Importance Of The 7th Amendment

In 1787 the United States’ constitution was written, two years later the Bill of Rights was added. The Bill of Rights consists of ten amendments which were designed based on the American ideals to ensure that the federal government is not too powerful, and that it would protect the rights of the people or of the state. One of the most important amendments in the Bill of Rights is the sixth amendment, which gives the people the right to enjoy a speedy trial when accused, and it allows the accused person to know the cause of the accusation and who his accuser is. It clearly represents some of the American ideals such as: democracy, opportunity, and equality.

Representing the seventh Amendment I have another illustration created by me showing a man battling in a civil case in which he has stolen some food totaling at about $17.50. He expresses dismay to the fact that he now must come before a jury in this case because the total amount of money his incident cost was still below $20. This causes the judge to

The Sixth Amendment was written by George Mason, who was a mentor of George Washington. It was written just a month before the Declaration of

We live in a very litigious society. To combat this in 1925 Congress passed and President signed the Federal Arbitration Act that allowed some civil cases to avoid the courts and be determined by binding arbitration. Most of the cases involved business to business contractual arrangements. The idea was that between relatively equal entities, arbitration was a reasonable alternative to having your day in court. The Seventh Amendment is rooted in common law and was a recognition that equality in civil matters was necessary for a just system of government. Over the years the courts have allowed more and more cases to be governed by the FAA. The expansion of the legality of the act has put the Seventh Amendment on a slippery slope to irrelevancy. An idea the founding fathers thought was a vital underpinning of a civil society is being undermined. This trend is not beneficial to the country. It leads to systemic inequality, which leads to erosion of individual rights and undermining the rule of law.

The constitution of the United States of America is the founding document on which the government of America is built. It currently has twenty-seven amendments. It lines out the specific government practices as well as the system of check and balances. It was first drafted July, 1787 after the first form of government, the articles of confederation, had proven very inefficient to a point where it became almost redundant to have them in place. After a large amount of debate the acting continental congress decide to completely revise the current system. The constitution was efficient and fair and it kept the parts of government in place while not giving too much power to one or more branches.

This amendment was a part of the Bill of Rights and adds a number of rights for an accused citizen. These rights include a fair trial, speedy and public trial, an impartial jury, a notice of accusation, a confrontation of the witness, and right to a lawyer. A speedy trial means that the government cannot delay a trial to keep you in jail. A public trial ensures that rules a being followed correctly. An impartial jury means that they will not convict you without sufficient evidence. A notice of accusation forces the government to tell you what you did wrong. A confrontation of a witness is that people who saw the crime must testify. A right to a lawyer means that you have the right to have a lawyer even if you do not have the money for one.

The Sixth Amendment is part of the United States Bill of Rights and its clauses are related to criminal prosecutions. It states that every defendant has the right of speedy and public trial, impartial jury, to be confronted with the witnesses against him and to choose such in his favor and to have the aid of a layer in his defense. The right to an attorney’s assistance has been focused on two main issues throughout its development – the right to counsel and the right to an effective counsel.

Imagine you are taken to court based on a crime you were unfairly charged with. If the Seventh Amendment was not in place, you could be denied from the right to trial by jury. Instead, you would be tried before judges, who are government officials. Without the jury

The fourteenth amendment is also known as equal protection clause. Under the fourteenth amendment, the U.S. Constitution prohibits the states from denying a person that lives in the state the equal rights of the law (LII, 2017). The fourteenth amendment applies to education, especially those that are English language learners (ELL), this means that these students cannot be denied the same rights as non-English language learners. In the Supreme Court case of Lau v Nichols in 1974, this case involved a Chinese American student that attended the San Francisco Unified School District, this student was placed into a general education classroom despite the lack of being proficient in English (Wright, 2010). The school in which this student attended was found in violation, the school was giving ELL students the same material as all other students who speak proficient English and expected the Chinese American student to be able to comprehend the information that is being taught. School districts need to provide the same material, but in a modified form where the student’s will be able to access the information to learn it in the same manner as those non-English language learners.

The ninth amendment is U.S. citizens are guaranteed their rights that are not listed on the Constitution, such as the right to privacy. Some court cases that are tied with the ninth amendment is the Griswold v. Connecticut (1965), Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978), City of Richmond v. J.A. Orson Co (1989), Boy Scouts of America v. Dale (2000), and Grutter v. Bollinger.

The eighth amendment helps people stay safe, for those who are going to jury. The eighth amendment was ratified in 1791 and stated that, “Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines are imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.” This was made to help make sure that more amounts of bail money/property are not given to by excessive amounts, and that cruel or unusual punishments are not prohibited to any person going into court. Bail is where a certain amount of money is required to leave jail and is another way to ensure that you will go to a trial. Patrick henry and Holmes were people who pointed out that americans should have the right to not be torched. This amendment came into place due to the horrible

In today’s society the criminal justice system that we live in is flawed in so many ways. Some say that it works while others go to prison or jail for crimes that they didn’t commit. In this paper I will be covering specific examples from the book, The Innocent Man, where the defendant’s rights were violated. John Grisham talks about innocent men being innocent and convicted for murder and sent to unlawful court proceedings. In this paper I will be focusing mainly on the violations of his 6th amendment. The 6th amendment is the right to effective assistance of counsel.

In this paper I will provide an analysis of a jury trial; my analysis will focus on the right of the defendant. I will articulate how a defendant 's rights at trial can be assured when it comes to The defendant’s right to a speedy trial, the defendant’s right to an impartial judge and the defendant’s right to an impartial jury.

It has been two hundred and twenty years since the Constitution was written. In that short amount of time, we have fought several wars and made new discoveries that brought us one step closer to the future. During all of this, society’s political views have slowly shifted over the past two hundred years. From women’s suffrage to civil rights, to same gender marriage, we have adopted beliefs that would have been considered unthinkable during the era that the Founding Fathers lived in. Each of these political accomplishments would not have been possible without the process of Amendments that was put in place by the Founding Fathers. However, each of these accomplishments took several years, and even decades, to accomplish because we continue

the right to a jury trial. This allows a minimum of six Americans, chosen from