and included the Bill of Rights that provides us with our freedoms. Each of these amendments is very important to the way we live in today’s society and play an important role in our lives. The Constitution and the Bill of Rights is the foundation for our country and the Amendments it includes gives our citizens their individual rights. The Constitution is what separates us from any other country. Certain Amendments were able to pave the way for all groups of individuals to have equal rights. The
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central authority and constituent political units The 10th Amendment to the Constitution states that all powers that the Constitution neither gives exclusively to the federal government nor takes from the states are reserved for the states Federal legislation that affects business must be based on an expressed unconditional grant of authority The Constitution also allocates power of the federal government among three branches of government First three articles of the Constitution establish the legislative
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Before music or performances could be recorded, people responsible for establishing guidelines for censorship were hard at work; altering music, operas and much later, television and radio broadcasts. During this media evolution, society’s views on restrictions of artistic
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Hunter Brett English 10, Period 4 Mrs. Gardner 23 May 2018 The Freedom of Speech “Congress shall make no law… abridging the freedom of speech…” Why should the 1st amendment be changed now? Should groups like the Neo-Nazis be stripped of their constitutional rights? A huge controversy has arisen on whether groups like the Neo-Nazi should have the right to protest and have full freedom of speech. Despite this heated debate, Neo-Nazis should have the right to speak their opinion because of the freedom
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police interrogations. All four Defendants (Ernesto Miranda, Michael Vignera, Carl Calvin Westover, and Roy Allen Stewart) committed separate, unrelated crimes, but all were questioned without a lawyer present and were not notified of their Fifth Amendment rights of protection from self-incrimination (“Nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself”). Miranda was arrested and signed a confession for kidnapping and rape. He later was found guilty and appealed to the Supreme
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would be in it which some of the things were not put in it and the articles. There were 55 Framers of the constitution. Among them some familiar names as George Washington, James Madison, Benjamin franklin, alexander Hamilton which he invented the first national bank for the United States as well plus there were many more who made up this law for our nations present and future people to live by. Of course there were many arguments, speeches as well as debates were held to decide what was going to
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expression, student must be free to express themselves without unfair limits and the Tinker vs. Des Moines cases affirmed the rights of students to express themselves and the 1st Amendment prohibits laws that limit free expression. The case of Tinker v. Des Monies was rather a simple one. The case of whether the first amendment applied to students or just adults. The students argued that they should be allowed to wear armbands to display their praise for the people of the dead during the war. The staff
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Republican candidate • But when Lincoln died, Johnson implemented his own Reconstruction Plan during the first 8 months of his term as president. (It was based on Lincoln’s “Ten Percent Plan”) Andrew Johnson’s Reconstruction Plan • Handed out thousands of pardons to Confederate soldiers and politicians • Enforced Lincoln’s plan to admit states if they ratified the 13th Amendment • Took back the land promised to the slaves of Edisto Island, South Carolina (“40 Acres and a Mule”)
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article The New Jim Crown, Michelle Alexander asks the question: “ how exactly does a formally colorblind criminal justice system achieve such racially discriminatory results? “ (p 100). She says that there are two reasons why such results occur. The first reason is because law enforcement agents have a lot more discretion than necessary when it comes to
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Radio report of “Gun Violence: Comparing the United States with Other Countries, U.S have 3.85 deaths per 100,000 people due to gun violence as compare to other countries like India which have 0.88 deaths (Aizenman). As per the data, US ranked thirty first country for gun violence. In my opinion, it is unable to abolish
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