Samuel Nielsen Unit: 5 Question: 2 There are multiple ways that individual rights are protected in the body of the Constitution. In Article I, Section 9, clause 3 of the constitution provides that, “ no Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law will be passed.” Also, in Article I, Section 9, clause 2, individuals are guaranteed, “ the privilege of the writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended.” James Madison understood the carnage these laws could employ when he said, “Bills of attainder, ex post facto laws, and laws impairing the obligations of contracts, are contrary to the first principles of the social compact, and to every principle of sound legislation.” Restricting the legislative branch from issuing a Bill of Attainder protects
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The Bill of Rights does not give citizens rights; it bars the federal government from violating the rights of individual citizens. The records of the Constitutional Convention and the Ratification Conventions of the states are clear that omitted issues fell under the 10th amendment and were not left open for the federal government to claim because the locus of accountability was closer to the individual citizen. The Bill of Rights was the line in the sand that, if crossed, would be met with justified secession and warranted revolution from the sovereign states. Subsequently, I believe that the right to privacy should be added to the Constitution. The right to privacy is not mentioned in the Constitution, but the Supreme Court has said that several of the amendments create this right. One of the amendments is the Fourth Amendment, which stops the police and other government agents from searching our personal property without "probable cause. Other amendments protect our freedom to make certain decisions about our bodies and our private lives without interference from the
The Bill of Rights does not give citizens rights; it bars the federal government from violating the rights of individual citizens. The records of the Constitutional Convention and the Ratification Conventions of the states are clear that omitted issues fell under the 10th amendment and were not left open for the federal government to claim because the locus of accountability was closer to the individual citizen. The Bill of Rights was the line in the sand that, if crossed, would be met with justified secession and warranted revolution from the sovereign states. Subsequently, I believe that the right to privacy should be added to the Constitution. The right to privacy is not mentioned in the Constitution, but the Supreme Court has said that several of the amendments create this right. One of the amendments is the Fourth Amendment, which stops the police and other government agents from searching our personal property without "probable cause. Other amendments protect our freedom to make certain decisions about our bodies and our private lives without interference from the