Amendments To The United States Constitution

The 14th amendment deals with equal protection to all citizens of the United States of America. All citizens are guaranteed their civil liberties, whether it's freedom of speech, religion, expression, right to bear arms, protection of the accused, etc; however, in the last couple decades, one of these rights has been a huge issue among the U.S. Government and citizens. The debate over the right to bear arms is not one-sided and has caused controversy throughout the years with many court cases, conspiracy theories and public outrage.

To begin the comprehension of Amendment IV, one must go back to the original purposes that the law was created for. In Great Britain, during the late 1700s, the king’s assistants were allowed to search without any evidence or probable cause because they were granted general warrants. Over in America, where Britain had set up colonies, the king could use general warrants to seize items that had not been paid for in taxes. One of the reasons the Fourth Amendment has changed so much since the early years of America is that law enforcement has evolved over the past two centuries. “Policing in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries was a responsibility of the citizenry… other than that, there was only a loose collection of sheriffs and constables,

Congressional Reconstruction included the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth amendments to the Constitution which extended civil and legal protections to former slaves. Congress abolished slavery in the District of Columbia in 1862, and President Abraham Lincoln’s Proclamation ended the practice of slavery in 1863, at war’s end in 1865 but the question of slavery had not been resolved at the national level.

1791- 1st Amendment- This Amendment establishes our 5 major rights as citizens; Rights to Religion, Speech, Press, Assembly, and Petition.

The 1st Ten Amendments to the US Constitution, Ratified in 1791 & guaranteeing such rights as the freedoms of speech, assembly, worship with the concestance of others. Federalists had promised the protection of individual liberties to the Constitution during the ratification struggle. From 210 proposed amendments, 12 were recommended by congress for adoption. Ten were ratified by the states in 1791, which are now known as the Bill Of

In any given constitution a nation, the recording of bills of rights has been a gradual process. All the aspects of life in society were done with respect to the law. The society requires being guided by certain principles and guidelines that would define and evaluate each and every aspect of their lives. To ensure that the entire society remained focused and concentrated in the given policies and guidelines, they recorded in the constitution and made available to each and every member of the society for the purpose of doing reviews. The action of the people would be judged in accordance with the constitution. With society running several errands towards the realization of development, many fields had to be covered. Criteria for the operation of the people would require significant efforts to accomplish the set objectives. Violations in the society occur either due to misunderstanding or lack of awareness of the rights present in the constitution. Any form of violation is evaluated by the appropriate form of punishment offered. (Hand, 1965)

In my personal opinion, I would not change any of the first ten amendments to the Constitution. First, the Constitution is not a simple document that can be changed overnight; it will take a long time because of the diverse positions and opinions about it. Today, the population of the United States comprises more than 320 millions of people and try to satisfy all of them is not possible. And second, the Bill of Rights gives to Americans the basic or natural rights such as: Life, liberty, and property or "pursuit the happiness"( according to Thomas Jefferson). These rights allows to American to enjoy a better quality

The framers of the United state constitution wrote the constitution in a way that it could not be easy to modify. However, there is an amendment process that allows Congress to change and shape the constitution in a way that will satisfy the political needs of the country.

The first ten amendments added to the U.S. Constitution, now known as the Bill of Rights, have played a fundamental role in the Constitution. Still in effect today, the Bill of Rights has become a necessity in order to protect the individual rights of American citizens. In order to prevent an oppressive centralized government, James Madison, America’s fourth president, decided to lay the foundation of civil liberties in ten amendments.

The process of amending the US Constitution is an intentionally difficult one. Yet those in each branch of government have found ways in which the Constitution can be changed informally. Describe the methods, both formal and informal, of constitutional change.

The Ten Amendments are part of the Constitution and are known as the Bill of Rights. They were proposed to Congress in 1789 and became a part of the Constitution on December 15, 1791. James Madison was the main author who wrote the Bill of Rights and he had a lot of support from John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. Till this day we still exercise all of the Ten Amendments and we have also expanded them.

This amendment proposal suggested that we repeal the 26th amendment that states the right to vote for 18 year olds and go two years younger and grant it to 16 year olds. Now, some might be thinking this is absolutely crazy and it would never happen. Some people could argue the reason is because of the level of maturity in the sense of politics. Someone could argue that the reason it’s not passed is because of lack of knowledge in politics. Those same people are about 40, 50, 60 years old and don’t have any clue what goes on in the classroom nowadays. Those same people didn’t have the same classes to enroll in at a young age. In an article, David Davenport responded to a teacher saying the kids are excited with, “Tell that to the teachers whose students, according to surveys, don’t know who their U.S. senator is or how to amend the Constitution.” I would like to say, as a 15 year old, it’s embarrassing to be as old as 16, and not know who Mitch McConnell is. But nevertheless, I don’t believe that the elders in politics nowadays know how much the idea of politics have changed in schools over the last decade or two. It’s an amazing revolutionizing world that we live in, and the people of yesterday are just trying to take the fun of being an older minor

I believe the two most important amendments in the Bill of Rights is the first and second amendments. The reason the first amendment is important to the United States citizens is because it protects the freedom of speech, religion and the press of a citizen. Citizens are able to communicate, state their opinion without getting into any trouble. However, “There are some limits to this, though, such as libel, slander, obscenity and incitement to commit a crime.”. People are free to speak their minds as long as they do not give false information about any other citizen. Many citizens have different religions, no one can change a person's religion nor how they practice it. Everyone has a right to their own religion, citizens have the freedom of

The framers of our Constitution knew that time has a way of changing countries and their citizens. Our country was in a whirlwind of change in 1789 as people were experiencing freedom from the tyranny of England for the first time in their lives. Our country was being molded and formed into a great nation by the founding fathers. Expectations and rules had to be set to protect the rights of the minorities and majorities. Amendments to the Constitution were written to ensure equality for all in changing times.

The main idea common to the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights is a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. This idea of a republic was relatively new in the late eighteenth century, with many of the nations in Europe (which had control over most of the North American colonies) being governed either by constitutional monarchies, those being a king or queen bound by a set of basic restrictions, absolute monarchies, those being a king or queen with absolute power. King George III, to whom the Declaration of Independence was addressed, would be considered a Constitutional Monarch.