The plaintiff argued that they should not be penalized for something they do in there own home. When the case reached the Supreme Court, the Court ruled in favor of the plaintiff, stating that there was a right to privacy in a man's home. ... Mapp's home. ... US, they are used as protection against invasions "of the sanctity of a man's home and the privacies of life." ... Throughout the brief history of the Supreme Court, hundreds of cases have been held. ...

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That means the government has the right to go into your home while you are away, copy your hard drive, files, gather and take any information or items they please without ever serving you a notice. ... Under this Act people that are not committing crimes are currently being held violating the Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments. ... People are being held without knowledge of why they are being held. ... It has been said, of the people being held, very few of them are being tried for crimes and most of them are secretly arrested by immigration. ...

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Taxpayer's dollars are being spent bringing obscene text and graphics into the homes of people all over the world. ... "What we are doing is simply making the same laws, held constitutional time and time again by the courts with regard to obscenity and indecency through the mail and telephones, applicable to the Internet."7 To keep these kinds of pictures off home computers, the government must control information on the Internet, just as it controls obscenity through the mail or on the phone. ... The courts have generally held that obscenity is illegal under all circumstances for a...

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He then studied law OCCUPATION: Planter OFFICES HELD: Justice of the Peace, Westmoreland County, 1757; Delegate, Virginia House of Burgesses, 1758-1775; Delegate, Continental Congress, 1775-1779; Signer of the Declaration of Independence, 1776; Member, Virginia House of Delegates, 1777, 1780, 1785; Delegate, Virginia Constitutional Ratification Convention, 1788; United States Senator, 1789-1792 PLACE OF RESIDENCE: Chantilly, Virginia SPOUSE: First wife--Ann Aglett; second wife--Anne Pinckard MISCELLANEOUS: Lee was a staunch defender of colonial rights and was aligned with Patrick Hen...

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If we can not bear arms then how will we be able to defend ourselves against intruders in our own home? ... The third amendment talks about the quartering of soldiers in your home. ... Finally congress passed this amendment disabling the soldiers from staying with people in their homes. ... This allows people who are held for capital crimes present their cases in front of a grand jury to figure out if all the evidence is valid. ... It shall be held in the State and district of where the crime was committed. ...

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The 4th amendment states The Fourth Amendment prohibits the police and other government officials from searching people's homes or offices or seizing their property without reasonable grounds to believe that a crime has been committed. In most cases, police can conduct a search of a person's home or office only after they get a written search warrant from a judge, detailing where they will search and what they expect to find. ... As we look back at the amendments this points out the 5th amendment, which is states that no person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise i...

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Weapons that held more than 15 rounds after July 1, 2013 could not be sold. In recent years, proponents of gun control legislation have often been held that only federal laws can be effective in the United States. ... Heller held that the second amendment protects an individual's right to possess a firearm, unconnected to service in a militia, and protects the right to use that firearm for traditional lawful purposes such as self-defense in a home.2 There is another Supreme Court precedent concerning gun control. ...

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The classes were held during the day and you had a choice on which denomination to study. ... This student was booed when she received her diploma and another student was applauded when he held a moment of silence after a judge banned prayer at Washington Community High Schools Graduation ceremony. ... The bible is found in nine out of ten American homes. ... The same status isnot held by other religious literature including the Quran and other holy books. ...

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This case, brought forward when Homer Plessy was refused the right to sit in a railroad car reserved for whites only, was struck down by the U.S. ... King held many protests, one involving segregated of elevators at the Fulton County Courthouse. ... He also held a march from Selma, Alabama, to the steps of the Capitol building in Montgomery, Alabama. ...

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In theory, this means that the police may override your privacy concerns and conduct a search of your home, barn, car, boat, office, personal or business documents, bank account records, trash barrel or whatever, if the police have probable cause to believe they can find evidence that you committed a crime, and a judge issues a search warrant, or the particular circumstances justify the search without a warrant first being issued. ... The fifth amendment of the U.S Constitution states "No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indi...

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What a person knowingly exposes to the public, even in his own home or office, is not a subject of Fourth Amendment protection. ... Searches conducted without warrants have been held unlawfully and have not withstood facts, unquestionably showing probable cause, for the Constitution requires that the deliberate impartial judgment of a judicial officer be interposed between the citizen and the police. ... Justice Stewart concurred in his speech that, ...these considerations do not vanish when the search in question is transferred from the setting of a home, an office, or a hotel room to that ...

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During national crises and war, the power of the presidency has increased to include approval of military tactics, control of the economy, and authority to limit the civil rights of Americans at home. ... When Kennedy was president, the Democrats, held a big majority in the House and the Senate. ...

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While the Convention was underway in Philadelphia, he was back at home speaking before the public on the faults of what was being written. ... Despite the anti-federalist protests, the states held conventions to ratify The Constitution. ...

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The fight in the 1833-34 session of Congress was fierce, but the Jacksonians held firm, and Jackson won the bank war. ... Calhoun, supported the claim of his home state, South Carolina, that it had the right to 'nullify' the tariff legislation of 1828, and more generally the right of a state to nullify laws which went against its interests. ...

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"A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. " The right for of all Americans to bear arms is a right even the Founding Fathers held to equal importance as the Constitution itself. ... It was a right that many of the Founding Fathers held to great esteem, a right to never be denied. ... The village where Tom lived had no police force, so Martin took matters into his own hands to defend his home. ...

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A reasonable expectation of privacy exists at home, on the telephone, when mailing letters, and driving a car. ... What is even scarier is that anyone's home can be invaded under the same pretense. ... Mayfield's home in Oregon was bugged with listing devices without notification, his family's personal property confiscated, and he was later held in confinement for weeks without due process. ...

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Anthony held her ground in her belief that no national problem was great enough to endanger the abandonment of the fight for the rights of more than 50% of the population. ... An impressive memorial was held in her honor on Christmas Day in Washington. In Statuary Hall under the dome of the Capitol, filled with statues of outstanding figures in the struggle for political and religious liberty in this country, the first memorial service ever held in the Capitol to honor a woman, was held for this gallant young leader. ... I am living at the Old Soldier's Home and ain't got much mone...

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Reigning pork-barrel king, Senate Appropriations Committee Chairmen Ted Stevens, insisted that "the needs of his home state {Alaska} are immense and he is proud to have steered millions to the far Northwest" (Anderson 33-4). ... When John gets home and gains knowledge that his hard earned tax dollars helped fund the $600,000 Tristate Joint Peanut Project in Alabama (or the equivalent of 9,400 anthrax vaccinations for US troops), how will he react? ... For a democracy held by a foundation of policies for the people by the people, public indifference is a dilemma that can not be tolerated. ...

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REPARATIONS Many people today do not believe that they should have to pay for something they were not even involved in long ago, but the fact is African-Americans were promised by the U.S. Government some type of reparation for slavery and it was never received by slaves. I believe that the ances...

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A new problem has risen in the thick of the on-going war. President Bush approved a plan that allows the government to try suspected terrorists in private, without the normal laws of a fair trial. Many people living in all corners of the world are now questioning if this lives up to America's repu...

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THURGOOD MARSHALL During the 20th century I have read many books, newspaper articles and seen news broadcasts on two of the most famous Afro American Pioneers: Martin Luther King and Thurgood Marshall. Martin Luther King fought all his life for equal rights for Afro Americans, but Thurgood Marsha...

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