By Christopher Dreisbach
This e-book considers the prestige of constitutional literacy within the usa in addition to how you can determine and increase it. the writer argues that pervasive constitutional illiteracy is an issue for either legislations enforcement businesses and for usual electorate. according to the author’s many years of educating in legislation enforcement organizations round the state, this publication argues for the ethical and pragmatic price of constitutional literacy and its program in twenty-first century society.
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An example of the latter would yield a question of the following sort: • Did the 6th Amendment right to counsel contradict English law? Yes, because in English law the judge was expected to protect the defendant’s rights. Among the a priori arguments are those that appeal to common sense and those that present as axiomatic. An example of an appeal to common sense is the “Great Compromise,” which occurred in the Constitutional convention. This compromise called for a bi-cameral legislature consisting of a Senate with equal representation for each state, and a House of Representatives with representation proportional to the state’s population.
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The professional has a duty to protect rights, but which rights? And whose rights? Not the rights that the Declaration of Independence enumerates. The American colonies broke away from England because King George III failed to respect or protect the “unalienable” rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. But a sworn professional’s duty frequently requires him or her to abolish these rights when THE NATURE OF CONSTITUTIONAL LITERACY 33 apprehending a suspect. Moreover, sworn professionals do not swear an oath to the Declaration; they swear an oath to the US Constitution, which enumerates no inalienable rights.