Unwritten Changes
Judicial Review
Judicial Review today?
And all these years later, we find ourselves arguing about the same issue! What do you think? Below are articles from both sides regarding Proposition 122, voted on in Arizona on November 4th, 2014! See the blog to share your opinion!
Judicial Review today?
And all these years later, we find ourselves arguing about the same issue! What do you think? Below are articles from both sides regarding Proposition 122, voted on in Arizona on November 4th, 2014! See the blog to share your opinion!
Formal Amendments
1st Amendment - Freedom of Religion, Speech, Press, Assembly, and Petition!
Use the links below to explore these freedoms!
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2nd Amendment - Stats, facts, and different points of view!
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Criminal Justice Amendments -
Compare Criminal Justice Rights Provided Internationally:
WSJ Article: Problem's with Mexico's Legal System and "Presumed Guilty" Documentary
World Reports from 2014 (see list of countries on lefthand side)
4th Amendment:
5th Amendment:
6th Amendment:
7th Amendment:
8th Amendment:
Sources regarding the Death Penalty
Death Penalty Worldwide
Compare Criminal Justice Rights Provided Internationally:
WSJ Article: Problem's with Mexico's Legal System and "Presumed Guilty" Documentary
World Reports from 2014 (see list of countries on lefthand side)
4th Amendment:
- Your 4th Amendment rights as a student! Click this link for Landmark Cases, definitions, and an easy quiz!
- Excellent PDF Research Paper about Student Cases of Search and Seizure
- Students Right's to Search and Seizure from ACLU Vermont
- Searches and Seizure at School - Kids Legal
- Searching Cell Phones due to Cyberbullying
- What does the 4th Amendment mean? From the US Courts
- Overview from The Heritage Guide to the Constitution
- Right to Privacy in many contexts and through many cases! Click here for some AWESOME info!
- When do I have to show ID?
- Video: A practical understanding of reasonable suspicion
- Hip Hughes: 4th Amendment
5th Amendment:
- Hip Hughes: The 5th Amendment
- Constitution Center Overview
- Right against self-incrimination
- Current Issue: Right to due process for suspected terrorists abroad?
- Current Issues: Dispelling the Myths from the Justice Department re: the Patriot Act
- Presumed Guilty: Duke Lacross Case Analysis and Jon Stewart's Funny Comments
6th Amendment:
- Hip Hughes: The 6th Amendment
- Helpful Interactive Guide to the 6th Amendment
- 6th Amendment Meaning
- Trial Jury vs. Grand Jury
- Facts and Case Summary: Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)
- Arizona Courts - Jury Service and Jury Orientation Video
- Jury Service in Federal Courts
- Fair Trial vs. Free Speech Supreme Court Case
- What is asked during void dire?
- 5th Amendment: Miranda Cases
- Watch this for what due process components are missing and what components are included: Presumed Guilty (documentary about justice system in Mexico)
7th Amendment:
8th Amendment:
- One Minute Very Helpful Introduction to the 8th Amendment
- Hip Hughes: The 8th Amendment
- Documentaries that look at life sentences without parole for minors: Lost for Life and Children Serving Life Sentences, and Kids Behind Bars
Sources regarding the Death Penalty
- Constitutional Conversation: 8th Amendment Part I and Part II
- Death Penalty Facts with Citations from Death Penalty Worldwide
- Federal Laws Providing for the Death Penalty
- Interactive Map: Execution Numbers and List Currently on Death Row by state, ethnicities, and gender
- Interactive: Death Penalty Debate Analysis
- Good explanation of Furman v. Georgia and Gregg v. Georgia
- List of Aggravating Factors by State
- Mitigating Factors in Capital Cases or click here to just read about Mental Health and the Death Penalty
- Stages in a Capital Case
- Death Penalty Fact Sheet
- Death Penalty Infographic
- Documentary: "Death Row: The Final 24 Hours"
- Short films about innocence on death row: One for Ten
- Interview with a Death Row Prisoner
- PRO-CON WEBSITE! VERY HELPFUL!
- VERY LONG but VERY interesting study on Global Homicide Rates
Death Penalty Worldwide
- Interactive Map: Death Sentencing Around the World
- List of Countries that do and don't have the Death Penalty (and what year they got rid of it!)
- Two interesting examples that are different than the US: Death Penalty in China and Death Penalty in Iran