Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution

The Bill of Rights are the first ten amendments in the United States Constitution. The Bill of Rights were wrote by James Madison and were ratified on December 15, 1791, becoming a part of the Constitution. The First Amendment is freedom of religion, speech, assembly, press and petition. This amendment gives basic freedoms to United States (U.S.) citizens. Everyone should have the freedom to do what they please, pertaining especially to speech and religion, without having to worry about the…

unreasonable, and violated two Amendments in the Constitution of the United States of America. T.L.O. suffered many charges pressed against her in the lower level courts, so she has now been brought to The Supreme Court’s attention. T.L.O. was first discovered smoking in a school lavatory along with an acquaintance by a teacher. Her accomplice admitted to smoking but T.L.O. denied it. She was brought…

The ruling of The United States Supreme Court on Malloy v. Hogan,378U.S. 1(1964), the court was confronted with the issue of whether Mr. Malloy could utilize his Fifth Amendment right. To ensure that he did not incriminate himself in criminal activity during questioning in the state trial in the State of Connecticut (Neubauer and Fradella, 2009). The Supreme Court saw that the defendant had answered four of five questions during his testimony during the hearing and upon the last issue, Mr.…

non-partisan political action committee with the goal of ending corporate personhood and publicly financing all elections in the country by adding a 28th amendment to the Constitution. This organization has more than 20,000 volunteers working in all 50 state. The strategy is to call for a convention of the States which is outlined in Article V of the constitution. Volunteering in this organization to pass resolution calling for convention in local level will bring a change to the current…

today’s society most will often wonder if the United States Constitution has effected the way police can do their job. Most will wonder if the majority of the police even follow the constitution while doing their job. What the constitution does is basically give the citizens of the United States their basic rights and layout the laws for them to follow. The constitution came into play in 1787 and created 27 different amendments that help the United States citizens with an overall layout of the…

Missouri Compromise (1820) A Free State: (before the Civil War) A state in the United States in which slavery was illegal (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/free%20state). A Slave State: Any of the 15 states of the Union in which slavery was legal before the Civil War. (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/slave+state) In 1819, a huge debate grew in Congress as to whether or not to make the new state of Missouri and free state or a slave state. Missouri wanted to become part of the union…

The Supreme Court of the United States has since used judicial review in cases that have directly impacted civil liberties. Civil liberties are explicit, guaranteed rights that are protected under the Constitution or interpreted throughout different Court cases. These include rights such as freedom of speech, freedom of privacy, the right to vote, and more. One of the first Supreme Court cases regarding civil liberty, which is also one of the most important Supreme Court cases in U.S history,…

This brings the current issue to light, which is the use of Jailhouse informants and questions as to whether the use of such practices is in violation of the Fifth and Sixth Amendment right to council. The Orange County District Attorney’s Office along with the Orange County Sheriff’s Department have been under heavy scrutiny lately over allegations of evidence obtained in their use of jailhouse informants in criminal trials is a violation of the accused’s right to due process. This has led to…

Despite reservations concerning the potential for state prosecutorial inefficacy during a trial which might prohibit the federal government from meting out possibly deserved punishment in a subsequent federal trial, in the interest of citizen freedom and the right to due process, I would side with the dissenting opinion of the court, and hold that the Double Jeopardy Clause applies in the matter of Abbate v. United States. Central to the debate over the application of the Double Jeopardy Clause…

College is not a place but a process and that the effectiveness of the process is tested every four years when we head to the polls to cast our vote for the next president of the United States. In light of the 2016 election, while some people are going back and forth debating whether the twelfth amendment of the Constitution is outdated and needs some a major overhaul, others are praising the wisdom of our founding…