The Equal Rights Amendment "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex." In 1923‚ this statement was admitted to Congress under the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). The ERA was a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution granting equality between men and women under the law. If the Era was passed‚ it would have made unconstitutional any laws that grant one sex different rights than the other
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Within Chapter 2 of The New Jim Crow‚ Michelle Alexander talks about the Fourth Amendment‚ which warrants against unreasonable search and seizure‚ which is rarely mentioned today. I then realized that the problem now is that we are not told about our civil rights and liberties‚ which results in our loss of agency and power. This especially happens to more disenfranchised groups such as African Americans and Latinos‚ in addition to other racial and ethnic groups deemed “suspicious”. To those who believe
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Individual rights under the Fourth Amendment can make or break a case in trial. According to the Fourth Amendment‚ “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.” This is a United States citizens Fourth Amendment right equally
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The Fourth Amendment protects against illegal search and seizures. This means that a U.S. citizen cannot have themselves‚ homes and/or possessions searched or confiscated by law enforcement without a legal warrant. It pretty much protects citizen’s privacy. But there are positive and negative effects from this. It protects the citizen’s from law enforcement from searching on the spot without legal documentation authorizing it. On the other hand‚ thou‚ it could help criminals dispose of evidence while
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* * * * * * Bill of Rights and Amendments NAME........... HIS/301 25 July 2013 Mark Durfee MBA‚ MA‚ M.Ed * Bill of Rights and Amendments * The original U.S. Constitution did not contain a Bill of Rights. This was added at a later date at which time Amendments were also added. Since the creation of this original document there have been several alterations and additions to the Constitution. How these amendments are included and why they were‚ is vital to understanding
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The Equal Rights Amendment Essay What could be more important than the equality of rights for all American citizens? Women have tried without success for 80 years to be acknowledged as equals in our Constitution through an Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). Currently there is nothing in the United States Constitution that guarantees a woman the same rights as a man. The only equality women have with men is the right to vote. In order to protect women’s rights on the same level as men‚ I am in favor
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The idea for an equal rights amendment did not come about until the middle part of the twentieth century. An amendment was proposed after World War II in an attempt to gain equality between men and women. Often times‚ women were viewed as weaker and inferior to the male sex. Women’s rights groups were formed to prevent people from discriminating against women. These groups not only believed that women should be better treated by men‚ but they believed women should have the same legal opportunities
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The Fourth Amendment to the constitution protects United States citizens from unreasonable searches and seizures. Our forefathers recognized the harm and abuses that occurred in the colonies to innocent people by the British‚ and they made sure to write protections into the U.S. Constitution. Fearing the police state that any nation has the potential to become and recognizing that freedom and liberty is meaningless when victimization by the police is a real and foreboding threat the Fourth Amendment
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criminals face justice‚ but it raises the question of how far are these officials able to go before they are unreasonably invading people’s privacy? That is generally what the 4th Amendment deals with‚ protection against unreasonable search and seizure. The current case of Jones vs. United States is a suit dealing with the 4th Amendment and has large implications‚ as it could set precedent for whether or not GPS tracking can be used without a warrant. A tracking device was put on his Jones car by police officers
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testing the Fourth Amendment? With all the new technology‚ police are now using devices that could potentially “see through walls”. They are also using other search techniques such as wiretapping to conduct searches rather than a “physical search” and by doing so; they can “legally” avoid violating the Fourth Amendment. A lot of the Fourth Amendment has also been weakened significantly over the years from Federal Court Case and the new technology. The fourth Amendment is “The right of the people
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