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    The Fourth Amendment

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    Abstract This paper will investigate the fourth amendment‚ unlawful search and seizure‚ and will explain what is considered to be unlawful and what is not. This paper will also discuss the right of privacy that Americans are entitled to as citizens of the United States. Events that have marked history in regards to the fourth amendment will also be explored‚ explaining the nature of searches and the key components that coincide. The court ruling in the historic case of Arizona vs. Gant will be

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    Democracy - Essay

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    to the people” * John Lennon Introduction Democracy‚ it is generally believed‚ had its roots in Ancient Athens. We know it spread its stems to most of Europe and later to parts of Asia by mid 19th century ‚ mostly in the form of parliamentary democracy. But in the context of this paper‚we are not interested in the histrocity of the idea or concept of democracy‚ but in the idea itself. That is to say we want to analyze the meaning of democracy and its different forms‚ study its efficiency (so

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    The Ten Amendments

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    The Constitution and The facts The Constitution contains the ten amendments all of which I will explain in this essay. I will also explain some key facts of which the Constitution is written by and some of the dates in which key points of the Constitution occurred. The Constitution is a very important document which was created more than two hundred years ago. The first amendment is the amendment of is the freedom of religion‚ speech‚ assembly‚ and press. Congress can make no law establishing

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    elections and democracy

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    elections are a form of direct democracy as well as a democratic highway to a representative government .The concept of democracy‚ electoral systems and political parties is cardinal to the modern state but at the same time difficult to define. This assignment will attempt to explain these concepts and amplify the significance of electoral systems as a key pre requisite for democracy. Elections and Democracy Commenting on the concept of democracy‚ Makinda held that democracy can be seen as: “… a way

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    First Amendment

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    The First Amendment and Its Conflict Freedom of speech‚ of religion‚ of the press‚ to assemble peacefully‚ and petition; this set of guarantees‚ protected by the First Amendment‚ comprises what we refer to as freedom of expression. However‚ many people will say that the law has stopped people from being able to exercise their rights. Personally I believe that people have lost their freedom to exercise their rights mentioned in the first amendment. Inhibiting a person’s right to exercise the

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    Amendment in Bangladesh

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    nationalism‚ democracy‚ socialism and secularity as the fundamental principles of the Bangladeshi republic. When adopted in 1972‚ it was one of the most liberal constitutions of the time. In this month our constitution will become 40 years old. In these 40 years our constitution was amended in several times for serving various political motives of different politicians on the basis of changing circumstance. Definition of Amendment of the constitution: A constitutional amendment is a formal

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    15th amendment

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    The Fifteenth Amendment (Amendment XV) to the United States Constitution prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to votebased on that citizen’s "race‚ color‚ or previous condition of servitude". It was ratified on February 3‚ 1870‚ as the third and last of the Reconstruction Amendments.In the final years of the American Civil War and theReconstruction Era that followed‚ Congress repeatedly debated the rights of the millions of black former slaves. By 1869‚ amendments had

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    10th Amendment

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    Professor David Curcio POL 100: American Government 21 October 2013               The purpose of the 10th Amendment is to draw a line between the federal and state government’s powers. This amendment also protects their powers from each other. This amendment has been used to define the federal government’s power to tax‚ law enforcement and federal regulations. At one point in time this amendment was easily interpreted if it’s not included in the constitution‚ the federal government cannot give it to

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    The Fourth Amendment

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    government as well. One of these controlling factors is the Fourth Amendment‚ which protects our citizens and visitors from an array of items. A few in particular would be; right to privacy‚ search‚ and seizure. The Fourth Amendment also sets the tone for how arrests are affected and how reasonableness is weighed on heavily. The Fourth Amendment grants American citizens protection from illegal searches and seizures. The Fourth Amendment is designed to protect the right to privacy

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    The Fourth Amendment

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    Please read: a personal appeal from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales Read now Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution The Bill of Rights in the National Archives. The Fourth Amendment (Amendment IV) to the United States Constitution is the part of the Bill of Rights which guards against unreasonable searches and seizures‚ along with requiring any warrant to be judicially sanctioned and supported by probable cause. It was adopted as a response to the abuse of the writ of assistance

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