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The Bill of Rights is the first 10 amendments to the Constitution which grant us basic civil liberties which the Founding Fathers did not want to leave up to interpretation in the Constitution. The Bill of Rights protect essential rights of every citizen such as the right to free speech, a fair trial, and the…

Enough was enough twenty years ago at the Columbine massacre yet hardly anything has been done to prevent it. It’s time to review our bill of rights and reconstruct our amendments for the well being of America . Although our 2nd amendment right states that we have the right to bear arms, we need to…

Before the American Revolution, various events occurred that would cause troubles for the then british owned colonies, some of which sparking ideas for the Revolution. One of the most important events that happened was The French and Indian War, which would cause British control to increase and damage the colonies for many years to come….

Every nation has symbols —specific objects that, values or traditions which make that country unique. The United States has many such symbols: the bald eagle, the Liberty Bell, Uncle Sam, and the American flag, but the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor stands out above all as a symbol of freedom and opportunity. The…

Living in America has been quite the struggle. It’s been over 100, almost 200, years and Great Britain is starting to be more controlling over us, American citizens. I see no reason for them to tax us, just so they can pay off their debt for the French and Indian War. The British were the…

As society has developed, questions have emerged about the nature of the rights that the American government owes its citizens, with the rights that were originally formulated in the Bill of Rights within the Constitution sometimes not being seen as adequate for addressing present circumstances. The purpose of the essay at hand is to make…

Atkins v Virginia             On June 20, 2002 the US Supreme Court made a landmark decision, reversing a former statutes founded in the case of Penry v. Lynaugh in 1989. In Atkins v Virginia, based on the articulation of the Eighth Amendment, the decision of the Court was to prohibit the execution of the mentally…

The rode to achieving reconstruction after the Civil War would establish a series of daunting troubles for the United States of America. In the reading “Why They Impeached Andrew Johnson” David Donald revisits the events that led up to Andrew Johnson’s impeachment and the nations struggle to attain reconstruction under his presidency. The outcome of…

The arrangement of projects that were actualized between 1933 to 1938 that brought the economy out of the Great Depression. The Great Depression was the greatest monetary droop the country has ever experienced and the customary financial speculations and approaches did not work. This implied new strategies and speculations were called for. These were fundamentally…

The UK’s constitution is classified as unwritten or uncodified, this means there is no single document which sets out the fundamental laws that illustrate how the state works. This can be problematic as the sources of the constitution cannot be located in one place, however it is flexible, meaning that constitutional change can be made…