...There are 3 Amendments that has had a great impact in US History and the people of today. These are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments also known as the Civil War Amendments. The 3 Amendments were designed to ensure equality for recently emancipated slaves. The Civil War Amendments banned slavery, defined citizenship, and ensured voting rights. These Amendments are still very important today. The 13th Amendment made slavery illegal forever in the United States. The 13th Amendment was a very important amendment to the slaves in the 1860s. It was also the first amendment that gave rights to the slaves. The 13th Amendment still plays an important role on people of today. If it weren’t for the 13th Amendment, slavery could’ve still continued...
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...Bill of Rights and Amendments Salvatore Coco HIS/301 AUGUST 15, 2013 Christina Winn Bill of Rights and Amendments Although the Constitution was written primarily to define and represent the ideals and dreams of men for freedom of life; liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, there were many imperfections because of the compromises required to get the document ratified by the states involved. Amendments to the Constitution were added to correct these deficiencies, including the Bill of Rights and the first 10 amendments. However, the Bill of Rights still did not adequately address the issues of slaves. Amendments 13, 14, and 15 were added in an attempt to fulfill the gaps left by the original 10. These amendments were also a precursor to future amendments addressing civil right issues during the Civil Rights movement. How and Why Amendments are added to the Constitution The Constitution was approved in 1788, including Article V stating how amendments would be added. Amendments were needed either as an improvement, a correction, or an addition. There are two ways to pass an amendment although only one has ever been used. The first method takes two-thirds of the house and Senate and three-fourths of the states to have a proposed amendment ratified. The second method, although never used requires a Constitutional Convention to be called by two-thirds of the House...
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...As all the other Amendments, the 14th Amendments was made to change how the law and the way the African Americans were treated. Its one of the longest written Amendment, The 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to African American slaves who were emancipated after the American Civil War. This reconstruction Amendment has forbidden the states from denying any person within the state’s jurisdiction equal protection under the law and forbidding the states from denying any person of “ life, liberty, or property, without due process of law” . As you see from time to time in the newspapers, news channels, books, TV shows, and/or movies today the 14th Amendment plays a very...
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...The Bill of Rights and the 14th amendment are imperative for citizens. The first ten commandments of the U.S constitution are called the Bill of Rights because it provides the rights to individual freedom and criminal policy. Both are effective and can be shown cases like Brown v. Board, Texas v. Johnson and Gideon v. Wainwright. The 14th amendment is essential to guarantee equal rights to American people. Brown v. Board is an example of this amendment in which Linda Brown could attend an all-white school. Equal protection clause came into play when others around didn't want her to be near them, but segregation in schools was proven unconstitutional and ended in 1954. Therefore the 14th amendment is proven to used everywhere no matter what...
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...had an impact on the board of education and our lives. There was an African American girl named Linda Brown, she was a normal girl in the third grade. Linda went to a school that was a mile away even though there was an all white elementary school, seven blocks away. Her father, Oliver Brown, tried to enroll her in the white elementary school, but the principal of the school refused to let her in due to her race. Mr. Brown then took this problem to the NAACP ( National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), they agreed to help him. As this case became more known it was then later brought up to supreme court. Other cases have led up to this case, these cases included, Sweat v. Painter (1950) and McLaurin v. Oklahoma Board of Regents of Higher Education (1950). The cases leading up to Brown Vs Board of Education featured African American people dealing with segregation problems. Brown argued segregation is seen as antithetical to our whole culture. If a particular class of people are forced to stay in their own neighborhoods, have their own schools, parks, stores, restaurants, movie theaters, and not welcome in 'mainstream' places, they are not equal as citizens. This is a violation of the 'equality' provisions of the 14th amendment. One of the most basic founding principles of the US is that we have only one class of citizenship, every citizen is entitled to exactly the same rights and privileges of citizenship.Brown argued this and related it to 14th amendment...
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...Legal Issue The arguments in the case referenced the 13th Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. Plessy’s case questioned whether the Louisiana law that mandated segregated accommodations was actually violating Plessy's “equal protection” under the law? The case questioned whether a State law requiring separate seating on a public railway based on race was a federal violation of equal protection. Plessy contested that his conviction be overturned, that the State law be ruled unconstitutional, and that “separate but equal” facilities did not meet the standards of the 14th Amendment? Holding/Decision The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Louisiana law necessitating segregation based on race. It was Justice Henry B. Brown that delivered the 7-1 decision of the Court. Brown declared that the Louisiana state law did not violate either the federal 13th or 14th Amendments. He specified that the 13th Amendment applied only to slavery. He also stipulated that the 14th Amendment granted political and civil equality to African Americans, but was not intended to give them social equality....
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...When the Founding Fathers were composing the Constitution, there was no formalized education for all. At the time, only boys, mainly from affluent families, attended school. Private grammar schools opened in the 1700s to prepare boys to attend ivy league colleges. Free public education for all was never a thought during the 1700 and 1800s, however those documents which were written then have an impact on education today. Even with these documents much power concerning education remains with the states. Cases such as Brown vs. Broad of Education 1954 argued the separate-but-equal doctrine violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. Engel v. Vitale (1962) and 8. Abington School District v. Schempp (1963) shaped the modern understanding of how the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment constrains prayer in public schools. San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez (1972) argued that the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment mandates equal funding among school districts. Tinker v. Des Moines (1969) argued the Freedom of Speech. These are just a few cases that have made it to the top court in the land in part because of the way schools, districts, and states interpret statements written over two...
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...The Reconstruction Era was from 1865 to 1877, following the Civil War. In this era, the United States experienced reconstruction to help restore its socioeconomic and physical environment from the aftermath of the war’s damage. Some goals included ensuring civil rights to free African Americans through the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, reuniting the Southern States into the Union, and trying to restructure and build the ties between the state and federal governments. However, Reconstruction also led to the failure to protect African Americans through the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist groups, and the economic success that was gained during Reconstruction was not evenly distributed and was unstable. Reconstruction became successful...
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...Protection Clause, where the clause originated from, give example of the clause being applied to cases, and show how the clause is enforced today. The Equal Protection Clause is part of the United States Constitutions 14th amendment. In the Constitution, it states “nor shall any State…deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws” (Epstein and Walker). Meaning that the State must apply equal application of the law to...
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...many cases that have impacted America and shaped it into the country that it is to this day. While Supreme Court cases have without a doubt impacted America as a whole, when it comes to seeing the African American part of American history, the impact that these cases have had becomes bigger. Within...
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...Racial discrimination was attacked by the Civil Rights Act of 1875. The legislation made it a crime to deny “the full and equal enjoyment, accommodations, advantages, facilities, houses, and water to any race and colored citizen.” The Supreme Court took down the 1875 act, because the 14th Amendment stated that they did not have authority to prevent discrimination against private individuals. People that were discriminated against sought relief not from the government, but from the front, he stated. The one behind the case was the man himself, Homer Plessy, a Louisiana man of mixed race who challenged the state's Separate Car Act of 1890. The law required Railway companies to provide equal but separate accommodations for white and black passengers. Plessy himself deliberately boarded a white train car and refused to move when asked, which led to his arrest and subsequent legal challenge. As the case made its way to the Supreme Court, the main problem was whether Louisiana segregation law violated the equal protection Clause of the 14th...
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...brought much controversy within 2015. It pertained to the idea that states bans on same gender marriage were unconstitutional. The case helped decide that under the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment, the right to marriage applies to not only heterosexual couples, but same sex ones as well (ITT Chicago-Kent College of Law, 2015). This case began with a group of fourteen same sex couples deciding to sue state agencies in Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee, and Michigan. They were fighting for the idea that the states banning same sex marriage and not acknowledging legalized same gender couples was unconstitutional under the 14th Amendment. The cases that went through trial courts regarding this were all found in favor of the plaintiffs. Though it appeared the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit felt a different way, as it was declared that it did not violate their rights to due process or equal protection. This caused the case to find its way to the U.S. Supreme Court (ITT Chicago-Kent College of Law, 2015). There are two constitutional questions that come to play here; is a state required to allow a marriage between people of the same gender by the...
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...Ferguson to support their claim. Jim Crows laws permitted “separate but equal” facilities for Black and Whites and was supported by Plessy v. Ferguson– Supreme Court decision (GML! 668). The. This case emerged in Louisiana when railroad companies were required to have separate cars for Black passengers and a light-skin African American man named Homer Plessy refused to move to the ‘colored ‘section of the train, leading to his arrest. The idea of “separate but equal” was imbedded in the belief that the 14th amendment enforces total equality without distinction based on color By stating that the Brown vs Board of Education case is unconstitutional is to also admit the unconstitutionality of laws, such as Jim Crows created in opposition of the 14th and 15th amendment to restrict African American liberty and rights as citizens. This was their way to legally rationalize their support for segregation, even though it demonstrated their hypocrisy toward the constitutionality of laws and amendments. In the Manifesto, they mention how in “the original Constitution does not...
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...president was given the power to detain enemy combatants whom were against the United States. An enemy combatant is an “individual who, under the laws and customs of war, may be detained for the duration of an armed conflict”. The case Hamdi v. Rumsfeld 542 U.S. 507 has had an important impact on society. In Hamdi v. Rumsfeld 542 U.S. 507 the case focuses on an individual’s constitutional rights. The main arguments involving the case are: If the government violated Hamdi’s 5th amendment right and 14th amendment right to due process by holding him without allowing him access to an attorney. This was done only on the basis of the executive branch’s power to declare Hamdi as an enemy combatant and to lawfully make decisions during wartime....
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...The first of the two principles is ‘jus soli’ (the law of the soils) where the place of a person’s birth naturally determines their citizenship according to the 14th Amendment and the common laws used in the U.S. The second principle in federal law pertains to ‘jus sanguinis’(the law of the bloodline) where a person born in the U.S can adopt the citizenship of one or both parents, subject to changes in the statutes that grant citizenship ("7 FAM 1110 Acquisition of U.S. Citizenship by Birth in the United States"). The federal government offers clarity on the situation by defining the regions or areas that warrant automatic citizenship allocation to newborns regardless of the parents nationality or citizenship...
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