Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

According to the required reading of the New York Times, “The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was encated to address entrenched racial discrimination in voting.” Voting was never considered equal when it came to women or people of color. In our history, many states never allowed those two groups to vote. However, they wanted to include them in the general population count. This is a form of discrimination and considered unconstitutional and against civil rights. Looking back at the Timeline: A…

Every administrator’s dream, is to be hired at a school where there is a positive school culture, natural collaboration, transparency among all stakeholders, and a common shared vision. A place where progressive thinking from staff and students are welcome, and school pride and academic performance is soaring. Unfortunately, many of schools do not encompass those characteristics on one campus. It often takes years to find an administrative leader, build relationships, and have a shared vision to…

NOW COMES the State of New Hampshire, by and through the Office of the Rockingham County Attorney, and states as follows: 1. The defendant is charged with one count of Possession of a Controlled Drug with Intent to Sell [Principle/Accomplice] and one count of Possession of a Controlled Drug. 2. On June 2, 2016 the State received the defendant’s Motion to Suppress. 3. Defendant’s Motion to Suppress argues that the detention and search of the defendant and his vehicle violated Part 1, Articles…

The First Amendment defines and protects the religious rights of all individuals based on the establishment and the free-exercise clauses written into the U.S. Constitution. Public schools are presented with the unique challenge of trying to balance the religious freedoms students’ are entitled, while simultaneously maintaining a separation of Church and State. Schools must take proactive steps to ensure educators understand the legal requirements mandated by the First Amendment. By…

the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which gave new protection to citizens that had suffered discriminatory policing. This also gave new individual privacy rights as well as minimizes some of the power a police and strengthens the Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable search and seizure, which helped a lot of people. I honestly feel that fifty years ago he would have been let go without the ticket and the deputy chief would have covered it up because there was a lot of…

The First Amendment of the United States Constitution states that the government cannot infringe upon the freedom of speech and media’s press coverage, but in recent years the government seems more determined to censor what is released in the media. According to free-lance journalist, Edward Bishop, “there is … a closeness between journalism and the government that most people would be shocked if they knew about” (Csapó-Sweet and Kopper, 2001, 19:50). The media allows people a way to express…

Court rejected a display of the commandments in a Kentucky courthouse because it did not have a secular purpose. In Van Orden v. Peny, the Court granted the state of Texas the ability to display the commandments on public capitol grounds because of its importance in U.S. history. In the dissent in McCreary Justice Scalia argued the First Amendment granted the government the ability to erect such monuments as the Ten Commandments wherever the government wished because a majority of the…

When this biased districting was found, the court decided to redo the redistricting and shift part of one district to the other so that there would be equal representation of each party (Supreme Court Justices). Although redistricting based on party affiliation is important, it is not always the main cause. “While partisan gerrymanders have been accepted by the courts, racial ones have not. The Voting Rights Act requires map makers to consider race to a point” (Supreme Court Justices). Race…

claim that as more and more people become familiar with Internet, the potential of its damage grows to an uncontrollable rate. Whereas some people claim that any regulation to limit the access of Internet is an act of violation against their first amendment rights. Because in some cases there are no restriction to what can be put one the internet, what can be viewed on the internet, or who can view what is on the internet. Just about anything and everything can be found on the Internet. With…

Vitale, the Red Scare or religions’ proper place in the educational system in the 1960s, but this quote describes exactly what permeated the minds of Americans at the time. It was conservatives against liberals, the United States against the Soviets, religion against secularism, First Amendment activists against anti-Communist crusaders and so on. Freedom from an established religion and the ability to freely exercise any religion of your choosing are cornerstones of American democracy. It has…