...Is there a remedy to this issue? The first amendment gives everyone in America the freedom of speech. A big controversy today is whether or not the amendment should be altered. There are many different problems in this predicament that factor into different sides. I believe that even though there are downfalls to this amendment it should not be changed. Terrorists should not be given the same rights as anybody in America should be given, but I do believe that is where I would have to draw the line. I don’t believe that there would be a way to decipher which groups were unworthy of freedom of speech or not. Who would be the judge of whether or not the group was a hate group or not? What if someone did not like a group, or were to say that they were offended by it? Would that be a hate group too?...
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...Gun control is one of the most talked about subjects in the United States; people have different views concerning this. The Second Amendment of the United States Constitution reads: "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. “This law has raised a lot of commotion because of the mass shootings and how easy it is to get a gun.. There are many pros and cons to the second amendment, this law is beginning to tear the country apart because some people believe that the second amendment should be abolished, and others that say it shouldn’t be amended. The number of mass shootings in the United States has grown by a significant number....
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...Pro removal of the second amendment The removal of the second amendment is a very controversial topic because most people can’t seem to agree on what laws should be put into place for firearms. Like you see here, we have pro and con on this matter but some things are arguable when it comes to this topic. For example, quite a few pro-gun activists believe that everyone should own a gun… including people with mental illnesses. Yes, everyone has a right to protect themselves but does everyone really need to have a gun? No, not everyone needs to own a firearm because that is how accidents happen. Last year during Obama’s tenure, he set a rule saying that people with mental illnesses, from anxiety to schizophrenia, could not purchase firearms....
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...The first amendment of the U.S. Constitution is pretty simple. This essay will compare this amendment to other rights that other countries have. The first Amendment of the United States of America is this: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. This means to me that I basically have the right to believe any religion that I want to, and Congress can’t do anything about it. It also means that I have the right to speak freely, and use any kind of words and language that I want to, without punishment. Next, it means that I have the right to assemble into a large group of people peacefully, an example would...
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...The 19th amendment was passed on August 18,1920.This amendment granted women the right to vote.Prior to this new reformation,women were seen as inferior and were limited to being housewives and focusing more on motherhood.Women were generally frowned upon if they tried to attain higher occupations such as: doctors, lawyers, and teachers.Needless to say, during these times women were deprived of many privileges that men had naturally;one of these depravities was the right to vote.Thanks to the 19th amendment,this is no longer. The 19th amendment has left a major imprint in American history.Though victorious,it was not an easy fight to gain this amendment.It was a fight of 70 years starting with women such as: Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth...
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...Congress has voted down four out of the five new bills for amendments today, which included gun control and gerrymandering. This was a major setback in the minority parties as the original 12 introduced into the Committee led to only 5 being brought before the House, with one passing. There seemed to be an interesting turn of events as the only bill that passed was in-favor of the Speaker of the House. A controversial bill that was brought before the house was Gun Control. This bill was introduced by the Ethics Committee and was immediately shot down as Section four of the bill made the types of guns that one could own more lenient. The other sections established a six-month lead time on background checks. One Committee member, James Timothy...
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...The eighteenth amendment banned the making, selling, and shipping of alcoholic beverages. The 21st amendment repealed that. I believe that we should not have repealed the eighteenth amendment, but changed it. Alcohol is very bad for you, and can have fatal effects on your body. When you have a certain amount of drinks, it will cause you to get drunk. Your mind will slow down, and you have a high chance of making bad decisions. You could be driving while intoxicated, which could lead to a car crash. Many people will get hurt, or even die. If you have too many drinks, you will have to go to the hospital to get your stomach pumped. You can’t go to sleep with this condition because you might not wake up. Too much alcohol can cause long term...
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...The Fourth Amendment is found under our US Constitution. This amendment allows government officials to conduct searches and seizures that are supported by probable cause and warrant (Kessler, J. 2010). Under the federal law, courts have distinguished numerous exemptions, border searchers are one of them. If a search is found violating these requirements, any evidence gathered may be suppressed. The Department of Justice importance is to avert and counteract terrorist attacks. As a result, after the 9/11 attacks, the Patriot Act performed effective operations that hindered multiple terrorism threats. The Patriot Act authorizes detectives to utilize tools to investigate organized crime and drug trafficking (“The USA Patriot Act,” n.d.). In addition, the Patriot Act authorizes law enforcement to use surveillance against crimes of terror. Additionally, government agents are able to obtain a court order to acquire business archives. Here, The Patriot Act can be seen to be extreme over the rights of American Citizens. However, we have to keep in mind that freedom does come with a price. The Fourth amendment protects individuals from unwarranted search and seizures, but when it comes to the safety and well being...
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...I, Fredrick White, and my colleagues have successfully passed the 13th Amendment which has officially abolished slavery. This success was an immense victory to us Radical Republicans. We are in celebration of this amendment and a step closer of bettering Freedmen’s lives since the abolition of slavery has become the law of the land. We were very lucky to have added this quickly, because if the Southern States had been accepted into the Union we wouldn’t have been able to pass the amendment. I still believe that those Southerners shouldn’t even be allowed to have a voice in our politics after all they have done, even if they have joined back into the Union. President Andrew Johnson is much too lenient to his fellow Southerners and something must be done, but passing the 13th Amendment is a step in the right direction....
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...The document, 13TH, was found on Netflix. Argument found in the 13th was that the 13th Amendment grants freedom to all with the exception of criminals, when actually the actions taken with this amendment was being targeted towards people of color. Agree: People of color, but mainly African Americans are seen as “monsters, animals, and rapists” and being put into prison for unnecessary reasons. For instance loitering and vagrancy. African Americans were treated poorly because of stereotypes made against them, how they were viewed by the whites and by the government. The incident with the Crack Cocaine would be an example. Crack cocaine became an extensive crime around the mid-1980s. Anyone who had possession of crack cocaine was automatically...
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...The 26th Amendment set the national voting age at 18 for the citizens of the Unites States. It was ratified on July 1, 1971. This amendment is actually the quickest one to be ratified. It became a part of the Constitution three months and eight days after being submitted for ratification. The first section says that United States citizens, who are eighteen and older, are allowed to vote and neither the United States nor any state is able to take that right from them. Section two includes that Congress has the power to enforce this and make sure that no one gets denied this right. The dilemma began when young men were conscripted to fight in the war but denied the right to vote. A popular slogan “Old enough to fight, old enough to vote” spread...
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...“I plead the 5th” is a statement that most people only hear on television crime dramas, but it remains many Americans’ only knowledge of the 5th Amendment to the Constitution. It receives far less attention then the fierce political debates that rage around the 1st or 2nd Amendments. The common impression of the amendment is that it only exists to protect criminals from prosecution.1 Yet the protections it provides apply to all citizens of the United States and remain just as important now as when the founding fathers wrote the amendment 226 years ago.2 It is also one of the most directly relevant to Army officers in their roles as commanders or appointed investigating officers. The 5th Amendment’s historical foundation and the fundamental rights it guarantees continue to be critical to the freedoms Americans enjoy in the modern world. The full text of the 5th amendment reads “No person shall be held to answer for a...
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...The first section in the 14th Amendment proclaims that people who are born in the United States are citizens. It has three important clauses: (1) privileges and immunities clause, (2) due process clause, and (3) equal protection clause. This amendment protects citizens and their rights from federal government. It was later applied to all states. The fifth section allows Congress to enforce this amendment when appropriate (Greenberg, 530). It was perceived to be needed because of the unfair treatment on citizens that did not have the appearance of a typical American citizen. At the time, it was intended to protect African Americans from discrimination, although it was eventually applied to other minorities as well. The 14th Amendment affected...
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...Should the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution be repealed or amended? Personally, I believe that the Second Amendment should be repealed because one, having a gun in your possession or on you property doesn’t always guarantee that you will be safe and protected, two, the extreme increase in the crime rate and deaths in the United States, and finally because the healthcare system is in jeopardy, because of guns. Individuals state that they keep a gun or guns in their house to protect themselves and their families from criminals but statistics have shown that you’re less safe if you have a gun in your house. An Emory University study concluded, “For every time a gun is used in self-defense in the home, there are 7 assaults or murders, 11 suicide attempts, and 4 accidents involving guns in the home.” Individuals say they have guns for self-defense, but if self-defense is a matter for the Constitution, then what about burglar alarms? Should ADT get an amendment? Second, the freedoms outlined in the Bill of Rights and the further amendments beyond it generally state the consept of basic human rights and American democracy. Individuals who have their mind set on something, normally don’t change their minds, how many more children, teenagers, elderly and law enforcement officials are going to...
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...There are two methods of proposing an amendment to the Constitution as provided by Article V of the Constitution. The first method of amending the constitution requires a two-thirds vote in both the Senate and in the House of Representatives. The second method of amending the constitution requires two-thirds of the state legislatures to request that Congress call a national amendment convention, then the Congress must call one. After this process, the convention may then propose the amendments to the states for ratification. There are also two methods of ratifying an amendment. The first and most common method of ratifying an amendment is a three-fourths vote from the legislature in favor of the proposed amendment. The second method of ratifying an amendment is through a special convention called on by the states in which three-fourths of the states must approve the proposed amendment. This second method of ratification has only been used once. (Sidlow and Henschen) Since the constitution came into effect in 1789 more than eleven thousand amendments have been introduced to Congress, of those proposed amendments only twenty seven made it through the process and became a part of our constitution. All twenty seven amendments have been proposed by the first method to amend the constitution, a two-thirds vote in the...
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