First Amendment to the United States Constitution

democracy ?_ _ The press is the Fourth power after the legislative, executive and judicial. Indeed, the power of the press is associated to the fundamental principles of democracy that's to say the freedom of expression and freedom of opinion. The Press Law was born on 29 july 1881, it is accompanied by a movement that will be called “the Intellectual Revolution”. The desire of people to express themselves freely wouldn't have been possible without a fully free press. The power of the press has managed

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to your favourite TV show “Law abiding citizen”! Tonight, we will deal with a mysterious case never really solved. On December 1st, 1900, a foul murder was committed near Medford, Mississippi. John Hossack, a prominent farmer, highly respected, was struck over the head and killed by unknown parties, at his home. This murder was one of the most sensational that has occupied the attention of a criminal court for years. So we will see how law can be complicit with gender

The American Bill of Rights On April 30, 1789, George Washington was sworn in as the first President of the United States. The new United States Constitution had already been ratified and went into effect the 4th March 1789, but the new country was still in danger/unsettled. Many of the founding fathers were demanding a “bill of rights” to protect people from the new government, to make sure that it would never treat citizens like the old colonial government did. The idea of protection of rights

ENGLISH Case: KKK wants hit the streets of Manhattan. The court of first instance tried that the Ku Klux Klan had the right to march masked. The Mayor Guiliani’s against the decision, saying the procession would be a provocation under Black, Latinos and Jewish people. He added the march could be dangerous cause riots it could trigger. If we examine the Klansmen’s request it’s a matter of a procession without violence, the aim being to pronounce a speech and to assemble people sharing an opinion

C'est aussi une question très complexe, parfois, à savoir l'équilibre entre droits et responsabilités, comme de nombreux autres domaines du droit des droits de l'homme, n'est pas toujours totalement claire. It's also a very complex issue at times, ie the balance between rights and responsibilities, like many other areas of human rights law, is not always entirely clear. Comme les droits de l'homme et du droit sont si étroitement liés, la liberté de religion et de conviction est un sujet qui peut parfois

The Constitutional Topics pages at the USConstitution.net site are presented to delve deeper into topics than can be provided on the Glossary Page or in the FAQ pages. This Topic Page concerns Constitutional Rights and Responsibilities. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Generally speaking, governments are set up to make society a better, more orderly place to live. They do so by providing rules for conduct, by providing punishments for disobeying

Introduction The history of racial segregation after the Civil war (Before the case Brown v. Board of Education) The racial segregation was always a big question in the history of human rights in United States. Before the civil war, slavery was popular in the southern states; blacks were just as property of the white owners. But there were no more slaves after the civil war (1865), millions of formerly enslaved African Americans hoped to join the larger society as full and equal citizens

about the Mayflower Compact and the 1st Charter of Virginia 1st Virginia Charter * Date: 1606 * Speaker: King James * Grammatical subject: “we” * Geographical location: Virginia (the South) * Declared Goals of 1st Virginia Charter: Religion, Civilization, Find Gold * Kind of Government that was envisaged: a representative assembly (13 persons to ordained and removed from time to time) that had a lot of autonomy (they shall govern all matters that arise within the colony)

PREFACE o encourage people everywhere to better understand and appreciate the principles of government that are set forth in America’s founding documents, the Cato Institute is pleased to publish this pocket edition of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America. This preface has been prepared by Roger Pilon, director of Cato’s Center for Constitutional Studies. For more information about the Cato Institute, please see the end of this publication. W‡‡‡±bIL∞«

The trade of marijuana represents a loss of income of billions of dollars in taxes for both the states and the federal government. Thus, some people are advocating for the legalization of the use of marijuana especially in this period of crisis. This legalization would go against established morals and cultural beliefs that are ingrained in the American society. Besides, this subject also brings back a recurrent debate on whether it is the federal government or the state that has the right under