10th Amendment

Source: "Arizona Immigration Law" May 18, 2010

http://biggovernment.com/pliberatore/2010/05/18/arizonas-immigration-law/

Constitutional Connection: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people"

Analysis of the Connection: Arizona has passed a law stating that police officers have the right to check people and ask them if they have their immigration papers. That is not right I think because that is messing with peoples rights. Nobody in their right mind is going to walk or drive with their immigration papers in their back pockets. Arizona also stated that if they are illegal immigrants they are going to be deported back to where they came from. Arizona should at least try to help them to become citizens or something. Arizona needs to try to help them instead of kicking them to where they cam from. What if a woman had a child, a nice house, and a great job would you kick her back to a horrible place.

8th Amendment

Source: "Death penalty decisions loom for Barack Obama" May 18, 2010

http://www.politico/.com/news/stories/0609/23974.html

Constitutional Connection: "Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted."

Analysis of the Connection: The hardest decision to make is to choose if a human being should live or die. Well President Obama may have to make that very hard decision vary soon. Due to cases winding their way through the federal courts. And while Obama is on record supporting the death penalty for particularly heinous crimes, that’s a far cry from deciding whether a specific man’s life should be taken or spared. I do not believe in the death penalty because the fact I do not think that anyone person, or a jury of people, have the right to tell somebody that they should die. I understand that they did a unthinkable crime, but they should just stay alive. If they live they will have to deal with what they did, and that is worse than just dieing.

This is one of the Death champers that used to be used

6th Amendment

Source: "Corporate crime and 'collateral' damage" May 18, 2010

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0510/36762.html

Constitutional Connection: "In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense."

Analysis of the Connection: The Justice Department was starting a criminal investigation of Goldman Sachs inevitably evoked memories of the giant accounting firm once known as Arthur Andersen LLP. They were convicted of federal criminal charges in connection with the Enron scandal. By 2005, however, the U.S. Supreme Court had reversed the conviction, citing flawed jury instructions. If this happened to oly one person, they would have got off scott free, but this was a company. The company got bankrupt, and around 30,000 people lost their jobs. The company went down the drain because no body wanted to do business with then anymore.

4th Amendment

Source: "Hill Republicans dodge on Arizona law" May 6, 2010

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0410/36440.html

Constitutional Connection: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

Analysis of the Connection: People should have the right to be who they are, as stated in the Fourth Amendment. Although the police officer is a authority figure, they still should not have the right to make the judgement of someone is a immigrant or not. It is in The Constitution of the united States of America and should be respected. I understand that Arizona made the law up for their state, but that is not fair to the citizens that live in Arizona. I understand that their may be some illegal immigrants in Arizona, but that does not mean that the police has to go to everybody that looks like a immigrant and ask for their papers. People do not walk around with their Birth Certificate in their back pocket, that is crazy. The citizens should not be harrased where they live. They been through to much stuff already and had to dod what they had to do to get their life together. Arizona government should not against the Constitution of the United States of America.

2nd Amendemt

Source: "Today's eerie similarities to Oklahoma City" May 6, 2010
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0410/35993.html

Constitutional Connection: "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."


Analysis of the Connection: People today are crazy! Why would anybody kill 168 people, and 19 of them are under six years old. Well a man named Timothy McVeigh boomed 168 people at the Oklahoma City federal building. Him and his partner had taken apart in the bombing because they thought that the government was not doing their jobs. Some militia groups gained traction after Bill Clinton was elected. The government started to ban rifles in 1994, that is what made Timothy McVeigh really mad. He was really mad because they was taken away their right to bear arms, as stated in the second Amendment. Timothy McVeigh killed 168 people because of that. I think that what he and his partner did was really not necessary. They could have showed that they was angry in a different way. Now, i believe in the Second Amendment but I think that their should be something in The Constitution of the United States of America that can suspend the Second Amendment for the summer or something. I think this way because most gun accidents happen in the summer time. If their is a ban on guns in the summer time in the past there will still be a lot of children with their parents.

For example my play brother Blair Holt. Blair was a big brother to me and was always there for me and a lot of other people too. He was coming home from school and got shot because some crazy person got on the bus and tried to shot a young lady. Blair threw himself in front of her so she wont get hurt, by him doing that he died. Guns need to be banned during the summer and that is a necessity, not a wont!

1st Amendment (Freedom of Assembly)

Source: "Signs of improving climate in Russia" May 6, 2010

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0510/36760.html

Constitutional Connection: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;...the right of the people peaceably to assemble.."

Analysis of the Connection: In the old days just as i stated in one of my other blogs. Martin Luther King has changed the world in so many ways. Si used him in my example of "Freedom of Speech", but I'm also going to use him for my example of "Freedom of Assembly." Martin Luther King Jr. was apart of the Civil Rights Movement and changed a lot of different things. People all over the world (even some whites) came out to walk with him to changed different types of segregation in the world. They changed the buses, so now African Americans can sit anywhere in the world. They can also pay in the front of the bus, and stay in the front of the bus. If the "Freedom of Assembly" was not in The Constitution of the United States of America African Americans will still be on the back of the bus. Even today Reven Al-Sharpton is getting people around the world to come to Arizona because there is a law that lets the police check cars to see if there is immigrants in it. They also have the power to kick them out of the United States of America. If there was no "Freedom of assembly" there would be no people to go out there and help the people of Arizona.