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Lautenberg Amendment The Lautenberg Amendment states that if a person is convicted/charged with a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence, the person is prohibited to ever own/buy firearms. As a result, the act has impacted people in different ways. In the first place, the act has a positive impact on police officers who respond to domestic violence calls because police officers can be protected from volatile situations where the abuser can harm the police officers and the victim with a firearm. This act also has a negative effect on police officers convicted of domestic violence because police officers cannot longer use/handle/carry firearms. Consequently, they won’t be able to continue working in the police institution. Police officers need to carry firearms in order to fulfill a requirement in their job. The act not only affect police officers but also people who are working in the industry of making/selling …show more content…

If abusers have access to guns, it is more likely that victims are killed. Thus, the victims cannot wait until their abusers are convicted of domestic violence in order to protect themselves. However, this plan faces some challenges including that some victims of domestic violence return to their abusers. Another challenge is that some people might be innocent during the arrest or from the accusation. Regardless of the challenges, I still believe that the proposed expansion would be successful because there are many cases of domestic violence where the abusers are not convicted. When the abusers go back to live with their partners, they are more likely to harm their partners and caused serious injury, especially if they have access to firearms. I believe that you do not need to be convicted of domestic violence to have your gun rights taken

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The proposition 13 amendment is a property tax about how taxes can’t exceed 1% of a property value. California has always had a problem with taxes due to the enormous number of illegal immigrants don’t pay taxes but use public services that are funded by taxes. This was partly solved by legalizing marijuana which made a large dent in the debt California had. Maybe these golf courses paying the correct amount of taxes would fix the tax problem altogether. Land use comes into play because everyone needs to have their property at its best use according to the taxes.

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IV. Addressing the opposition A. Argument 1 The Plaintiff has argued that this regulation is in best interest for the public and provides security for the society as a whole. They want the regulation to be considered Constitutional because it was voted on by the majority and therefore, it is in the best interest of the community and should therefore be enacted. This argument does not speak to the constitutional issue of the case. The Supreme Court’s main objective is to protect individuals and minorities from oppressive government.

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Nowhere in the Constitution does it state that women are citizens. Women have never been legally declared persons in this country, not by the Founding Fathers, not by the Constitution, not by the Supreme Court. The Fifteenth Amendment guarantees to right to vote to all U.S. citizens, whatever their race, whether they had been born free or born a slave, but it didn’t include women the right to vote. Women fought along for the abolition of slavery. When the battle was won, black men got the right to vote.

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Proposition 28 was passed on June 5, 2012 through the California initiative process. Proposition 28 was an initiative to amend the California Constitution. The change to the Constitution aims to reduce the amount of time a legislature can remain in the California legislature, but it would increase the total amount of time that a legislator could spend in one house to twelve years in total and it would only affect an legislators elected after June 5, 2012 (“In Depth” 2). The legislator could choose how the twelve years where spent, whether in just the Assembly, just the Senate, or any combination of the two. The legislators would still be subject to the same terms, but just the limits on them would increase.

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The United States Constitution was created in September 17, 1787 to replace the Articles of Confederation. Due to arguments between the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists, the two groups decided to add amendments to the Constitution to appease the Anti-Federalists. The condition was that two-thirds of the states had to approve the amendment before it’s added to the constitution. These conditions are still held today and there are now 27 amendments. Amendments in the constitution are important because they give natural rights to people.

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The 8th Amendment You and your friends are trick or treating on Halloween. One friend has the idea to go decorate your neighbor's house with toilet paper. Halfway through you're decorating a police car pulls up on the street. The police officer sentences you and your friends to life in prison.

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With twenty-seven amendments in existence, each broadens protections that were not previously covered. Within these twenty-seven are several major ones that strongly influence the dynamic in which Americans vote. The fourteenth and nineteenth coexist in a manner that allows them both to strongly control who votes, and how. Ratified on July 9, 1868, the fourteenth amendment expanded citizenship to all born on U.S. soil and sought to expand national rights to all, regardless of race (Fourteenth). This amendment included the expansion of citizenship to anyone truly born in the U.S., regardless of who their ancestors were-granting citizenship to former slaves.

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The amendment process as stated in the Constitution is the process that “An amendment may be proposed by a two-thirds vote of both Houses of Congress, or, if two-thirds of the States request one, by a convention called for that purpose. The amendment must then be ratified by three-fourths of the State legislatures, or three-fourths of conventions called in each State for ratification.”. There are many pros and cons of the amendment process and I will discuss a few of them in this essay. In my opinion, there are more cons than pros of the amendment process. A con of the amendment process is that there isn’t much room for change as time goes on Better said as the amendments are outdated.

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There are always certain issues they may arise when going over the Constitution of the United States, we can find matters that can be outdated, or times have changed a bit as years go by. The 14th Amendment was not initially about education but it did have quite an impact when the Supreme Court addressed the “Brown v. Board of Education” (1954) case declaring school segregation is illegal. The 14th Amendment makes it clear it prevents,” any persons within its jurisdiction of the equal protection of the laws.” That all American citizen must be treated equally by law which we had become aware of but with Plyer v. Doe, 457 U.S. 202 (1982)

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With this legislation, benefit of it is that there will sudden decrease in the spillover costs of guns as the law buffers the consumers from getting it. On the contrary, the impact is that it completely destroys the formal market as legal sales through government-sanctioned channels are banned. On the long run, What is expected to happen is the encouragement of black market to rise as people can only seek their demands for high powered guns outside the law. Furthermore this also impacts the economic well being of the firm owners and sellers as they are unable to earn income from selling their

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Domestic violence has been around for many years. Domestic violence however wasn’t considered a major problem or crime until the highly publicized court case in 1972 of Ruth Bunnell. Bunnell was killed by her husband after the police failed to intervene. In the years before Bunnells death, since the police failed to intervene even though Bunnell had called them twenty nine times prior to her death about her husband’s abuse of her and her daughters Bunnell was eventually killed by her husband. The police department was sued because of this and the suing party won.

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Violent crimes reported on the news while still surprising to hear and see has become very common. While the numbers seem to be overwhelming, statistics share violent crimes are at an all-time low. While the numbers of crimes are decreasing, gun ownership is increasing. Begging one to ask if the right to conceal to carry reduce

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The Second Amendment had made a big impact in the U.S. The Second Amendment stated “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the to security of a free state , the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” Many citizens do not support the second amendment or as known as Anti-Federalists. Anti-Federalists is anyone who doesn’t support anything in the constitution. But it needs to be supported by the citizens to keep yourself safe.

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The Good and the Bad Victims of domestic violence are not at fault for the abuse that is inflicted upon them. A lot of people ask why the victim stayed in the first place, but in some cases the answer is not always so simple. According to Why Do Abuse Victims Stay, “We often put ourselves in the place of the victims and imagine ourselves leaving at the first signs of abuse. But breaking free of abuse is not simply a matter of walking out the door. Leaving is a process.”

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