The first amendment, one of the landmarks of the U.S. Constitution, protects Americans from undue influence from the government. It protects the freedom of religion and freedom of expression, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and the freedom to rightful assembly (Cornell Law School, 2018). It prohibits the Congress...

The Tenth Amendment envisages that the powers that are not constitutionally delegated to the United States and are not constitutionally prohibited to the states, belong to the states and the people respectively. Among other vital issues, the Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution regulates the Federal Taxing Power. By its...

While the right to bear arms and form a militia did not originate with the Bill of Rights, it is certainly heavily associated with the second amendment put forth in the document. When considering the Second Amendment, one must analyze the historic context from which it arose to understand why...

To propose and ratify formal amendments to the Constitution, there are four different methods by which these formal amendments may follow. One method is that a formal amendment may be proposed by each house of Congress by a 2/3 vote. The formal amendment is ratified through this process with a...

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...