Can you change the bill of rights?
Yes, you can revoke or modify anything in the Constitution, including the Bill of Rights, with a constitutional amendment. But amendments are hard to pass. So it's much easier simply to ignore the Bill of Rights when it's convenient to do so. Especially if you have a Supreme Court that doesn't respect the Bill of Rights to begin with.
Change the Bill of Rights?
You dummies, her assignment to you was to "bring it in line with the present", not to "rewrite it as you think it might be better." To bring it in line with present practice: Amendment 1 would have to allow free speech but only when that speech didn't offend liberals. There would be freedom FROM religion instead of freedom OF religion. Religion would be relegated to basements, back rooms, and heavily-insulated, sound-proofed churches and synagogues, though Mosques could proudly make as much display and noise as they wished. But not to worry about whether we would similarly have freedom FROM the press and freedom FROM speech; rather we would have government pay for the press, so long as that press were liberal or leftist, while conservative views on the news would be overseen by a Newscaster Liberal General, to assure that all conservative reporting was rebutted by a state-provided liberal rebuttal. Amendment 2 would ban all guns, zero tolerance. Pea shooters, plastic pistols, spud guns, and paper drawings would stand in violation of the zero tolerance order and would garner the offender a life sentence. Amendment 4 - Police would have to give a week's notice of impending searches. Seizures would be disallowed. Amendment 5 - Suspend the double jeopardy provision, since if you hurt or damage someone adjudged to be Speshul by leftwing grievance groups, you can be tried any number of times under as many rules as we can think up. Suspend the provision for just compensation for seizure of properties, since the government and its minions have been seizing land and other property from its owners without just compensation for decades, since environmentalists decided they wanted it that way. Amendment 7, Trial by Jury - Require that the jury be all lobotomized, and that all be ifnorant of the slightest shred of scientific knowledge. Amendment 8, Cruel and unusual punishment - Change to "any punishment". Amendment 9, rights not specifically enumerated - change to "any right we decide to label as one", such as "right to a job" or "right to education" or "right to travel" or "right to enjoy oneself". Amendment 10, "The powers not delegated to the feds are reserved to the States, or to the people." - Delete this amendment as there are no powers not delegated to the federal government. Hope this helps :)
Why are the changes to the bill of rights needed?
Only a small change:Proposed 28th Amendment (I have a much longer, involved, and actually legislative version of this in another answer somewhere):“Shall not be infringed means exactly what it says, you idiots.”
How has the The Bill of Rights evolved or changed over the past 200 years?
Please help me answer the following questions for my polysci essay.How has the rights from the Bill of Rights evolved and changed over the past 200 years? What would you change in the Bill of Rights if you had the power to do so? Thanks!
Why did James Madison change his mind about the Bill of Rights?
Federalists (James Madison was one) felt that the Constitution protected the people from tyranny enough. Anti-federalists (who feared big government more than the Federalists) were still uncertain, and would not vote for the Constitution's passing without a Bill of Rights. So, in order for it to pass, Federalists, James Madison included, decided to include one.
What should we add to the bill of rights?
Technically nothing, since it comprises the first ten Amendments, so adding to it would start with Amendment number 28. Amendment are never removed once ratified, but subsequent amendments may change or repeal (remove) a prior amendment.As a supporter of the Convention of States Action project, I believe we should add amendments that will impose fiscal restraints on the federal government, limit its power and jurisdiction, and impose term limits on its officials and members of Congress. Personally, I believe we should also repeal the income tax and Pass the FAIRtax | FAIRtax.org, repeal Amendment 17 (which changed the election of Senators from state legislatures to the people, removing the critical role that state governments should play in the federal government), impose term limits on the judiciary, and in general, enact other amendments as described in the book “The Liberty Amendments” by Mark Levin.
How can the Bill of Rights be amended?
The "Bill of Rights" is merely an informal name for the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution, stemming from a strong desire of many in 1789 to incorporate citizen protections in the new document. Indeed, some ratification votes on the original Constitution were dependant on assurances that such amendments would quickly follow ratification. But these amendments are functionally the same as any other part of the Constitution, in that they can only be changed by a new amendment. Amendments require passage by 2/3 of the House of Representatives, AND 2/3 of the Senate, followed by ratification of 3/4 of the States. Not easy! But possible.
What would happen if there was no BILL OF RIGHTS?
The Bill of Rights is not a listing of all your rights, nor does it define your rights. The Bill of Rights was intended to limit the power of Government. If the BOR did not exist, the Government would have found ways to expand it's power of us, the Governed long before Obama wrested control of the separation of powers.