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American Government and the Constitution Homework Eight Answers

2014-11-06T16:07:13Z

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American Govt. And Constitution Lecture 8 Homework
Andrew B

1. The 17th Amendment is actually what established the election of senators by popular vote. As opposed to the former method of them being chosen by elected state legislatures. I think that the system of popular vote is better than a system of state legislatures because state legislatures can be swayed by a multitude of factors. Whereas people vote for who they want, for the most part, unswayed.

2. An article V convention is held by congress to alter the text of the constitution. To hold one a ¾ vote of state legislatures need to vote in favor of it. This system is, in my opinion, never going to be needed. The constitution has kept our country together for over two hundred years. I therefore do not believe it will ever need to be altered.

3. I think that the least important, failed amendment would be the Anti-Nobility amendment, which required that any titles of nobility granted to a citizen by any foreign government official, king etc. without the consent of congress would leave that citizen, no longer a citizen. In other words, if you were granted a title of Sir Jon Doe by the king of England without the consent of congress you could lose your American citizenship. This is, in my opinion the least important of the failed amendments because titles of nobility mean very little to nothing today. The most important failed amendment is one that was important for it to fail. The ERA amendment. This amendment stripped the gender differences and made Male and Female the same. This could cause massive problems in many areas of normal everyday life. Thankfully after it was ratified in 35 states, effots led by Christian Conservative Phyllis Schlafly, and others, stopped it from being ratified into any more states. In fact, a few of the states that had ratified it, changed their minds and rescind their approval.

5. If a private club limits what their members say, it does NOT violate the constitution. This is because the constitution applies to the government not private clubs. I believe that, although this can cause problems for Christians in secular settings, it also protects the rights of Christian clubs to limit what their members can say. Thus, keeping them safe from outside corruption.

6. It the ERA amendment was ratified one of the many strange problems that would arise from it would be unisex bathrooms. This could cause many horrible problems. There are a variety of other problems that could arise from the ERA amendment.

7. Even though the constitutional convention was held in complete secrecy, I highly doubt that an Article V convention would be able to be kept secret in this day. The first problem is that men do not have the same morals they did when the constitutional convention was held. All it would take is one man telling one person for the story to grow like wild fire. The media would pick up the story and before you knew it, the entire world would know.

American Government and the Constitution Homework Eight Answers

2014-11-06T16:06:29Z

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American Govt. And Constitution Lecture 8 Homework
Andrew B

1. The 17th Amendment is actually what established the election of senators by popular vote. As opposed to the former method of them being chosen by elected state legislatures. I think that the system of popular vote is better than a system of state legislatures because state legislatures can be swayed by a multitude of factors. Whereas people vote for who they want, for the most part, unswayed.

2. An article V convention is held by congress to alter the text of the constitution. To hold one a ¾ vote of state legislatures need to vote in favor of it. This system is, in my opinion, never going to be needed. The constitution has kept our country together for over two hundred years. I therefore do not believe it will ever need to be altered.

3. I think that the least important, failed amendment would be the Anti-Nobility amendment, which required that any titles of nobility granted to a citizen by any foreign government official, king etc. without the consent of congress would leave that citizen, no longer a citizen. In other words, if you were granted a title of Sir Jon Doe by the king of England without the consent of congress you could lose your American citizenship. This is, in my opinion the least important of the failed amendments because titles of nobility mean very little to nothing today. The most important failed amendment is one that was important for it to fail. The ERA amendment. This amendment stripped the gender differences and made Male and Female the same. This could cause massive problems in many areas of normal everyday life. Thankfully after it was ratified in 35 states, a movement led by Christian Conservative Phyllis Schlafly stopped it from being ratified into any more states. In fact, a few of the states that had ratified it, changed their minds and rescind their approval.

5. If a private club limits what their members say, it does NOT violate the constitution. This is because the constitution applies to the government not private clubs. I believe that, although this can cause problems for Christians in secular settings, it also protects the rights of Christian clubs to limit what their members can say. Thus, keeping them safe from outside corruption.

6. It the ERA amendment was ratified one of the many strange problems that would arise from it would be unisex bathrooms. This could cause many horrible problems. There are a variety of other problems that could arise from the ERA amendment.

7. Even though the constitutional convention was held in complete secrecy, I highly doubt that an Article V convention would be able to be kept secret in this day. The first problem is that men do not have the same morals they did when the constitutional convention was held. All it would take is one man telling one person for the story to grow like wild fire. The media would pick up the story and before you knew it, the entire world would know.

American Government and the Constitution Homework Seven Answers

2014-11-04T14:37:23Z

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American Government and Constitution Lecture 7 Homework
Andrew B

1. The right to a trial by jury is debatebly the most important because it demands impartial people to judge. There people live ordinary lives and are not really going to be affected by their decision. Therefore, it should be completely honest and from the heart.

2. Marbury Vs. Madison established the right to a judicial review. Judial Review gives the supreme court the right to look at a law passed by congress and decide whether or not it is fair. I think that judicial review is a poor system, it causes the supreme court to have to much power and ultimatly makes congress not in charge of the laws.

3. Thomas Jefferson was completely against the concept of Judicial Review. He states, "... Certainly there is not a word in the Constitution which has given the power to them more than to the Executive or Legislative branches." What he means by this is that the power of judicial review gives to much power to the judicial branch. I completely agree with Jefferson on this issue.

4. Term limits are neccesary to a good democratic republic such as ours. Term limits prohibit leaders in politics from using their power unjustly. Term limits keep leaders from doing things that they know the people wouldn't like. Term limits apply to almost every branch in the government exept for judges in the supreme court.

5. The Eight amendment should be applied simply to pain when regarded to cruel and unusual punishment. For instance if someone murders someone the death penalty should still be applied as it is a shot and not something like hanging or tar and feathering.

6. The Incorperation Doctrine is something that the Supreme Courts came up with to "incorperate" the bill of rights into the 14th ammendment, thus, causing thm to be applied against the states.

8. Different types of federalism include dual federalism, cooperative federalism, centralized federalism, and new federalism. The more liberal of these is centralized federalism which focused on government power in health care, cities, and schools. Conservatives prefer duel federalism which has a federal govenrment no more powerful than states governments.

9. The equal protection clause states that "No state shall... deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law." This ensures that no decision regaurding someone and their possesions or life shall be made without the due process required by law. I.E. Trial.

American Government and the Constitution Homework Six Answers

2014-10-24T14:28:31Z

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U.S. Govt. Constitution Lecture 6 Homework
Andrew B

1. I think that it protects the right to keep and bears arms on an indivitual level. Simply because of the wording, “...the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” THE PEOPLE. Not the militia, have the right to keep and bears Arms. Which then translates to a militia.

2. I think that the fact that unlimited spending for political campaings is fine! Not only does it level the playing field of elections. It also enables us to see what corperations want certain candidates and why they do.

3. If the government uses evidence found against someone illegally than they will start doing all sorts of other illegal things. So I think that evidence found illigally should not be allowed to be used against someone. Regardless. I would rather have the possibility of a criminal being released on illegal evidence than have a government with no boundaries.

4. Yes it should. Privacy is privacy no matter what it is that is being searched. That is my view on this situation. So many of the things we have today could be searched without warrent if we based it off of what was around at the time of the writing of the fourth amandment. “The right of the people to be secure in their persons,... and effects,... shall not be infringed.” This simply means that people, and their belongings are to be kept secure.

5. I do not beleive that the free excercise clause should give native americans the right to block progress of roads through what they called, “sacred areas”. If this was allowed to be a “”free execercise” than everybody would be stopping other projects for this same reason. I think that a road is something that is a help and booster to economy and other people’s lives.

8. The government should absolutely, positively, HAVE to have a warrent before putting a GPS device on somebody’s car to track them. NO MATTER WHAT. As soon as you allow this to happen with no warrent, govenment officials would abuse their right to track whoever they please for whatever reason they so please. It would, in my opinion, directly violate Amendment 4 in the sense that people wouldn’t even be able to feel secure in their own car.

American Government and the Constitution Homework Five Answers

2014-10-22T01:43:08Z

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U.S. Govt. Constitution Lecture 5 Homework
Andrew B

1. The three branches of the government are the Judiciary, Legislative, and the executive branches. I think that the Judicial branch is the least dangerous. Because they cannot pass bills or make important decisions UNLESS their is a case for which they are judging. My point is, the judicial district is only as bad as the nations people, or congress let it be.

2. “Rule Four” is the rule that if 4/9 supreme court judges vote to hear a case then they hear the case. The supreme court gives decisions to about 75 cases a year, only about 1% of the tens of thousands of cases brought before them.

4. An article III judge is one that is elected by the president for a lifetime term in a federal
I.E. a district court, court of appeals. non-Article III judges are magistrates or
bankruptcy judges and are appointed for terms, like eight years. These jobs are not
guaranteed like article III judges jobs.

5. Two different types of constitutional interpretation are, Textualism (which I believe is the better of the three) and the idea of “An Evolving Constitution.” Textualism is the idea that, the writers of the constitution meant what they said. Plain and simple. If they say one thing they MEAN it. The idea of “An Evolving Constitution”, is the idea that the founding fathers could have never foreseen what our generation would be like and therefore, we should be able to make little adjustments here and there in the constitution to how we see it should be. An example of one issue with two different viewpoints would be a right to abortion. Textualism says that their is no right to abortion because abortion is not mentioned in the constitution. The idea of “An Evolving Constitution” would say that since it wasn’t in the original we should just ignore it for this issue and allow it.

6. State court are different from federal courts in the sense that, state courts see cases that only affect their states and do not exceed an amount of over 75,000 in disagreements between two states. Federal courts handle bigger, more nationally affecting cases. There are about 30,000 state court judges and 1,700 federal judges. A case that may be heard in state court would be someone suing their neighbor for picking the apples off their tree. Federal courts would hear a case of a hundred thousand dollar jewelry theft.

8. I think that violent video games should not be allowed to be should to people under the age of 18 due to possible emotional damage. These games are NOT good for anyone, BUT, I suppose they are technically protected by the constitution. So I wouldn’t recommend them for anyone, especially not children. Not only are they potentially emotionally damaging but also a waste of time. The supreme court in Brown v, Entertainment Merchandise Association decided by a 5/9 majority that video games were a right of freedom of speech under the constitution and therefore the sale of them is not to be impeded. I find this to potentially be a nationally damaging decision.

9. Article III judges are appointed by a president for a lifetime term. I think that this is a very bad system that should be changed. This system enables a president to sway the influence in the courts for a very long time. The system should be based off of 15-20 terms. This way if a judge is not very good s/he can still be kicked out. But it also gives
s/he a chance to prove that s/he is worthy of the position.

American Government and the Constitution Homework Four Answers

2014-10-22T01:41:05Z

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U.S. Govt. Constitution Lecture 4 Homework
Andrew B

1. The two provisions made by the constitution for the rules of elections can be found in A) Article I, Section 4, Clause 1 and B) Article II, Section 1, Clause 4. A) “ The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations…” B) “The Congress may determine the Time of chusing the electors, and the Day on which they shall give their Votes; which Day shall be the same throughout the United States.” They leave the states the decision of choosing the time, place and manner of their elections.

2. The fourth branch of the government otherwise known as agencies are exactly that. The IRS, FBI, etc. are all part of “the Fourth Branch” of the government.

3. Habeas Corpus is a provision in the constitution that states that any prisoner must have a government official come before a court and give the exact reason for which he is imprisoned. The constitution protects it by having it in it originally, the writers thought this to be a basic human right and therefore had it in the original constitution. It can be found in Article I, Section 9, clause 2. In history this has been suspended before, Abraham Lincoln suspended it during the civil war.

4. Executive Privilege is the right of the executive officer to withhold information from Congress. I think that this is a very foolish thing because if the executive can do it then Congress and the Judiciary district will want to be able to have the same type of privilege and if this happens then everyone will be keeping secrets and that would just cause big problems. Then again it does keep a balance of power in between the three branches of the government. So, it could be a good thing. The Constitution in fact establishes three equal branches of the government. Otherwise one branch may become more powerful than another.

6. Impeachment is simply when a member of the government is accused of doing something wrong. IT DOES NOT MEAN THEY HAVE BEEN KICKED FROM OFFICE. If someone is impeached then the senate votes on whether or not to kick them out of office. A majority will get someone impeached while a ⅔ vote would have them indicted and removed from office. It has been used on Andrew Johnson, Bill Clinton, and Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase. In none of these cases was their a ⅔ majority so the person remained in office. BUT, the accusation caused them to lose a lot of respect. Also the chance of impeachment cause Richard Nixon to resign.

7. Although President Lincolns suspension of Habeas Corpus was probably justified and okay, I do not think he should have done it because it sets a pattern for other presidents to do it in the future and they may not have good motives like Lincoln probably did.

9. The spoils system was a system by which an incoming president could replace people in the government with people he wanted. The pendleton act ended this by havt government positions be based off of merits, thus a president cannot make the power imbalcanced because the people put into offices have to be done so based off of their previous positions/accomplishments.

American Government and the Constitution Homework Three Answers

2014-10-02T13:51:53Z

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U.S. Govt. Constitution Lecture 3 Homework
Andrew B

1.I think that the electoral college is a very good system that does not need to be changed. It gives states more individual power than it would if it was based off of overall vote count. The more people you have the more college votes you get and that is how the election is chosen. For instance if ⅔ of the population of Florida votes for Bob, Bob will get all of the college votes from Florida.

2.I do not think that the president has the power or the right to invade foreign nations without the consent of the congress. In art II, section II , clause I we find the quote “The President shall be commander and chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and the militia of the several states, when called into the actual service of the United States.” In art I, Section VIII, clause XI we find the quote “to declare war…” This quote found of course in the powers defined to congress part of the constitution. I think that what this should mean is that, after CONGRESS declares war, the president then BECOMES commander and chief. This would make sense as it doesn’t give one man the power to make an extremely influential decision for an entire nation, but still gives him some power.

3.The three qualifications are the the president A) Must be a “natural born citizen” B) Must be at least 35 years old. And C) must have resided in the United States for at least 14 years. I agree with these qualifications, but I would probably say that the minimum age is too high maybe 30 instead, because I think a lot of times people have great ideas early in life and may even be more qualified. Then again perhaps it is better for them to be older because it means they will have more experience in their life.

4.The power of a president to nominate federal judges is EXTREMELY influential because the judges they nominate are judges for life, thus the more judges they put in on their political party the more power the judicial district has in that party. An example would be president Obama and how he has appointed a massive amount of liberal/democratic judges. This means that well after he is done with presidency the judges he has appointed will remain in power.

6. The ban on nobility is found in art I, section IX, clause 8, this clause is here to prevent anyone to give out titles of nobility to people. I think that this is a great idea as it keeps one man from gaining too much power by making friends through this. Even though it doesn’t make that big of a deal in this day I think that when the constitution was formed it was a crucial decision.

Am Government and Constitution Homework Two Answers - Student One

2014-09-25T15:13:36Z

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U.S. Govt. Constitution Lecture 2 Homework
Andrew B

1.In my opinion the eight most important powers of congress are, 1. The power to establish armies. 2. The power to make Rules for the Government. 3. The power to coin money. 4. The power to regulate trade. 5. The power to issue copyrights. 6. The power to impeach. 7. The power to open post offices. 8. The power to admit new states.

2.I think that the most important enumerated power of congress is the ability to establish armies, the least important at least in this day and age is the power to establish post offices. If private companies could handle the mail I think it would be better.

3.Well first off, homeschoolers are statistically higher in scores on the SAT and ACT. Very important tests for colleges and job opportunities. Homeschoolers are being accepted by colleges at a higher rate than in the past. The tax dollars that are being cut because of homeschoolers not attending public schools are estimated to be about 16 billion per year. Homeschooling is valuable because it enables a non-restrictive teaching environment. Homeschooling also enhances parent/child relationships.

4.The reason they did not originally include the bill of rights was because they were originally not supposed to be very powerful. I think that they were right to omit the bill of rights because all it was doing was spelling out what the constitution already said.

5.Our system of government is not a democracy because the people do not vote on everything. They vote on representative that vote on everything. I am not really sure how a democracy would work with our country, either way man’s opinion would be involved and man is prone to make mistakes. I would say that our citizens are too uneducated to make good decisions thus a democratic republic is probably the better of the two options.

6. I think that the war powers clause is extremely important and that it is definitely a good thing that ONLY congress can declare war. That way it will be more than one man’s opinion. I think it is pretty straight forward that this cannot be interpreted in another way. If congress has the power than CONGRESS has the power. Obviously we have had some presidents ignore this. But for the most part I think that this is a very good clause.

8. I would not regulate commerce between states. I would regulate international commerce and only a few things between states (illegal things).

9. I think that the copyright and patent clause is a very important part of the constitution.