Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Deeper In The Constitution - B

In section 1 of Article 4 it states that each state has to respect the laws of every other state. What that says for gay marriage is that if two people of the same sex get married in one state that means they are married in another state. While Gay Marriage is not legal and accepted in many states, they will have to accept them as a married couple. The Full Faith & Credit provision allows people to have more freedom because they can do things that are legal in the state where they live and states where it isn't legal.
The amended portion of Article 4 which begins "No Person..." means that slaves that are in one state, run away to another state will not be free due and must be returned to that state. This is important because back when there were slaves (and who knows there still might be some slaves out there in the US) will not be able to become free just by running away, if this law didn't exist then slaves all over would attempt to run away more then usual.

The 2nd amendment states that a well guarded militia has the right to bear arms. That I believe is because the Government controls that militia and it is to guard the country only, to protect and to serve. The 2nd amendment says nothing about regular citizens owning guns and that could mean if a state were to ban guns completely that would be allowed because it doesn't say in the constitution that regular American citizens who are not in a "well guarded militia" have the right to bear arms.

Lethal Injections and/or the Electric Chair completely contradict the 8th amendment. They both contradict it because the 8th amendedment states that those kind of things shall not be deemed necessary. So the fact that this stuff still happenes is a violation of the constitution which is also reffered to as the "Highest Law of the Land".

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