Importance of The Second Amendment

1. What are some of the long-term causes of the American Civil War (1800s-1850s)? Please give at least 2 examples. The American Civil War was driven by long-term causes and short-term causes. The long-term causes are the Wilmot Proviso and the Compromise of 1850. The addition of the new lands due to the consequence of the Mexican War caused the South and the North to argue on either these are should allow slavery or not. The Wilmot Proviso was a step to ban slavery from these new areas that…

“How Equality Changed The World” Patrick Kelly Laguna Beach High School How Equality Changed The World The Enlightenment was a philosophical awakening that took place in Europe during the 18 and 17th century, at its origin in Europe the Enlightenment gave citizens stuck in unfair systems of government new ways to think. As History.com once said ,(2016), “Participants thought they were illuminating human intellect and culture after the “dark” middle ages.” (p. 2). Ideals…

of the United States wrote the Constitution, they added the Bill of Rights which is a set of the first the ten amendments of to the Constitution. The second of these amendments, 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." (U.S Const. Amend II). Particularly, this amendment is interpreted in many ways; some pro gun-control groups say only militias are allowed to bear arms, and pro…

2003. The Supreme Court awarded the School District's appeal petition to examine a couple of questions beginning with Newdow acting as a noncustodial father to dispute the School District's pledge policy and the second did the administration produced a violation of the First Amendment. Although after losing the June 14, 2004, US Supreme Court Trial, Elk Grove Unified School District v. Newdow v. Congress by an 8-0 vote 5-3 on standing…

John Brown devised a plan to incite a slave rebellion in the Appalachian Mountains, arming slaves as they were freed and pushing on to free more men, the army of former slaves growing drastically as it rolled along (Stoddard and Murphy, 15). Slave rebellions had failed miserably in the past, but Brown's idea of properly arming the slaves gave some abolitionists the idea that it could work. On October 16, 1859, John Brown led a group of twenty-two men into Harper's Ferry, West Virginia, to…

deductibles, copayments, and annual limits” (Marth, 2009). States that comply with this category of parity are considered as ‘Full parity” states; during the year of 2007, there were 26 states that were identified to be in this category (Marth, 2009). The second category is minimum mandated benefit laws this requires states to provide some level of coverage for mental illness, serious mental illness, and substance abuse. States that comply with this specific category are not considered as full…

Black women have long faced dehumanization and subjugation. This dehumanization is based on gender and racial stereotypes. Race and gender, despite being social constructs, have a tangible impact on how one interacts with society. Specifically, in regards to the intersection of race and gender. Kimberlé Crenshaw coined this intersection of race and gender as intersectionality. Intersectionality is highlighted by Megan Thee Stallion in her activism. In the video “Why I Speak Up for Black Women”,…

grievances to the king just went to show how fed up the colonists were, and made the revolution seem justifiable under the circumstances given. In contemporary America, specific ideas from the Declaration of Independence may not appear to be of any importance to human rights today, as the natural rights – life, liberty, and property (also known as the pursuit of happiness) – are only briefly mentioned in the beginning of the document, but without it, America would not have been able to move…

I. Affirmative Action - Affirmative action should be in effect at all school sites and jobs. II. Introduction A. Importance [Eugenia]- Affirmative Action is important to create equal opportunities for all citizens. It may be put in place to “boost” minorities and people who are less privileged than others, and to help them get a higher and better education and better jobs. This would help them create a bigger impact on our changing society. However, some people believe that this…

Industrialization was in full force throughout most of the United States and the invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney in 1793 allowed the “peculiar institution” to become the most profitable industry in the world. The cotton gin streamlined the laborious task of cotton sorting. Cotton soon surpassed tobacco as the United States’ most valued export. Cotton processed in the south was processed in textile plants in New England, which was bolstered by Elias Howe’s invention of the first,…