Ninth and Tenth Amendment

The 5 policing powers that states have are:
1. They regulate behavior.
2. They enforce order within there territories.
3.They keep the public safe from diseases. Public Health Regulations.
4. They regulate traffic laws.
5.They can regulate family laws.

The 3 powers that the states share with the government are:
1. Concurrent Powers. An example of a concurrent power is the power to tax and borrow money.
2. Eminent Domain. Which means that the government and the state is aloud to take property for the public good .
3. Define Crimes. The power to define crimes and the power to enact laws and establish courts are also shared by states and the government.

Issue a teaching license to someone who has applied and has met all the requirements
This is a states responsibility.

Make a treaty with a foreign country

This is the federal governments responsibility.

Set health codes for restaurants

This is a states responsibility.

Issue a marriage license

This is a states responsibility.

Declare war

This is the federal governmetns responsibility.

Fifth-Eighth Amendment

Witness- to see, hear, or know something that happened that is illegal.

Indict- having a trial in front of the grand jury.

Testify- to give your side of the story during a trial.

Grand Jury- A jury of 12 to 23 people that decide what the punishment should be for wrong doers.

Due Process- A government activity that safeguards peoples rights.

Capital Punishment-punishment by death for a crime

Excessive- doing more then necessary.

Bail- property or money given as so that a person can be released from custody.

Peer- a person of the same legal job.

Do you believe that people accused of crimes deserve all of these rights or just some of them? Why or why not?

I think that everyone deserves rights. But when someone does something like break the law like big time or something that dangers someone else's life, that's when I think that those rights should be taken away. It isn't fair for the people that there could be some person out in the world that is hurting people or are breaking the law in someway and they don't get in trouble or get there rights taken away or anything and they just keep doing what they are doing. I think that everybody deserves rights. At first. But when they do something wrong that's when they should get them taken away.

Fourth Amendment Rights

A way that the police might be able to get a warrant or search your house might be of there is a person that has been a suspect to murder or any other trouble that they have been trying to solve a case then they might be able to search your home. After they got a warrant. It is illegal to search a person house without a warrant.

Third Amendment Rights

The Third Amendment says that it guarantees security at your home. I agree with this. I do not think that it is fair for soldiers to just come into your house and you are forced to feed them. I think that if the owners of the house wanted to allow the soldiers to come into there house then that would be alright.

Second Amendment Rights

I agree with the Second Amendment. I think that it is fair that we have the right to bear arms because a lot of members in my family like to hunt and most of them all hunt with guns. I know that you can hunt with bow and arrows but only one member in my family does. Also I agree with it because we can have a weapon to protect ourselves if anything were to ever happen, we could use it for self defense if we needed to.
But some other people may say that we don't need the Second Amendment because people are taking advantage of them. Like the way people commit suicide or kill somebody else. It isn't fair to the victim or the victims family if their child got killed because a person just took advantage of there rights.

First Amendment Rights

-Give a speech before a large gathering of people and express opinions about the president's abilities.

-Circulate a petition calling for the repeal of an unpopular law.

-Post your opinion on your blog about an issue being discussed at a local school board meeting

The 3 statements above are protected by the First Amendment. The first one you have the freedom of speech and you can gather people to talk about things that you think are wrong but you can not force them to come or to listen to what you want to say. The second statement you are aloud to circulate a petition if you want a repeal on a law. The last statement about posting opinions on your blog is also protected because you do have the freedom of speech and as long as what you are posting is true then it is fine.