Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

The National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), is a system made by the US and is controlled by the FBI, in which there is a process of examining a name of a person who is interested in buying a gun where they undergo federal and state criminal records to see if they are ineligible and are possibly unable to purchase a gun. Federal law also puts a stop to the selling of weapons to people who have been convicted of a felony, have a warrant out for their arrest, have used drugs…

the Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire. In the 1940s, were the United States decided to join the war on December 7, 1941. Our great nation stood up and took action against the enemy, when the bombing of Pearl Harbor struck a fire…

California (Brown). She is tired of being forced to support politically powerful unions that she disagrees with. I, Rebecca Friedrichs, and ten other believe that the California Teachers Association has violated Friedrichs and the other teacher’s first amendment right because having an agency shop limits freedom of speech and should not be upheld in law. In representing my client (Friedrichs and the other teachers in the California system), collectively we have many goals we aim to accomplish…

someone closes the door to their house and locks it, they get a sense of feeling of privacy and safety as if that door could stop anything or anyone from coming through it. As a citizen of the United States you were guaranteed this right when the Bill of Rights was written and passed. The Fourth Amendment protects you from any unreasonable search and seizures, no warrants shall be issued without probable cause, supported by Oath. There are many different types of warrants and many exceptions to…

of the United States. The United States has had 44 Presidents and 43 of them were Protestant. The only President that wasn’t Protestant was John F. Kennedy. He was Roman Catholic and he was assassinated. Although, he hasn’t been the only President who has been assassinated, he has been the only President that wasn’t some from of Protestant believer. Therefore, it must be required as a qualification for Public officials. It isn’t correct to say that no one heeds Article VI of the constitution but…

within the Virginia Constitution: That a well-regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the proper; that standing armies, in time of peace, should be avoided as dangerous to liberty; and that in all cases the military should be under strict subordination to, and governed by, the civil power. More importantly, Liberty University Law Review’s Stephen P. Halbrook points out that in the year 1971, the people of Virginia revised their Constitution…

Super PACs in Elections In our modern world, money holds a massive amount of power. Money is a motivator. Our civilization is a slave to its power. Money has the power the encourage people to act against their morals and their own interest. Not only does money rule every aspect of our personal life but it has also sized control of our government. Our government was created as a democracy where the power is given to the people but since then money has removed power from the people and has given…

After the Civil War, Grant was sent to Madison Barracks in New Sackets Harbor, New York and was eventually out west to Fort Humboldt. Grant became very bored serving as the quartermaster in peace time knowing that he was little more than a commissioned clerk. Grant was eventually promoted to captain but had built a reputation as being a drunk. Grant, separated from his family for some time now, had become lonely without his wife Julia and his sons. To make things worse, Grant’s new commander…

who can possess or sell them, where and how they can be stored or carried, what duties a seller has to vet a buyer, and what obligations both the buyer and the seller have to proclaim transactions to the government. The state of gun control today is Federal law and some state legislation prohibits certain people from owning firearms: those with criminal track records or mental disorders; drug dependencies; immigrants without legal status; veterans leaving under dishonorable discharge; anyone…

In America, free speech has been a privilege that has been used to its extent but that has also been criticized and censored. In the current state of our country, free speech has been both expressed and censored to a maximum because of different viewpoints that people have. The people who are trying to censor everyone else’s free speech do so because of various reasons that are essentially harming to our country as a whole. The reasons that cause for censorship of certain forms of free speech…