States' rights

government that is created for the people, violates the rights of the people, its value will diminish and the core principles that uphold the State will decay leading to the downfall of the State. This is precisely the reason why I choose to affirm this resolution. Mass surveillance is a direct violation of the basic rights the United States of America was built upon. The core values, principles, beliefs, and morals that make the United States a democracy will be directly dismissed if mass surveillance

Introduction The Bill of Rights is easily one of the most important sections within constitution, and this is because of the way that it protects the citizens of the United States from the government. One of the items therein the Bill of Rights is the 4th Amendment which states that, “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported

has stated, “Natural right claims to be a right that is discernible by human reason and is universally acknowledged”. (Leo) This statement opens up the question, what exactly is a natural right and who has access to such? Society has not been able to decide which rights man possessed as a gift from God. To define a natural right, already defined by Professor Strauss as, “equal to of all individuals born in the United States and cannot be taken away”. (Leo) The term natural rights was first introduced

attempting to eliminate the Tutsi minority from Rwanda, the world did nothing. The United Nations stalled while the United States refused to have another failure as in Somalia where three American peacekeeping soldiers were dragged through the streets. Belgium was already pulling its peacekeeping troops from the state. The Tutsis’ human rights were clearly being violated. Why did no state intervene and

Women's Right to Vote In the history of the United States of America, the people have always been revered and lead by great men. However, most people do not recognize that behind those great men, there have always been even greater women. In the 239 years since America has been established, women have only had voting rights for 95 of them. In 1920, women were finally given the right to vote. The reason, however, is a big question. Was it because of their efforts in World War I? Was it the movement

The women’s rights movement was about making equal rights for both men and women. Starting in 1848 and ending 1920, allowing women to vote. Even though women are able to vote, we still don't have full equal rights, meaning men are still superior to us women. For example, people see women as weak figures and think we need help from men. Many women  protested in order for us to have equal rights. The women's rights movement started in 1848, when women and some men signed a declaration that basically

“Our nation was founded on the principle that we are endowed with certain inalienable rights to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness”, as stated by Charles B. Rangel. But in reality, do we all possess these constitutional rights? Do all Americans have “life” when we have accepted the killing of unborn babies? Do we all have “liberty” when there are areas of clear discrimination that still exist against certain classes of people? Do we all have the “pursuit of happiness” when some citizens

Contraceptives are widely used throughout the United States in today’s age and age, but in the early 1950s, Connecticut and Massachusetts were the only states in the union that still had anticontraception policies such as the 1879 Connecticut statute prohibiting the distribution of contraceptives (Johnson 6). Estelle Griswold accepted a job as executive director of the Planned Parenthood League of Connecticut, and began a fight to give access for women to use contraceptives legally. It was very

Here in America, people have the right to protest and speak their views granted by the first Amendment in their Constitution. Reading or watching the news lately, there are a lot of protests happening. People are gathering and protesting so many different things all over the world right now and America is no different. However, what the media shows in America are arrests of protestors by security and police, both of which attack them at times, using pepper spray and other brutal methods. How is this

A lot of bills have been passed and written as legislation under the falsification that they would better outline the citizens ' freedom and guarantee their rights. Yet once in a while these laws are made with dismissal to what is expressed in our Constitution. At times they twist and distort the main purpose of the amendment, counter acting the purpose of why the Amendments was written. They were to guarantee that there would not be a rehash of what the founding fathers had encountered when they