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    The right to euthanasia is embedded in the U.S. Constitution. It is included in four of the amendments listed in the Constitution — the First Amendment, the Ninth Amendment, the Tenth Amendment, and the Fourteenth Amendment — and in some parts of the Declaration of Independence. Along with these are religious concerns, which support the right to euthanasia as well. According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, euthanasia is “the act or practice of killing someone who is very sick or injured in…

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    true, which is not always the case. Specific cases with the U.S. Bill of Rights is included into films and has cinematic license that makes people believe that the government has certain rights against citizens or that citizens don’t have a right to do something. In the films featured below, it display a lot if misconduct produced by the American government that is not correctly applied. The fourth amendment gives the people the right to have security against the government when it comes to…

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    officials didn’t like. The Bill of Rights is certain freedoms Americans have that cannot be denounced away and an Amendment is an official legal document. According to Oxford Dictionaries (2000) The Bill of Rights is a document or piece of legislation setting out the rights or entitlements of a particular group or class of people. According to Oxford Dictionaries (2000) an Amendment is an official change in a law, contract, constitution or other legal document. The Bill of Rights are natural…

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    As a constitutional advisor of Atletica it is my job to create a constitution that will acknowledge the rights of the governed and the principles of the government. The land of Atletica is filled with many jungles, savannas, and mountains . It is very natural and it is known for being hotter than most places. The surface area of Atletica is about 9,596,961 sq.km. It is ranked the fourth largest country in the world. It is also heavily populated with athletes and people who worked alongside the…

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    The Bill of Rights is an article that’s original purpose was to both persuade the states to ratify the Constitution and to create a system of unalienable rights which all US citizens are entitled to. States wanted this “in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of... powers” by the federal government. This was a large fear at the time because of the recent revolution that was directly over misuse of power from the English federal government. The actual content of this article is the first 10…

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    In 1791, there was a ratification of The Bill of Rights, which contains the first ten amendments to the Constitution. These amendments are applied regarding the rights of people to have freedom of thought, spiritual issues and all of these issues’ expressions (Amendment I); as well as the rights of owning properties and maintain people’s safety (Amendment II, III, IV). In addition, the Bill of Rights protects people from unreasonable accusing and from the government’s tyranny and/or arbitrary…

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    Constitution, there was conversation over the necessity of a bill of rights to define people’s rights and limit the government’s powers. Many federalists believed such a bill of rights would not only be unnecessary, but would weaken the constitution and the people, and give the government powers they should have. Noah Webster, Alexander Hamilton, and James Wilson each make arguments against a bill of rights. Webster argues that a bill of rights may be irrelevant in future generations, but people…

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    The amendment is understood to have arisen to enable the state protect themselves for the Brits or the roaming native Indians are the time constitution was drafted. The third amendment prohibits soldiers, whether in time of peace or war, from forcefully taking up residence in anyone’s abode. There must be full…

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    the balance between liberty through the Bill of Rights and Federalist Papers. They established a foundation for a government that protects the best interest of the majority without interfering with their natural rights of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. It is debated that liberty and security can…

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    The Anti-Federalist Papers were written not by one man, but by many. Either in fear or just yearning for anonymity, most of its writers used pseudonyms such as: Brutus, Federal Farmer, and Centinel just to name a few. Even today we struggle to pin down the identities of these authors, but there is some speculation. George Clinton, Robert Yates, Samuel Bryan, Melancton Smith, Richard Henry Lee, Mercy Otis Warren, and Patrick Henry are suspected as being the authors of the letters. Doubting I have…

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