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The First Amendment Free Speech - American Constitution Society The text of the First Amendment of our Constitution reads: “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 ”
The Fourteenth Amendment - American Constitution Society Lawyers, law students, and educators have a valuable resource to share with students: knowledge and appreciation of the Constitution Constitution in the Classroom brings ACS members into high school, middle school, or elementary classrooms to raise awareness of fundamental constitutional principles and excite young minds about their constitutional rights and responsibilities
VOLUME 12, ISSUE 2 Chate Nelette 13th ist within the United States ” The progression from that second qualifying clause to the horrors of mass criminalization and the sprawling American prison indus-try is laid out by
Student FALL 2020 14, Issue Chapter Newsletter 13th, the title of Ava DuVernay’s extraordinary documentary refers to the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, which reads “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States ” The progression from that second qualifying clause to the horrors of mass criminalization and the
Student SPRING 2021 14, Issue 2 Chapter Newsletter Host screenings and discussions of Just Mercy and 13th (See “Films” on pages 1-2 for more information) Engage in ACS’s 20th Anniversary Programming, which will center on Race and the Constitution, discussing the history of our nation’s “Original Sin” and the path towards equity
Supreme Court Review Sixth Edition Selective Judicial Activism in the . . . Justice Alito’s opinion, one would believe that he and others on the Roberts Court believe strongly in having controversial policy judgments always be made by our elected representatives, instead of by judicial activists That approach to judging is a defensible one, but, as this essay argues, the current majority of the Roberts Court has a very selective approach to judicial activism Time
NAME OF EVENT: The 2019-2020 Supreme Court Preview SECOND AMENDMENT The Supreme Court mulls whether to ditch a gun-rights case, ECONOMIST (Sept 11, 2019) Matt Ford, The Supreme Court’s First Major Gun Case in a Decade, NEW REPUBLIC (Aug 14, 2019) ew York Tribes
Revitalizing the Fourth Amendment - American Constitution Society The 14th Amendment‘s Citizenship Clause was added to the Constitution after the Civil War and the abolition of slavery, and it unquestionably places the question of citizenship out of the hands of the States
The Framers’ Constitution: Toward a Theory of Principled Constitutionali over the past two centuries to make it more inclusive and more progressive By outlawing slavery in the 13th Amendment, guaranteeing due process, equality, and privileges and immunities in the 14th Amendment, and consistently expanding the franchise in the 15th, 19th, 24th, and 26th Amendments, the people of the United States have themselves
New ACS Issue Brief Says High Court Provided Little Guidance on Gun . . . – The Supreme Court’s recent decisions on the Second Amendment have produced confusion among lower courts on what gun laws are constitutionally permissible, authors of a new ACS Issue Brief maintain The future of gun control regulation in the wake of the Supreme Court opinions is also the topic of an Oct 14 ACS panel discussion