Importance of The Second Amendment

Congressional Term Limits The question of whether or not congressmen should face term limits similar to the President of the United States has been a burning question throughout American History. Congressmen should face term limits for a few reasons. They should face term limits due to a majority of the American people’s opinion on the issue , the fact that term limits would increase ideas coming through Congress, and to help prevents incumbent advantage. The most important reason behind…

important precedent for all his successors to follow. In 1940 when Franklin Roosevelt broke that precedent and sought a third term. After his victory in 1944 the 22nd amendment to the constitution was introduced and passed. This amendment established in law the two-term limit that has previously been only customary. The new amendment resonated with Americans' traditional distrust of a too-powerful executive and in the end, was ratified easily in 1951. At state level a similar concern led to…

violated his constitutional Second Amendment right to bear arms. So, he found legal allies and filed a suit against Chicago in order to reverse the law. One…

This does not address the safety concerns with gun violence. The Second Amendment should remain in the Constitution. However, there should be a federal or state law requiring that individual gun owners who reside with someone who legally cannot possess a firearm must have a secure safe for their guns. The Second Amendment needs to be kept and has been a part of our constitution since the nation was founded. The Second Amendment was adopted…

freedom of speech should be done in schools because student of journalism background support the First Amendment so if all student have knowledge of the freedom of speech and the youth is given the opportunity to their freedom they will have appreciate and protect. The authors made another appeal to pathos by writing that school principal should also bereminded from time to time the importance of allowing the free speech to be part of daily teaching in schools. Duatrich and Bare argue that…

violence and gun control as an economical problem. Dvorak estimates the cost of shootings from damages, and who has to pay for these things.She sees gun violence as a public health issue. She also mentions that the Founding Fathers included the second amendment in the Constitution so they could protect themselves against the British Army not for inexperienced children. Before I read the article I viewed gun violence as a problem but now I see it as an economical issue also. I completely agree…

V had a significant impact on the course of the Convention, especially its influence on the call for a second convention, the other delegates did not give it much…

of each branch of the federal government, and assumed that Congress would fill in any holes within the constitution as they arose by proposing amendments (Lessig, 2014). According to Thomas Jefferson, “No society can make a perpetual constitution” (Lessig, 2014). However, in the 228 years of the Constitution’s existence there have only been 27 amendments, the first 12 occurring within the first 15 years of its adoption, (Urofsky & Finkelman, 2008, p. 97). Due to the changes in society and the…

democracy would allow those people to really see what was going on in their country. The objective of this essay is to describe those advantages and disadvantages of direct democracy. Along with that topic I will also be discussing Alabama Amendment 3. This Amendment falls under the right to bear arms. Direct Democracy is a system of government in which people make political decisions directly, rather than by their elected representatives. In case of Direct Democracy can be a double-edged…

declared, in 1776, the American states immediately began writing state constitutions and state bill of rights. In 1791, the Bill of Rights, containing 10 amendments, was ratified into the constitution. The purpose of these documents was to state the liberties that people had and that the government could not infringe on. James Madison wrote these amendments to prohibit specific government powers and protect the liberties of the Americans. The Bill of Rights created a large debate between 2…