You are innocent until proven...GUILTY!

The Fifth Amendment clearly states,  you cannot be tried for the same crime twice, nor can you be forced to testify against yourself in the court of law. You are also innocent after convicted of any crime in the United States, until proven guilty. A person can not be tried for the same law twice. This is called double jeopardy. If convicted the second time, the person can plead autrefois acquit or autrefois convict; which means that the person being tried has been acquitted or convicted of the same offence before. When a person is arressted nad is read the miranda rights, "You have the right to remain silence..." and so on. The person IS innocent until proven guilty in the court of law. for example if Jim was arrested for killing his wife, in which by the way he did, he's still innocent in a way. Until he goes to court and the judge says, "Guilty."

 

Uh...We have a warrent for your arrest...I think

Specifically the Fourth Amendment is the right of people and to protect the personals of people against searches without a reasonable warrent. Which means in order for any type of search from any officer or any government official, they must have a warrent of some sort at the time. It affects us today because criminals all around the world are being searched for to be brought to justice, but not just criminals. People who owe the government or city money and have not paid in a certain amount of time and people who might be suspected for some reason or may have a connection with some crime. These are the type of people who most likely are being sesarched for right now! Without warrents, the world today would be chaos. People would most likely get convicted for the wrong crime that has nothing to do with them, they might be associated but not the criminal. People's houses will get searched and gone through without the proper manner. Also peoples personal belongings might get searched through such as documents, letters, things of that such.

Got Guns?

The Second Amendment of the United States is the right to bear arms. Which means people are allowed to have guns or any other fired weapons under a license. Recently Chicago had a fire initiative where citizens of Chicago were to turn in all guns that they owned from hand guns to machine guns just to get the weapons off the street. This insures the safety of many civilians today, but at what cost? The violence in the streets of Chicago mostly is from gun violence. Could the second amendment really be affecting the life's of Chicago today? Are people taking advantage of this constitutional law? Or are they abusing this law for personal reason. At the same time this law is helpful to to inocent people also for various reasons. For example, burglary is a big issue also in the world. But if thats an issue, what can the home owners do to stop this trend? The owners most likely will keep guns in gthe house for safety. Even though this law seems to be fifty fifty, for positive and negative use. How can people today make it just a positive use?

Free Speech? Wait, There's a catch.

What is free speech?  Freedom of speech is the freedom to speak without censorship or limitation. In other words a person can speck freely as long as its not offensive towards anyone. Issues like Gay Marriage is a huge part of what Freedom of Speech is today, especially in California's predicament today. Gay marriage is an example of free speech because one, that's how people feel. If the same sex wants to marry why shouldn't they? Who's to say that gay marriage isn't right? Two, its not offending anyone. In what way does gay marriage at all offend people? If different sex have the right to marry why shouldnt same sex have the same. In today's society, we can find plenty of issues with Freedom of speech. Its not just all about what people say and how people say things, its also about how people feel and the opinions towards certain things emotionaloly and physically.

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