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- 131: Fourth Amendment Exceptions
- The Fourth Amendment to the Constitution states that people have the right to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, but the issue at hand here is whether this also applies to the searches ... governments need to protect the public from illegal activity which may occur on privately owned open fields, and any expectation of privacy to mask these illegal activities are most definitely not provided for under the constitution. California v. Greenwood deals with the issue of whether or not the Fourth Amendment prohibits the warrantless search and seizure of garbage left for collection outside the curtilage of a home. California v. Greenwood is ... a greater frequency with the advancement of surveillance technologies, and knew precedents will inevitably have to be set by the Supreme Court as these cases are heard, one by one. The Fourth Amendment to the Constitution states that people have the right to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, but the issue at hand here is whether this also applies to the ...
- 132: Spain
- ... country is divided into 11 metropolitan and 52 suffragan sees. In addition, the archdioceses of Barcelona and Madrid are directly responsible to the Holy See. Formerly, Roman Catholicism was the established church, but the 1978 constitution decreed that Spain shall have no state religion, while recognizing the role of the Roman Catholic church in Spanish society. There are small communities of Protestants, Jews, and Muslims. Higher Education Spanish institutions of higher ... Government In the late 1970s the government of Spain underwent a transformation from the authoritarian regime of Francisco Franco (who ruled from 1939 to 1975) to a limited monarchy with an influential parliament. A national constitution was adopted in 1978. Executive The head of state of Spain is a hereditary monarch, who also is the commander in chief of the armed forces. Executive power is vested in the prime minister, who ... courts, one in each autonomous region, 52 provincial high courts, and several lower courts handling penal, labor, and juvenile matters. The country's other important court is the Constitutional Court, which monitors observance of the constitution. Health and Welfare The Law of Family Subsidy, enacted in 1939, provides Spain's workers with monthly allowances proportionate to the number of children in the family; the necessary funding is collected from employers ...
- 133: People In The Government
- ... Representatives is apportioned according to a state's population. Leader's Lecture Series Outstanding former Senate leaders and other distinguished Americans share their insights about the Senate's recent history and long-term practices. The Constitution assigns the Senate and House equal responsibility for declaring war, maintaining the armed forces, assessing taxes, borrowing money, minting currency, regulating commerce, and making all laws necessary for the operation of the government. The Senate holds exclusive authority to advise and consent on treaties and nominations. How the Senate Works The Constitution prescribes that the Senate will be composed of two Senators from each State (therefore, the Senate currently has 100 Members) and that a Senator must be at least 30 years of age, have been a ... the Senate decides to issue warrants of arrest for its absent Members, it is the duty of the Sergeant of Arms to bring those Senators into custody. Article 1, section 5, paragraph 3 of the Constitution provides that "Each House shall keep a Journal of its Proceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such Parts as may in their Judgment require Secrecy; and the Yeas and Nays ...
- 134: ABRAHAM LINCOLN
- ... and ordinances to that effect are legally void...acts of violence within any State or States against the authority of the United States are insurrectionary or revolutionary....I therefore consider that in view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is unbroken, and to the extent of my ability I shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States. Doing this I deem to be only a simple duty on my part, and I shall perform ... to power at a unique time, with a unique opportunity to decide the fate of the nation--and take charge he did. He took the oath of office swearing to "preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States". Unfortunately at that time, the Southern states were seceeding from the Union. Lincoln understood, if he allowed the Southern states to seceed, there would be no Constitution to uphold. Outgoing ...
- 135: Gun Control
- ... 02 November 1996 A Well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms , shall not be infringed. Amendment II, Bill of Rights Constitution of the U.S. The Second Amendment has been a major issue in American politics since 1876. In question is the intent of this Amendment. Was it meant to insure that people in general have ... a gun within a 1000 feet of a school. What's at issue here is how much authority Congress can exercise over the states. Since 1930, Congress has relied heavily on a clause in the Constitution giving Congress power to "regulate commerce...among the several states," to enact a slew of federal laws formerly left-up to the states. Congress has only had to show that the activity somehow involved interstate ... plaintiffs in those cases were local sheriffs, whom the law requires to conduct background checks of handgun purchasers. Each of the suits alleges that the Brady Law violates the 10th Amendment of the United States Constitution, which protects state and local governments from certain types of federal mandates. Within the last year, three circuits of the U.S. Court Of Appeals have issued rulings. In two cases, the Ninth Circuit ...
- 136: The Bill Clinton Story
- ... of the US Government has exceeded its authority in the impeachment of President Clinton by violating the trust and desires of those who elected them. Impeachment was provided for by our Founding Fathers in the Constitution as a safeguard against corruption and abuse of power by the President, Vice President and other officials. Our system of checks and balances gives Congress the authority to investigate and impeach elected and appointed officials ... punishment according to Law." Impeachment originated in England, where the House of Commons would present articles of impeachment to the House of Lords, which then tried the case (internet, 2) Since the adoption of the Constitution, only one president, Andrew Jackson (1868), has been brought to trial in the Senate on charges voted by the House. The Senate failed by one vote to convict Johnson. In 1974 the House Judiciary Committee ... Bill Clinton has obligations in the impeachment process. There are some roles he has to go by and these are them: Legal role means he is the president bur he must still abide by the Constitution of the United States, Ethical role, which is his way to serve the Americans that elected them, Personal role, that he should be loyal to his family and to himself. There is a conflict ...
- 137: The US Government
- ... conservatives to power both in the Republican Party and in the nation. Reagan's economic program, sometimes called Reaganomics, was a tax and spending cuts budget which stimulated economic growth between 1982 and 1987. The Constitution of the United States of America The constitution of the United States is the framework of the government. On it all laws are based, and if there is a conflict, the law will be determined unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. An amendment to the constitution is when a change is made to the constitution. In this section of my Government Booklet, some of the most important amendments will be discussed. Amendment 1 Congress shall make no law respecting an ...
- 138: Firearms; Vital Tools for Self Defense or Deadly Killers?
- ... The second amendment is a very simple idea that many people will try to complicate. Why? Because they try to twist it's concept to support their own ideas. But the second amendment to the constitution is a very straight forward, simple statement. The second amendment simply says " A well - regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed." Gun control proponent argue that this only applies to a state militia and not the right of an individual to own and carry a gun. Let us examine the constitution to see if this is indeed the case. Let us begin by examining the first amendment. It states " Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or ... speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." Notice first of all that in this single amendment to the constitution there are actually six rights guaranteed to the "people". This will be significant in later discussion. Next, notice the significance of the word "people". This word simply means "the persons composing a community or ...
- 139: The Evolution Of Inequality In
- ... opening lines of the Declaration of Independence is what the U.S. legal system has strived for and failed to grasp fully. After the establishment of independence in the United States, the development of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights ensued. The Bill of Rights was to establish the basic rights of every citizen of the United States, but failed to do so. The rights of white, male citizens were ... unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury
, 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" ("Constitution", Amendment V). These rights were often denied to those that were second class citizens or those people that were not even considered to be people, such as slaves. The rights ensured by the first ten ... look at the black codes. The black codes are defined as "laws [that] were designed to replace the social controls of that had been removed by the Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution [(1865)], and were thus intended to assure continuance of white supremacy" ("black codes"). The Grandfather Clause and Jim Crow Laws were all part of the black codes of the South. "[The Grandfather Clause]
provided ...
- 140: Slavery and The South
- ... were many reasons why the South wanted to succeed but the main reason had to do with the Norths view on slavery. All of this was basically a different interpretation of the United States Constitution on both sides. In the end all of these disagreements on both sides led to the Civil War, in which the North won. There were a few reasons other then the slavery issue, that the South disagreed on and that persuaded them to succeed from the Union. Basically the North favored a loose interpretation of the United States Constitution. They wanted to grant the federal government increased powers. The South wanted to reserve all undefined powers to the individual states. The North also wanted internal improvements sponsored by the federal government. This was more ... to get their point across. Some of the most famous abolitionists were William Lloyd Garrison of Boston, Wendell Phillips, who in 1836 gave up his law practice because he couldnt support the United States Constitution, James G. Birney of Ohio who gathered all anti-slavery forces into one unit called the Liberty Party and Frederick Douglass, who was an escaped slave who became a black editor. The last main ...
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