The Second Amendment; Should we Keep it or Loose it? The Second Amendment has been mentioned quite frequently in the Presidential election. There are candidates who support and do not support the Second Amendment. Some politicians believe that the Second Amendment only applies to militias and not private citizens. The Second Amendment States: “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.” As
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As of today‚ the Constitution’s Fourth Amendment remains fair. The U.S‚ Constitution’s Fourth Amendment protects personal privacy and the right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure. Full body scans at airports are reasonable because of what has happened with terrorism in the U.S. in the past. Failing to carry out a warrant correctly results in consequences. The Fourth Amendment protects the people’s safety and rights. It protects people because if a person gets searched with probable
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committee I must use my longstanding influence on this committee to navigate the amendments I support into law and prevent amendments that are not in the best interest of my constituency from becoming laws. I will implement strategy to stop 5 amendments submitted to this committee and support 5 additional amendments to be moved onto the Senate floor. Based on the preliminary votes of my other committee members 4 of the amendments on campaign finance reform‚ no confidence vote in national executive and legislative
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of Abortion Funds‚ n.d.). The Hyde amendment was introduced in 1976‚ when this statistic was upsetting many taxpayers because the assumption is the poverty level women are using abortion as birth control‚ using tax dollars to abort. To take steps to initiate change in a policy‚ like Hyde‚ the Center For Reproductive Rights (n.d.) recommendations include: joining groups and states nationally to help overturn the amendment keeping all members of
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The 8th Amendment ‘Excessive bail shall not be required‚ nor excessive fines imposed‚ nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.’ 1. Introduction Imagine being hanged for a felony you committed‚ or having your tongue pierced with a torched spoon because you were caught for a mistake that could have easily been fixed. These are the types of things the eighth amendment protects us from. Without this amendment‚ people on death row could easily be brutally tortured for things they might not have
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Joseph Cruz 3/22/2012 Annotated Bibliography: 13th Amendment The genre of “Saving the Right to Organize” would be an article. This would be a secondary source because it is an article‚ and it refines the primary source. The topic of this source would be that it focuses on the 13th Amendment replacing the Wagner Act on labor movements in the U.S. Percentage of U.S. workers who were unionized in 1953. A good thesis from this source would be Mark Dudzic’s words‚ “Articulating [worker] right[s]
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is extremely difficult to add amendments to the Constitution for many reasons. To pass amendments to the Constitution‚ the amendment must go through several steps. Two thirds of Congress must propose the amendment. Two-thirds of the state legislatures could ask Congress to call a Constitutional Convention to start the amendment process as well. A new Constitutional Convention has never occurred. Then‚ the House of Representatives and Senate must pass the amendment. At least three quarters of state
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The Fifth Amendment of the US Constitution was signed into law on September 25‚ 1789 and ratified December 15‚ 1791 (Benjamin Franklin‚ 2011). The Fifth Amendment establishes rights that can be applied to both criminal and civil sectors of law. The most used protections of the Fifth Amendment are the right to a grand jury‚ the protection against double jeopardy‚ the protection against self-incrimination‚ the protection against testifying against yourself‚ and you can’t be deprived of life‚ liberty
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Your Final Project for this course will be a virtual time capsule. A time capsule is a grouping of items for future discovery. For our purposes‚ we will imagine that our time capsule will be buried at the end of the course and opened 100 years later. The goal of our capsule is to provide an overview of what you believe future generations should remember about the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The project can be composed in Microsoft Word or Powerpoint. It can include multimedia if you
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In the political world today there are so many different opinions about several different topics. The topics that I will address to you will be‚ should the 22nd Amendment be repealed and also should the foreign born be allowed to run for president. In both topics you may have your pros and cons‚ but I am strongly against the both of them because I feel that the Constitution should not be taken advantage of. Government should not be allowed to manipulate the Constitution to suit his or her needs.
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