Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

developmental and functional immaturity. We can compare that the lack of maturity in a minor can affect the way they make decisions, like Christopher. The main issue with this case is whether it was permissible under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments of the United States Constitution to execute a juvenile offender who is older than fifteen but younger than eighteen when committing a capital crime. In regards to Stanford VS. Kentucky (1989), which helped the case Roper VS. Simmons, the court…

in the United States is and has been one of the most debated topics involving the constitution. In the past century, countries from all around the world have been banning or heavily restricting access to firearms. England has restricted access to semi-automatic rifles that are abundant in the United States and Australia it is almost impossible to get one’s hands on a pistol. So if countries like Australia and England have laws making it hard to get guns, than why hasn’t the United States? The…

same-sex couples can marry nationwide and that states cannot ban same-sex marriage. Her refusal was strongly fueled by her Christian beliefs that oppose the right to same-sex marriage, even though some major political figures including the current Bishop of Rome, Pope Francis, who recently visited Davis…

to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, faith healing is “a method of treating diseases by prayer and exercise of faith in God.” The case of interest for this paper is the one of State v. Hickman in which the parents were ultimately convicted. The first amendment of the United…

Do people today really need to have guns? The second amendment was passed by Congress September 25, 1789 but was added to the Bill of Rights on December 15, 1791. The 2nd Amendment is about the right to bear arms and often referred to as the “Right to Bear Arms Amendment.” The second amendment states that “a free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite; and their safety and interest require that they should promote such…

From the time of America’s founding fathers, the citizens of the United States and its government have debated over the controversy surrounding civil rights and civil liberties, most importantly civil liberties. Civil liberties are “the restraints on the actions of government against individuals” (Bardes, Schmidt, and Shelley 106). The Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments to the Constitution, describes these liberties. Originally, the Bill of Rights only applied to the federal governments…

within the first 10 amendments of the constitution known as the Bill of Rights. Although Due Process of Law are guaranteed by the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments. The amendments that focus on the Due Process of Law are the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments which both state that an individual is guaranteed that no person shall "be deprived in the pursuit of life, liberty or property without due process of law". Let's look at the individual amendments. The Fourth Amendment protects…

and probable cause must be followed in the gathering of evidence, in order to prevent the possibility of any evidence being dismissed at trial. The exclusionary rule is a court-created rule which was adopted in 1914 (Weeks v. United States), and then first applied in state trials in the case Mapp v. Ohio. By definition, the exclusionary rule is one of the simplest rules in the legal system which excludes the use of illegally obtained evidence in a criminal trial. (Garland, 2015, p264) In other…

The Second Amendment of the US Constitution in 1791, the Fourteenth Amendment 1868 and the landmark decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court in 2008 and 2010 governs the status of these laws. The Second Amendment states that “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”. In District of Colombia v. Heller , the Supreme Court held that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to…

basic rights and freedoms that are guaranteed either by the Bill of Rights and the Constitution, or interpreted by lawmakers or courts through the years. Civil liberties are typically seen as being limitations on government power, intended to protect…