Law: Equality
Within the context of the Declaration of Independence, the definition of “equality” had a different connotation than it has today. The rights referred to in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States did not originally take into consideration the rights of slaves, women, or minorities (Sigler). In 1868, the 14th Amendment was created to protect the rights of freed slaves and settle issues of Congressional representation, but its full impact would not be felt until ...
Law: Patriot Act
The American Civil Liberties Union warns that the Patriot Act, together with the actions of government under the act, threaten civil liberties in various ways. One, the act is said to include “domestic terrorism” in the expanded scope of terrorism laws, thus subjecting political organizations to “surveillance, wiretapping, harassment, and criminal action for political advocacy” (1). The act is also said to expand federal ability to conduct private searches with “minimal” judicial oversight, allo ...
Law: US Constitution
In the Constitution of the United States (the main law of the state) there are some important words such as, “All people are equal in the eyes of God”. What does it mean? It means that all people, regardless of race and color have the same rights, for example, the right to vote and to be elected in any office. The Constitution has some Amendments. Among them are the Fourteenth Amendment and the Fifteenth Amendment that guarantee equality of all people. For example, in the Fourteenth Amendment t ...
Law: Protection of Law
For a long time equality has been one of the main principles of a democratic society. Those problems were number one for American government. The principals on which equality was based in America were signed in the Constitution. John Adams said about equality in education, “Education for every class and rank of people down to the lowest and the poorest.” It proves that from the very beginning education in the country is considered to be for all. But was it really so? Everybody understood that th ...
