1. Why are they protesting?
They are protesting because there social media got blocked by the government and now they are protesting.
2. What rights are they wanting that we may take for granted each day?
They are not allowed to have acces to computer softwares that no one can take away from us. The government of China controls 95% of everything they have and do.
1. Find a recent new article (within past 12 months) that deals with one of the Amendments that make up the Bill of Rights (1-10). Write a summary of the article, and copy and paste the link into a blog post.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/09/27/forest-service-clarifies-proposal-on-news-photos-in-wilderness-after-first/
The U.S. Forest Service stated on Thursday that a proposed policy change will not interfere with news-gathering groups’ constitutional rights to take pictures on federal wilderness property, following a backlash from First Amendment supporters.
“The U.S. Forest Service remains committed to the First Amendment,” “The directive pertains to commercial photography and filming only. If you’re there to gather news or take recreational photographs, no permit would be required.” While some states have been asked to get Forest Service permits for their still photography of the forests in the past 4 years.
2. Find a recent new article (within past 12 months) that deals with Amendments 11-27. Write a summary of the article, and copy and paste the link into a blog post.
http://www.thenation.com/blog/177962/members-congress-introduce-new-fix-voting-rights-act
Representatives Jim Sensenbrenner and John Conyers and Senator Patrick Leahy introduced legislation to strengthen the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in the opening of the Supreme Court’s decision last June invalidating a critical section of the VRA. The legislation, known as “The Voting Rights Amendment Act of 2014,” represents the first attempt by a bipartisan group in Congress to reinstate the vital protections of the VRA that the court took away.
3. Find a court case that deals with one of the amendments that make up the Bill of Rights (1-10). Write a summary of the court case.
For the first 100 years of America's history, the Bill of Rights — protecting rights of free speech and religion, among others — limited only what the federal government could do. The states had a much freer hand to act as they wished.
Two years ago was the first time the court ruled that the Second Amendment right to bear arms is an individual right and not how the court had long implied, a right guaranteed for military purposes. The 2008 decision invalidated a ban on handguns in the District of Columbia, but because the nation's capital is federal the ruling applied only to federal laws.
Now the court is hearing a challenge to a similar handgun ban in Chicago. And the question is whether the Second Amendment also applies to state and local laws.
The case was brought by Otis McDonald, a retired maintenance engineer, who grew up on a farm in Louisiana shooting rabbits and squirrels. McDonald says he now wants a handgun to fend off youngsters in his Chicago neighborhood, where he says his home has been broken into three times. Chicago's attorneys say the city allows individuals to have long guns in their homes, but not handguns because they are easily stolen and used by criminals, or fired accidentally (sometimes even by children) or on purpose in domestic violence situations.
4. Find a court case that deals with one amendment between 11-27. Write a summary of the court case.
In 1996, Linda Frew and other citizens settled a class-action lawsuit in federal district court against the Texas Health and Human Services Commission. Settlement was reached through a consent agree, in which the parties make an agreement that is subject to court supervision. As part of this consent, Texas was supposed to improve health care for poor children to comply with a federally mandated program called Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment. Two years later, Frew and others remained unsatisfied that Texas was complying with the federal requirements, and asked the court to force Texas to create a plan for how it would improve health care. Texas refused, however, claiming that it was immune from the court order under the 11th Amendment, which provides for state sovereignty. Texas argued that because no federal rights had been violated, suit could not be brought in federal court. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with Texas.
5. Choose one amendment from 1-27 that you would like to have apply to your life (and you loose the other 26 amendments, and the rights they protect).
The right to freedom of speech. Guns can protect you but not as much as being able to speak the truth.
1. Find a recent new article (within past 12 months) that deals with one of the Amendments that make up the Bill of Rights (1-10). Write a summary of the article, and copy and paste the link into a blog post.
2. Find a recent new article (within past 12 months) that deals with Amendments 11-27. Write a summary of the article, and copy and paste the link into a blog post.
3. Find a court case that deals with one of the amendments that make up the Bill of Rights (1-10). Write a summary of the court case.
4. Find a court case that deals with one amendment between 11-27. Write a summary of the court case.
5. Choose one amendment from 1-27 that you would like to have apply to your life (and you loose the other 26 amendments, and the rights they protect).
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