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Essay On The 5th Amendment

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Together with the other cases being filed with the Supreme Court from Kentucky, Ohio, and Tennessee, Americans could be looking at the first major change to the U.S. Constitution since the 27th Amendment, which Congress passed in 1992 to address salaries for members of Congress. Blogger, Richard Morgan, was quoted as saying,
“Even counting from the Twenty-Seventh, for the first time since 1913 (when Congress passed two amendments), it will soon be possible for someone to enter law school having lived his or her entire life under a static Constitution (newrepublic.com, ”

This amendment was proposed as part of the Bill of Rights back when America was still a budding nation. It was written and proposed by James Madison, Jr., who has always been one of my favorite historical figures. He was one of the most influential delegates of the 50 in attendance at the 1776 Continental Congress, one of the framers (not signers) of the U.S. Constitution, co-author of the propaganda machine called the Anti-Federalist papers as part of the Democratic-Republican Party (which later developed into the modern day Democratic franchise), and 4th President of the United States (whitehouse.gov, …show more content…

Circuit of Appeals, and had nominated her before he left office; however, when no action was taken by the Senate Judiciary Committee concerning her appointment, she turned back to education by starting as a visiting professor at Harvard Law. She became Dean of Harvard Law in 2003, where she sat for five years before returning to political law upon the request of 44th President Barack Obama (2009 - present) (also a Harvard Alumnus) when he nominated her in 2009 as his appointment for Solicitor General, or “tenth justice”, an office held by many influential people throughout history, including William Taft, the only person in U.S. history to ever hold both Office of the President and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

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