1st amendment
Published on Nov 18, 2015
Bill of rights Jacob Morgan Mikey Argabrite
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BILL OF RIGHTS
By: Jacob Morgan, Mikey Argabrite
1st Amendment
Freedom of religion, speech, press.
A 8TH grade girl known as A.M in the court papers was pressed with charges by her school principle because she prayed during her 8th grade recreation and come to find out at the end of the court case the student lost to her principle!
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2nd Amendment
The right to bare arms.
Franklin Miller, convicted of murder, on appeal, claimed his Second and Fourth Amendment rights had been violated under the Fourteenth Amendment. The court upholding the conviction, reaffirmed. (The 14th amendment addresses citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws.)
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3rd Amendment
Quartering troops
During the revolutionary war there was a lot of quartering going on and if there had to be an example today it would be letting someone get out of trouble by putting them in there house so they get out of trouble.
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4th Amendment
Illegal search and seizure.
A Supreme Court case considering whether the police may conduct a warrantless search for drugs based solely on an alert by a drug-sniffing dog without any other evidence of the dog’s reliability so long as the dog has been “trained” or “certified.”
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5th Amendment
Right of the accused
On Monday, in a case called Salinas v. Texas that hasn’t gotten the attention it deserves, the Supreme Court held that you remain silent at your peril. The court said that this is true even before you’re arrested, when the police are just informally asking questions. The court’s move to cut off the right to remain silent is wrong and also dangerous—because it encourages the kind of high-pressure questioning that can elicit false confessions.
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6th Amendment
Right to a speedy trial
Clarence Earl Gideon was an unlikely hero. He was a man with an eighth-grade education who ran away from home when he was in middle school. He spent much of his early adult life as a drifter, spending time in and out of prisons for nonviolent crimes. Gideon was charged with breaking and entering with the intent to commit a misdemeanor, which is a felony under Florida law. At trial, Gideon appeared in court without an attorney. In open court, he asked the judge to appoint counsel for him because he could not afford an attorney. The trial judge denied Gideon’s request because Florida law only permitted appointment of counsel for poor defendants charged with capital offenses.
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7th Amendment
Right to a civil trial
The United States (P) filed a civil suit against Tull (D) for discharging fill material into wetlands in violation of the Clean Water Act. P sought over $22 million and injunctive relief. The district court denied Tull’s motion for a jury trial and entered judgment for P for $325,000. The court of appeals affirmed the denial of a jury trial and the Supreme Court granted cert.
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8th Amendment
Illegal or cruel punishments
The Waters-Pierce Oil Co. was charged by Attorney General Martin M. Crane for breaking the Texas antitrust law. Crane stated that the Waters-Pierce was a party to the Standard Oil of New Jersey trust agreement. The company was sentenced to a penalty of revocation of the company's charter and cancellation of its permit to do business in Texas, along with a fine of over $1.6 million dollars, which was upheld by the state's appeal courts. Early in 1900 the United States Supreme Court upheld the state courts' rulings. However, Water-Pierce declared in their counter suit that the large fine violated the excessive fines clause of the eighth amendment.
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9th Amendment
Power to the people
In Griswold v. Connecticut (1965), the Supreme Court ruled that a state's ban on the use of contraceptives violated the right to marital privacy. The case concerned a Connecticut law that criminalized the encouragement or use of birth control. The 1879 law provided that "any person who uses any drug, medicinal article or instrument for the purposes of preventing conception shall be fined not less than forty dollars or imprisoned not less than sixty days." The law further provided that "any person who assists, abets, counsels, causes, hires or commands another to commit any offense may be prosecuted and punished as if he were the principle offender."
10th Amendment
Power to the states
In striking down part of the Violence Against Women Act, the Court ruled that Congress did not have the authority under the Commerce Clause or the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to allow rape victims to sue their attackers in federal court.
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