Amendment Project 2012

Jayme Hughes, 2nd Block

Amendment Ratification Process
A change or addition to a legal or statutory document. Ratification of
the Constitution: The years were 1787 and 1788. The places: "out-of-
doors" in newspapers and pamphlets throughout America's thirteen
states and "in-doors" in the state ratifying conventions. Following the
Constitutional Convention, a great debate took place throughout
America over the Constitution that had been proposed. This is the story
of the debate over the ratification of the United States Constitution. http:
//teachingamericanhistory.org/ratification/
Amendment 1: Freedom of Speech
The amendment prohibits the making of any law
respecting an establishment of religion, impeding
the free exercise of religion, abridging the
freedom of speech, infringing on the freedom of
the press, interfering with the right to peaceably
assemble or prohibiting the petitioning for a
governmental redress of grievances.
The freedom of speech is one of a few perks
of the first amendment that was put in the
American constitution when the U.S. first
established. The freedom of speech is an
amendment that has helped make this
country a democracy because it gave people
the option to have a say in what they want to
see as a change or what they want to
express that can start something they need.
Amendment 1: Freedom of Press
The amendment prohibits the making of any law
respecting an establishment of religion, impeding
the free exercise of religion, abridging the
freedom of speech, infringing on the freedom
of the press, interfering with the right to
peaceably assemble or prohibiting the petitioning
for a governmental redress of grievances.
The freedom of the press is protected by the
first amendment and a major part it because
without it the public cannot be informed as
much as they need or want to about almost
anything major of their concern. The
freedom of the press is a way to record
history based on both facts and opinions
worldwide.
Amendment 2: The Right to Bear
Arms
The part of the United States Bill of Rights
that protects the right of the people to
keep and bear arms.
Thanks to the second amendment, citizens
of the United States have the right to own a
firearm personally, with the right
documentation and other requirements of
course. There are ups and downs to the
amendment such as common violence and
misconceptions about gun safety that really
made it a past and modern problem.
(fake weapon, not even mine)
Amendment 3: Prohibition of Quartering
Soldiers in Private Residences
Unannounced
It prohibits, in peacetime or wartime, the
quartering of soldiers in private homes
without the owner's consent.
During the time of the quartering act, the
British military went into peoples houses
and decided to live there and get paid
because they said so and eventually
starting on day one that the American
colonist hated that idea so they made sure
in the Bill of Rights that it stated that military
of any kind cannot portray in such acts at
any time while the amendment is active.
Amendment 4: No Unreasonable
Search or Seizures
The part of the Bill of Rights which guards against
unreasonable searches and seizures, along with
requiring any warrant to be judicially sanctioned and
supported by probable cause. It was adopted as a
response to the abuse of the writ of assistance, which is a
type of general search warrant, in the American
Revolution. Search and seizure (including arrest) should
be limited in scope according to specific information
supplied to the issuing court, usually by a law enforcement
officer, who has sworn by it. The Fourth Amendment
applies to the states by way of the Due Process Clause of
the Fourteenth Amendment.
Without this amendment, at anytime someone can be
taken away whether he/she is guilty or innocent of a crime
and home searches can happen anytime for no apparent
reason and gives us the opportunity to have privacy.
Amendment 4: Due Process
The part of the Bill of Rights which guards against
unreasonable searches and seizures, along with
requiring any warrant to be judicially sanctioned and
supported by probable cause. It was adopted as a
response to the abuse of the writ of assistance,
which is a type of general search warrant, in the
American Revolution. Search and seizure (including
arrest) should be limited in scope according to
specific information supplied to the issuing court,
usually by a law enforcement officer, who has sworn
by it. The Fourth Amendment applies to the states
by way of the Due Process Clause of the
Fourteenth Amendment.
Thanks to due process, we're not immediately
accused of a crime even if we're innocent or guilty.
We couldn't have the chance to go through a trial
and be proven for our innocents of a crime
committed or accompanied with.
Amendment 5: Abuse of Legal
Authority Protection
Protects against abuse of government authority
in a legal procedure. Its guarantees stem from
English common law which traces back to
Magna Carta in 1215. For instance, grand juries
and the phrase due process (also found in the
14th Amendment) both trace their origin to
Magna Carta.
This law is very important because without it,
people of crime or innocents can be a victims of
police brutality and those officers could easily
get away with it and this law helps provide equal
rights among everyone. It also gives us the right
to have a trial with a jury of their peers.
Amendment 19: Women's Voting
Rights
The Nineteenth Amendment (Amendment XIX) to the United States
Constitution prohibits any United States citizen to be denied the right to
vote based on sex. It was ratified on August 18, 1920. The Constitution
allows the states to determine the qualifications for voting, and until the
1910s most states disenfranchised women. The amendment was the
culmination of the women's suffrage movement in the United States, which
fought at both state and national levels to achieve the vote. It effectively
overruled Minor v. Happersett, in which a unanimous Supreme Court ruled
that the Fourteenth Amendment did not apply to women or give them a
right to vote.
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton drafted the amendment and
first introduced it in 1878; it was forty-one years later, in 1919, when the
Congress submitted the amendment to the states for ratification. A year
later, it was ratified by the requisite number of states, with Tennessee's
ratification being the final vote needed to add the amendment to the
Constitution. In Leser v. Garnett (1922), the Supreme Court rejected claims
that the amendment was unconstitutionally adopted.
I feel that women do deserve the right to vote
because I believe no matter what race, gender,
or social status we are, we all deserve to be
treated as equals.
Remove Amendment 2: The Right to
Bear Arms
The part of the United States Bill of Rights that
protects the right of the people to keep and bear
arms
Although I am a firearm fanatic, however
responsibility is key, I feel that public gun sales is
completely unsafe because and no matter how
handy they can be, they are very easy to obtain
nowadays and are used for the wrong reasons and
firearms should be outlawed unless for law
enforcement, self protection for certain jobs, or
sporting occasions where the weapons are in
secured places and on secured premises.
Add Amendment 27: Equal Rights
Amendment
The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) was a proposed
amendment to the United States Constitution
designed to guarantee equal rights for women. The
ERA was originally written by Alice Paul and, in 1923,
it was introduced in the Congress for the first time. In
1972, it passed both houses of Congress and went to
the state legislatures for ratification. The ERA failed to
receive the requisite number of ratifications before the
final deadline mandated by Congress of June 30,
1982 expired, and so it was not adopted, largely
because Phyllis Schlafly mobilized conservatives to
oppose ERA.
I know with the equal rights amendment in
place, this country will be taking a big step
closer to a fabled, but hopefully possible,
utopia.