United States Constitution

due to many changed made to the constitution and many new laws put in place. In the beginning of the United State’s government, there were very few people that had a say in the government and could vote on changes to the government. Before many of the current amendments and laws were put into place, only old, white men that were property owners had an influence on the government. Popular sovereignty was very limited to a small amount of people in the United States, that often did not represent…

The atrocities of 9/11 changed my life forever. No longer was I able to travel freely around the world; I was one of “them.” Time and time again, I would be stopped by an authority to go through secondary inspection, have my passport placed under scrutiny, or be pulled into an interrogation room where I would be questioned about dark-skinned men in pictures - did I know them - or my knowledge of bazookas. All because of my name. I appear to be your classic American, fair complexion and blue eyes…

would sanction elected representatives, legislatures; an elected person of the electorates, executive/president; and appointed people of the Judiciary, the US Supreme Court Justices. Therefore, this new American nation upon the promised lands, the United States of America, would serve as an example to the residue of the world’s nations of how a government should labor to protect the rights of the…

The Articles of Confederation was the first official Constitution of the United States in the years after the revolution. Now although articles were weak in the sense that it was a joke of a government to other nations and they had no power over the colonies (because it was purposely made weak), there was some strong points that actually made it ineffective government especially when it came to foreign relations, economic condition, and Western lands. There is one thing that made the article…

The great American Constitution is the most powerful document and most special document for the US today and for the years to come. Our country was made by this document. It may not have been the founding one, but it united the thirteen colonies and made them one making the United States of America. The Constitution consists of seven articles that tells us different things about how to live. The sixth article declares the Constitution as the “supreme law of the land.” This article is saying…

The Federalist Papers were created to attempt to get the New York citizens to ratify the United States Constitution. The federalist paper was a compilation of eighty five letters that pushed to replace then then in place articles of confederation for a new improve constitution written in philadelphia. Federalist Paper number ten agreeing with the Constitution, which explains how the violence and damaged that happens to be caused by factions, can indeed be controlled by the government. Factions…

Americans are not entitled to privacy. The topic of privacy has been a widely discussed topic for centuries in the United States. The one that argues that government surveillance is unconstitutional has not fully read and analyzed the document in its entirety. The word privacy is not written once throughout the entire constitution. America is known as the “free world” and without the government’s use of its resources to protect the free world, the average American will no longer be able to sing…

In the United States, the right to privacy is a legal argument used in cases involving public and private actions that are deemed a threat to the privacy of an individual. The origin of the right to privacy argument is often attributed to the U.S. constitution specifically the fourth amendment. According to the constitution scholar Peter Irons ( 2006) in addition to the fourth amendment, the first, third, fifth and ninth amendments included specific guarantees in the Bill of Rights that…

The United States Constitution was created to replace the weak Articles of Confederation. John Adams understood and was restrained from taking action to secure and enforce a commerce treaty with Britain in 1783. Even levying taxes seemed almost impossible as it took unanimous approval from all states to ratify laws. It took three years of waiting for Congress to abandon a tax of five percent on all imported goods which was blocked by Rhode Island. This was a common problem as Rakove points…

too powerful. Initially, these rights only applied to the federal government and not the states. After the American civil war, the thirteenth amendment played a role in freeing slaves, and the fourteenth amendment brought the way for naturalized citizens to have their rights granted. The fourteenth amendment, made clear that people who were born or naturalized, were provided three restrictions in the state; privileges and immunity, a person cannot be deprived of life, liberty or property…