Guarantee Clause

Examples of Guarantee Clause in the following topics:

• The Establishment Clause: Separation of Church and State

  • As part of the First Amendment's religious freedom guarantees, the Establishment Clause requires a separation of church and state.
  • The Establishment Clause in the First Amendment to the Constitution states, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion. " Together with the Free Exercise Clause ("... or prohibiting the free exercise thereof"), these two clauses make up what are called the "religion clauses" of the First Amendment.
  • Advocates for stronger separation of church and state emphasize the plurality of faiths and non-faiths in the country, and what they see as broad guarantees of the federal Constitution.
  • One main question of the Establishment Clause is: does government financial assistance to religious groups violate the Establishment Clause?
  • Distinguish the Establishment Clause from other clauses of the First Amendment

• Eliminating Comma Splices and Fused Sentences

  • There is no guarantee that none of them are harboring infectious conditions. "
  • There is no guarantee that none of them are harboring infectious conditions. "
  • Once you discover where the two independent clauses are "spliced," you can then decide how best to separate the clauses:
  • There is no guarantee that none of them are harboring infectious conditions.
  • There is no guarantee that none of them are harboring infectious conditions.

• The Rights of the Accused

  • The Act provided that all persons should have "full and equal enjoyment of ... inns, public conveyances on land or water, theatres, and other places of public amusement. " In its opinion, the Court promulgated what has since become known as the "state action doctrine," which limits the guarantees of the equal protection clause only to acts done or otherwise "sanctioned in some way" by the state.
  • Civil and political rights are not codified to be protected, although most democracies worldwide do have formal written guarantees of civil and political rights.
  • Due to the incorporation of the Bill of Rights, all of these provisions apply equally to criminal proceedings in state courts, with the exception of the Grand Jury Clause of the Fifth Amendment, the Vicinage Clause of the Sixth Amendment, and (maybe) the Excessive Bail Clause of the Eighth Amendment.
  • Douglass later served as an adviser to President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War and fought for the adoption of constitutional amendments that guaranteed voting rights and other civil liberties for blacks.

• The Bill of Rights

  • They guarantee a number of personal freedoms, limit the government's power in judicial and other proceedings, and reserve some powers for the states and public.
  • First Amendment: establishment clause, free exercise clause; freedom of speech, of the press, and of assembly; right to petition
  • Fifth Amendment: guarantees due process, prohibits legal double jeopardy, protects against self-incrimination, establishes eminent domain
  • Sixth Amendment: guarantees trial by jury and rights of the accused; Confrontation Clause, speedy trial, public trial, right to counsel

• The Bill of Rights

  • They guarantee a number of personal freedoms, limit the government's power in judicial and other proceedings, and reserve some powers to the states and the public.
  • James Madison, who believed it was unnecessary to guarantee people's rights explicitly when the federal government had such limited powers, nevertheless recognized that Congress should respond to the demands of the state conventions and authored the text of the Bill of Rights, passed as amendments to the Constitution in 1791.
  • First Amendment: establishment clause, free exercise clause; freedom of speech, of the press, and of assembly; right to petition.
  • Fifth Amendment: guarantees due process, prohibits double jeopardy, protects against self-incrimination, establishes eminent domain.
  • Sixth Amendment: guarantees trial by jury and rights of the accused; Confrontation Clause, speedy trial, public trial, right to counsel.

• Freedom of Religion

  • Freedom of religion is a constitutionally guaranteed right, established in the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights.
  • In the United States, freedom of religion is a constitutionally guaranteed right , laid out in the Bill of Rights.
  • In addition to the rights afforded under the Establishment Clause, the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment protects the rights of citizens to practice their religions.
  • This clause states that Congress cannot "prohibit the free exercise" of religious practices.
  • Therefore, states must guarantee freedom of religion in the same way the Federal Government must.

• Common Comma Mistakes

  • Do not use a comma before a dependent clause that comes after an independent clause.
  • Incorrect: Every day, millions of children go to daycare with millions of other kids, there is no guarantee that none of them are harboring infectious conditions.
  • There is no guarantee that none of them are harboring infectious conditions.
  • If you locate a run-on sentence and find where the two independent clauses "collide," you can decide how best to separate the clauses.
  • There is no guarantee that none of them are harboring infectious conditions.

• The Reconstruction Amendments

  • The Fourteenth Amendment, proposed in 1866 and ratified in 1868, guaranteed U.S. citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States and granted them federal civil rights.
  • The three main clauses of the amendment are the "Citizenship" clause, the "Due Process" clause, and the "Equal Protection" clause.
  • The "Citizenship" clause overruled the Supreme Court's 1857 Dred Scott v.
  • The "Equal Protection" clause requires each state to provide equal protection under the law to all people within its jurisdiction.
  • This clause was the basis for the 1954 Brown v.

• Moods in Dependent Clauses

• Interstate Relations

  • In the United States, states are guaranteed military and civil defense by the federal government.
  • States are prohibited from discriminating against citizens of other states with respect to their basic rights, under the Privileges and Immunities Clause.
  • Under the Extradition Clause, a state must extradite people located there who have fled charges of treason, felony, or other crimes in another state if the other state requests extradition.