Ninth Amendment to the United States Constitution

The Innumerable Number Nine: An Essay on the Rank of the Original Ten U.S.A. Amendments As the song goes, “In 1787 I’m told our Founding Fathers did agree, to write a list of principles for keepin’ people free” (Ahrens Scholastic.com). This is referring of course to the Constitution of the United States, written by James Madison to, as the lyric states, set up laws to enforce freedom. In fact as James Madison himself stated “Equal laws protecting equal rights… the best guarantee of loyalty and…

Amendment I in the U.S constitution give us all the freedom of religion. However, is that really true if every time we say the pledge of allegiance, we have to say “under God”? The pledge of allegiance was originally created by Colonel George Balch in 1887. Since it was first created, it has been revised several times and different parts and words have been added to the pledge. One of the words that were added during the revision of the pledge are the words “under God”. The words “under God”…

1960s. One of the most recent of these fights was the repeal of California’s Proposition 8, originally titled the “California Marriage Protection Act,” which only affected same-sex couples. Proposition 8 was a proposal for an amendment addition to the California constitution stating “only marriage between a man and a women is valid or recognized in California,” creating controversy between groups. The California Supreme Court saw that “limiting marriage to opposite-sex couples,” was violating…

introduced this amendment for the sole purpose of preventing the government from getting to powerful. In addition, it was the first amendment to deal with the limiting the governments power, whereas the eight amendments before it dealt with how the federal government could use its power. Consequently, this amendment is meant to limit government power. The second relevant point to make in support of the claim that there should be limits placed on the government is that the Tenth Amendment of the…

Times article that has the title” Supreme Court Ruling Makes Same-Sex Marriage a Right Nationwide”, on June 27th, the US Supreme Court decided 5-4 that same-sex couples have a ‘fundamental’ right to marry, and thus overturned the laws of at least 17 states. In this assignment, I will discuss the arguments both for and against judicial activism vs. judicial restraint, using the 2015 gay marriage case of OBERGEFELL ET AL. v. HODGES, DIRECTOR, OHIO DEPARTMENT…

Bill of Rights or established by previous cases, stating that the Court has “never held that the Bill of Rights of the Fourteenth Amendment protects only those rights that the Constitution specifically mentions by name.” In fact, the equal protection clause was not explicitly stated the Constitution, but was derived from the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment (Boiling v. Sharpe, 347 U.S. at 499, 74 S.Ct. at 694). The Court also emphasizes that the Due Process Clause protects certain…

murder, domestic terrorism, and gang violence has attributed to this modern explosion of opinions, however the history of gun control and ownership is as old as the nation itself, dating back all the way to the signing of the Constitution. The Second Amendment of the Constitution outlines a “right to bear arms [that] shall not be infringed”. Many today debate whether or not this law of the land is justified in current times and believe it to be outdated. With “88.8 guns per 100 people, or about…

US v Ruiz 536 US 622 PARTIES: Ruiz = Defendant US = Prosecution LEGAL CLAIM: Unlawful Possession of Drugs FACTS: - Angela Ruiz was arrested after immigration found 30 kilograms (66.2 lbs.) of marijuana in her suitcase. - Southern District of California gave her a “Fast Track” plea bargain. - The fast track plea bargain would take 6 months off of the sentence. - The average sentence for a case like this is 18-24 months with the fast track it would be reduced to 12-18…

will research the bill of rights and compile a video that identifies the ten amendments of the Bill of Rights, defines the specific rights and provides real-life examples of these rights in action. Your assessment is the video and to what extent you showed your understanding of the amendments and their application in our country today. Title: The Bill of Rights- Lila Rubin, Period 4 1st Amendment: The first amendment is the freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly, and petition. It says…

United States of America do not have the longest history. However, there is an exceptionally bright history full of struggles and victories, rises and falls standing behind what we now call America. American history is truly unique, as America was able to transform from an underdeveloped country with agricultural economy and slave labor into one of the richest, most fascinating and most diverse countries in the world in only three hundred years. I believe that Fourteenth Amendment symbolizes the…