Jeffery G Douglas

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First Amendment

     Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of RELIGION, or prohibiting the free exercise there of: or ABRIDGING the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the RIGHT of the people peaceably to assemble, and to PETITION the government for a redress of grievances.

Second Amendment

The right to keep and bear arms, is the assertion that people have a personal right to weapons for individual use, or a collective right to bear arms in a militia, or both.

Third Amendment

No quartering of soldiers in private houses during peacetime. In a time of war, Congress can pass a law stating that soldiers should be quartered.

Forth Amendment

Interdiction of unreasonable Searches and seizures;search warrant is required to search belongings.

Fifth Amendment

Indictments - is a formal accusation that a person has committed a criminal offense. In those jurisdictions which retain the concept of a felony, the serious criminal offence would be a felony; those jurisdictions which have abolished the concept of a felony often substitute the concept of an indictable offence, i.e. an offence which requires an indictment.

Due process - the process that is due, is the principle that the government must respect all of the legal rights that are owed to a person according to the law. Due process holds the government subservient to the law of the land, protecting individual persons from the state.

Self-incrimination - the act of accusing oneself of a crime for which a person can then be prosecuted. Self-incrimination can occur either directly or indirectly: directly, by means of interrogation where information of a self-incriminatory nature is disclosed; indirectly, when information of a self-incriminatory nature is disclosed voluntarily without pressure from another person.

Double jeopardy - is a procedural defense that forbids a defendant from being tried twice for the same crime on the same set of facts.

Rules for Eminent Domain - The power of governments to take private real or personal property has always existed in the United States, being an inherent attribute of sovereignty. This power reposes in the legislative branch of the government and may not be exercised unless the legislature has authorized its use by statutes that specify who may use it and for what purposes.

Sixth Amendment

Rights to a fair and speedy public trial, to notice of accusations, to confront one's accuser, to subpoenas, to counsel

Seventh Amendment

Right to trial by jury in civil cases

Eight Amendment

No excessive bail and fines or cruel & unusual punishment

Nineth Amendment

Unenumerated rights - are sometimes defined as legal rights inferred from other legal rights that are officiated in a retrievable form codified by law institutions, such as in written constitutions, but are not themselves expressly coded or "enumerated" among the extant writ of the law.

Tenth Amendment

Limits the powers of the Federal Government to only those specifically granted to it by the constitution.

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