Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

Gun Control Gun control. We’ve all seen or heard something about it. It’s a very common topic in the world today. The debate about gun control basically states that either we should or shouldn’t ban firearms. In my opinion firearms should not be banned as this would violate our promised rights as americans given to us by the second amendment in the bill of rights. Firearms can’t and shouldn’t be banned. Some say that banning firearm related crimes. My claim to this is criminals don’t follow…

The 1970 desegregation of schools in Boston, Massachusetts was started after the 1965 desegregation of southern schools. Louise Day Hicks of the Boston school committee was against the busing and desegregation of schools in which she stated “… a racially imbalanced school is not educationally harmful.” An examination of these sources will show the significance of this historical event. In September of 1970 to 1975 the Boston court ordered the Boston public school system to begin busing black…

clearly stated in the Constitution as, “The right of the people to keep and bear arms,” (US Const. Amend. II, sec. 2). This informs us that people have a right to bear a weapon to protect themselves as well as for hunting/surviving. If one abuses another with the weapons or some other way then there should be some sort of balanced punishment system established. In order for fairness to play a role in this society, extreme punishments cannot exist. As described by the Constitution, “..nor…

In 2007, at 18 years old, I was arrested in Edgewater, New Jersey. My vehicle, then, was a black 2004 Saturn. The car was parked near 725 River Road Edgewater, NJ at the time of the arrest. The passengers with me included my sister, Tianna DeJesus, who was sitting in the back seat, and my boyfriend at the time, Ralph Fernandez, who was in the passenger seat. The police officer pulled next to my vehicle and asked why we were parked there. Mr. Fernandez was smoking marijuana and dropped the…

with a growing Prohibition party and support from a number of rural, religious, and business groups” (“Prohibition”). When people of our nation started figuring out that prohibition was actually hurting America’s economy, in 1933, the twenty-first amendment repealed the eighteenth and prohibition was…

should of done was ban the book because it is only one book and there are a million other books out there for students to read. As of 9 states have been recorded trying to ban the book by asking all the school boards.Only because of the inappropriate nature of the book.This attempt by all nine states have not fully reached there goal.I don't think that the states should have a say in banning the book.I think it should be up to the parents of the child whether if they want their child to read…

According toAfrican Americans, the 14th amendment was adopted in order to eradicate inequality between races. This posed as a common argument against originals that often delivers patently unjust results. This was likely the case in the Plessy v. Fergusson in which the defendants argued that racial segregation was constitutional. This was likely since separation was highly tolerated and even endorsed by numerous citizens who voted for the fourteenth amendment. However, African Americans claimed…

Controversial Books: Should Students’ Reading Material Be Limited? As Alfred Whitney Griswold states “Books won’t stay banned. They won’t burn. Ideas won’t go to jail” (Brainy Quote). Physically, books are destroyed. But the ideas that dwell inside stay alive. Even though the ideas live on, society often still forgets them because there is nothing physically left to remind them. Therefore, continuing to ban books in public school systems will only limit the possible knowledge of students.…

disturbance in America that ruled school-sponsored prayers to be in violation of one of the Amendments. The Supreme Court is known as the highest federal court in the United States, which also means that the Engel vs. Vitale case has been heard at least one other time before reaching the Supreme Court. In the Supreme Court case, Engel vs. Vitale, a parent sued their child’s school due to a New York State law that applied to public schools. In this case, they argued that the law, which required…

13th Amendment It may be hard to imagine a world where people were withheld the right to vote, and a federal government allowing enslavement. While many issues were discussed in the bill of rights it wasn’t until the amendments that followed were put in place that it had brought new light to rights that many had taken for granted. More specifically the thirteenth amendment was to abolish slavery in the United States. Its date of passage by Senate was dated April 8, 1864, was in house on January…