TEST DAY - OPEN BLOG

TODAY IS TEST DAY

SURPRISINGLY, MR. SCHICK ALLOW US TO USE OUR BLOG FOR THE TEST

THE TEST IS

PRETTY EASY (MOST OF IT)

I THINK I ACED IT

LET SEE WHAT WILL HAPPEN NEXT CLASS

Blog - Bill of Rights

Five freedoms

Second amendment summary - right to bear arms

Third - No quartering of troops

Forth - no unreasonable searches and seizures

• Warrant 
• Probable cause
• Specific description of place and things to be seized

Fifth - rights when accused for a crime

• Serious crime - grand jury is necessary
• No double jeopardy
• No self-incrimination
• No deprivation of life, liberty, or property with our due process of law

Sixth -

• Speedy and public trial
• Trial close to home 
• Public defender    
• Impartial jury

Seventh 

• matters only of the worth more than $20

Eighth 

• No excessive bail/fine
• No cruel and unusual punishment 

Ninth - People retain their right which are not stipulated in the constitution  

Blog - Amendments

Amendment II

• A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. 

Amendment III

• No solider shall, in time of peace be quarter in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in the time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.

Amendment IV

• The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated. 
• Warrant - based upon probable cause

Amendment V

• Double jeopardy - Can't be trial twice for the same thing
• Due process    
• Self-incrimination - I plead the fifth - not compel to be a witness against himself. 
• Miranda right - you are innocent until you proved guilty 

Amendment VI

• Right to a speedy, fair, and public trial 
• Right to have a lawyer - at least a public defender

Amendment VII

• In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise reexamined in any court of the US, than according to the rules of common law

Amendment VIII

• No cruel and unusual punishment
• Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed. 

Amendment IX

• Constitutional rights are not the only rights that people have. 

Amendment X

• If a state found a right that is not contradict with the Constitution, then the state is able to execute it. 

Blog-amendment

First amendment

• 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 or grievances. 
• Five freedoms
• Religion
• Speech
• Press
• Press - to write TRUTH to power
• Assemble
• Petition

Blog - notes

IIII - relation between fed and state

• Fed > states - acts
• Extradition is allowed
• Equal right in every states
• Right to admit new states 
• US - protect states from invasion - all for one and one for all

IIV - Amendment 

• 2/3 votes for proposal, 2/3 for ratifying 

IIIV - Suprecy clause

• Fed > States
• constitution - the supreme law of the land
• Conflict - constitution first, higher wins

Blog - Notes

President salary - Same salary for entire terms - about 400,000 bucks - 

Emolument - Fully removal from business 

Power of President - Commander in Chief of the army and navy

• Power to grant reprieves and pardons - people in jail for long time (Drug offense...sentence reduction)
• Make treaties, nominate judges (Votes by congress later), other ambassador, public ministers and consuls
• Fill up all vacancies of senate - strange little thing
• State of the Union Speech 
• Impeachment - removal of civil officers as the result of treason, bribery, high crime or misdemeanors - 2/3 of the senate

Blog - Notes

Article 1 - Legislative Branch - Make laws, 2 houses of the Congress, Senate and House of Representatives

Draft law, borrow money, declarer war, raise a military, Check and Balance the other two branches


Congressional elections - votes for house of rep every two years.

Senate - serve for 6 years

Article 2

Term and office: president & vice president for 4 years

Electoral college - favor on the majority of the state
Election day - second Tuesday of November

Citizen, 35 years old, 14 years of residency

Blog - Class work

Mr. Schick was out for field trip

We went to Johnson's room in a short trip

We worked on our project assigned last week

And we will present our work tomorrow in this week

Have a good Mr. Schick at Field Trip XD

Blog - Short class

Today is a "S" day! We had a two-hour delay and every class is shorten to 40 minutes. During the class period, Mr. Schick divided us into group of two students and let each group pick one of the Article of constitution to work on. My partner is Ryan and we got the Article 3, which focus on the Judicial System of the government. It is kinda of long but I think we can do a decent job on it.

Blog - Notes

Today, we discussed about the three branches of US government as well as the seven articles of the constitution.

• Legislative - Senate, House of Representative
• Executive - President (Vice President, Cabinet)
• Judicial - Supreme Court & Other Federal Government 

These branches regulate each other for preventing the occurrence of overpower and the abuse of power. 

Seven Articles 

1. Congress
2. President - Power
3. Supreme Court
4. Relation between the States; Relation between the Federal Government and States
5. How to amend the Constitution
6. Constitution is the supreme law for the entire country
7. How to ratify constitution - 2/3 of the majority 

Blog - Class

Today

• Mr. Schick is absent 
• We got Big Johnson as our sub
• We go to his room in 3rd floor
• He said the work should be on veracross
• But 
• There is nothing on the veracross XD
• So
• I wrote this blog
• And 
• Starts working on something else
• End 

Blog - Notes

During the class period, Mr. Schick lectured us the Constitutional Convention, which focus on designing a new government for running the country. The main leaders are James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and Benjamin Franklin. They kept the door shut so no one can know what are they talking about.

• First decision - two houses in Congress
• Senate - each states gets one vote
• House of Representatives - vote determined by the population of state
• Slave - split the delegate into two groups
• North - Slave is property - no representation
• South - Slave should be counted with white (since they have more slave)
• Solution - The Three-fifth compromise - count 3/5 of each slave in determining political representation and taxation. 

Blog - Notes

Today, we discussed the Article of Confederation and the Bill of Rights. For the first twenty minutes, Mr. Schick gave us the lecture and we took the notes. Later, he showed us a rap about the debate between Hamouaton and Jefferson. The speakers in the room sounds phenomenally well and everyone seems enjoyed the rap.

Blog - Test

Today, we went over the test that we took yesterday. I got 1 question wrong, which is about the first person died in Boston Massacre. Surprising, Jerry did the exact same mistake as i did and we would have had a 100 on the test :O. After that, Mr. Schick told us to read the book about the Articles of Confederation. The Articles of Confederation is a plan of government written by colonists in 1777. The Bill of Right listed the actions that the government is not allow to take, in conjunction with being the first amendment of the Constitution.