What is your favorite Amendment?

Answer 1

My favorites is 1st Amendment and 19th Amendment. Because that some the most important to me. My Great-Great-Great Grandma was Sadie Hawkins. She played a role in starting woman rights. So I think that those 2 Amendments some of the most important.

Answer 2

My favorite amendment is amendment #1. Amendment #1 states the Freedom of Speech, Press, Religion and Petition.
I also had to do a project on Amendment 25.

Answer 3

My favorite Amendment is the First Amendment:

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

Answer 4

My favorite has to be the twenty first amendment. Repealed the eighteenth which prohibited my JD and coke. But those above who are so passionate about the second might want to read it again. Especially loranray. Then they might want to read the numerous court rulings that will confirm that they have it all wrong. Good thing we have a judicial branch to rule on the constitutionality of laws and the constitution huh? Other wise if we allowed the ordinary citizen to interpret such things there might be no gun control regulation in America at all.

Answer 5

First amendment, definitely. America would not be America without it. America would not be America without ANY of the amendments.
In response to Joe's answer, no woman in their right mind would vote for Hillary just because Hillary is a woman. Women have every right to vote just as men do! We're not stupid. I'm all for a woman president, but I won't vote for one if I think she would not make a great leader.

Answer 6

The 2nd Amendment: On it rests all others.

Answer 7

The second amendment is my favorite and the most important, as it provides a way to ensure all the rest. A very touchy issue I know but I'll venture out there.

Gun control people have it all wrong:
1. Gun control laws are only obeyed by law abiding citizens, the criminals will obtain guns illegally, think about prohibition and also current drug laws.

2. They will argue that you don't need weapons that are high powered, automatic, or long range. Not true as proved below.

3. They will further argue that guns are only required for hunting. They might acknowledge the need for personal defense. No metion of sporting use is ever made. Specifically some of those are the sports of clay shooting, skeet, trap, target practice, and trick shooting.

4. They will argue that kids will get a hold of them. This is true and sad, but the fault is at the feet of the gun owner, just as if they were to leave a toddler alone by a pool and the child were to drown. Irresponsible in either case. There are ways to secure weapons for personal defense so as to prevent children from using them and still having them available as a credible means of self defense.


Lets talk about what the founding fathers intended. I suggest you read, the recent,(March 9, 2007) decision by the U.S. Court of appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, it really sets forth an excellent dissertation on the rights of the individual and the group with regards to the second amendment. Here is the link for the article, (nraila.org/media/PDFs/dccourt04_7041a.pdf) which, is admittedly published in its entirety on the NRA/ILA,(institute for legislative action) website. If anyone wants the NRA summary article of the ruling from the NRA monthly magazine that is sent to all of us card carrying members, please google it.

Let me postulate this: why is it that this particular ban against high capacity magazines was attempted to be brought to the floor of Congress floor for a vote in the immediate faftermath of the West Virgina tragedy, when its been held back for many months? Yep, it is a good time to get it passed, because of the horrible actions of a very sick individual. Gun control people are trying to use the emotion of the moment to subvert our rights.

Another thing you may want to consider is the fact that there are an average of 41 murders a day in the USA.
Statistics on crime rates published by the FBI clearly indicate a lower incidence of violent crimes of all types, in states/cities/counties with a higher percentage of personal gun ownership. Google it and research it.

I want to be able to carry both at home and in public. If I was in a place with a nut who was killing people indiscriminately, I would have rather been armed and had a realistic chance than be a still, unarmed target. I assure you that like most legal gun owners I am a far better shot.

Mandatory education in firearm use,(stressing use and safety), and mandatory marksmanship qualifying for people who are purchasing their first gun of type is a legislative measure I firmly am behind. You don't see that bill in the news because it is an NRA sponsored action.

High capacity magazines, long distance rifles, concealable handguns, semi/fully automatic weapons are exactly what the founders intended the people have. Sure they couldn't have known of those weapons specifically, but they did know that they wanted people to have weapons of the most deadly types. I draw the parallel to how the constitution, covers things they could not have imagined. The laws of the land such as speech do in fact apply to not only newspapers (around in 1790), but also to things like this web posting, mp3s, and dvd's,(not around in 1790) etc....

The best weapons for killing do serve a purpose. They provide the people with the means to overthrow an oppressive government. An issue intimately familiar to and on the minds of the founders.

How do you fight a modern army with such weapons which would seem inconsequential versus a tank? I'd suggest considering the success of guerilla warfare throughout history, and I'll pass up the easy examples of Iraq and Vietnam. I'd like to consider,the Arabs against the Crusaders in 1100 A.D., the Polish against the Nazi's in 1940. Perhaps the best example is our own Revolution, when a guerilla force, supported by no more than 1/3 of the colonists, defeated not only the British, which was the most powerful nation of the time, but also they defeated the 1/3 of Colonists who remained loyal to the British crown. FYI: the 1/3 of loyalist Colonists fought (as an organized militia), serving in ranks next to and in support of the Brits, The last 1/3 of the colonists stayed neutral.

My last comment is that these potent killing weapons serve another purpose besides being a means for the people to overthrow an oppressive government. They allow the people to have weapons in hand, so that the people could be organized into a militia to fight beside the regular forces of the USA if so necessary.

These two purposes for having lethal weapons were actually the rights most intended to be protected by our Founding Fathers. Personal/home defense,hunting, and sporting, were also intended to be protected rights, but those were secondary in their minds.


Let the flaming of me begin

Answer 8

The 19th Amendment - Women's Right to Vote!

Answer 9

The 16th , the one that rich bankers high jacked with Congress help and made The Federal Reserve Fraud !!!
The reason we are having all these problems today . The Iraq war , Illegal immigration , health-care and the economy .
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Answer 10

2nd Amendment...