United States Constitution

The United States Constitution was established on September 17th, 1787. It currently stands as one of the most influential documents in American history. One of its most powerful aspects are the laws of the land that have been created to form structure and equality. These rules and commandments are what shape national government and give a basis for political hearings. If any of these amendments were to be taken out and/or replaced, then it would change the whole makeup of government and freedom…

1788 a number of papers began to appear that radically changed American government. Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay wrote eighty-five different letters to newspapers that helped ratify the Constitution and create a system of checks and balances for the government that the United States should still follow today. The Framers constructed the Federalist Papers to avoid many of the problems that the American government is facing today such as the Supreme Court infringing the…

substantive criminal law. The federal government, states, and municipalities have their own criminal codes, outlining the types of conduct that constitute crimes. Federal crimes deal with incidences that either expand beyond state boundaries or directly impact federal interests. The process usually begins with a formal criminal charge and results in an acquittal or conviction of the accused (https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/criminal_procedure). The United States…

be found in every corner of the world. It dictates what we eat, how we look, what we do or don’t do, and the morals we believe. For a lot of us religion is a big part of our lives and this could be seen in our government. Since the birth of the United States, religion has played a big part in our society, lawmaking, and culture. The U.S is a Christian based country and its morals have dictated a lot of laws. These religious biased laws have suppressed many types of people and the way they live…

between both female and male genders. The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) was a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution designed to guarantee equal rights for women. The ERA was originally introduced by Congress in 1923 for the first time. However, equality being a constitutional amendment states, “Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.” This to me seems fair, yet there are people who oppose to this…

As of today the United States has a total of 2.3 million people in 1,719 state prisons, 102 federal prisons, 942 juvenile correctional facilities, 3,283 local jails, and 79 Indian Country jails as well as in military prisons, immigration detention facilities, civil commitment centers, and prisons in the U.S. Territories. Overcrowding prisons and not enough staff are becoming a serious issue in America. Everyday more citizens are committing crimes that lead them in either prison or jails. And…

in a number of scenarios. Examples of civil rights are freedom of speech, the right to vote, and the right to be treated equal as everyone in public places. Although they may seem the same these two have a division. The first amendment in the United States is that everyone has the right to choose and practice his or her own religion or if they choose no religion at all. Our country’s founders had different religion views so they decided it would be best that way to protect…

appeal to her audience’s sense of unity and human compassion. Anthony opens her speech addressing the idea that by committing the “crime” of voting, she is simply just exercising her rights as a U.S. citizen. She utilizes allusion to the U.S. Constitution to appeal to her audience’s sense of ethics. By referencing a…

celebrates the day in 1862 when Abraham Lincoln ordered all slaves in town to be freed and paid the former slave owners 300 bucks a head for their trouble, April 17 is Tax Day 2007. I filed my taxes like three months ago and have long since received my state and federal refunds, but there are always those who insist on waiting until the last possible second. I'm not sure why this is, other than blatant slothfulness, since the vast majority of people in the U.S. have paid their taxes already by…

allowed to vote nationally, as their white and black male counterparts were. Year by year, states accepted the Nineteenth Amendment; with Mississippi was the last state to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment in 1984, sixty four years after the initial enactment of allowing women to vote. The wording and format of the Fifteenth Amendment, the prohibition of federal and state governments from denying a United States citizen from voting based on their race, color, or previous servitude, is what aided…