Anyone know alot about the US Constitution?

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So i have this school project where i need to collect articles from papers within the last two weeks and show how they relate to the US Constitution. I found this article in USA Today (shown below) and i am having a hard time where to place in regrades to what article/amendment it could be. I bold and underlined the most important part of the article, does anyone know where that bold/underlined statement can go?

Thanks, and +karma
http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20081008/a_capcol08.art.htm

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"Judge orders release of Chinese Muslims

The

Bush administration plans to appeal a federal judge's decision Tuesday

to immediately free 17 Chinese Muslims at Guantanamo Bay into the USA.

U.S. District Judge Ricardo Urbina said the Uighurs (pronounced

WEE'-gurz), who have been jailed nearly seven years at the naval

facility in Cuba, must be freed because the U.S. military ruled in 2004

that they are no longer considered enemy combatants.

The Bush

administration said the detainees are s dangerous and cannot be

released until another country agrees to take them. China calls them

terror suspects and has demanded their return, but the U.S. fears the

men might be tortured there.

Ruling "the Constitution

prohibits indefinite detentions without a cause," Urbina ordered the

Uighurs released in Washington by Friday.

Justice Department

spokesman Brian Roehrkasse said the administration plans to appeal the

order. He said the Uighurs received weapons training in Afghanistan and

are a national security risk."

 
just look up stuff on guantanamo and the patriot act, they shit on the constitution all the time.

you could also find some gun rights articles
 
Search Ron Paul on youtube. Then research any topic he brings up about how the bush regime is taking a huge steaming dump on America and removing excess fecal matter with our Constitution.
 
Not sure if this is within your timeline, but there was a case passed by The Supreme Court about the 2nd Ammendment about 6 months ago i think. It was the District of Columbia vs. several gun groups around DC that didnt like the banning of handguns in the city. The Supreme Court pretty much ruled that the gun law in the city was unconstitutional, and was pretty much a landmark case. This was the first time the US ackknowledged that the 2nd amendment spreads o private gun owners, not just militias. So i guess you could use that. I know it happened sometime this past year.
 
Thanks for the info but i need to have actual newspaper/magazine articles, cant have online or xerox articles, they need to the hard copy. So a lot of your suggestions i cant do cause i don't have the hard copy if there even is one. The only reason why i can do this article that i posted earlier is because I actualy have the USA Today newspaper that the article is in.

But in regrades to the article i posted above. I am thinking that maybe using it Article I Section 9 Clause 2 which states " The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it." My statement to back up my theory would be that since Habeas Corpus has no been suspended that the detainees from the article are in violation of their consitutional rights. What do you guys think. I would normally have put it under Amedment 5 or 6 but i have artciles already for those.
 
Looks like they want to release them cause of the 5th amendment and the administration wants them kept in cuba cause of the 8th amendment.

I could be wrong. I wasn't a poli sci major.
 
Somebody really needs to rewrite that noise in 21st century language so that it actually makes something resembling sense. And before anyone gets all uppity, the whole point of the constitution is that it adapts and grows with society.
 
could be the eight amendment also if nobody has said it. It forbids excessive bail and unjust punishment.

Sorry if anyone has already said this
 
this relates directly to Haebeas Corpus, which translates to latin as "you have the body" in the constitution this is translated to say that, in order to imprison someone you must have proof that they did a crime

Here are examples of habeas corpus

In Brown v. Vasquez, (1991), cert. denied, 112 S.Ct. 1778 (1992), the court observed that the

Supreme Court has "recognized the fact that the writ of habeas corpus

is the fundamental instrument for safeguarding individual freedom

against arbitrary and lawless state action.

Harris v. Nelson (1969). "

Therefore, the writ must be "administered with the initiative and

flexibility essential to insure that miscarriages of justice within its reach are surfaced and corrected." Harris

habeas corpus is a check on the way state courts respects rights given by the constituion

This can also be applied to the 4th and 5th amendments, the 4th amendment protects against unlawful search and seizure and the 5th applies to due process. it may be a stretch to include these two but most likely the prisoners were obtained through means of unlawful search and seizure and they were not sent to prison by due process of law

ur welcome

 
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