Why is the ninth amendment important? It is a moral statement. The ninth amendment states that there are other rights that may exist aside from the ones explicitly mentioned, and even though they are not listed, it does not mean they can be violated. The founders of the Declaration of Independence rather than have a constitutional restraint created the ninth amendment: An example landmark court cases is Griswold vs. Connecticut, 1965. In the Griswold case, the Supreme Court decision found a new right
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The Nineteenth Amendment- XIX Women’s Suffrage The nineteenth amendment gave women the right to vote, right to work, right for more job opportunities, and more respect. This amendment was then ratified on the date August 18th, 1920. In order to get this amendment eventually passed women went through a long and hard struggle also known as the women’s suffrage movement. American society needed the nineteenth amendment because if fellow Americans didn’t have the nineteenth amendment women would have
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In the case of Lawrence v. Texas, the resolution of the case was dependent on the U. S. Supreme Court affirming the Texas statute forbidding two persons of the same sex to engage in sodomy was unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause. In order for the Court to do this they needed to consider the holding in Bowers v. Hardwick, 478 U.S. 186, by examining the issue of whether the U.S. Constitutional “confers a fundamental right upon homosexuals to engage in sodomy.” In Bowers
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The tenth and fourteenth amendments were both established to limit the government and upgrade the lives of all citizens. The due process clause incorporated in the 14th amendment focuses on the rights of the citizens and the government. Its purpose was to protect economic freedoms; it was probably one of the more controversial amendments in the constitution. However, the tenth amendment confines what powers the federal government can give. The division between both amendments come on he views of federalism
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the Second Amendment Give Individuals a Right to Bear Arms? 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.The Second Amendment to the Constitution guarantees some sort of right to keep and bear arms, but the extent of that right has been hotly debated for over a century.Laws may be enforced for the good but they can also be enforced for the bad of it. First and foremost, the Second Amendment of the US
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on the case of Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier. My views are similar to the majority opinion on the case of Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier, because I believe that the censoring of the newspaper pages did not go against the students’ rights. Under the First Amendment, the majority concluded that the principle acted properly since rights of other students were going to be violated in the articles. Additionally, the majority opinion did not think that the Tinker standard applied to Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier, since
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1. I do agree with the court decision in the Florida V. Jardines cases that a Fourth Amendment search had occurred. The reason why I agree is because the police had no probable cause to search Jardines home in the first place. The only information they had about Jardines home was the unverified tip they received stating marijuana was being grown in his home. That alone is not enough for a search warrant. An unverified tip is not considered valid information. Anybody could have called that tip in
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and that he had exceeded the requirements that many of the students in the special program had not. After learning this information, he decided to file a lawsuit against the University of California. He believed that the school violated the 14th amendment and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Title VI prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, or national origin in any program or activity that receives Federal funds or other Federal financial assistance. He believed that the university
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it is just an interview. While Chief Justice Abe explained everything in a better way and providing evidence. Fortas explains that the problem is direct primary First Amendment “Our problem involves direct, primary First Amendment rights to akin to “pure speech” (Fortas 1). He shows that they should be more concerned on the Amendments than the speech protesting going on. Saying that 18,000 students wore the black armbands to protest in the school
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In 1890, New Orleans Society was a complete mess. They enforced segregation and pretty much broke the laws of the constitution. The issues with the Plessy v. Ferguson case was that the state of Louisiana passed the Separate Car Act which enforced a law that states, “that all railway companies carrying passengers in their coaches in this state, shall provide equal but separate accommodations for the white, and colored races, by providing two or more passenger coaches for each passenger train, or by
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