Twenty-seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution

Another example why many people do not accept surveillance is because it has also affect the people by causing discrimination against one another. Greenwald also states “Some of the surveillance was ostensibly devoted to terrorism suspects. But great quantities of the program manifestation have nothing to do with national security.” (94) In this quote Greenwald says that many of the programs have nothing to do with national security because they don’t just see the information or everything…

non-partisan political action committee with the goal of ending corporate personhood and publicly financing all elections in the country by adding a 28th amendment to the Constitution. This organization has more than 20,000 volunteers working in all 50 state. The strategy is to call for a convention of the States which is outlined in Article V of the constitution. Volunteering in this organization to pass resolution calling for convention in local level will bring a change to the current…

historical ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges expanded what were the previous 37 states and Washington, DC, to expand the recognition of gay marriages in all 50 states constituting the same rights and benefits as heterosexuals. The court clearly stated that, “the conclusion that the right to marry is a fundamental right inherent in the liberty of the person, and under the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment couples of the same-sex may not be deprived of that right…

citizens, but even though it is a right in the first amendment many people take it for granted and some take it too far. The Phelps family are of those who took their right of freedom of speech and used it in a negative way. The Phelps family are the founders of the Westboro Baptist church, yet their practice of religion has nothing in relation to common Baptist churches. The Phelps family practice a rather negative form of protesting with signs that state “God hates fags” and “Thank God for…

Shield laws are enacted in 49 states and the District of Colombia (Riker, 2015), based on the First Amendment guarantee of Freedom of the Press (Shield Laws, n.d.). Although, most states have enacted shield laws for their journalists, there does not exist a federal journalist shield law. This is because the U.S. Supreme Court does not want to interpret the First Amendment as mandating a news reporter 's privilege (Shield Laws, n.d.). The media is supposed to have the role as the country 's…

The argument for separate but equal precludes the notion that, separate but equal is not inherently connected to the American system of racially-based slavery. However, I find this claim to contradict and violate the very nature of the Thirteenth Amendment. In segregating the two races of the nation, we draw on the previous caste of bondage. We inherit the distinctions and prejudices of this previous system in our attempts to regulate race relations, to segregate the lives of Whites from those…

court decided the First Amendment establishment clause did not ban states from having a religion. Jaffree’s case challenge to the religious laws of Alabama was rejected. The Court of Appeals reversed the decision and the case went to the Supreme Court (O’Brien 791). 3. Question of the Court Does Alabama’s Statute allowing prayer and meditation violate…

the Civil War can be credited to multiple sources such as Abraham Lincoln, religious groups, and the slaves themselves. The Civil War, which took place during the years of 1861 to 1865, was a battle between the southern confederate states against the northern union states about whether the nation would remain whole. The main cause of the war was slavery; the issue was that the Union wanted to abolish slavery while the Confederates wanted to preserve slavery. On January 1st, 1863, Abraham Lincoln…

ruling of Buckley v. Valeo and the conformation in Citizens United v. FEC, that political spending should not be restricted because it is form of free speech. Are all men still equal? Those who have the largest bankroll now have the “loudest” political voice. The Supreme Court first ruled that political spending should not be restricted because it was a form of free speech in Buckley v. Valeo.…

enacted to ‘remedy the disparity’ between public sector employees ' First Amendment free speech protection and private sector employees who are not given First Amendment protection.” One of the limitations is that it does not protect prospective employees, rather it protects existing employees from discipline “’on account of the exercise by such employee of rights guaranteed by the [F]irst [A]mendment to the United States Constitution’ so long as the ‘activity does not substantially or…