Thursday, December 15, 2011

What are the biggest issues the judicial branch has dealt with over the last five years?

What do you think the biggest issues the judicial branch has dealt with over the past 5 years are?|||Find a cause for C. Thomas|||Sotomayor!!!!





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Clinton|||The Heller decision re Our Second Amendment Right to Keep and Bear Arms was the most important over the past 50yrs imo.





Held:





1. The Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia, and to use that arm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home.Pp. 2鈥?3.





(a) The Amendment鈥檚 prefatory clause announces a purpose, butdoes not limit or expand the scope of the second part, the operativeclause. The operative clause鈥檚 text and history demonstrate that itconnotes an individual right to keep and bear arms. Pp. 2鈥?2.





(b) The prefatory clause comports with the Court鈥檚 interpretation.|||Proving AGAIN that the Second Amendment is an individual right of citizens, not a collective right of the National Guard or any other organization to exercise that right "on behalf of" the citizens.





Imagine what would happen if the government decided that some of your OTHER constitutional rights are not really for you, but for some organization to exercise your rights on your behalf.





So you don't have the right to freedom of speech, some elite club of speakers will exercise that right for you.





You don't have the right to freedom of the press, some goverment agency will write all news on behalf of privately owned newspapers.





You don't have freedom from illegal search and seizure, the government will designate a certain building to be off limits to illegal search and seizure to exercise that right on your behalf.





You don't have freedom of religion, the government will choose one specific religion, and it will select only the most religious individuals to belong to it, to exercise your freedom of religion on your behalf.





Does this make any sense? Then why do people believe that about the right to keep and bear arms?

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