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In the Category: Rights and Amendments

#RGTS303 What else does the Fifth Amendment provide? The Fifth Amendment also prohibits anyone being deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law. It also prohibits the taking of private property, even for important public causes, wi...
#RGTS304 What does the Sixth Amendment provide? The Sixth Amendment provides a fair and speedy trial to all citizens accused of violating the law. It also requires a jury trial in the district and state where the alleged crime was committed.
#RGTS305 What else does the Sixth Amendment provide? The sixth amendment also requires that defendants be given the right to face their accusers, to be informed as to the charges and evidence against them, to present witnesses in their own defense, and...
#RGTS306 What is the Seventh Amendment? The Seventh Amendment iterates the right to a trial by jury in civil cases, wherein the value under disputes is higher than twenty dollars.
#RGTS307 What is the Eighth Amendment? The Eight Amendment prohibits excessive bail from being required in cases where release upon bail while awaiting trial is warranted, and it prohibits cruel or unusual punishments.
#RGTS308 How might cruel and unusual punishment be properly defined? A cruel or unusual punishment is one that goes beyond fair restitution for crimes, or that which degrades the humanity of the convicted citizen.
#RGTS309 What does the Ninth Amendment declare? The Ninth Amendment declares that the Bill of Rights (the first Ten Amendments) does not include all the rights retained by the People.
#RGTS310 What is the Tenth Amendment? The Tenth Amendment declares that any powers not explicitly delegated to the Federal Government in the Constitution (or prohibited to the States) are reserved either to the States or the People.
#RGTS311 What is the major implication of the Tenth Amendment? The Tenth Amendment declares that the Constitution is not designed to limit the rights of citizens or States, but to limit the power of the Federal Government.
#RGTS312 If a power is not explicitly given to the Federal Government, may the Federal Government usurp such power? No. That would be tyranny.
#RGTS313 What is the Eleventh Amendment? The Eleventh Amendment declares that Federal Courts can hear cases brought by private citizens against the States and that the States are not immune from suits brought by citizens of other States.
#RGTS314 What is the Twelfth Amendment? The Twelfth Amendment was to revise the manner in which Presidents and Vice Presidents would be chosen in the Electoral College, as previously explained in the questions above treating the election of...
#RGTS315 What is the Thirteenth Amendment? The Thirteenth Amendment abolished and prohibited slavery in all its forms within the United States or its territories.
#RGTS316 What is the Fourteenth Amendment? The Fourteenth Amendment declares that all naturalized persons under the jurisdiction of the United States are citizens.
#RGTS317 Why was the Fourteenth Amendment created? The Fourteenth Amendment was created to iterate that freed slaves, naturalized under the jurisdiction of the United States, were to be considered full citizens, and that the states must treat them acc...
#RGTS318 What does "naturalized" mean? "Naturalized" refers to one who has met the requirements of citizenship, but who was not born a citizen.
#RGTS319 What are the requirements of being a citizen from birth? Those who have a parent who is a citizen of the United States, regardless of the territory in which they are born, are citizens from birth.
#RGTS320 Are those who are born inside the boundaries of the United States but whose parents aren't citizens to be considered citizens? No. Although current laws are often ignorant of the proper interpretation of this Amendment, those born within our borders whose parents are not citizens (such as those children belonging to diplomats...
#RGTS321 What else does the Fourteenth Amendment require? It requires that the states to treat all citizens equally under the law.
#RGTS322 Does the Fourteenth Amendment require the States to treat all people as equal under the law? No. It requires the states to treat all citizens - born or naturalized - equally under the law. Although all people are created by God and afforded basic human rights, the specific rights enunciated i...
#RGTS323 Were the legal procedures prescribed in the Constitution itself, adhered to when ratifying the fourteenth amendment? The passage of the Fourteenth Amendment - as just as its provisions may be - is a stain upon the American system of constitutional governance. It was not passed by three fourths of the States as requi...
#RGTS324 Should citizens honor or acknowledge the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution? While the content of the Fourteenth Amendment is just and fair, no amendment should be acknowledged unless it is Constitutionally ratified, regardless of how long it has been seen to have been in forc...
#RGTS325 What is the Fifteenth Amendment? The Fifteenth Amendment guarantees the right to vote irrespective of race, color or position of servitude.
#RGTS326 What is the Sixteenth Amendment? The Sixteenth Amendment allows the Federal Government to tax personal and private income, and did away with the requirement that taxes would be levied through a census only.
#RGTS327 Was the Sixteenth Amendment properly ratified? There have been legitimate questions about the Constitutionality of the Sixteenth Amendment, but they have typically been rejected.
#RGTS328 Is the Sixteenth Amendment a "good" amendment? No. In fact, an income tax that is progressive (in which the tax rate adjusts for income) is in violation of the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, assuming that amendment's viabilit...
#RGTS329 Is their an inherent flaw in a tax upon income? The inherent flaw of income tax is that it does not treat all people equally, whereas a tax on goods does treat all people equally. An income tax allows for tyranny, as the government can choose to pu...
#RGTS330 What is the Seventeenth Amendment? The Seventeenth Amendment provided that a seat in the Senate would be won by public election as is the case with a seat in the House of Representatives.
#RGTS331 Is their a flaw in the Seventeenth Amendment? The founders designed the House of Representatives to be the House of the People, popularly elected and promoting the welfare of the People. However, Senators were to promote the welfare of the State...
#RGTS332 What is the Eighteenth Amendment? The Eighteenth Amendment was a prohibition upon the sale of intoxicating beverages.

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