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