Bill Of Rights Impact

Democracy is a political system in which it restricts the government and enlarges the people, this also expands the power of the citizens. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the impact that the Bill of Rights has had on advancing democracy in the United States. The Bill of Rights is a collection of the first ten amendments of the United States constitution that are used to protect our civil rights and liberties. According to Goldstein (1988) "Beginning with the words "Congress shall make no law ...," these amendments limited only the power of the federal (not the state) governments." But there are many cases that overthrow this believing The first amendment "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting

However there are limitations to expressing your opinions, in the case of "Morse v. Frederick" an Alaska high school student has a banner that said "Bong Hits 4 Jesus". Not only did the school principal immediately rushed over to the student and took away the banner, but also gave the student a 10 day suspension. As a result the student challenge his suspension, with the thought that the principle has violated his rights from the First Amendment and failed. According to Russo (2007) "the principal and the school board on that grounds that they did not violate the student'/s constitutional rights and that, if they did, they were qualified immunity that protected them from liability."(p.247). The principal was qualified for this because the students was promoting the use of illegal drugs. Therefore, you have the right to express your opinion as long as it does not go against the law, as proved before. The way that the first amendment advances democracy is because it lets people express themselves and that begin said the government does not tell the people what to believe in, the people

As a result many Americans were asked to let soldiers to stay in their houses. It was implemented because it was to be violating the citizens privacy and in many cases the owners were kicked out of their own houses. The fourth amendment connects with the third amendment, since both have to do with the right to privacy. The fourth amendments says "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized." This also means that a police officer or investigators cannot go through a person's belongs without their authority or a warrant. Like in the case of "Griswold v. Connecticut" the Executive Director of Planned Parenthood League went through the list of appointments and realized that they were using illegal birth control pills. According to Institute(2016) " the Court concluded that privacy within marriage was a personal zone off limits to the government." This proves how it the bill