause which states in section 1 “No State shall… deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” In section 5‚ the Amendment establishes the federal civil rights legislation: “The Congress shall have power to enforce‚ by appropriate legislation‚ the provisions
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5th Challenging the 15th Amendment caused a big division within the civil rights movement and two organizations emerged. In 1869‚ Stanton and Anthony formed the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) to work for the right to vote on the federal level and press for wider institutional changes. Another organization‚ the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA) was founded by suffragists‚ Lucy Stone and Julia Ward Howe‚ who believed that once African American men were granted the right to vote
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FIRST AMENDMENT The First Amendment outlines five of the most basic rights of any American: the freedom of religion and its practices‚ the freedom of speech‚ the freedom of press‚ the freedom of assembly‚ and the liberty to formally write requests to the government. SECOND AMENDMENT The Second Amendment simply gives Americans the right to keep and bear Arms. THIRD AMENDMENT The Third Amendment gives citizens the right to say no to housing soldiers when the country is not in war. This amendment
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Because I live in the United States our first amendment is freedom to speech‚ practice religion‚ press and peacefully assemble. I feel though some people take it too far. Like how during the election people would protest which I’m fine with‚ but then people started protesting violently. I was a Hillary supporter‚ but still though you didn’t need to attack trump supporters‚ breaking windows and stores around‚ and flipping cars. Another thing that wasn’t right was when the people hung their flag upside
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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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Jackson D. Despite the overwhelming expectations for the eighteenth amendment to repair America and slay the problems plaguing it‚ people were crestfallen when the fingernail of austerity scraped away the gilded layer of the presumably hallowed doctrine‚ revealing the lead core that was the eighteenth amendment’s effects on the American society. In 1920 the U.S prohibited the sale and production of alcohol and the purpose of it was to lower crime rates‚ lower tax burden of prisons‚ solve social
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The first 10 amendments form the Bill of Rights. An amendment is an addition to the constitution that lists rights given to the people of the United States. Without these amendments many freedoms would be restricted and citizens would lack certain rights that promote a better life. The first amendment gives the right to the freedoms of religion‚ speech‚ the press‚ assembly and the right to petition the government. The right to freedom means that we may worship freely and believe in any religion
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