constitutional amendments

Teens who find themselves in trouble with the law need to know how to deal with the justice system. The fact that a teen can be tried either as a juvenile, and proceed through the juvenile justice system, or as an adult, and proceed through the criminal justice system, complicates this. This user-friendly guidebook explains the differences between the two systems and the advantages and disadvantages of each. It emphasizes how teens can use their constitutional rights to defend themselves. Specific scenarios make abstract concepts easy to grasp. The author and the expert reader are both practicing lawyers.

Volume one of a four volume set that collects proposed amendments to the United States Constitution from 1787 to 2010.

Examines the ten amendments to the United States Constitution that make up the Bill of Rights, explaining what the amendments mean, how they have been applied, and the rights they guarantee.

This book explains how it is the responsibility of your city or town government to keep you safe and maintain a clean place for you to live. Learn all about the duties of the government in your city or town, how they rely on police, firefighters, and other local government departments to accomplish all these tasks!.

Contains over five hundred alphabetically arranged entries that provide information about issues related to the twenty-seven ratified amendments, as well as proposed amendments to the U.S. Constitution since 1789, and includes an introductory essay that explains the amendment process, a chronology, and references.

A former Supreme Court justice offers six new amendments to the Constitution regarding anti-commandeering, political gerrymandering, campaign finance, sovereign immunity, the death penalty, and gun control.

Freedom runs like a stream through America's history and culture, and the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution are the wellspring. these documents, composed 200 years ago contain living words which represent your expression of democracy right her and right now because you are THE PEOPLE. This annotated book breaks down each section of the constitution in a way that you can undertsand.

A brief discussion of the meaning of the Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments of the Constitution of the United States.

The Bill of Rights provides the basic legal protections to ensure individual rights. These rights and all subsequent amendments are presented here in easy-to-understand language with valuable insight from distinguished experts.

Examines all of the amendments that have become part of the U.S. Constitution, discussing the political and social forces and individuals that contributed to each amendment, and considering their influence once passed; and explores the failed amendments, including six passed by Congress but rejected by the states.