Pros And Cons Of The 17th Amendment

I chose to write about the 27th amendment, which states that members of Congress cannot increase their salary until after there has been an election of representatives. The 27th amendment is a wise policy that keeps members of Congress from misusing their power, and it is obvious that the framers who wrote the law believed people were, by nature, greedy, and therefore included a safeguard against greedy actions.

In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise reexamined in any court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.

The 24 Amendment allows citizens to vote in federal elections regardless to them paying poll taxes or any other taxes. This amendment also allows congress to invoke this article at any time if necessary, as long as they have approval from the Senate.

Not everyone in the United States agreed with the Nineteenth Amendment being passed. Two months after the Federal Government declared that the Amendment had been incorporated to the Constitution in August of 1920, Oscar Lesser “sued to stop two women [Cecilia Street Waters and Mary D. Randolph] to vote in Baltimore, Maryland. Lesser “believed the Maryland Constitution limited the suffrage to men”. He said that Maryland had refused to vote regarding the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, and should not be subject to its application.. In 1922, Leser v. Garnett, was argued before the United States Supreme Court. The plaintiffs of the case argued that the Nineteenth Amendment was not passed constitutionally. They claimed there were “three principal grounds” to their argument, which were: that the power to amend the Constitution did not cover this amendment "because of its character"; that several states that had ratified the amendment despite the fact that their state constitutions prohibited women from voting; and that, in particular, the ratifications of the states of Tennessee and West Virginia were were invalid because they were adopted without following the rules of legislative procedure in place in those states”. In a unanimous decision, the court ruled that the amendment was passed constitutionally. In their decision, the court responded to each of the three arguments. Lesser’s first argument claimed that if Amendment’s are added without the State’s consent, it

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 U.S. Constitutional Rights are laws that guarantee the basic rights for the citizens.There are twenty-seven Constitutional Amendments in total, but 10 of them represent The Bill of Rights. The Bill of Rights ensures the basic individual protections such as freedom of speech and religion. The Bill of Rights became part of the Constitution in December 15, 1791 by George Mason.

As illegal immigration becomes more problematic and prevalent in society, especially in border states in the South, primarily Texas, I believe a reformation of the 14th amendment would highly benefit the current citizens of America, especially those residing in Texas. The 14th amendment states that “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and the State wherein they reside.”

None of us who are alive today were alive during the PROHIBITON; prohibiting the manufacturing, transportation and selling of alcoholic beverages in the United States, which was known in the Constitution as Amendment 18. The drafting of the 18th Amendment was done by the Anti-Saloon League legislative lawyer, Wayne Wheeler. It’s said to have been written to diligently fight the turn to alcoholic substances to deal with life’s problems. Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, Andrew J. Volstead, Sponsored the bill before Congress. With Amendment 18th’s ratification came an effect date delay. The government took this action to compensate the liquor industries with an ample amount of time to adjust to what was set to take effect and decimate the industries for at least 10 years. It’s ratification was certified on January 16, 1919, and the Amendment didn’t go into effect until

The 16th amendment is an important amendment that allows the UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT to collect income tax from all americans. this allows for the government to keep an army, build road and bridges, enforce laws and carry out important rules and regulations. the 16th amendment was passed because many people believe an income tax would provide a more stable source of income than by a chief way in which government had been financed throughout history to that point but such a tax could not be imposed because the Supreme Court had ruled in Pollock v. Farmers' Loan and Trust Company. PROS of 16th amendment, The federal government can collect revenues from income and thus increase expenditures. and government gets money from tax revenue, fines and

The 18th amendment, or the prohibition law was a good and a bad thing for America in many ways. Prohibition was enacted to stop the derotation and violence of men against their wife and kids with the use of alcohol, and many people thought that alcohol was an ungodly corrupted thing in America which is why the 18th amendment was enacted to try to eliminate and dangers of alcohol. Alcohol was prohibited in many states before it became a law in the 1920’s for the whole state. Even though the government and women enacted the 18th amendment to prohibit alcohol to make things better in the US only made things worse and some things good that America’s wouldn’t even know would happen.After America saw what this 18th amendment was doing to the country they saw that it was silly to prohibit alcohol in the first place just to cause a lot of problems in the future which America did unintentionally.

Indeed, we got through the revolution. Our goal was not to make the same mistake as Britain, but to set an example for the rest of the world to follow. However, if we get stuck at this point, we will never achieve what we have been striving for since the beginning. Therefore, I, John Jay, believe it is necessary to ratify the Constitution for our own good. Prior to the talks of Revolution, I was a successful lawyer, and before that, studied at Kings College (Columbia University) (“John Jay”).

The Fifth Amendment (Amendment V) to the United States Constitution is part of the Bill of Rights, amendment (1791), “No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; 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; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.”

In this essay, I propose to amend the Constitution to modify the second amendment with: A well regulated State National Guard is necessary to provide safety of a free country when needed, the rights of people who pass the background check, shall not be infringed.

In the 1920’s the 18th amendment came in to play. The intentions of the amendment were good but the outcomes were mostly negative. It destroyed the economy and helped with the increase of illegal activity. Although there were a lot of negatives that came from the 18th amendment there were a couple of positives that still affect us today.

Amending the United States Constitution is not an easy feat, since the ratification of the bill of rights, thousands of amendments have been proposed to congress but only seventeen have actually made it in our constitution. (Sidlow, 43) This may have something to do with the long extensive process that goes along with getting an amendment passed. There are two ways to propose an amendment, the first way is to get two-thirds vote in the Senate and in the House of Representatives. Even though this is the way all of the twenty seven existing amendments have been proposed, this can be extremely difficult as there 535 members of congress. The next process is, if two-thirds of state legislators request that congress call a national amendment convention, then congress must call one. Many national politicians are wary of this process in fear of doing what the Constitutional Convention did- create a new