Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

The United States Constitution created Congress as a way to have the people represented in government. Our constitutional founders divided Congress into two bodies: the Senate and the House of Representatives. The role of Congress has changed, along with how it relates to its own members and the public. Many scholars have divided the evolution of Congress into three eras: the formative era, the partisan era, and the committee era. First I will talk about the first era called the formative era. The

the Constitution. Over the duration of conducting research the overlay of the essay will be describing the major benefit of the U.S Constitution. While several issues have been unresolved by the U.S Constitution such as the issues of the Articles of Confederation. The entire focus of the essay will describe the resolved issue that have been corrected in the constitution, while also describing some of the historical events that were caused the U.S constitution to change. The U.S constitution helped

The Declaration of Independence, Bill of Rights, and the Constitution are all documents that the founding fathers created to start the new world. Although these documents were created years ago, today we as Americans still read and live by many of the ideas the founding fathers had. Like the right to free speech, as well as the most popular quote in the Declaration of Independence, the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Today we are living with many philosophical ideas the founding

among Men and deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, - And when Government has become destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government. The People of these United States have patiently suffered a long train of abuses and usurpations by those they have bestowed their consent to represent and maintain their Rights in this Republic form of Government. The list of transgressions of those elected to govern is long and

Amendments Main article: List of amendments to the United States Constitution The Constitution has a total of 27 amendments. The first ten, collectively known as the Bill of Rights, were ratified simultaneously. The following seventeen were ratified separately. [edit] The Bill of Rights (1–10) United States Bill of Rights currently housed in the National Archives Main article: United States Bill of Rights The Bill of Rights comprises the first ten amendments to the Constitution. Those amendments

industry depended. The United States abolished slavery through the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution in 1865, in the aftermath of a great civil war. But the effort to abolish slavery did not begin or end in North America. The end of slavery, like the end of monarchies and aristocracies, reflected the ideals of the Enlightenment, which inspired new concepts of individual freedom and political equality. As Enlightenment ideas spread throughout the Western world in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

Kyle Warneka Per. 5 Opsahl FIRST AMENDMENT Freedom of Petition Freedom of Petition, the right allows citizens to gather signatures in support of a cause or to present requests to the government without punishment or reprisal. The actual concept of petitioning the government is said to reach at least as far back as the Magna Carta, one of the first documented formal legal systems that was composed by Kingdom of England in 1215. An example of this right would be the Olive Branch Petition sent to

In 2012, the Supreme Court ruled the Eighth Amendment prohibited citizens under the age of eighteen from being sentenced to life in prison without consideration of extenuating circumstances. In 1963, not even two weeks after his seventeenth birthday, Henry Montgomery murdered Charles Hurt and was sentenced to life in prison without parole. Montgomery, now sixty-nine years old, is challenging the state of Louisiana’s authority to keep him behind bars. Should he, along with many others in the same

The first ten amendments are known as the Bill of Rights. First Amendment: protects the rights of Americans to worship as they please, or to have no religion if they prefer; freedom of speech, freedom of the press. Second Amendment: ensures citizens and the nation the right to security. Third Amendment: prohibits the government from forcing people to quarter - to provide shelter for - soldiers in their homes. Fourth Amendment: reflects the early Americans’ desire to protect their privacy. Fifth

The First Amendment of the Constitution says that the Congress cannot make a law that forces people to follow one religion or prohibit free speech. It also says that people have the right to hold peaceful assemblies to make a change. This allows people to have opinions and express them freely as long as they are peaceful. The article connects to the First Amendment because the NFL players are protesting what they believe in and using freedom of speech. If Congress made a law to throw players in