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Which Bill of Rights amendments do these cases have at issue?

1. A school in Maryland begins the school day with the principal leading a short prayer to the assembled student body.

2. A severely mentally handicapped man commits murder and is given the death penalty

3. Texas passes a law that allows concealed weapons to be carried anywhere at any time.

4. The U.S. government lowers the drinking age to 19.

5. The police suspect an individual of selling drugs because they have observed many cars making brief stops at his house during the night. They ask the garbage collector to separate his garbage bags left on the curb and turn them over to the police.

6. A student wears a pro-Nazi shirt to school and they tell her to remove it.

7. Student athletes are required to submit random drug tests.

8. An individual who commits robbery can't afford bail. He spends two years in prison awaiting trial.

9. An African American is accused of assult and stands trial. His jury is made up of only Caucasians.

10. A high school teacher finds two students holding lit cigerettes and takes the students to the principal's office. The principal searches one girls purse and finds $40 in $1 bills, rolling paper, and a written list of her weed sales. She is suspended and is turned over to the police.

11. A student organized a prayer group that meets after school at the school. The school tells them they can't have their mettings.

12. A 15 year old is arrested for murdering his step father, who had abbused him throughout his childhood. At his hearing, evidence was presented about his previous convictions for serious assualts and a psycholgist testified that he had no reasonable prospects for rehabilitation within the juvenille justice system. He is tried as an adult, is convicted, and given the death penalty.

13. The state of Massachusetts makes the sale and possesion of all assault rifles illeagal.

14. A group of white supremacists secure a permit and have a parade through a predominantly Hispanic and African American neighborhood. During the parade, they carry signs with racist slogans and chant anti-minority pronouncements.

15. A newspaper runs a story about a local man and accuses him of embezzling thousands of dollars from a local church.

16. A group of women who are extremley upset that a toxic waste incinerator is being built in their community protest in front of city hall. They are arrested for trespassing.

17. A family receives a notice from the town that they have plans to expand the local libary, which is next to their house. The town plans to give them a cash settlement for their property and require them to move out in 30 days.

18. There is a fire at Westover Air Force Base that destroyed all of the barracks. A representative from the Air Force arrives at John's house and informs him that he'll need to help house two enlisted men for three weeks.

19. Julie was arrested and tried for the theft of her neighbor's car. She was found innocent because of lack of evidence and is released. Later, the police discovered a witness who saw Julie steal the car. They re-arrest her and charge her with theft a second time.

20. A police officer hears a woman screaming for help inside a house. He enters the house and discovers two adults fighting. The officer breaks up the fight then notices two large bags of coke on the table. Both individuals are arrested and charged with possession of controlled substances.

21. A student run newsparer criticizes the new dress code put in place by the principal.

22. Ten people arrive at their Congressmen's office and angrily tell him their dislike of his vote on a tax increase. He calls the police and has them removed from his office because he feels threatened.

23. A man is arrested by the police after having a conversation with someone at his gym about his dislike of the handling of the Iraq war. He is accused of terrorism and imprisoned for 15 days before being allowed to speak to an attorney.

24. The U.S. government listened in to thousands of individuals phone conversations without first obtaining search warrents. They claimed that all the individuals involved were somehow connected to terrorists, although the evidence was very weak.

25. The U.S. government raises the legal driving age to 18.

26. A young man in a wheel chair discovers that he can't enter any government buildings he needs to enter because the buildings arn't wheel chair accesable. He is forced to have his friend carry him up the stairs, which he finds humiliating. He files a lawsuit against the buildings, saying anyone should be able to access the buildings, no matter if they have a disability or not. The state argues that there are no such rights granted in the Constitution.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    SItuations 4, 25, and 26 DO NOT involve the Bill of Rights.

    Drinking age and Driving age can be influenced by threat of retention of Federal Highway funds; access to government and public buildings is covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act.

    You can do the rest on your own...If necessary, you can buy a copy of the Constitution at a bookstore. College bookstores tend to have laminated copies available for about $5...useful in Civics, Law, and some Business courses.

  • 5 years ago

    Another bright idea from the geniuses running the country into the ground.Same thought process of the Bailout and the Fence.I'd laugh if it wasn't so pathetic.I suppose they came up with that one to track down bullets fired by weapons in a crime. Won't work anyway. First ammo can be stolen by the criminals or faked and blame someone else for the crime.That's reasonable doubt in my mind.A lot of crooks will walk away smiling.Just think how many jobs it will create.Selling all that bogus coding system ammo on the black market.If Obama is so bent on gun control why does he get protection from the Secret Service.Should he not practice what he preaches and ban them from carrying concealed weapons as well.Since there are so many nice people out there.Common sense is that law abiding citizens don't use guns for crime.They are used for protection. States that allow concealed weapons have lower crime.Remember when Washington D.C. was a city "under siege"by a great number of high jacking cars,B.M.W's Nissan's etc.? Never heard any pickup trucks getting jacked.Why because the thought that there may be a gun toting redneck driving that truck was the image the crooks had.Just the though that there were guns for protection kept them from jacking trucks.Even more what kind of people voted for this crew to begin with?Very scared or brainwashed.People willing to give up their right for false "protection"

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    too many... but ill help with a few.

    2. Not in bill of rights, It is illegal to sentence a mentally handicapped person to the death penalty.

    3. Second Amendment of course, but states have different laws regarding gun laws.

    4. Would not be a constitutional issue if the legislature changed the law.

    6. First Amendment free speech.

    8. sixth amendment, right to a speedy trial.

    13. State issue, it is widely recognized that the 2nd amendment has no bearing on the right to carry Assault rifles.

    9. See Mccollum v. Georgia, everyone is entitled to a jury of their peers, there cannot be only white people on the jury. Equal Protection clause of the 14th amendment.

  • ?
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    I'm not doing your homework for you. If you had just one, or two I'd help, but 26 is ridiculous.

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