Balanced Budget Amendment

The Constitution should be interpreted literally and cannot change with society. Explain the topic and either agree or disagree with the statement, offering support to the argument. Saying that the constitution should be taken literally and that it cannot change with society is in my opinion unrealistic . When the constitution was written the world was a very different place than it is today so saying that it is to be taken literally and that it cannot change is very unrealistic. The problems…

The 1970 desegregation of schools in Boston, Massachusetts was started after the 1965 desegregation of southern schools. Louise Day Hicks of the Boston school committee was against the busing and desegregation of schools in which she stated “… a racially imbalanced school is not educationally harmful.” An examination of these sources will show the significance of this historical event. In September of 1970 to 1975 the Boston court ordered the Boston public school system to begin busing black…

bear arms,” (US Const. Amend. II, sec. 2). This informs us that people have a right to bear a weapon to protect themselves as well as for hunting/surviving. If one abuses another with the weapons or some other way then there should be some sort of balanced punishment system established. In order for fairness to play a role in this society, extreme punishments cannot exist. As described by the Constitution, “..nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel or unusual punishments inflicted,” (US Const.…

The Preamble has made and determined what American society is today and for the past years, which has also been very compelling. In order to analyze the specifics on how the Preamble is compelling to society, we must examine the ways the Preamble changed social, political, economic parts of society. Politically, the Preamble states the basic laws of citizens in America. Socially, it has made the public have their freedom to a certain extent, as long as it doesn’t affect other people’s rights and…

In 2007, at 18 years old, I was arrested in Edgewater, New Jersey. My vehicle, then, was a black 2004 Saturn. The car was parked near 725 River Road Edgewater, NJ at the time of the arrest. The passengers with me included my sister, Tianna DeJesus, who was sitting in the back seat, and my boyfriend at the time, Ralph Fernandez, who was in the passenger seat. The police officer pulled next to my vehicle and asked why we were parked there. Mr. Fernandez was smoking marijuana and dropped the…

Maussner v Atlantic City Country Club 691 A.2d 826 (1997) Facts of case- The plaintiff (golfer) was playing golf with his friends, but then it started to rain and not just raining but thundering as well. He and his friends were making their way back to the golf course when the plaintiff and his friend got struck by lightning on the defendant’s (golf course owner and operators). The plaintiff and the friend managed to live, but the plaintiff was left with serious injuries. The plaintiff then…

with a growing Prohibition party and support from a number of rural, religious, and business groups” (“Prohibition”). When people of our nation started figuring out that prohibition was actually hurting America’s economy, in 1933, the twenty-first amendment repealed the eighteenth and prohibition was…

Catcher in the Rye is a book that pushes the boundaries.All the way from sex acts to swearing it gets very touchy at some points within the novel.Catcher in the Rye has been banned from many schools throughout the US.what schools call the book is “Just Inappropriate”. According to Gradesaver,A censorship debate took place between 1966-1975 making it the most banned book in schools.When this debate took place many teachers were fired for assigning the book to their students requiring them to…

According toAfrican Americans, the 14th amendment was adopted in order to eradicate inequality between races. This posed as a common argument against originals that often delivers patently unjust results. This was likely the case in the Plessy v. Fergusson in which the defendants argued that racial segregation was constitutional. This was likely since separation was highly tolerated and even endorsed by numerous citizens who voted for the fourteenth amendment. However, African Americans claimed…

Employment Division v Smith brought upon the issue of what extent does the free exercise clothes of the first amendment accommodates for. Alfred Smith and Galen Black worked as counselors for private drug rehabilitation. They were fired from their jobs because they ingested peyote. Both ingested peyote for sacramental purposes at a ceremony of the Native American Church, which he was a member of and both were denied benefits because they had been discharged for work-related "misconduct". The…