Monday (2nd)- We worked on our Amendment projects
Tuesday (3rd)- Nebraska is now legalizing gay marriage (down to 12 States that don't)
Iran has been one of our enemies in the world, and have been rampant with their nuclear powers. Obama wants to freeze this crisis (put it off for a while) because he thinks that we one day will be able to trade with them. Israel wants to go to war with them, or try to finish them off because Iran is targeting them (right next to Israel) but the US doesn't want to take action yet (less chance of Iran attacking us than Israel).
Wednesday (4th)- Continued to work on presentations
Thursday (5th)- A U.S. Ambassador was slashed by a huge knife. The person who did this has done something like this to other Ambassadors.
- Obama signed a bill funding Homeland Security
-The DOD have found a disturbing amount of teens who are leaving the states to fight with ISIS. Many girls have gone over there to be a bride of men over there, and there has been many 17 though 19-year-old kids that go over to fight or 'better life'
-There was a lost city that was found in the Jungle in Honduras.
AMENDMENT NOTES
- 1st Amendment
- Protects freedom of speech, religion, petition the government (get a letter signed by many that they don't agree with a rule), press, and to assemble peacefully (can't riot in streets blocking traffic, on private property, but only like in a park)
- Passed Dec. 15, 1791
- Washington Redskins lost their trade mark because it was disrespectful to some people
- 2nd Amendment
- Protects ourselves by being able to keep and guns in self defense and in war (Use against guns)
- Passed Dec. 15, 1791
- After Sandy Hook School, Obama put 25 restrictions on this amendment (harder to purchase ammunition and guns)
- 3rd Amendment
- No soldier can barge into someones house without their consent (respect other countries and people's belongings)
- Passed Dec. 15, 1791
- No recent stories
- 4th Amendment
- Protects us from having things searched and taken from us without good reason (keep every U.S. citizen their dignity and privacy from the police and other higher authorities )
- Passed Dec. 15, 1791
- cell phones cannot be searched without warrant (gov't has to have reason to look at your phone)
- 5th Amendment
- Grants right to grand jury, protects against double jeopardy (tried for the same thing in court), against self-incrimination (don't have to say what you did in trial), cannot be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law (can't go through your things even if you did something bad [Like caught drinking]).
- Passed in 1791
- Gives you the right to say your side of the story and not just take you to prison like the British did.
- 6th Amendment
- Right to speedy public trial by jury, to be notified of accusation, to confront the accuser, to obtain witness and retain counsel (passed this because British never had fair trial
- Passed on Dec. 15, 1791
- Dunn's case: they had an extremely quick case and had the results within days
- 7th Amendment
- Right to a trial and cannot hold you without givings you a trial (Opt out of trial by jury and decision is made by judge)
- Passed on Dec. 15, 1791
- tarted b/c King George III and no fair trials for situations- Women waived rights when she just left her kids because in her case she would be let go by the law and less on emotion of just walking away from your kids.
- 8th Amendment
- Fines must be fair and not excessive as well as punishment being fair and not cruel (even if you are convicted of something bad, you can't just be killed...maybe)
- Passed on Dec. 15, 1791
- Made because British would just kill you if you did something bad and never had a second chance to explain themselves- Lethal injections~people think this is cruel and unusual
- 9th Amendment
- Rights retained by people (where you can live, abortion, school, privacy
- Passed on Dec. 15, 1791
- Griswold vs. Connecticut (1965), abortion-- against religion and NSA listening in on own technology
- 10th Amendment
- Government doesn't have all the power and the people and states have some power
- Passed on Dec. 15, 1791
- States can still pass laws such as gay marriage, abortions, education (gives states right)
- 11th Amendment
- Sate can't be sued by a citizen from another state of their state and that case can't be heard by Federal government without the states say so.
- Passed on March 4, 1794
- Chisholm vs. Georgia (British loyalists and South Carolina)
- 12th Amendment
- Election of the president and vice president by electoral collage (Presidents can pick their vice president, instead of having resident ans vice president mixed parties, if not majority, the House of Representative will pick)
- Passed on June 15, 1804
- George Bush's election
- 13th Amendment
- Slavery isn't legal in the United States unless it's a punishment for crime
- Passed on January 31, 1865
- Slavery in South and not in North (Mississippi didn't ratify amendment until 2013)
- 14th Amendment
- Anyone born or living in the United States are citizens and must be treated equally under the law
- Passed on July 28, 1868
- Made after slavery and Civil Was- Everyone was equal under law (Still hold promise of equality)
- 15th Amendment
- Prohibiting the restriction of voting rights "on a count of races, color, or previous condition of servitude"
- Passed on Feb. 26, 1870
- Mostly towards African-Americans
- 16th Amendment
- Government takes a portion of the money you make in any job
- Passed on Feb. 3, 1913
- After World War 1, we needed more money for army/ government (IRS vs. Tea Party Group- not charging tax on non-profit group)
- 17th Amendment
- Each state can have two Senators and they each can only have one vote
- Passed on April 8, 1913
- Every State has equal votes and power; the people of State can Vote (Only rich males were able to vote each other- more Direct Democracy)
- 18th Amendment
- Prohibition of alcoholic beverages in US by declaring illegal the production, transport and sale of alcohol (caused more crime- some allowed for religions)
- Passed on Dec 18, 1917, Ratified on Jan. 16, 1919 (Repealed by 21st Amendment)
- Marijuana story- People are comparing to Prohibition
- 19th Amendment
- Prohibits any citizens from being denied the right to vote on the basis of sex
- Passed on Aug. 18, 1920
- All people can vote; not discrimination (93- year-old African America from Philadelphia was not allowed to vote b/c she didn't have her ID)
- 20th Amendment
- Gives the ending dates of office for the President and Vice President
- Passed in 1933
- When the President done working- This moved the President swear in quicker
- 21st Amendment
- The government repealed the 18th Amendment (can drink alcohol)
- Passed on Dec. 5th, 1933
- Supported by rural areas (people who are more about family traditions
- 22nd Amendment
- The President cannot serve for more than two terms
- Passed on March 21, 1947
- Franklin Roosevelt served many terms (created to prevent a Dictatorship)
- 23rd Amendment
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- 24th Amendment
- 25th Amendment
- 26th Amendment
- 27th Amendment
Friday (6th) - No School
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