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The right to vote was changed from 21 to 18 in 1971 with the addition of the 26th amendment to the constitution. The thinking at the time that if a person was old enough to fight in a war they were old enough to vote.
None of them said that. All able-bodied males between 18 and 45 were the militia and expected to have suitable arms ready for use. If we still followed the intent of the Founding Fathers in the Second Amendment, there would be tanks, mortars and fighter planes in your neighbors' driveways ready to respond when the militia was called to arms. The Second Amendment allowed for state militias on the cheep, by using citizens arms. It also was a counter balance to the power of the federal government. But the Second Amendment has been an anachronism for over 150 years. State Militias , now known as the National Guard, issue arms to its members. In addition, the most significant arms in the modern military include fighter jets, misiles, artillery, heavy weapons and such, not the kind of things most parents want floating around the neighbor. To allow anyone to own such arms by right is completely uncivilized and not the kind of world most sane people would want to raise a family in. The previous answer about the militia is obviously made from an emotional standpoint and is nothing more than opinion. The Federal Statute regarding militias can be found in US Code Title 10, Section 311, or 10USC311http://straylight.law.cornell.edu/uscode/HTML/uscode10/usc_sec_10_00000311----000-.HTML TITLE 10 > Subtitle A > PART I > CHAPTER 13 > � 311� 311. Militia: composition and classes(a) The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard.(b) The classes of the militia are�(1) the organized militia, which consists of the National Guard and the Naval Militia; and(2) the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of the militia who are not members of the National Guard or the Naval Militia. There are two classes of militia, organized (the National Guard) and unorganized (able bodied males). The core of the issue goes back to the original question and the answer is none of the Founding Fathers intended the Second Amendment to apply only to a 'militia' or for firearms to be exclusively used for military purposes. They intended the 'people' to me armed for self defense. Those 'people' mentioned in the Second Amendment are the same 'people' mentioned in the: Preamble of the U.S. Constitution: 'We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.'First Amendment, '...right of the people peaceably to assemble...'Fourth Amendment, 'The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures...'Ninth Amendment, 'The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.'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.' To claim that the Founding Fathers meant individual citizens of the U.S. in every part of the U.S. Constitution where the word 'people' is used EXCEPT in the Second Amendment where it is suppose to mean a group organized by the federal government is beyond comprehension and shows a complete and utter lack of understanding of the Constitution and of the principles that the country was founded on.
The Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth amendments were written to help African Americans. They are called the Civil War Amendments since they were added after the Civil War. The Thirteenth Amendment was added in 1865. It ended slavery and prevents the nation from allowing slavery again at any time. The Fourteenth Amendment of 1868 is an important amendment because it has helped protect civil rights for all Americans. It says that all people who are born or naturalized in the United States are citizens. The Fifteenth Amendment was added in 1870. It gave African Americans the right to vote. The government cannot prevent people from voting because of their race or color.
the 14th amendment does. The 14th Amendment did not give African's [born on the land mass called North America] citizenship because it did not legally give the Africans the freedom to choose whether or not they wanted to accept the status of "Person" under the 14th amendment, or return to there home-land after compensation for there forced labor. The term black American is a insult to conscious African's who realize that a nation of people can not be codified as a color. To accept the term Black means that a people have cut-off there connection to there African past and ancestors. To be more technical the Constitution for the United States is legally a dysfunctional compact, treaty, contract which never included the people who assume that they are parties to it. Remember the phrase: "We bestow this to ourselves and our Posterity", Posterity legally means direct descendants only. Until African's [ born on the land mass called North America] create a compact, treaty, or constitution with the parties of interest who created that document called the Constitution for the United States, citizenship for African's [born on the land mass called North America] will remain a figment of the imagination for an entire people called Africans [born on the land mass called North America]. Additionally, the first 8 Presidents under the Constitution for The United States were british subjects, and subjects cannot create, enforce, or make party of anyone to treaties, compacts or contracts. I suggest that all concerned parties remove there emotional thoughts about the Constitution and read it true for the highly technical document that it is. More to come.....
No one person. It was the US Congress that proposed it on February 26th 1879. The Fifteenth Amendment was the result of a gradual development of the idea of racial equality in the matter of electoral voting rights.Most states had ratified it by 1880.The last state to adopt and ratify it was Tennessee, in 1997.See 'Related Links' below for more information
Amendment 9
the 9th amendment granted "says the people have many rights that are not stated in the Constitution.
The 10th 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."
A formal amendment is a type of amendment that is added or changed to become a part of the written constitution. This is an amendment that goes through a lengthy process to determine to be in the best interest of the majority of the people of a union.
6th amendment
1st amendment means you have the right to right a petition to the government stating that you and a group of people are unhappy about something The First Amendment guarantees the right to petition the government for redress of grievances.
The first amendment.
That is almost verbatim the first sentence of the 14thAmendment to the U.S. Constitution.
The 9th Amendment to the Constitution limits the powers of the government to constrict the rights of the people. This means that the people have other rights besides what is written in the wording of the Constitution. The 10th Amendment says that the government has rights that are also not written into the Constitution.
amendment 4 :)
The 2nd Amendment guarantees the right of the people to keep and bear arms.
the second amendment