... right to bear arms. And that right should not be infringed. Some people feel that the right needs to be amendment since it puts society at risk. In the research paper we will discuss; the history of the second amendment, why pro-gun supporters say it is an important right, and why anti-gun supporters think guns are just a risk to society. Gun Control and ... , there are now laws that limit certain pieces of gun legislation. The reasons for these laws are caused by a concern for public safety. Although there are many safety reasons why the ownership of guns should be prohibited, these arg...

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... groups that do and promote illegal activities. Petition The right to petition is to make a complaint to, or want the assistance from the nations government without punishment. The right to petition was put into the Declaration of Independence. It was a statement telling everybody in the world why we were rebelling against King George III. We repeatedly sent petitions to the king, but they were ignored. These repeated petitions ... can be used as a test of limits for determining what is and what isn't under the First Amendment. The Obscene material presents a clear and present danger to ...

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... went effective on November 25, 2002. Both USA PATRIOT Act and the Homeland security act were direct responses to the atrocities that happened that dreadful day on September 11, 2001. In policy analysis it's wise to understand the reason why a policy is constructed. When dissecting a policies purpose it's prudent to understand the actors in a policy; and who's benefiting fiscally or not from ... a newly formed policy. In the USA PATRIOT Act, the military industrial complex benefits fiscally from the act, for providing the U.S. government with the tools to fight terrorism. However we tend ...

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... innocent until proven guilty. This is all part of due process of law and individuals should never be deprived of this privilege. This is one of the main things that makes us as Americans us. In recent U.S. history, two criminal court cases "O.J. Simpson" and "Casey Anthony" ... ; showed how individuals made their minds up about guilt even before the trials. There are plenty of cases where people are almost without a doubt guilty and should be executed or just thrown in jail. This all has ... overwhelming portion of the media had convicted her before the trial. Even after all of this ...

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... on June 21, 1788. This document is the supreme law of the U.S. At first it had seven articles. The first 3 articles talk about separation of powers. The separation of powers is where the federal government has 3 divisions: the legislative which has the congress, executive, the President and the judiciary, consists of the Supreme Court and other federal courts. The Constitution has been amended 27 times since its ... are present in the First, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendments. The government can stop people from associating in groups that do and promote illegal activities. The right to pe...

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... . Bob Barr (R-GA), Rep. Robert Alderholt (R-Al), and Rep. Henry Hyde (R-IL). The bill was created in response to the Columbine shootings that took place April 20, 1999. The bill was swept through the house at a time when the country was in shock over the shootings. There were several reasons why the house felt the need to pass such a bill. Rep. Alderhold believed that it is an important ... step to promote morality, and an end of children killing children. (Leavitt) Rep. Hyde believes that the amendment should "slow the flood of toxic waste ... on others. Our fore fathers knew this from...

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... someone Congress decided they didn't like a law and convinced everyone else why. What is to say that they can't? A recent example of the living constitution was in the Clinton administration when Clinton stepped in a decided to do whatever he wanted. Instead of letting the courts figure out what the problem is and apply the so-called law, then he stepped in and decided to do whatever ... narcotics and being set free because they know somebody, or bribed someone. Why would intelligent Americans want to leave in a country that is full of distrust for the top man all the way down to the Mc...

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... -essential" services due to what was, for all intents and purposes, a game of national "chicken" between the House Speaker and the President. And, at an estimated cost of 200 million dollars a day, this dubious battle of dueling egos did not come cheap (Bradsher, 1995, p.16). Why do politicians find it almost congenitally impossible to cooperate? What is it about politics and power that ... cases, it seems that all concerned were, in effect, blinded by their competitive hostility. They both presumably desired to run the government well (we assume that's why they ran for office in the fir...

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... to succeed was because there was four decades of great sectional conflict between the two. Between the North and South there were deep economic, social, and political differences. The South wanted to become an independent nation. There were many reasons why the South wanted to succeed but the main reason had to do with the North's view on slavery. All of this was basically a different interpretation of ... the United States Constitution on both sides. In the end all of these disagreements on both sides led to the Civil War, in which the North won. There were a few reasons other ... of...

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... to succeed was because there was four decades of great sectional conflict between the two. Between the North and South there were deep economic, social, and political differences. The South wanted to become an independent nation. There were many reasons why the South wanted to succeed but the main reason had to do with the North's view on slavery. All of this was basically a different interpretation of ... the United States Constitution on both sides. In the end all of these disagreements on both sides led to the Civil War, in which the North won. There were a few reasons other ... of...

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... to succeed was because there was four decades of great sectional conflict between the two. Between the North and South there were deep economic, social, and political differences. The South wanted to become an independent nation. There were many reasons why the South wanted to succeed but the main reason had to do with the North's view on slavery. All of this was basically a different interpretation of ... the United States Constitution on both sides. In the end all of these disagreements on both sides led to the Civil War, in which the North won. There were a few reasons other ... of...

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... in newspapers or pamphlets (78). This is why they guaranteed the right to freedom of press. Also, under British rule the people were forced to practice the country's official religion and if they practiced another they would be persecuted and could be jailed (72). The freedom of assembly is important because it ensured citizen's the right to meet wherever they want, whenever ... of habeas corpus was protected. Moreover, Article 3, Section 1 protected the right of trial by jury in criminal cases. Since the Constitution already protected these rights, why shouldn't it protect other fundame...

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... be speaking British, that's where America would be. That is why the King didn't allow his citizens to bear arms. "The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which American's possess over the people of almost every other nation...where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms." James Madison. When the Founding Fathers wrote the Bill of Rights, they were given wisdom by God. To establish ... it is their right and job to interpret the past was for present day times. The reason why the Second Amendment was written was for the protection and individual ownership ...

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There were many reasons why the South wanted to secede but the main reason had to do with the North's view on slavery. There were a few reasons other then the slavery issue, that the South disagreed on and that persuaded them to ceded from the Union. The North favored a loose interpretation of the United States Constitution. They wanted to grant the federal government increased powers. The South wanted to reserve all undefined ... of slaves also rose from about 1,190,000 to over 4,000,000. The plantation owners in the South could not understand why the North wanted slavery abolished that bad....

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There were many reasons why the South wanted to secede but the main reason had to do with the North's view on slavery. There were a few reasons other then the slavery issue, that the South disagreed on and that persuaded them to ceded from the Union. The North favored a loose interpretation of the United States Constitution. They wanted to grant the federal government increased powers. The South wanted to reserve all undefined ... of slaves also rose from about 1,190,000 to over 4,000,000. The plantation owners in the South could not understand why the North wanted slavery abolished that bad....

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... or do we need more Gun Control laws to be created to make the policies concerning guns more strict and productive. There are legal and constitutional issues contributing to why gun control has become such a problem. In the month of January in the year of 2010 there were gun traffickers along the United States borders. These group of traffickers who were identified for some reason ... was not properly arrested. Because of the gun traffickers not being properly arrested, there were more than 1400 ... degrees continue to support controlling gun ownership at higher levels than the people i...

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... no constraints, there are now laws that limit certain aspects of gun ownership. The reasons for gun control fall under the flag of public safety. Though there are many safety reasons why private ownership of firearms should be banned, these arguments are outweighed not only by the need for protection, but because the limitation of ownership rights could become dangerous to personal freedom. Currently ... , The United States of America is at war against 27 words that were written by ... James Madison in 1789. The Bill of Rights is known as the first 10 amendments to The Constitution of t...

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... officers of Congress and a disinclination to surrender any power to Congress. These attitudes were common to each of the states, and explain why much proposed Congressional legislation was never enacted. Further, Congress did not have the power to tax the individual states, as indicated in the letter from Virginian Joseph Jones to George Washington (Feb. 27, 1783). Congress could ask for but not ... possess more power than the federal government. In other words, the parts that made up the whole, would be greater than the whole itself. The Americans did not want one man or one branch, to ...

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... system calls for one vote per person, the low rate of turnout results in the upper and middle classes ultimately choosing candidates for the entire nation. Class is determined by income and education, and differing levels of these two factors can help explain why class bias occurs. For example, because educated people tend to understand politics more, they are more likely to vote. ... People with high income and education also have more resources, and poor people tend to have low political efficacy (feelings of low self-worth). Turnout, therefore, is low and, since the early 1960s, has ...

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... go no further," he wrote in The Federalist, "and affirm that bill of rights are not only unnecessary in the proposed Constitution but would even be dangerous. They would contain various exceptions of colorable pretext to claim more than they were granted. For why declare that things shall be done for ... which there is no power to do"(The Constitution that Delicate Balance page 13). ... Nevertheless if every state has different rights then if someone committed a crime, for example, he could leave the state he did it in ... causing clear and present danger by yelling "Fire" in a crowd...

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... , which power would be derived from the citizens and which would work for the good of the citizens. They did not want to create a system similar to the British one, a unitary system where the ruling authority controls every area of the government. That is why, the Constitution, namely the Tenth Amendment reserves certain powers to the national government and some to the state governments. At the same time, national and state governments ... have the right to control the actions of the other, and may intervene in case of abusing its ... ...

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... of the United States and made clear his respect for Congress. Washington wanted what was best for his people and he tried to involve them in the government by establishing a democracy. He did not want to promote himself above his people, which is why he did not advocate the Society ... of Cincinnati (7). He was dedicated to establishing such a different government because he did not want the United States to be similar to the British government, the ... government they fought so hard to escape from. Instead of keeping all the power for himself ... -off, but not extremely wealthy family....

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... makes proponents of personal gun ownership think more will? As Conservative Digest comments, " more guns in the hands of the law-abiding citizens equates to less violent crime and that society is safer when criminals don't know who's armed" ("Gun Control" 1). If gun control isn't necessary, then why do people continually push for it? If it worked, perhaps it would make sense, but ... the facts clearly contradict that. Reported by the National Center for Policy Analysis, "Among the 15 states with the highest homicide rate, 10 have restrictive or very restrictive gun laws" ("Myth No. 2" 2...

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... manipulate its citizens into thinking what the government wants them to believe. This could lead to a Big Brother society because the government is stripping American citizens of their freedom regarding thought and action. Since the rise of technology, there has been a decrease in the level of privacy American society withholds. The internet is the main factor as to why the government can use technology to obtain ... more private information. Everyone who has access to the internet is at risk for being targeted by the NSA in terms of surveillance because the internet is like an open ... ...

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... ). Legislative action towards constitutional revision is difficult because legislatures do not routinely have this power and it requires multiple members of the legislature to be involved (Casey). Getting multiple parties to agree on something always poses a challenge, which is why this special interest is difficult to manage. Citizen conventions may be called by anyone, but usually are called by a legislator ... (Casey). The effectiveness of these conventions can depend on support services provided to citizens (Casey). Citizen conventions are usually more effective ... achieve because ...

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