The Bill of Rights put a lot of limitation to the government, making us the people have fair rights. In every colony in the United States had its own Bill of Rights. As a country, it was time for the United States to come up with their own Bill of Rights. In December 15, 1791 […]
The Bill of Rights protects individual liberties, natural rights and it limits the powers of the Federal Government, a very important Right listed in Amendment One of the Bill Of Rights is Freedom of Religion. The Constitution of the United States is split into seven parts, and one of those parts contains the Bill of […]
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Get startedComparing the English Declaration of Rights and the American Bill of Rights The United States, having started off as an English colony, has been impacted profoundly by the historic English, and the broader European, climate and politics. Though the political and situational climates, in which the two documents were developed, differ greatly, it is […]
The 19th amendment was proposed so that women would be able to have a say in their government, it gave women the right to vote. In the 1800’s during the reconstruction era, or the time after the Civil war when the South was being reconstructed, the 15th amendment was added to the constitution. It gave […]
The Fourth Amendment in the Bill of Rights was ratified on December 15, 1791. This Amendment protects people from the police searching their homes and private property without a properly executed search warrant. “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not […]
The Bill of Rights – My Revision As we have learned during our American Government class that the creation of our United States (U.S.) Constitution was no easy task. Bitter arguments arose during the ratification process of the U.S. Constitution between the Federalists and Anti-Federalists. Both competing groups had valid arguments and concerns with […]
Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights Governments in the west have long grappled with the notion that privacy should be a right that all citizens should be entitled to. Data privacy, though a concept in its infancy, has crept into the public consciousness very recently. In 2012, the Obama administration attempted to address the topic […]
One day you came across a farm with pigs, cows, sheep, goats, chicken, and other farm animals having a wonderful time on a nice sunny day, but moments later a farmer came across with an axe, a stick, a shotgun, and a knife out of nowhere. He sets up a line for animals to come […]
The english author Michael Morpurgo said Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children. So why hesitate on protecting the animals from suffer, I believe we should pass the Animal Bill of Rights, because if animals are being punish by humans; beings who […]
The Bill of Rights The Bill of Rights has become an important role of American values over the years. The Bill of Rights is important to Americans because it stands for our rights and freedom. The Bill of Rights is made from ten amendments, the ones I will be talking about is the First, […]
The Bill of Rights are the first 10 amendments of the United States. These rights were made to ensure certain freedoms and rights to the citizens of America. The Bill of Rights puts certain limits on what the government can and cannot do with its citizens. This includes freedom of religion, speech, assembly, the right […]
The First Amendment is an important amendment. The people that oppose the First Amendment may say that the First Amendment doesn’t fully serve its purpose. They may say that although the First Amendment exists, people are still banned from social media for saying something critical to the government, or discriminated against for practicing another religion. […]
Is there a line between giving animals rights and giving them straight on citizenship? Is there a such a thing as too much of a good thing? Why is it now that we just decide to consider animal thoughts, what’s changed? Take this into consideration, why would we even think of creating a bill of […]
Since the 1900s people have been fighting for animal rights, first with the Animal Welfare Act of 1966, and now with an animal Bill of Rights. An organization named Animal Legal Defense Fund is making a petition for animals so that they could be free from neglect, cruelty, abuse, and exploration. This bill of […]
The 4th amendment is protecting individuals from unjustified or unreasonable searches and seizures (Sekhon, 2017). Individuals have the right to feel free from unwarranted searches and seizures without probable cause. An individual is considered innocent until they are proven guilty. The 4th amendment not only applies to a person but also their property. The Bill […]
Thomas Jefferson once said, Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves… With the infringement of individual rights of the people, can America still be thought of as the land of the free and the home of the brave? To prevent this from happening, the framers of the Constitution has introduced a […]
The United States’ legal system is made of the legal principles drawn from the case decisions that make up the case laws and the state and federal constitutions. These two are the sources of the fundamental principles and rights of the citizens in the US. First, looking into the US Federal Constitution, we have the […]
The Declaration of Independence established the core principles of our Nation, the United States of America. Our Constitution with the Amendments provides a rule of laws for an actual government to accomplish those principles. TheBill of Rightsprotects the individual rights of American citizens and was adopted as a single unit on December 15, 1791. Our […]
The freedom of speech allows the people “to say almost anything except that which is obscene, slanders another person, or has a high probability of including others to take imminent lawless action” (Patterson, 2015, p.107). Freedom of speech gives the people the right to say how they feel about anything that they want to address […]
When it comes to harm, animals are defenseless. That is why there has to be laws that gives them their protection and freedom. Animals have provided us benefits of life. However, history has shown that humans have treated animals poorly and unfairly. Also, humans don’t give animals their freedom that they rightfully deserve. There […]
The Bill of Rights as a document experienced the ratification process, which brought about several state legislatures, who showed their concern for the lack of individual liberties protection. Concerning this, twelve amendments to the Constitution were passed by the first Congress, where ten of them were ratified by the states and ended up becoming collectively […]
What used to be a law to protect the nation’s security has now become a law to protect the nation’s right to kill. The Second Amendment, which states that “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be […]
