Semester 2 Week 10

 https://www.civiced.org/images/stories/PDFs/ConstitutionDay/ConstitutionDay_Amendments.pdf?


https://www.usu.edu/mountainwest/files/bennion-workshop/trail-of-broken-treaties-20-point-position-paper-1972.pdf?fbclid=IwY2xjawL2CXFleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFCRjV4V2xxZ2NvWnBxemZIAR7EnSE07A_0BcBu_ivGuPlz0Y5QsYicmxqIiB0XmhmtcZL1-iHipuy_tyxIvQ_aem_XeKNgiFL85b8Vz5r7-bsLQ


Credit: Andrea Mabey

What amendments do you think should be implemented? That is a challenging question worthy of consideration.

Black Lives Matters Proposed Amendments --- > Black Lives Matter Proposals for Social Change
1. Restructure Police Departments towards community policing.
2. Promote local efforts increasing racial equity and social justice.
3. Increase diversity of government employees, expand equitable recruitment efforts, and elevate organizational equity training, policies, and procedures.
4. Create a Truth & Reconciliation Commission to carry out restorative justice.
6. Adopt criminal justice reforms 
7. Increase opportunities for artistic expression by communities of color.
8. Prohibit the use of tear gas, rubber bullets and flash bangs against peaceful protesters.
9. Encourage participation in the national conversation by citizens of color
10. End voting restrictions that unduly affect citizens of color


Credit: Susan Whittaker Butterfield
1. Hold a debate: Should the minority be allowed to win over the minority- I want to say there were comments about this in Making of America. 2. What amendment would you propose?

Credit: Kami Harris

Amendment IX

The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.  This provision gives the American people the right to claim any and all prerogatives which belong to them, whether or not they are enumerated in this Constitution.  One of the reasons the framers of the Constitution did not want to enumerate a Bill of Rights was that they feared that the enumeration would never be complete and that other rights might therefore be lost because they were not included.  This provision was designed to be a catch-all clause to protect all other rights which had not been enumerated.

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Amendment X

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.  This provision gives the states and the American people the Right to retain all powers not delegated to the federal government, and which are not prohibited by the Constitution to be exercised by the states.

Sources Used:  Encarta Dictionary, legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com, Making of America chapter 29

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