Democracy In Supreme Court Cases

Democracy is a system of government that is ruled by the people. In a democracy people have the ability to choose by voting. For 225 years the Constitution has helped many find justice in the courtroom and not in the streets. The framers of the constitution created a document that can still be used today, both the Constitution and the Bill of Rights are still relevant today.One place where the Constitution is still relevent is in Supreme Court cases. In the Supreme Court cases Glossip v. Gross, the first lethal drug of three used in executions was being argued as unconstitutional because of the Eighth Amendment of cruel and unusual punishment. In the Supreme Court case McCullen v. Coakley, the court ruled that a Massachusetts law that prohibited protesters to be within a 35-foot “buffer zone” around an abortion clinic was a violation of the First Amendment in the Bill of Rights. Finally in the Supreme Court case Riley v. California, the court ruled that a search and seizure of all digital contents during an arrest is a violation of the Fourth Amendment, therefore it is unconstitutional. …show more content…
There they drafted the Constitution of the United States. The first draft of the Constitution created a system of checks and balances in which each branch of the government could check on the action of the other branches, that includes the Executive branch, Legislative branch, and the Judicial branch. There was many compromises that needed to be made before the constitution could be agreed upon. The first draft of the Constitution was good but it had many flaws. The Constitution only specified what the government could do but it did not mention what it couldn’t do. The Constitution only gave the government power but the people were not sure what their powers and rights were. This was how the Bill of Rights were