Preston Nguyen English 350 M-W 8:45-9:45 November 3‚ 2010 24th Amendment The amendment was one of the last legal vestiges of segregation that tried to keep the black population and the poor people from participating in the vote. As today‚ the 24th Amendment to the Constitution guarantees that no person can be denied the right to vote due to an inability to pay a tax prior to voting. The "poll tax" is now considered unconstitutional. The poll tax was levied on an individual used as a prerequisite
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The constitution was ratified in June 21‚ 1788 with the purpose to establish a central government of the new country which would then provide the procedures and scenarios of how the government is run. The bill of rights along with the other 17 amendments state the rights that belong and cannot be taken away from the people‚ the rights are protected by the constitution to prevent them from being removed by the government. The freedom of speech‚ press‚ religion‚ peaceable assembly‚ and to petition
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The eighth amendment is defined as “excessive bail shall not be required‚ nor excessive fines imposed‚ nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted (Lectlaw‚ 2010). This amendment was adopted as part of the Bill of Rights in 1791. The eighth amendment serves the purpose of protection of those who are innocent until proven guilty and to ensure that all persons are treated fairly in the criminal justice system. Defendants who are not released on bail are being denied the opportunity to prepare their
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Mohammad S. Chaudhry American Government 25-April-2012 Fourth Amendment vs. Patriot Act “Give me Liberty or give me death” by Patrick Henry It is dangerous world when you’re not safe in your own home. Thieves and robbers are not the suspects anymore; instead it’s the authorities that take their place in terrorizing your mind and body. The policing authorities have been given a free pass to do as they please to put fear in the nation’s eyes. With the implementation of acts such as the
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An influential government philosopher John Locke once stated‚ “Government has no other end ‚ but the preservation of property.” The 4th amendment has an important part of protecting essential values. 4th amendment allows people to be secured in persons‚ houses‚ ext.Unless an issued search warrant ‚probable cause or reasonable suspicion. For instance a precedent is Katz v Ohio this shows that the government can go too far with their search and seizure procedure.Today there are many cases in which
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The Fourth Amendment is part of the Bill of Rights which was established in the seventeenth and eighteenth century English common law. Aside from the rest of the amendments in the Bill of Rights the Fourth Amendment can be traced back to a strong public reaction from some cases back in the 1760s. Two of these cases happened in England and one case happened in the colonies. These cases involved some pamphleteers who would pass out pamphlets to the public in order to spread their word around. These
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The Fifth Amendment places constitutional boundaries on police practices. The police officers has an obligation to warn the suspects that they have a right to remain silent‚ that anything they say may be used against them‚ and that they have the right to counsel.[1]‚[2] The Fifth Amendment can be broken down into five distinctive constitutional rights such as grand juries for capital crimes‚ a prohibition on double jeopardy‚ a prohibition against required self-incrimination‚ a guarantee that all
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doing this the courts have established certain criteria that they can follow in regards to searches of schools. The Supreme Court declared that the Fourth Amendment does apply in the school but‚ due to the fact that the schools interest is to maintain security‚ order‚ and provide a good educational environment the full protection of the 4th Amendment does not apply. (Ferdico‚ Fradella & Totten‚ 2009) The scopes of the searches are limited and should be reasonable in nature. Random searches
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COMMON LAW ORIGIN OF THE 4TH AMENDMENT As is the case with the majority of the legal pronouncements that comprise the Bill of Rights‚ the Fourth Amendment is based on the English common law that was extant in England in the 1600s and 1700s. In fact‚ the Fourth Amendment was directly inspired by three British legal cases – two of which were adjudicated in England and one that was tried in the American colonies in the 1760s. The two cases tried in England‚ Wilkes v. Wood (1763) and Entick v
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SECTION 1 You cannot be deprived of your life‚ liberty or property without any reason on their part and without giving an explanation or right be heard on your part on why you should not be deprive of your life‚ liberty or property. As regards to equal protection of the laws‚ it means the law applies to all‚ we are all protected by it‚ but we are all subjected to it once we violate its rules. Nobody shall be convicted without going through proper due process. SECTION 2 Before a police officer
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