Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution

The smoking ban First article “Benefits of smoke ban will be felt at once” is from The Observer and written by Robin McKie. The writer is obviously in favor of the smoking ban, he claims that it is necessary to act against smoking in public legally. McKie supports his opinion about the prohibition on smoking in public with investigations from Scotland, Ireland and America. These studies show that people’s health has improved substantially in different places and countries over a short stretch of…

impressionable young minds can’t differentiate between real and make believe … What they see, they learn” this plays an important role when it comes to shaping their behavior. On April 16, 2007, the Virginia Tech massacre took place on the campus of the State University which led to 32 people killed and many more left wounded. “The president of the American Psychiatric Association, Pedro Ruiz, said that it would not be a smart idea to air any photos, video clips or writings of the shooter since…

weapon? Although the second amendment is the right to bear arms, more in depth background tests on applying gun owners should be completed because guns are dangerous, and the owner should be mentally and physically capable to own a gun. Many people fight further background tests because in the Bill of Rights the second amendment is the right to bear arms. Since the fourteenth amendment applied the Bill of Rights to state and local governments, therefore the second amendment must be upheld…

In the first amendment it says freedom of religion so why is it banned to pray in school. That moment of silence said after the announcement was considered saying a small prayer for the day which the people could not tolerate. Prayer in school was our religious heritage. Social benefits were made prayer in school. The supreme court disregarded the Establishment Clause in which it stated the freedom of religion. A simple silence does not express that they are school prayer. I believe that the…

the civil rights movement and beginning the transition towards equality between blacks and whites were the cases of Plessy vs. Ferguson and Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka. The case of Plessy vs. Ferguson began when Homer Plessy, who was one-eighths African American, bought a railroad ticket and sat in the white car, when asked to move, he refused. Homer Plessy was arrested and found guilty in Louisiana’s U.S. District Court; this prompted the case of Plessy vs. Ferguson (Killcoyne…

Censorship is used in many places, including children’s book, television shows, and also music. It is not necessary because it infringes upon the First Amendment, which is the right to freedom of speech. Censorship is the suppression of information that may be considered inappropriate or vulgar to some people. Censorship is achieved through looking at television, books, films, play and other forms of media and entertainment to control ideas that were projected to be unseemly. To understand…

senator Ted Cruz has spoken out on gun control. He states,”The right to self-defense is an essential component of the liberty we enjoy as Americans and is embodied in the Second Amendment. From successfully protecting law-abiding citizens’ Second Amendment rights at the Supreme Court, to defeating legislation that sought to take away this right, I have always championed the right to keep and bear arms.” There is nothing you can do to change the Constitution. You can attempt to amend it, but…

produced in the United States was kept in the government warehouses for use in religious ceremonies. Whisky was made available for medicinal uses and had a warning label attached to the prescription. The number of patients who got prescribed whisky increased over one million gallons consumed per year and were made free through the use of prescription orders (1920’s). “In 1919, the requisite number of legislatures of the states ratified the 18th amendment to the Federal Constitution, enabling…

March 17, 1962, was a member of the Citizens’ Committee of African Americans and Creoles, as he was one-eighth African American. As a form of rebellion against the unjust 1890 law, which stated that segregation via train coaches was perfectly constitutional, Plessy had bought a ticket for the East Louisiana Railway on June 7, 1892. As a test, he informed the train conductor that he was one-eighth black and refused to move from the whites’ only section of the train. Plessy was then arrested and…

Christianity should be spoken about in a positive aspect. There are plenty of reasons that could be given in order to justify why Christianity should be allowed to be expressed in school. The first reason obviously being that the first amendment in the United States Constitution guarantees the right to freedom of “Speech, Religion, and Press”. This country was founded on those three principles. “When public school officials disregard the U.S.…