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    However, this is not an exception to forget the responsibilities and rights given to every individual. Throughout generations, The United States have welcomed new immigrants from all over the world and they have helped shape and define the country what we see today. All American citizens share equal rights which are right to vote, prompt, worship, be employed, and much more. The principal of “due process of law” protects these rights for all Americans, established through the Fifth and Fourteenth Constitution

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    is a bill of rights? What is an amendment? How are the different? A bill of rights is a formality such as the Declaration of Independence and it is the outline of what the citizens feel their born rights are as people of a union. An amendment is the changing or altering of a legal or civil document. Specifically amendments in the United States Constitution include the changing or detailing of what the people need. These two phrases differ in what their purposes are. The bill of rights was set as a

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    Nov. 20, 2014, in 35 states it is legal to marry someone of the same sex; leaving 15 states where it still isn't (1). Hold this in mind. A majority of people look forward to growing up and accomplishing their dreams. Some of whom marriage is a big part of their dream. Dreams of starting a new family and to forbid two people who love each other to marry is immoral. Therefore anyone straight, lesbian, or gay should have the right to marry. The Declaration of Independence states (US 1776) "That all men

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    While there are many rights guaranteed within the U.S. Constitution, these rights are not always protected. Today many rights are limited within the U.S; In schools students do not have all of their rights, and the rights that they do have can be limited. Also today many government programs, such as the NSA, limit the right to privacy which is implied in many of the amendments to the U.S. constitution. Lastly today the right against unreasonable search and seizure is not protected, and the due

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    Introduction Guantanamo Bay, Cuba is originally a naval base that was once used to house detention facilities for Haitian and Cuban refugees fleeing to the United States. It was also used as a refueling station for Navy ships. It was then converted into a high level detention facility to house enemy troops captured in the War on Terror campaign by Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfield. It has three main camps that house the prisoners. These prisoners of war were later referred to as enemy combatants

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    When The United States came into being, the heads of the country made a great deal of emphasis in making sure the country fulfilled one requirement: the United States needed to be the living image of freedom. This image of freedom needed to exist not only as a geographical and political entity, meaning free from the English, but as a society as well, and that is why it opted for a democracy as a system to rule, to let the citizens be able to live freely. Despite the obvious issues presented in the

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    Technology and the rights that are written in the constitution is a privilege that people must not take advantage of in order for them to keep on having it for their life time. For those people who step out of that line that is draw and cause issue for others. Then society has every right to protect its self from those kind of induvial. Such as cause problems like potentially dangerous leaks that may force other in direct path of harm way or if people miss use them like Tools for communication,

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    individual rights have changed and been extended in the United States in many ways and because of many events, from the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amendment to the last lynching in Mississippi. Also groups like NAACP, SNCC, and CORE have made a big change. Many court cases were also involved in the change of individual rights in the United States. Citizens of the United States have gone about their thoughts and beliefs to get the rights they deserve. In America, civil rights have been advanced

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    I would like to state that I am for healthcare for everyone. I believe everyone is entitled to the right to have healthcare because the Declaration of Independence states that all men are equal and should have equal rights. By instituting the right to healthcare we would be able to lower the cost of healthcare in the United States overall. But when I just talking about cost we’re talking about life’s this could save many more lives by allowing people to have healthcare. The right to healthcare is

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    comparison in between them is by collecting several pros and cons on each ideology. The United State has not a uniform or standard law that promotes the concept of a right to privacy; instead, they introduced the concept through intellectual articles and was established by the Supreme Court. Nevertheless, it is not explicitly mentioned in the Constitution, thus it is often considered as secondary to other rights. This situation mainly occurs because the country does not want a law to interfere with the

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