Twenty-seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution

With the anomaly of a particular few states, the rights of private property have overridden the first amendment rights of people within shopping centers. The original purpose of these “civic centers” was to perfect the downtown environment. If one is to go these downtown centers, the right to publicly protest and exert ones…

only role was to “play house” and be a mother, Margaret Sanger wrote evidence of this prejudice, “Woman’s role has been that of an incubator and little more.” However between the late 1800s and the end of World War II the status of women in the United States dramatically changed in a beneficial way for all parties.…

Swarthmore College before moving to England and attending a training school where her whole career started. Alice Paul is a revolutionary figure because of her outstanding determination to acquire equal rights for women by establishing the 19th amendment and, confounding the NWP organization. Alice Paul made…

important things I have learned in Government class this year is that your government should be afraid of you; not the other way around. But how exactly do states have more power when you give all the power to the government? If your government is allowed to sneak through the loop holes of loose construction, they rule the country. If states’ rights are protected and they control how much power the government has, that’s strict construction, and they rule the country. That is why I believe…

It has been found that members of the Republican Party support the passing of an amendment that bans desecration of the flag much more than Democratic do (Carroll). In the poll done by USA Today, it found that when random citizens were asked whether they favored or opposed the idea to let the government make it illegal to burn the flag…

Gun Control in the United States has been a huge issue lately. School shootings and gun violence all over the country adds fuel to the fire of those who want to restrict guns from citizens. In the words of George Washington “When firearms go, all goes - we need them every hour.” The right to have guns in our homes today is important. Strict gun control is not a necessity, however, guns in the hands of responsible owners is. The second amendment, no matter when it was written, protects that…

them to school the school board heard of their plan and quickly made a policy to state that those would not be allowed due to being deemed a distraction to the classrooms. This obviously did not sit well with the two students, as well as a few others involved such as Tinker’s sister,…

thinkers, and to the modern era of revolutionary ideologies, men and women have contemplated the question: Which freedom is most valuable to society? This question has increased significance in America, the land built upon freedom and governed by a constitution of rights to protect. The freedom from oppression is essential to American society as it encompasses virtually all other significant liberties. Countless laws and declarations have been declared in America to primarily uphold and…

everyone in the United States of America was offended by something. Throughout the year, it seemed as though the First Amendment had been liberally thrown around during controversial times. Due to this year’s subjects of controversy being surrounded around the First Amendment, some Americans are suggesting that the First Amendment should be regulated or restricted in special cases. Although it seems like only a few extreme number of people would even assert the idea that the First Amendment…

Case Name: Anthony Douglas Elonis, Petitioner, v. United States., No. 13-983 (2014) Factual History: Anthony Douglas Elonis actively uses Facebook, a social networking Web site. After seven years of marriage, Elonis’s wife left him and took their two young children with her. Elonis changed his user name on Facebook to a fake name. He posted a threating photo of one of his co-workers and himself on Halloween. After his co-worker’s found out about the photo, Elonis posted a status threating to…