United States Constitution

the government intervention. In contrast, civil liberties are limitations on government power designed to` protect our fundamental freedoms. Civil liberties are basic rights and freedoms that are guaranteed either by the Bill of Rights and the Constitution, or interpreted by lawmakers or courts through the years. Civil liberties are typically seen as being limitations on government power, intended to protect…

A term limit is a legal restriction that limits the number of terms an officeholder may serve in a particular elected office. For a while now, citizens in the United States have started to support this idea more and more. Reality is that they’re a bad idea that would worsen the problem of power among some of those already in Washington (Price). Since 1973, 28,537 bills dealing with term limits have been requested. None of them had been approved. Looking into the future, the probability that…

be, therefore made certain rights and freedoms possible for all citizens of the nation. Therefore, a proper constitution was needed to secure these rights in place. The need for the Constitution grew out of problems with the Articles of Confederation, which established a "firm league of friendship" between the states, and vested most power in a Congress of the Confederation(The Constitution…

When you examine the speech in the United States you can begin to see that the country is a very politically correct society. Words that suppress, oppress, belittle, arouse, and discourage others are seen by many in a negative light and are censored out of our speech and ultimately eliminated. In fact, the definition of political correctness found in the Merriam-Webster dictionary is “conforming to a belief that language and practices which could offend political sensibilities (as in matters of…

Made? Many people throughout the United States have gone back and forth with the idea that the Constitution was a stupid idea that was created into what the people follow and go by. Many say that even though it all sounds good and glory it is not. They say that the Constitution only has what everyone wants to hear not what they want and need. Well for those who say the Constitution was the biggest mistake that was ever made are wrong in so many ways. The Constitution has many things the…

to the American public, the United States may have not been what it is today. These letters published that led to the shaping of democracy in the United States we know…

The free speech in this country is an flexible as the law is. What I mean is, the Constitution is so vague, and so outdated, that it is up to the Supreme Court to interpret and determine what the law really means. But the law can be bent in different ways that will sway for someone else’s favor when it is convenient for them. The same goes for the freedom of speech. Since middle school, it’s been taught that we have the freedom of speech, but it’s limited. Like yelling that there’s a fire in a…

The document entitled, The Constitution of the United States has infringed on the works of the plaintiffs who wrote these documents prior to 1787 when the Constitution was written. I propose that there are many similarities, might I add even plagiarism, within the Constitution. The theories and philosophies of the Constitution mimic the documents written by the plaintiffs. I will cite specific examples demonstrating the resemblances between the Constitution and the plaintiffs’ documents as…

The fourteenth amendment according to dictionary.com is “an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1868, defining national citizenship and forbidding the states to restrict the basic rights of citizens or other persons”. To my housemate, Tara, she didn’t even know what the fourteenth amendment was, but when asked how she defined equality she said “fairness”. To my mom the fourteenth amendment was having “the same rights regardless of sex or race”. Listing the variety of different…

Revolution Is the first amendment actually safe to use at any given time? According to Greg Lukianoff in the essay “Feigning Free Speech on Campus”, students are being restricted from demonstrating personal beliefs on college campuses across the United States by way of “speech codes”, these codes; detract from the unalienable right of freedom of speech. Most affected, are students between the ages of 18 to 25 who are entering college with unrealistic expectations of themselves and the world…