Amendments and Constitutional Reform by

Amendments and Constitutional Reform by https://padlet.com/15dnguyen22/wifd4fx4zoql There are 27 Constitutional Amendments to the Constitution. en-us 2018-09-11 14:06:15 UTC 2018-09-12 02:18:09 UTC hello@padlet.com The First Amendment in the Bill of Rights is the most important amendments to the US Constitution. 15dnguyen22 https://padlet.com/15dnguyen22/wifd4fx4zoql/wish/279870861 - It protects five of the most basic liberties
- Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; 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.]]> 2018-09-11 14:10:38 UTC https://padlet.com/15dnguyen22/wifd4fx4zoql/wish/279870861 The Fifth Amendment: Rights of the Accused, Due Process of the Law, and Eminent Domain is the second most important amendments to the US Constitution. 15dnguyen22 https://padlet.com/15dnguyen22/wifd4fx4zoql/wish/279884869 -Rights of the Accused. The Fifth Amendment protects the rights of anyone accused of a crime
- The Fifth Amendment requires that a "grand jury" look at the charges before that person can be brought trial. A grand jury is a group of citizens who decide if there is enough evidence to try a person. It is intended to prevent people from being falsely accused of a serious crime
- Due Process of the Law. Another section of the Fifth Amendment holds that "no one can be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law."
- Eminent Domain. Finally, the Fifth Amendment requires the government to pay citizens when it takes over their property for a public use. ]]> 2018-09-11 14:29:41 UTC https://padlet.com/15dnguyen22/wifd4fx4zoql/wish/279884869 Constitutional Reform 15dnguyen22 https://padlet.com/15dnguyen22/wifd4fx4zoql/wish/280166509 - One proposal pushed by elements of the Tea Party movement and other states’ rights advocates is to repeal the 17th Amendment, which established direct election of senators in place of election by state legislatures as provided in the original Constitution.
- The most concrete proposals

currently under discussion call for 18-year term limits for justices. Calabresi and Lindgren propose instituting the change by constitutional amendment. Paul Carrington, a professor at Duke Law School, and Roger Cramton, a professor at Cornell Law School, have an alternative that they believe could be enact-

ed by statute.

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