Ninth Amendment to the United States Constitution

#1: What were the most important steps that Washington took to establish the authority and prestige of the new federal government under the Constitution?(EMILY) Challenges – Population Growth | Demographics The population was rapidly growing due to the recent victory of the revolution and many people from Britain fled to the United States (approximately ⅓ of Britain's population). This population changes held many tensions between the different regions and between the political parties. The…

In the United States, the right to privacy is a legal argument used in cases involving public and private actions that are deemed a threat to the privacy of an individual. The origin of the right to privacy argument is often attributed to the U.S. constitution specifically the fourth amendment. According to the constitution scholar Peter Irons ( 2006) in addition to the fourth amendment, the first, third, fifth and ninth amendments included specific guarantees in the Bill of Rights that…

collection of the first ten amendments that were drafted by James Madison. Each amendment was passed by congress on September 25, 1789 and ratified on December 15, 1791. Madison originally drafted only seventeen amendments. Of the seventeen, five were rejected and only ten from the remaining twelve were ratified. Although the original Bill of Rights pertained only to land-owning white men, all men were granted protections of the constitution with the help of the Fourteenth Amendment. In today’s…

Confederation and the Constitution In the mid 1780’s following the Revolutionary War depression struck our new nation. Faced with such economic troubles the question arose regarding the stability of American democracy. There was a strong need for change and many believed it needed to start with a more centralized government. While the opposition believed that having a strong centralized government would lead to the same oppression and tyranny that America had fought to overcome. In order to be…

founders of the United States Constitution, the supreme law of the U.S., understood the concept of change, and so they left room for it, by establishing features such as the elastic clause, and judicial review. With these features in play, the government has the ability to adapt to the changes of the United States. The elastic clause “stretches” the power of government, allowing it to pass any laws that seem necessary and proper, without the public’s input. This means that the constitution can…

are the first ten amendments as well as the most critical components to the United States Constitution. Written by James Madison, and established in 1791, the Bill of Rights are still in place to this day and have an impact on the everyday lives of Americans. The Bill of Rights was pushed by Founding Fathers who believed the Constitution was not protecting the basic principles of human liberty. This being said, the Bill of Rights was the most influential document in United States history because…

set of ten laws that was created for socialist or communist states. The Laws that are written in the Ten Planks of Communist Manifesto are in favor of government power or dictatorship, so the people who have to live by these are not living free. They were created to start a communist movement. The Bill of Rights, on the other hand, is the complete opposite. The Bill of Rights are the first ten amendments in the United States Constitution, which was written in 1791. It consist of ten laws,…

The Influences in the ratification of the Constitution By the author of the third antifederalist paper it was written, “all human authority, however organized, must have confined limits, or insolence and oppression will prove the offspring of its grandeur, and the difficulty or rather impossibility of escape prevents resistance.” By the end of the Revolutionary War, the colonists began to realize that the government established under the Articles of Confederation was insufficient, America needed…

representing liberty, Benjamin Franklin’s statement gives prominence to the elation that resulted from the new era of freedom that the United States would enter. The genesis of this period is attributed to the painstaking labor of the…

The Constitutional Amendments embody graceful authority – they are words and phrases and sentences that walk slowly, shoulders back, holding themselves high. Theses sentences are this nation’s royalty. But, while they stand tall to guard the nation and the people, over time they begin revealing fallacies in their nature. The Bill of Rights, the rights and freedoms explicitly stated so that no man or woman or force of authority could come between a citizen and their civil liberties, are written…