Close Reading of H. Clinton's Argumentation on Equal Right Amendment

Despite being protected under the first amendment, the government is restricting more and more adult content due to its obscenity. Although some definitely find pornographic magazines, hip hop and rap music, and adult videos offensive, they are all protected under the first amendment. However, the [...]

No amendment has created more controversy or debate than the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment. Drafted by Alice Paul, a suffragist and feminist, in 1923, the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) had been reintroduced to every Congressional session until its passage in1972. Through the hard work [...]

The American Civil Liberties Union, or ACLU, first arose following World War I. World War I had created a communist fear that swept across the United States. This was known as the Red Scare. As a result, legislators, specifically one named Mitchell A. Palmer, rounded up anyone who was part of [...]

“No fundamental social change occurs merely because of government acts. It's because of civil society that the conscience of a country, begins to rise up and demand - demand - demand change.” Joe Biden. According to UN, Civil society is the “third sector” of society, along [...]

The Fourth Amendment allows for people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures. This gives citizens assurance that authoritative figures such as police officers cannot search them without probable cause or a search warrant. To gain a [...]

This paper explains the motivation of presidents for putting out acts and orders that stifle individual freedoms, oppress a group of people, and create unjust and harmful laws in action while still maintaining the support of the general population. The four acts in the paper all take away both [...]

In the United States Constitution the First Amendment provides citizens with the right to free speech. This is a key factor in how America was brought up and for the people who live in the U.S today. It is an important right for them to have and be able to use. However, even though freedom of [...]

Gun control is a very heated argument throughout the United States. The 2nd amendment says that we have the right to bear arms, but that was back in the 1700s and things have changed very much since then. Now many people use guns for murder and not what the constitution wanted them to be used for [...]

The 13th amendment of the United States Constitution was ratified in the year 1865 by president Abraham Lincoln makes it unconstitutional for a person to be held as a slave. There is one exception to this, a loophole that nullifies prisoners to this amendment. With now over 2.2 million [...]