1. How does the Fourth Amendment’s warrant requirement protect you? The Fourth Amendment protects us from being seized or have the authority come into our homes without probable cause, without having a warrant to search our property they cannot search the place that which belongs to us. Having the Fourth Amendment around is good but once you’re on Government grounds the Fourth Amendment cannot protect us cause they have actual probable cause to search your personal properties that includes your
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tobacco companies challenge the FDA’s order as violating their First Amendment free speech rights, will the companies win? Explain why or why not. The tobacco companies will not win because false or misleading speech is not protected under the First Amendment, so therefore none of their rights are being violated. If the tobacco were able to scientifically prove their claims, then they would win because then their First Amendment rights would be violated. ** Read the following stories (in chronological
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Freedom of Religion, Speech and the Press The first amendment is part of the United States Constitution in a short portion called the United States Bill of Rights. The Bill of Rights is one of the high laws of our land. “It guarantees that the United States government can never deprive people in the United States of certain fundamental rights,” according to aclu.org. The first amendment states that “congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise
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Module 6 Final Draft Mr. Reynolds "Hate speech should be protected in the First Amendment" The most compelling reason for hate speech being protected refers to our history of discrimination and prejudice ultimately, for the purpose of trying to repair our troubled racial society that we need hate speech legislation. The government has the right to limit free speech in cases of overly racist or sexist language because our failure to address such abuses would effectively suggest that our society
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The Supreme Court has been hearing cases and passing laws about the discrimination against working women and pregnancy for years. The laws, acts, and clauses that are in place to protect women’s rights are debated, and left up for interpretation. The Supreme Court case of General Electric Company v. Gilbert in 1976, was one of the focusing factors in the case of Young v. UPS. This case along with the case of Geduldig v. Aiello is what lead Congress to create the Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA)
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that reflect academic achievement. b. The policies deprived students of procedural due process. c. The policies did not allow for equal protection based on article first, section 20 of the Constitution of the State of Connecticut and the fourteenth amendment to the United States Constitution. Decisions Rendered /Rational • The state Supreme Court upheld the trial court’s ruling on the first argument in question, stating that the board of education derives authority from their role as agents of the state
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In democratic country, every individual possess rights and liberty to create change in a democracy. There are many alternative ways which allow the minority to be heard without having to break the laws that we have set for ourselves. The people in the favor of civil disobedience say that civil disobedience is the only way that allows them to publicize the social issues. However, promoting their ideologies by using media is more powerful and effective than illegal actions which may lead to the further
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People might be surprised to know that the Holy Bible has been banned in several public and school libraries in the United States. Banning books started as early as 399 B.C. and still happens today. When a book is challenged, it is sent to the library, where it is decided if the book should be banned from that library or remain on the shelf. It should not be allowed to ban a book in a public or school library. There are too many books that might offend someone to ban them all. In fact, according
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“I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." As we say in the pledge of allegiance “with liberty and justice for all." This means that every citizen has the right to freedom and justice. Freedom as in, those citizens can't be compelled to work for free, and justice as in the state has the responsibility to bring those who trespass against you to trial by a jury of peers
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Part One: How was the American public’s opinion affected by events such as the Vietnam War or Watergate? Part Two: What search engine did you use? Google What words did you type into the search engine to get your results? “american public opinion on watergate scandal” “american public opinion on vietnam war” What sources did you choose? Provide the web address and title of each source. Watergate Scandal: Nixon Resigns http://ropercenter.cornell.edu/the-american-publics-attitudes-about-nixon-post-watergate/
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