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Negative Effects Of Bill Of Rights

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Thomas Jefferson once said “A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.” In this quote from Thomas Jefferson he is saying that the Bill of Rights are entitled to the people against every type of government which means that the Bill of Rights protect the people. The Bill of Rights protects the people from the government tyranny. The Bill of Rights have evolved with both positive and negative effects to expand the rights of Americans. How the Bill of Rights have evolved since the founding period is. The Bill of Rights are the first 10 Amendments to the whole U.S. Constitution and it derives from the Manga Carta which is the British Bill …show more content…

One of the positive rights that are in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights would have to be the Seventh Amendment because it is seen as securing the positive right to have lawsuits that one can bring in the federal court to have it decided by a whole jury, and as long as one is seeking the common-law type of remedies and is also asking for more than $20 in the court. The negative and positive rights frequently have conflicts because of carrying out all of the duties that are conferred by the positive rights that often entails the infringing upon the negative rights. By carrying the duty of the positive right of social welfare it would likely require the raising of the taxes, and this would infringe upon the citizens’ negative right to not actually have their money taken away from them. The positive rights simply imply the positive type of duties to actually take action whereas the negative type of rights simply imply that the others must only refrain from actually taking the action, and the positive rights are actually harder to justify and they also require more of complex ethical substantiation than the negative rights. A negative right is a type of right that is not to be subjected to a type of action or another person or a group, and the negative rights permit or they oblige inaction. The negative rights are often associated with the whole first generation of human …show more content…

The first branch of the government is the legislative branch, the second branch is the executive branch, and the last branch of the government is the judiciary branch and each one of these branches are assigned very specific type of powers that only that branch can wield. The separation of powers is the allocation of the three main domains of the governmental action the lawmaking, law execution, and the law adjudication. Most of the governmental powers are shared among the various branches in a type of system of the checks and balances were each of the branches has certain ways to respond and block all of the actions of the other branches make. The legislative branch makes laws, creates and passes bills the proposed laws, approves the appointments and the treaties/agreements that are made by the president, sets and also collects the taxes, coins the money, makes the rules for the trade between the states, and also declares war. Executive branch signs into laws or vetoes/rejects bills that are passed by Congress, commands the armed forces, appoints the judges, ambassadors, and other federal officials, makes treaties with the other countries, receives diplomats from the other countries, and represents the United States of America at the special type of ceremonies. The judicial branch can actually decide if the law is actually constitutional, can decide if the presidential actions is

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