Amendments to the Constitution

 

Amendments to the Constitution

• First Amendment
  Freedom of Religion, Speech, Press, Assembly, and Petition
• Second Amendment
  Bearing and Keeping Arms
• Third Amendment
  Quartering Soldiers
• Fourth Amendment
  Search and Seizure
• Fifth Amendment
  Grand Jury, Double Jeopardy, Self Incrimination, Due Process, Takings
• Sixth Amendment
  Rights of Those Charged in Criminal Prosecutions
• Seventh Amendment
  Civil Trial Rights
• Eighth Amendment
  Excessive Bail and Fines, and Cruel and Unusual Punishment
• Ninth Amendment
  Unenumerated Rights
• Tenth Amendment
  Rights Reserved to the States and to the People
• Eleventh Amendment
  Suits Against States
• Twelfth Amendment
  Election of President
• Thirteenth Amendment
  Abolition of Slavery
• Fourteenth Amendment
  Citizenship, Equal Protection, and Other Post-Civil War Provisions
• Fifteenth Amendment
  Right of Citizens to Vote
• Sixteenth Amendment
  Income Tax
• Seventeenth Amendment
  Popular Election of Senators
• Eighteenth Amendment
  Prohibition of Liquor
• Nineteenth Amendment
  Women's Suffrage Rights
• Twentieth Amendment
  Presidential Term and Succession
• Twenty-First Amendment
  Repeal of Prohibition
• Twenty-Second Amendment
  Presidential Term Limits
• Twenty-Third Amendment
  Presidential Electors for D.C.
• Twenty-Fourth Amendment
  Abolition of Poll Taxes
• Twenty-Fifth Amendment
  Presidential Vacancy and Disability
• Twenty-Sixth Amendment
  Reduction of Voting Age
• Twenty-Seventh Amendment
  Congressional Compensation

What Is The Purpose Of The Bill Of Rights?

The purpose of the bill of rights sets forth a list of things the government can not take away from us. It is set in stone in the constitution to protect us from the unconstitutional taking of our rights. 

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The Bill of Rights

 The Bill of Rights cover the following topics:

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1. Freedom of Speech, Religion, Petition, of the Press
2.  Rights to Bear Arms
3.  Protection from Quartering of Troops
4. Protection from illegal Search and Seizure
5. Grand Jury/ Double Jeopardy, Self incrimination and Due process, eminent domain
6.  Criminal Prosecution, Jury Trail, Right to Confront, And to Counsel
7. Common Law Suits and jury Trail
8.  Excess bails and fines, cruel and unusual punishment
9.  Protection of Non enumerated rights
10.  Rights reserved to States or people- the states and federal laws in correlation to the peoples rights.

However there is many more amendments besides the above stated amendments, 27 to be exact. 

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The constitution is the most important document in the United States history, (Ammo.com). It is very important 

for American Citizens to understand the laws and rights in displays. It contains the Bills of Rights and Amendments 

that are pertinent to our Rights as Citizens. 

The Constitution sets down the powers on each political part has over rules.

The legislative branch consists Congress and Congress has two chambers-the House of Representatives and Senate, (House.gov).

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In order to make the legislative process fair for all states, you have one side of Congress where every state has equal vote. that's the Senate and every state has two seniors. 

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On the other hand to keep things fair, states with more people should have a greater vote and that is why we have the house of representatives. The seats in the house of representatives are divided among the states based on population,(Congress.Gov). 

Before a law is passed it is called a bill.

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 A bill can be initiated by either side of Congress, the house or the Senate, but the bill must pass both of them and be sent to the president before it becomes a law, the Constitution defines and outlines the process of all this. 

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The Bill of Rights was added on to the Constitution after the original Constitution was conceived.

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 The Bill of Rights is the title given to the first ten amendments of the constitution.  

United States Code

 The Us Code is the combination of general and permanent laws of our United States Of American. According to the US Code website, It was established by Congress in 1926. (US CODE). It has 27 of what's called a Positive Law Titles, which are identified with a asterisk. 

The US Code is set in Positive and Non Positive Laws. The codes have subdivisions of subtitles,chapters,sub-chapters, parts, sub-parts, and sections. Also sections are also divided into smaller units called sub-sections,paragraphs, sub-paragraphs, clauses, sub-clauses,and items, (US Code). 

The difference between Positive and Non Positive Laws are the Positive Laws have been updated and amended since the first actual codification was designed in 1926,and the Non Positive Laws are same as they originally were since 1936. (US CODE.)  The non Positive Laws are designed to follow the the underlying acts, (US Code), 

For an example Ch. 7 of title 42 sets out the chapter title and parts and sections of the social security act, (US Code).

Furthermore, the sections also include a statutory note, the constitution, federal court rules,and presidential documents, like executive orders, determinations, notices and proclamations related to the statutory provision of the code, (US Code).

The Base law will always be the first acting the source credit and is the code law which the code section is based on. These are only in  non Positive Laws because the positive Laws have been changed by Congress, (US CODE).

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