... whole people, except for a few public officials" (George Madison, Three Elliot, Debates at 425-426)(3). Richard Henry Lee, in his Additional Letters from the Federal Farmer of 1788 stated, "A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves and include all men capable of bearing arms ... revolution. They knew the value of an armed citizenry in fighting off tyranny. The minutemen assembled at Lexington and Concord to prevent the Royal Fusiliers from seizing the munitions of the militia as General Gage had ordered (Order of General Gage, April 18,1775). Further ... proof o...

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... is currently forbidden in every state". Removing gun ownership laws will not make it any easy for a crook to get a gun, but, it will make it much easier for people to defend ourselves. The government cannot protect the general public from violence. Due to the large number of citizens in the United States, the government cannot promise safety. For the time being, " ... more guns flooding the streets of our cities, police and CSIs have their work cut out for them. "Responsible adults with handguns make it more difficult for police to distinguish ordinary citizens from criminals". If s...

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... firearms. Statistics show, "only one firearm of every six used in crime is obtained legally" (Zawitz). Violence in the states always goes back and forth from improving to getting worse. "In 2011, 12,345 people were killed by firearm violence 477,040 persons were victims of a crime committed with a firearm" (Gun Violence). Surprisingly, a lot of gun ... Militia needs arms. The meaning of the second amendment, as interpreted by gun control supporters, was to enable people to protect themselves from an unfair government, not to allow anyone the power to harm someone else. The Second Amend...

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... were drastically different. The framers of the Constitution placed a greater emphasis on equal representation in the national government as opposed to today's quest for leaders to be held accountable for their actions. During the drafting of the Constitution, people were more concerned with whether or not political ... decision-making abilities. One of the biggest factors behind this initiative was slave owning. Delegates who did not even own slaves voted to keep this issue out of the national governments hands. In contemporary society, the main economic interests vary greatly than those ...

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... can't serve on a jury if you are a non-citizen, a convicted felon or have served on a jury within the last two years (Schmalleger, 2012, p. 231). The size of jury varies from state to state and depends on the type of case that is at trial. In civil cases, in courts of limited jurisdiction, the standard size in many jurisdictions is becoming six, which ... are but a sampling of instances by which jurors may come to an undue conclusion, sequestration is one way to guarantee the sanctity of the process(Schmalleger, 2012, p. 238). In conclusion, my suggestion to alleviate the possibility of...

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... , "Burning Banners And Sacred Cows", by John Stossel is about whether or not it is acceptable for those living in America to burn American flags. The house of representatives voted three times to pass an amendment that would ultimately stop this from being done, but the Senate has rejected them. Supporters of the passing of the amendment say "Such behavior is offensive and ... for their freedom. People who support censorship feel that they are doing the right thing by blocking or banning materials they find offensive from America. However, they are only censoring the one ability shared b...

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... Constitution - a framework for settling political disputes. It "involves a set of fundamental rules and customary procedures designed to resolve political differences and make political decisions legitimate." There are two types - written and unwritten. In May 1787, delegates from 12 of the 13 colonies met in Philadelphia for the purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation. Philadelphia Convention ... rights. Since it would be impossible for the Framers to draft an exhaustive list of what the government could NOT do, why should a partial list be drafted? Unlisted areas could be vuln...

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... a document that could set laws for the entire land, that everyone would follow. Four months later the delegates emerged with the Constitution of the United States of America. From many years ago to right now, today, the Constitution is one of the most proud and important documents of the United States. The Constitution gave the United States rules and guidelines in which ... then if someone committed a crime, for example, he could leave the state he did it in and go to another state were the law would protect him. With varying laws from state to state it would be practically impossible ...

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... as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and hence forward shall be free." Despite this expansive wording, the Emancipation Proclamation was limited in many ways. It applied only to states that had seceded from the Union, leaving slavery untouched in the loyal border states. It also expressly exempted parts of the Confederacy that had already come under Northern control. Most important, the ... of all. It radically changed the definition of the United States Citizen. After the civil war at least two secret societies spun off from the Freemasons, the Klu Klux Klan and the Knight of ...

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... endured at that time, the Youngers are trapped between the pitfalls and hopes that the American dream offers. This essay will describe segregation as an obstacle to human development, because it prevents human beings from expressing and pursuing their goals. The time setting of the play is just before the big thrust of the African-American Civil Rights Movement in the early ... between the need for black expression and American society's oppression of its black population that causes the impossibility of that expression was progressively reaching its peak. In addition to excluding its b...

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... happening again, but there are always unforeseen events in the future that no one can plan for. For example, a state might choose to bar homosexuals from the polls. There is no guarantee in the constitution ensuring their right to vote. As mentioned above, voters are protected from discrimination by age, race, color, and gender, but there is no clause about sexual preference. An amendment ... of suffrage for so long. As the free black population grew, so to did abolitionist sentiments. Northerners grew apprehensive about the idea of attracting more and more black migrants from the South...

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... 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 powers to the individual states. The North also wanted internal improvements sponsored by the federal government. This ... terms, higher pay for teachers, and an expanded curriculum. Black slaves in the South were legally forbidden to receive instruction in reading or writing, and even free bl...

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... 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 powers to the individual states. The North also wanted internal improvements sponsored by the federal government. This ... terms, higher pay for teachers, and an expanded curriculum. Black slaves in the South were legally forbidden to receive instruction in reading or writing, and even free bl...

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... the people's best interests first, when they wrote the Bill of Rights, and one of those best interests was to be able to protect oneself. To protect themselves not only from predators, but from their own government. Where do you think America would be today if the Founding Fathers and their people didn't have ... individual ownership of firearms. Judge Reinhardt also presented another quote of George Mason on the importance of the militia. But then ignores one of Mason's more famous quotes on the militia, "I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people..." So he picks a quote of...

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... all, they are the cause of the "increase" in crime that America has experienced, and the fact is that guns kill people. The only way to get rid of this problem is to abolish personal ownership of guns. Sound familiar? American citizens have been bombarded with these types of falsities in recent years. ... the use of handguns, and they saw their rape rate go from 12.8 per 100,000 people to an astonishing 35.4 per 100,000 people. Due to this, Orlando decided to teach their female citizens how to use firearms and the rape occurrences had a 90% drop to 4.1 per 100,000 (50). These figures sho...

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... I did not like about Benedict's writing style was how he used many outside sources and direct quotes throughout his book which seem to be from long ago and are hard to read and understand. Nor did he paraphrase or clarify any quotes in his book. For example " The managers pointed to the language, insisting that a "vacancy.....whereby they cannot perfrom the duties of their said respective ... offices" could not refer to vacancies created by removal but only to those who happened naturally in the course ... in pursuance of the Constitution of the United States, and let you do your worst...

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... unless the prosecution can fulfill their burden of proof with clear and undeniable evidence. The due process clause of the can be drawn from this line in the Fifth Amendment " nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law ." In a case where a defendant has ... (U.S. v Gell-Iren, 1998). "Even though defendant initially executes waiver of rights, it still remains burden of prosecution to prove by preponderance of evidence that his subsequent incriminating statements were voluntarily g...

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... Par1) meaning that the constitution does not claim to regulate or ban any drug. Banning a product or substance like marijuana will just make history repeat itself just like the Prohibition era when the manufacture or sale of alcohol was illegal. Kieffer quotes "We repealed the 18th amendment via the 21st ... amendment"(Kieffer, Par2) stating that the U.S government eliminated the ban of alcohol with the 18th amendment and passed the 21st amendment that made a age limit for the consumption of alcohol. This method can be used to legalize marijuana ... "Drug use is a health, not a criminal...

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... as in Amsterdam, there will always be a number of casualties due to drugs. But this is little different than deaths from drugs that are legal in the U.S., such as alcohol and tobacco, which directly and indirectly kill thousands of people each year. Mr. Vidal states that every human being has the right to kill him or herself, and this is a bold statement. Vidal tells us ... that if we refer back to the basic freedoms mentioned in our Constitution ... ? Vidal points out that the Bureau of Narcotics and the mafia make a larger profit when drugs are illegal, and to legalize them would kill...

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... men died because of the last tribunal. No one will ever know for sure if the people deserved to die but that is what can happen when a tribunal occurs. The defendants had their rights taken from them and for that they paid the ultimate price, their lives. Now, with "nearly 1,200 people ... United States advocates condemn countries such as Peru and Egypt for their unjust military tribunals, because Bush has declared that the U.S. government will now resort to the same things. The example that we are setting reminds me of the U.S.S.R. when controlled by Joseph Stalin. Stalin would have many...

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... lies in the definition of the word "arms." In 1787, when the American Constitution was signed, this term referred to bayonets, muskets and spears, not to today's high powered machine guns, handguns and "Saturday Night Specials" designed solely for crime and built to kill. The original purpose of the Second Amendment is simply irrelevant in today's world. The NRA has for more than ... easily be discredited. American citizens have many constitutionally guaranteed rights that are nonetheless regulated. For example, every person living in the United States has the constitutional right to fre...

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... no law restricting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the rights of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." Supreme Court Justice Hugo Blacks interpretation of the First Amendment is one of the simplest and what I believe ... rights protected by constitutional amendments. But by doing so they are also taking away are freedom which they so proudly gave to us. Continued efforts to balance these sometimes conflicting rights will keep the debate...

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... the legislative process today (USTL). The supporter of the term limit used the very fact that the term limit would bring more diversity to Congress as the proof of their argument of its ability of promoting democracy. Term limit would speed up the process of adjusting the representative ... are influenced by Washington interest-group scene" (Hibbing and Theiss-Morse 79). The term limit thus would give the interest-groups less time to convey the representatives into promoting their interests instead of the people. They also argued that if the President should be limited by the term ... i...

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... the legislative process today (USTL). The supporter of the term limit used the very fact that the term limit would bring more diversity to Congress as the proof of their argument of its ability of promoting democracy. Term limit would speed up the process of adjusting the representative ... are influenced by Washington interest-group scene" (Hibbing and Theiss-Morse 79). The term limit thus would give the interest-groups less time to convey the representatives into promoting their interests instead of the people. They also argued that if the President should be limited by the term ... i...

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... individuals are in fact members of al-Qaeda, the Taliban or other associated forces. How many more innocent lives will it take for United States to understand the drone program has many flaws to it? Millions of officials from Bush, Obama or future Administrations can "justify" the use of drones but the criminal characteristic of drone programs will remain. Just recently ... March 5, 2012, "targeted killings of American citizens are legal if the targeted citizen is located abroad, a senior operational leader of al-Qaeda or associated forces, actively engaged in planning to kill Americans...

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