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How does the 15th amendment fall short of giving all rights to black women?
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The Fifteenth Amendment prohibits discrimination in voting rights of citizens on the basis of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
This amendment did not include a specific prohibition on discrimination on the basis of sex; it took another amendment
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What was the Women's rights amendment?
The 19th amendment gave the women the right to vote. There was an Equal Rights Amendment passed by Congress in 1972, but it is three states short of the required 38 needed to ratify it and add it to the Constitution.
What is the number of states needed to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment?
{Led by Phyllis Schlafly, enough concerns about the amendment were presented that the Equal Rights Amendment was unable to garner sufficient states for ratification, falling three short of the necessary 38.}
What was the proposed constitutional amendment promoting women's rights that fell short of ratification?
ERA
Do Probationers and parolees have diminished Fourth Amendment rights?
In short. Yes. You don't have a right to probation or parole and therefore may be required to agree to waive your 4th amendment rights as a condition of probation or parole. That is common in many states.
What is a short version of the 13th amendment?
There is no short version of it. The amendment is only a paragraph and it stops slavery.
Name one right guaranteed by the first amendment?
The First Amendment did not grant nor could it guarantee any rights. It was strictly a restrictive clause---prepared days after the ninth amendment that had people retain all rights mentioned in the First Amendment and many others. If there was any guarantee inferred by the First Amendment, it was that the government would not pass any laws that would abridge or cut short the rights -- already granted -- that was mentioned. Just like the Second Amendment which did not grant the right to own and bear arms (which was already in existed) but that the government shall not infringe upon that right. The first 10 amendments were not a Bill of Rights, and the Ninth referred to the Declaration of Rights already in existence in 1776-77, and those initiated and embedded into the developing free society, some for over 150 years in Virginia.
Tenth Amendment guarantees freedom of speech?
Freedom of speech is the first amendment. The tenth amendment says that those powers that are not specifically given to the federal government by the U.S Constitution are reserved for the states, or people. unless the constitution specifically prohibits it.
How did the eighth amendment affect the people who were in jail in 1700s?
Long story short: No excessive bails, no cruel or unusual punishment.Keep in mind that people in jail were not affected by the eighth amendment until December 5, 1791 when the Constitution, along with the bill of rights, went into effect.
What did the twenty first amendment accomplish?
The twenty First Amendment accomplished the end of prohibition
What rights does the First Amendment guarantee?
freedom of religion freedom of speech freedom of the press the right to peaceably assemble the right to petition the government for redress of grievances If there is any guarantee in the First Amendment, it's that the government shall not pass any law that would abridge the above rights, but this has and is happening. The people---not the government---first initiated and embedded these and most other rights into their developing Free Society, and officially determined and declared them in Virginia's Declaration of Rights, which served as a pattern for all States. Later, the people prepared statements of rights, as well as resolutions that offered explanations and the true intent. The Ninth Amendment had the people retain all rights, not already in the Constitution, and of all denominations.--- Public Liberty, or rights of the people, collectively, as the public, as well as Individual Liberty, or rights of the person or citizen. The above rights were not guaranteed by the people, who granted them---and the First Amendment simply protected already granted rights by clearly stating that the government cannot abridge (cut short, diminish) these rights.
What does the third amendment protect?
Short term and long term presidency
Amendment that protects freedom of religion speech and the press?
The first amendment states "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 First Amendment is what protects your freedom of speech religion and the press, by saying that no law can be passed to abridge those rights.The ninth amendment states "The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people." which means that an amendment or law written at the time of the issuance of the Constitution or later cannot remove the rights given to the people by there creator.Simply put the U.S. Constitution is a document that limits the powers of the Federal Government over the States and the People of the United States.The Tenth Amendment: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."The Short answer is the First Amendment, but in truth all of the Bill of Rights first ten amendments protect freedom of Religion and all other rights of the people.
