The fourth amendment regulates person’s right to be protected from illegal search by police. Probable cause-based search warrant is required to be produced prior to searching of belongings, property or people. However, fourth amendment evolved, and thus several exceptions were introduced to it. As all cases have unique circumstances, law...

According to the US Constitution’s Fourth Amendment, people have a right of security as far as their houses, persons, effects and papers are concerned. This is the security against any unreasonable seizures and searches; meaning that there should be no violation of such security as provided by the constitution, unless...

Dear representatives, In 1996, the Congress approved the Dickey Amendment which states that no funds for preventing or controlling injuries at CDC (Centers for Disease Prevention and Control) can be utilized for other purposes such as advocating or promoting gun control (Change.org Inc., n.d.). Approval of this amendment led to...

Equal Rights Amendment, abbreviated as ERA, refers to an amendment to the US constitution which was proposed to ensure that civil rights of individuals would not be denied based on their gender or sex (Steiner, 2011). The defeat of the ERA in 1982 was shocking especially due to the point...

The issue under review is the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to the Constitution of the United States of America, made in March 1972, from the historical and present-day legal perspectives. “From the very beginning, “equal rights” meant “ending special benefits” (Mansbridge, 2015), i.e. men and women would enjoy equal rights...