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    free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed." What this means is “the right to bear arms”, simply our right to own and carry guns. This amendment added to the U.S. Constitution in 1791, along with nine others is known as the Bill of Rights, which established basic constitutional rights for the people of the United States. There are many interpretations…

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    argued for natural rights and that it was the job of the government to protect those rights. The Bill of Rights in the United States Constitution envelopes these ideas. The entire system of government in America can be attributed to Enlightenment ideas and philosophies. Our government is their legacy. Furthermore, the Egyptian revolution argues for some of these same rights. The key ideas of Locke and Voltaire are fought for by the revolutionaries. Religious tolerance, natural rights, and the…

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    The Fourteenth amendment to US Constitution guarantees the right to privacy along with other fundamental human rights. On the other hand, the Constitution does not review privacy as an explicit human right. The purpose of right to privacy is to protect the privacy of homes, beliefs, the private lives of individuals and their professions. The right defends US citizens from governmental interference into their private lives and ensures confidentiality of personal data. It is also an element of…

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    What is the Constitution? The Constitution is a document that regulates the government and guarantees under The Bill of Rights the protection of the people. Without the protection of the Constitution, the people of the United States would find themselves in the same situation as illustrated by George Orwell in his novel 1984. 1984 describes Oceania, a society where the government, The Party, had total control over its citizens. In Oceania, the laws are made to hurt the people and protect the…

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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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    Campaign Finance and the Supreme Court In 1974 Congress passed (and then President Ford signed) a set of Amendments to the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971. These amendments included prohibiting individuals from donating over a specific amount of money ($1000) to any one campaign, and limited the total contributions to $25,000 for all federal campaigns combined. The amendments also included limiting the amount of money that a candidate could contribute and spend on their own campaign and…

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    The 14th Amendment and the Bill of Rights John Barron was a business owner of a wharf that was located on the Baltimore’s harbor in the deepest part. In 1815, the city of Baltimore decided to do improvements to their streets, which in turn diverted streams this caused the soil in front of Barron’s wharf to build up. In a little over 6 years the soil build up made it where ships could no longer tie up at the wharf. John Barron had to go out of business. In return, John sued the city of Baltimore…

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    The rich keep getting richer, while the poor keep getting poorer. In the film they show a couple of statistic in how things are right now compared to forty years ago. They explain that today the average man makes about thirty three thousand dollars a year while back in the 1978 the average man made about forty eight thousand. The amount of wage a person gets for their work is too…

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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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    America was founded of the principle of freedom and equality. The colonist came to America to escape oppression, fought the British Empire to thwart tyranny, and inscribed man’s inalienable rights in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. The first ten amendments, the Bill of Rights, are rights given to all citizens. These amendments protected citizen’s basic liberties and guaranteed proper due process for all. After the adoption of the fourteenth amendment, all persons could not…

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