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What is the seventh amendment?What is the eighth amendment?What is the ninth amendment?What is the tenth amendment? |
Although the bill of rights were implemented to assure Americans of their rights, this has not always been the case. Often minorities are given these same basic rights or they infringed upon.
The seventh amendment addresses the right of a jury trial if the value in controversy is more than $20. When put into perspective, this averages out to around $540 as of 2017. The eighth amendment addresses no excessive bail or cruel and unusual punishment. This was clearly disregarded concerning Natives when colonists, now Americans, pushed Natives off of their land and made them walk to a new place to live during the Trail of Tears. Natives were not considered citizens until the 1900's so to many, although they lived on the land and lived there first, the rights stated in the Bill of Rights did not pertain to them. The war on drugs also was used as a cruel and unusual punishment towards both African Americans and latinos. It targeted them unfairly and led to the incarceration of many. The ninth amendment addresses that there are other rights to people that are not explicitly stated and these cannot be violated as well. This is so people know they are not limited to the few freedoms expressed in bill of rights. There have been many important court cases that have involved this amendment including Roe v. Wade. Another important link to this amendment is the violation of it in regard to to the end of DACA. The tenth amendment addresses that any power not given to the the United States, is given to the individual states. This amendment was implemented to satisfy the anti-federalists who wanted more power to the states than to the centralized government. |