Monday-
Tuesday-
- class quiz
9th amendment:
- Ratified - 1791
- friendly definition- rights retained by people example: right where to live abortion, Griswold v. Connecticut(1965)
- Controversy- abortion and NSA
10th amendment:
- ratified: 1791
11th amendment:
- a state cant sue another state without the sates consent
12th amendment:
- election to the president and vice president by the electoral college
Wednesday-
amendment 18
- Ratified- January 16, 1949
- passed- December 18, 1917
- has to do with drugs and how in some states its legal and some not
amendment 19-
- no US citizen can be denied the right to vote
- ratified- August 18, 1920
Thursday-
current event;
Ferguson: 2 police officers were shot after police chief resigned, they don't know who the shooter was.
1779- 99% were white
1989-85% white
483 black people were arrested in 2013
36 white people were arrested 2013
92% of searches 2013
86% of car stops involving blacks 2013
Police target blacks more then whites
Report: Drunk secret service agents crash into WH carrier
Iran 101:
- Ayatollah Ali Khamenei-
- Former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad- president of Iran from 2005 2013.
- Hassan Rouhani is the president of Iran- current president
- Nuclear powers of the world-original 5 countries- us, Russia, China, Great Brittian, France
- We were the first country to have nuclear weapons and then other countries started, we tried to limit the nuclear weapons from being built.
- United States- 1945, Russia- 1949, United Kingdom- 1952, France- 1960, China- 1964, India- 1974: this is when they first tested nuclear weapons.
- International Atomic Energy Agency- IAEA
Friday-
Iran's Nuclear program-
- started after world war II
- or help ended in 1979 with the Iranian Revolution
- starting 2003, the us intelligence agency started believing that Iran was working towards nuclear weapons
current event: we don't want Iran to get Nuclear weapons. Iran's goal is to relief from economic sanctions. sanctions- not supporting by porting goods and stuff. They also want maintain a peaceful nuclear program. Two deadlines: 1 end of march and 2 end of June. Republicans don't like what they are doing. They wrote a letter to Iran saying that they don't understand our constitution.
Amendment 20:
- Gives the ending dates of office for the president and VP
- Tells who takes the president spot if he dies
- Vise President takes over
Amendment 21:
- the government allowed people to drink alcohol legally again
- ratified December 5, 1933
Amendment 22:
- the president cant serve for more than two terms
- It was established March 21, 1947
- Americans thought that it wasn't good for a country
- Today we in the U.S. we don't let the president serve for more than two terms
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