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    Fourth Amendment rights, you 're entitled to "qualified immunity" from suit if your actions, though unjustifiable, did not violate clearly-established law” (Rutledge, 2015, para. 7). Now, according to Rutledge (2015, para. 8) the Supreme Court pointed out that whether an official protected by qualified immunity may be held legally responsible for an allegedly unlawful action generally turns on the objective legal reasonableness of the action. Especially where the alleged Fourth Amendment…

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    Under the Constitution the First Amendment states “Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” The right to speak freely archived in the First Amendment is a sacred assurance, as well as an inevitable piece part of the democratic government and independence, which are key qualities in our society. “Censorship,” according to Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes,…

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    they get a sense of feeling of privacy and safety as if that door could stop anything or anyone from coming through it. As a citizen of the United States you were guaranteed this right when the Bill of Rights was written and passed. The Fourth Amendment protects you from any unreasonable search and seizures, no warrants shall be issued without probable cause, supported by Oath. There are many different types of warrants and many exceptions to when a warrant is and is not needed for search and…

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    A Christian chaplain for Congress should be offend the First Amendment because people can choose to be any religion, someone may believe in a different form of a God. Another one that offends the non-establishment clause is the sessions of Congress opening with a prayer in Jesus name. Not everyone believes I Jesus.…

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    that (1) the [ Massachusetts Supreme Court] explained that stun guns are not protected because they “were not in common use at the time of the Second Amendment’s enactment.” . . . This is inconsistent with Heller’s clear statement that the Second Amendment “extends . . . to . . . arms . . . that were not in existence at the time of the founding” (2) “. . . the [Massachusetts Supreme Court] concluded that stun guns are “unusual” because they are “a thoroughly modern invention.” . . . By equating…

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    Super PACs in Elections In our modern world, money holds a massive amount of power. Money is a motivator. Our civilization is a slave to its power. Money has the power the encourage people to act against their morals and their own interest. Not only does money rule every aspect of our personal life but it has also sized control of our government. Our government was created as a democracy where the power is given to the people but since then money has removed power from the people and has given…

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    welfare type state, but in reality the intentions were not entirely humanitarian, previously the poor relief was funded through local taxes of middle and upper class people. As a means of reducing the cost, new laws were passed. The 1834 Poor law amendment act introduces the policy of “less eligibility”, the conditions inside the workhouses were made deliberately worse than the conditions in outside, the normal healthy worker had to be extremely poor to be entitled to poor relief. Thus yet…

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    It guarantees both the right to express your views in public and religious freedom. The amendment can be broken up into two major parts. The first portion of the amendment focuses on religious freedom protecting people from having a set of religious beliefs imposed by the government on them. Furthermore, it protects people from having their own religious beliefs restricted by government…

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    Under The 14th Amendment Due Process Clause it protects our own individual right if we are deprived of our life, right, or liberty. The intentions of this law are clear, but again has not been a practice by police who engage in patterns of the use of excessive force. Claims under the fourteenth amendments due process clause, are usually done under a pretrial period. The pretrial and seizure periods are hard…

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    After the Civil War, Grant was sent to Madison Barracks in New Sackets Harbor, New York and was eventually out west to Fort Humboldt. Grant became very bored serving as the quartermaster in peace time knowing that he was little more than a commissioned clerk. Grant was eventually promoted to captain but had built a reputation as being a drunk. Grant, separated from his family for some time now, had become lonely without his wife Julia and his sons. To make things worse, Grant’s new commander…

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