From an ethical and moral standpoint, the war in Vietnam was forceful and unworthy of American citizen involvement. If one deems a cause worth fighting for they have the right to fight, and if one deems a cause or a tactic of war unconventional, they have the right to fight against it. This young defendant and his ill knowledge about the subject followed others, burning their draft cards as a sign of nonconformity, not as a threat. He shall be seen as not guilty by the basic unalienable rights, of “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness”.…
He explains that people are seeking justice, a war overseas, but there are so many injustices done to the common people here in America that the only people that could possibly benefit are the rich. Lastly, he points out the hypocrisy of this war, there are worse nations than Germany at the time. People were being punished in France and England for not wanting to kill. Germany violated international law for declaring the British Isles a war zone, but when England closed the…
Document 2 talks about a guy by the name of Charles T. Schenck. He was convicted for violationg the Espionage Act. He helped convince soldiers or future soldiers rather, enter or sign up for the draft. When he went to the Suprem Court arguing…
Tinker v. Des Moines School District Portraying under the First Amendment as “freedom of speech”; in 1965, a vass group of individuals including adults and students had became determined to accentuate their objections based upon the hostilities of American soldiers within the Vietnam War. Petitioners such as John Tinker, 15, Christopher Eckhardt, 16 and Mary Beth Tinker, 13 were sentenced to suspension by their schools for promoting- detailed as provoking, their peers as well as for contravening school regulations. Based upon the given documents written by Justice Fortas and Justice Black, each illustrate opinionated stand points that persuade justified grounds given by the Supreme Court. On November 12, 1968, a court case was issued when merely seven students, four being of the Tinker household and one as Eckhardt, had contravened their school regulations of banned armbands.…
Lawrence Delbert Cress and Robert E. Shalhope both write extensively researched articles about the history of the Second Amendment, but they come to very contradictory conclusions. There are a number of questions that both Cress and Shalhope were attempting to answer. What is the historical background for how the writers of the Second Amendment would have looked at the basis for the Second Amendment? What sort of cultural influences at the time of the writing helped to shape the views of writers? And most importantly, what right or rights were the framers of the Second Amendment actually intending to protect?…
Benjamin Banneker being a former slave, farmer, astronomer, mathematician, surveyor, and author having experience based knowledge in a reach for answers, from the secretary of state and president. The author talks about the dangers in which the British Crown were placed in, and a time when the tyranny was accountable for the unfairness of slavery. This letter was written in 1791, even years after this letter slavery was still going on until it was abolished. This ties into a point when feelings were arranged into the deceleration of war, and got in the way of “valuation of liberty.”…
Abstract The Twenty-Sixth Amendment has the right to be repealed by Congress. During the time period of the Vietnam War of the Cold War, where the United States had conscripted their men into soldiers to fight against the communists in Vietnam. The main reason for the men to be drafted is to protect the South Vietnam from being taken over by the North Vietnam. As the American men were being drafted into the war, they were recently a few number of men who burned their draft cards in as an act of violation.…
The defendant in the case that was with Heller, whose last name is Stevens, stated his opinion on the matter. Stevens stated that, “The Second Amendment was adopted to protect the right of the people to maintain a well-regulated militia. It was a response to the concern that the power of congress to disarm the state militias and create a national standing army posed an intolerable threat to state sovereignty (Lawnix, par. 15).” Neither in the manuscript of the Second Amendment or in the quarrels in the advocate’s evidence, was there even the least interest of the Framers in limiting of the legislature’s power of controlling the uses of firearms used by the private citizen. Stevens also said, “There is no indication that the Framers intended…
The Bill of Rights is a series of items in one document that states our rights. All of them are very important. Three of them will be shown here. The 8th amendment from Document 8 is very important because the government will not be able to impose excessive fines on anybody.…
Bourne’s claims and predictions in this document were shown to be accurate soon after they were written. Those who disagreed with the State’s military actions were not thought of as merely having a different opinion, they were “un-American” (754). Such dissenters suffered for their dissenting beliefs at the hands of vigilantes like the American Protective League, who considered it their duty to spy on other citizens. This behaviour was explicitly addressed by Bourne: “Every individual citizen...becomes an amateur agent of the Government in reporting spies and disloyalists…” Anti-government or anti-war speech was treated as a criminal offense (753).…
One of the most persuasive arguments against the bill of rights was that of a shifting burden of proof. At the heart of the concern was that the introduction of such clauses would flip the presumption of the Constitution. As initially written, the Constitution placed the burden of demonstrating federal power to act on Congress and the President. In October 1787 James Wilson argued during the first state ratification debate in Pennsylvania—a discourse that brought him to national prominence as a spokesman for the Federalist cause—that “it would have been superfluous and absurd to have stipulated with a federal body of our own creation, that we should enjoy those privileges of which we are not divested.” By calling out specific rights, there would be a narrowing of rights to reflect merely those listed.…
In Schenck v. US, Charles Schenck was imprisoned for publicly denouncing the war effort. He appealed to the Supreme Court, claiming that under the US Constitution, such harsh punishment for expressing discontentment in the government and with a pointless war was unlawful. The Supreme Court ruled that the defendants criticism of the war effort was not protected under the Constitution, because his rhetoric posed a “clear and present danger” to the recruitment and enlistment services of the US. Similarly, in Abrams v. US, the court deemed the curtailment of materials essential to the war effort with the intention of delaying the progression of said war effort, was unconstitutional.…
The day begins just like any other in a quiet, small town, when out of nowhere a suspicious man enters the local bank and confidently states that this is a holdup. All of the innocent bystanders inside the bank are physically incapacitated initially out of fear as the bank robber brandishes his intimidating firearm while giving directions to the civilians not to move or speak unless exclusively instructed to do so at his command. The man also warns them not to try anything sneaky or else he will be compelled to do something crazy. The suspect makes his way to the bank tellers at which point he aggressively grabs one of the employees by the shirt and demands they empty the vaults and hand over the funds to him. Meanwhile, one of the hostages…
The second amendment of the constitution states, "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 amendments mean that: to keep the country free from too much control, the people are allowed to keep and use their firearms. Under any circumstance this right shall not be violated .Since it’s our right why is there so many limitations and restrictions.…
The first amendment states the five general freedoms of an American citizen: freedom of speech, religion, the press, assembly, and the right to petition the government. On occasion we neglect these write that others have, and we forget the rights that we have. First part of the amendment is the right to free worship and speech. These two rights are relevant in our society today for the reason that it gives us the opportunity to stand up for what we believe in, without being persecuted. We as Americans are lucky to worship freely and speak for what we think is right, Others in countries around the world do not have the privileges we have under killed for sticking up for themselves.…