https://padlet.com/s_zoe_mclane/unit3project This project will examine the ways in which the U.S. Constitution creates a dynamic government while also fostering political stability. en-us 2016-12-17 19:20:46 UTC 2023-05-11 22:07:03 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Balance.png s_zoe_mclane https://padlet.com/s_zoe_mclane/unit3project/wish/144186379 The 19th amendment allows women to vote. The 15th amendment allowed males of any race to vote but women still did not have that opportunity. Women like Susan B Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton played a large role in women's right movement. The women who fought for the right to vote called themselves suffragists, these women would protest (see picture below), for their right to vote. The suffragists actions started in 1869 when Susan and Elizabeth formed the National Woman Suffrage Association. The 19th amendment was finally ratified on August 20th, 1920. This is popular sovereignty because it opens up many more people to voting, and gives more opinions. ]]> 2016-12-17 19:38:58 UTC https://padlet.com/s_zoe_mclane/unit3project/wish/144186379 s_zoe_mclane https://padlet.com/s_zoe_mclane/unit3project/wish/144186537       The Government has the ability to change as time goes on. ]]> 2016-12-17 19:42:03 UTC https://padlet.com/s_zoe_mclane/unit3project/wish/144186537 s_zoe_mclane https://padlet.com/s_zoe_mclane/unit3project/wish/144186614 PRISM is an NSA program that allows the government to collect internet data that passes through 9 US servers (around 80% of the world's internet traffic). This was a secret, but in 2013 Edward Snowden, a former CIA employee leaked the NSA's information on PRISM, letting all of America know what they were doing. This revealed how much power the government actually had and how much they were hiding from us. In 2001 the Patriot act was established in order to keep people safe, but some argued that it violated the 4th amendment. So in 2015, some of the governments powers were lifted, including some of their powers with PRISM.]]> 2016-12-17 19:43:27 UTC https://padlet.com/s_zoe_mclane/unit3project/wish/144186614 s_zoe_mclane https://padlet.com/s_zoe_mclane/unit3project/wish/144186626 The war powers resolution makes it possible for the president to have power over the armed forces. The congress can declare war, but the president is the commander in chief, so they somehow had to come together to make it work. They decided on a joint resolution called "War Powers Resolution". The president would have to notify congress 48 hours before sending out the armed forces and they could only be gone for 60 days. This relates to separation of powers/checks and balances because the two branches have to work together and make sure the other branch isn't going behind the others back and declaring war.]]> 2016-12-17 19:43:46 UTC https://padlet.com/s_zoe_mclane/unit3project/wish/144186626 s_zoe_mclane https://padlet.com/s_zoe_mclane/unit3project/wish/144186686 Most states had very strict abortion laws, prohibiting them and regulating availability of abortions. Even outlawing them unless the mother's life was in danger. As time went on abortion laws began to become less restrictive, but poor women could not afford abortions, and could not travel out of state to have them done. The court related abortions to privacy, even though that does not come up in the constitution, because it is a family's decision what they do with their family. Jane Roe (a fake name to protect her privacy) is an unmarried pregnant  woman who lived in Texas who wanted an abortion. Texas laws made it a felony to have an abortion unless for health reasons, Roe argued that it went against her 14th amendment right, saying that she should have equal protection and guarantee her freedom without her having to tell them personal information. The justices answered this question by asserting that the Fourteenth Amendment, which prohibits states from “depriving any person of … liberty … without due process of law,” protected a fundamental right to privacy. Roe won the case 7-2 on January 22, 1973.]]> 2016-12-17 19:45:02 UTC https://padlet.com/s_zoe_mclane/unit3project/wish/144186686 s_zoe_mclane https://padlet.com/s_zoe_mclane/unit3project/wish/144187374     The Government stays stable by preventing changes from happening too quickly.]]> 2016-12-17 19:59:38 UTC https://padlet.com/s_zoe_mclane/unit3project/wish/144187374 s_zoe_mclane https://padlet.com/s_zoe_mclane/unit3project/wish/144188136 The Ludlow amendment was proposed many times from 1935-1940 and is one of the many failed amendments. This amendment proposed that americans could vote if we went to war (except in cases where we were attacked first) and whoever voted yes would fight in said war. Obviously, this amendment got shot down, seeing that it is a failed amendment and that it is on the stable side, because the government still decides on war situations. This relates back to popular sovereignty because we would have the people voting for something the nation would be doing. ]]> 2016-12-17 20:15:17 UTC https://padlet.com/s_zoe_mclane/unit3project/wish/144188136 s_zoe_mclane https://padlet.com/s_zoe_mclane/unit3project/wish/144188337 In 1972, 5 months before the general election, 5 burglars broke into the democratic headquarters located in Watergate building complex in Washington DC (where the name Watergate scandal comes from). There was suspicion that President Nixon was tied to this crime, he denied it. As time went on more evidence came out that he was related to this crime. Eventually they asked him to hand over security tapes from his office and he declined. The case went to court, he was forced to hand over the tapes. The court wanted to impeach him, but they did not have the power to. So they just had to kind of leave it up in the air until senate decided what to do. It didn't really matter though because sixteen days later, Nixon resigned.
This relates to separation of powers/checks and balances because the court could decide what to do with Nixon, but they could not actually take action on it. Also, they were obviously not keeping a very close eye on him and not doing enough checking.]]> 2016-12-17 20:19:14 UTC https://padlet.com/s_zoe_mclane/unit3project/wish/144188337 s_zoe_mclane https://padlet.com/s_zoe_mclane/unit3project/wish/144188400 The 22nd amendment limits presidents to two terms only, it was ratified in 1951. When Reagan was president from 1981-1989, many people wanted to repeal the 22nd amendment. They said that he should be able to serve a third term maybe even longer. They liked him so much and they felt that it was unfair and violating their voting rights if they couldn't vote for him for a third time. Obviously, many people disagreed, thinking that we need change and that two terms was plenty. People actually wore pins that said "No man is good a third time" just to protest getting the 22nd amendment repealed. Lucky for those people who like change, the 22nd amendment is still alive and well and still only allows presidents 2 terms in office. The 22nd amendment relates to limited government because the presidents can only serve two terms, they are limited to what they can do in 8 years maximum.]]> 2016-12-17 20:20:08 UTC https://padlet.com/s_zoe_mclane/unit3project/wish/144188400 s_zoe_mclane https://padlet.com/s_zoe_mclane/unit3project/wish/144188494 The Corwin amendment is another failed amendment, proposed before the civil war. Many people had owned slaves, and they wanted to keep them, forever. So, they wanted to have an amendment that would stop congress from making laws on getting rid of their slaves. This even got passed by congress and was signed by Abraham Lincoln, but this was not ratified by 3/4 of the states so it could not become an amendment and after this the 13th amendment came out which actually freed slaves. This relates to federalism because some states wanted to free slaves and other states wanted to keep their slaves so the government had to have the states work together to come up with a resolution on their conflict (even though they ended up having a war about it anyway).]]> 2016-12-17 20:21:48 UTC https://padlet.com/s_zoe_mclane/unit3project/wish/144188494