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How did the supreme court extend many rights mentioned in the first 10 amendments to the constitution?
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by thinking they needeed more work and extending but going to the main courts
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How many times has the Constitution been amended to extend voting rights?
The US Constitution has been amended 5 time to extend voting rights. The 15th, 19th, 23rd, 24th and 26th amendments were regarding voting rights.
Which amendments extended individual rights?
The following amendments extended individual rights. The 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, and 14th amendments all extended individual rights.
How was the promise of the civil war amendments fulfiled in the mid-twentieth century?
Three amendments were passed after the Civil War to extend civil liberties to African Americans. The promise of these Civil War amendments, as they are known, was not fulfilled, however, for almost 100 years. Many states were slow to change their customs; some actively resisted. The federal government, including the Supreme Court, often seemed indifferent. Nonetheless, the Civil War amendments signaled a move toward greater equality.
Which of the constitutional amendments did NOT extend the right to vote?
Twenty-third
The Constitution and the US Supreme Court have not always recognized that all Americans have civil rights?
No. Many groups, particularly African-Americans and women, have been denied rights guaranteed by the Constitution. The document itself was not written to discriminate against anyone; however, the Supreme Court's interpretation of the Constitution has been used to justify laws and policies withholding civil rights to such an extent that the Constitution had to be amended explicitly to extend protection to (almost) all classes of individuals.
Did the 13th 14th and 15th amendments extend the rights of African Americans?
yes
How does the Bill of Rights extend the constitution?
gave women the right to vote
How do amendments preserve individual rights?
Outside the Bill of Rights, and just generally speaking, Constitutional amendments don't preserve individual rights. Two amendments specifically limit individual rights, one for the better (abolishing slavery) and the other out of a sense of moral superiority (Prohibition). The first 10 amendments, which not all preserve individual rights, are called the Bill of Rights because they outline "freedoms" that were not in written into the Constitution. By allowing for an amendment system, the founders allowed the Constitution to change as needed. In many ways, amendments are just a further specification of something already in the Constitution or redefining something ambiguous. An amendment exists, for instance, to limit the term a President can serve (to two); amendments exist that extend the right to vote to the former slaves and to women. Proposals to amend the Constitution to define marriage as a union between a man and a woman would not preserve individual rights but rather take them away (like Prohibition for alcoholic beverages, and very much like the feeling of moral superiority the same authors of Prohibition had). ----------------- Amendments often clarify specifically something that may or may not have been evident in the document before the amendment. The slavery amendments and the women sufferage clarify and remove any doubt that the document means that all people can vote . The Constitution said "We the people", there has been some debate over the years as to who "the people are". So an amendment can "preserve individual rights". Amendments are often enacted to clarify and remove any doubt about a question. For example, do disabled folks have the same rights as healthy people.
The individual freedoms in the Bill of Rights were extended by the Fourteenth Amendment to include?
to extend rights of state and local government.
Why did the supreme court extend the commerce clause to include a wide range of economic activities?
because
What is the only federal court provided for in the constitution?
The Supreme Court of the United States isn't actually specified by name, but by function. Congress could have named the Supreme Court the "United States High Court" if they'd chosen and still been within the letter of the Constitution, as long as the designated court fulfilled all the requirements set forth in Article III and any other Articles, Sections, Clauses or Amendments that might affect its function. (For example, the Eleventh Amendment revoked the US Supreme Court's original jurisdiction over disputes between a state and citizens of another state.)Article III, Section 1"Section 1. The judicial power of the United States, shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish. The judges, both of the supreme and inferior courts, shall hold their offices during good behaviour, and shall, at stated times, receive for their services, a compensation, which shall not be diminished during their continuance in office.""Section 2. The judicial power shall extend to all cases, in law and equity, arising under this Constitution, the laws of the United States, and treaties made, or which shall be made, under their authority;--to all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls;--to all cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction;--to controversies to which the United States shall be a party;--to controversies between two or more states;--between a state and citizens of another state;*--between citizens of different states;--between citizens of the same state claiming lands under grants of different states, and between a state, or the citizens thereof, and foreign states, citizens or subjects."In all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, and those in which a state shall be party, the Supreme Court shall have original jurisdiction. In all the other cases before mentioned, the Supreme Court shall have appellate jurisdiction, both as to law and fact, with such exceptions, and under such regulations as the Congress shall make."The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury; and such trial shall be held in the state where the said crimes shall have been committed; but when not committed within any state, the trial shall be at such place or places as the Congress may by law have directed."Section 3. Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court."The Congress shall have power to declare the punishment of treason, but no attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood, or forfeiture except during the life of the person attainted."Eleventh Amendment*"The judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by citizens of another state, or by citizens or subjects of any foreign state."
What favors a board interpretation of the constitution which would extend the powers of the congress?
Liberal Constructionists
