Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution

The Bill of Rights are the first 10 amendments to the United States Constitution. The idea behind the Bill of Rights was to insure certain freedoms and rights to the citizens of America. It put limits on what the government could do and control. Freedoms protected include freedom of religion, speech, assembly, the right to bear arms, unreasonable search and seizure of your home, the right to a speedy trial, and many more in America. In Panama City, Florida, Clarence Earl Gideon was accused of…

individually or in concert engaged in a continuing criminal enterprise. The attorneys failed to examine the elements of continuing criminal enterprise to determine whether the government could satisfy each element. For example, the indictment clearly states that alleged criminal activity transpired since high school in 1990 through 2005 however, it fails to demonstrate any evidence of “continuing” criminal activity from 1990 to 1994 and alleges isolated incidents that include one from 1996,…

history and Constitution.1 The Patriot Act, although framed to protect the American citizens from terrorism, has been criticized for a number of reasons and rightly so. Certain provisions of the Act stand contrary to the…

the Constitution. Civil liberties are freedoms of a citizen granted by the U.S. Constitution without arbitrary government abridgement. Arbitrary meaning based solely on the government’s whim if an unpopular message was said or even implied. They are important because those freedoms protect the people from an oppressive government and other oppressive citizens. These rights include the freedom of assembly, petition, press, religion, speech and civil rights. The rights separate the United States…

Every citizen of the United States (U.S.) has been afforded rights and protection, even from its own government. Our forefathers wrote an important piece of the U.S. framework and development in the U.S. Constitution. Within the U.S. Constitution has the first ten amendments, better known as the Bill of Rights. These very ten amendment has the very civil rights and protections for all citizens. While all are very important in their own respect, the Fourth, Fifth, and Six can be and should be…

within the first 10 amendments of the constitution known as the Bill of Rights. Although Due Process of Law are guaranteed by the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments. The amendments that focus on the Due Process of Law are the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments which both state that an individual is guaranteed that no person shall "be deprived in the pursuit of life, liberty or property without due process of law". Let's look at the individual amendments. The Fourth Amendment protects…

From the time of America’s founding fathers, the citizens of the United States and its government have debated over the controversy surrounding civil rights and civil liberties, most importantly civil liberties. Civil liberties are “the restraints on the actions of government against individuals” (Bardes, Schmidt, and Shelley 106). The Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments to the Constitution, describes these liberties. Originally, the Bill of Rights only applied to the federal governments…

Thesis This paper will discuss the cases of: Weeks v United States, Mapp v Ohio, Gideon v Wainwright and Scott v Harris. This paper will discuss which of these cases was the most important and it has impacted the criminal justice system. Each of these four Cases answered questions that influenced the criminal justice system to a whole new level. Mapp v Ohio: Police illegally entered the home of Dollree Mapp without a warrant. Officers were initially searching her home for a fugitive, but…

Evaluation The Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Amendments are a vital part of the adult and juvenile justice system. These Amendments prohibit law enforcement or the government from caring on irrational searches and seizures, hinder law enforcement from forcing an individual to self-incriminate themselves in a case and guarantees an adult the right to a prompt trial by an unbiased jury. In contrast, juveniles are given some of the safeguards that entail the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Amendment. This…

other document has maintained an equally important and ever changing role in our government than the United States Constitution. The Constitution drew the plans for the creation the three branches of government and provided the structure on which the national government would grow. The most famous aspect of the Constitution is the Bill of Rights. Written by James Madison as a response to the States’ demands that individual liberties be provided and protected, the Bill of Rights serves to…