Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

Atlantic Ocean. The American Revolution gave the United States an opportunity to create a nation the likes of which had never been seen before. Through radical changes in the government, the citizens of the newly formed United States of America were able to become more free than they could have ever dreamed. Improvements in religious freedom, gender equality, and social mobility, along with positive changes in many other areas, helped the United States flourish. People became empowered…

Having the knowledge of all our 27 Amendments rights, knowing what news whether good or bad is happening in either countries or states, and supporting our troops to the fullest extent that we can. These three things really do signify being Americans! I am a proud President of our country, to have a country full of people that know their…

World War I. Why did the U.S. get involved in World War I? Why was it a controversial war in America? Explain Wilson 's goals after the war. How successful was he? The United States entered World War I on April 6, 1917. The United States maintained the status of neutrality, and President Woodrow Wilson attempted to be an intermediary between the warring parties. The countries of the Entente conducted mass purchases of the American raw materials for military industry, food and weapons, thus…

preachers from the first Great Awakening, such as Benjamin Franklin’s 1739 account of George Whitefield. Many preachers also published letters and even journals. Conflict between imperial Britain and American colonists reached its height during the mid eighteenth century as the colonists reacted the Britain’s continued attempts at taxation without representation. American revolutionary Thomas Paine inspired Americans to declare independence from Britain with the publication of two pamphlets in…

chance to be a free country with amendments like the Second, allowing citizens to own guns, or the First, allowing people to write papers which can argue someone’s own opinion. Everyone in America would still be a citizen of the United Kingdom, Russia, or from the homeland of his or her ancestors. America…

President Abraham Lincoln Time doesn’t stop, day-by-day people get closer to their deaths. Everybody dies but not everybody live their lives to become legends. Many presidents have led the United States of America, some have been great leaders for the country, while others weren’t so virtuous. One of the utmost presidents that have led U.S. to great success at its time is Abraham Lincoln. Till this day he is known as one of the greatest American presidents, but at his time of his election no…

unreasonable not to. Using the written and spoken language, this world constantly changes and learns and will continue to as long as everyone’s voices are heard. According to the article “Arts and First Amendment: Parody and Satire”, an excerpt explains how law defends forms of expression; it says, “ The First Amendment protects satire and parody as a form of free speech and expression” (Kyonzte Hughes; line 10). Being that this world is full of diversity, there will always be new opinions and…

Obscenity is defined in Media Essentials: A Brief Introduction as a form of expression not protected by the first amendment. The reason for not protecting it is due to its inappropriate information. This information could harm or upset its audience in anyway and this must be avoided. However, where the line should be drawn is not always clear, how much protection does the first amendment give us? What is too much protection and can it go too far? This argument has occurred in two cases: The New…

With the anomaly of a particular few states, the rights of private property have overridden the first amendment rights of people within shopping centers. The original purpose of these “civic centers” was to perfect the downtown environment. If one is to go these downtown centers, the right to publicly protest and exert ones…

only role was to “play house” and be a mother, Margaret Sanger wrote evidence of this prejudice, “Woman’s role has been that of an incubator and little more.” However between the late 1800s and the end of World War II the status of women in the United States dramatically changed in a beneficial way for all parties.…