Fifth Amendment: No Longer a Shield Against Government

This article is about how the fifth amendment no longer applies to the citizens of Los Angeles.  If you have committed a crime, even if you were not along with the actual executer, if you have any connections with that person and the crime did not commit the actual crime then you cannot be penalized for that persons crime.  The constitutional connection is that the fifth amendment was made for that specific reason but because of the different circumstances, it was changed in order to suit the different peoples opinions and different needs.  The constitution was made to suit the people, so a few changes will not make any differences.

Child Support Recovery Act violates Tenth Amendment

This article is about how they are creating a Child Support recovery act to support other citizens that cannot support their children in other countries, but this also violates the Tenth Amendment in the United States Constitution.  They give rights to other people that do not equally apply to the entire majority of the U.S. population.  That is why this article defies the tenth amendment, but I believe that this is reasonable to some extent because certain people need different things than the majority, so if a small amount of people need something than that should not apply to the entire group of people.  Doing that would be a waste of time, money, and other resources needed to complete this task.  The constitution was created a long time ago, and sometimes, in my opinion, modifications should be made for the better of the community as a whole.

Bush stomps on Fourth Amendment

This article is about how George W. Bush has ended the fourth amendment under specific circumstances and and has decided that this law is reasonable when a police officer has a small suspicion about whether  or not someone is ding something wrong.  Whether the situation be trying to discover whether someone is an immigrant by the specific signs that they may express towards the officer.  Or if a suspect of a murder may be hiding evidence or items that are needed to solve the murder, then it is reasonable for the officer to take measures of precaution in solving that murder.  The constitutional connection is that the constitution states that you must have a warrant to enter someone's privacy, but this goes against the constitution, but has more precautions when it comes to privacy and the right to only have a warrant to enter someone else's privacy.

Passing the Torch Cartoon

This political cartoon describes what is happening to our legislative branch now.  More specifically, our president.  The two men in this image represent our former President George W. Bush and our current President Barrack Obama.  President George W. Bush is our former president and is passing the torch, that is in the form the burning earth.  The burning earth is a representation of how bad our economy was when President George W. Bush was in office.  He is thus passing all of those problems that he himself creating towards our country to our new president.  This causes problems for our curent president because he will be trying to correct the old presidents problems instead of trying to create change like he set out to complete.  I believe that the U.S is in the form of the earth because not only does he have problems to correct in his own country, but he also has national problems to deal with.  Such as, the war in Iraq and the issues with illegal immigrants.

Legislative Branch Cartoon by Missmahli

This cartoon represents how the legislative branch is controlled by the President of the United States (Barrack Obama) and in this image, the president is incapable of makeing a decision on something so simple as to buying a pet  dog or cat from the petshop.  He then calls his attourney general who supposedly gives the president opinions on questions he may have, but tells him that it is his decision and nothing wrong can come from this decision but still, knowing this, he cannot answer the question.  This causes society to begin to ask questions as to if our president can really lead his country, or does he did other people to make decisions for him.

Constitutional Connection
This cartoon represents the legislative branch because the president of the United States is the head of the legislative branch and if he cannot d his job without the assistance from other subordinates, then he is not suitable to become the President and cannot handle his/her own job.

The Second Amendment’s Reach

This article introduces all of the states that have extremely high crime levels, but have the right to bear arms in tact.  This right is leading to more violence in the community and it must be avoided.  This right was possibly alright in the older times, but now we have weapons that are more advanced and can kill more people at one time on the spot.  This law may possibly be the worst out of all of the laws that are allowed in the constitution because it only raises violence.  Even when it comes to the police.  You may have good cops or bad cops, but guns can be used to kill and intimidate, leaving the victim scorned physically and/or mentally.  This right should not be considered a right but some what a privilege.

D.C. vs. Heller Has No Effect on Federal Gun Control Laws

This article is about a court case that was trying to rule out the law that gives you the right to bear arms in D.C.  The law is still legal and i think that this should vary towards different people when it comes to carrying weaponry that risks the lives of certain people.  I believe that if at any point in time your life may still be threatened by people who the police are unable to protect you from.  I would disagree if that person had a criminal record and that each person should have a limited amount of bullets. As well as any other weapon that was in store for the people.  This article introduces how people take this right to the extreme, with using shotgun and pistols with lots of ammo.  They should not allow them to have this amount of weaponry for one individual.