Which of the Amendments is taking the worst beating in America?

[Pushed To The Left]

[MnFats]

1. close call...both First and Fourth are taking a pounding...

Fourth getting somewhat worse in view of Bush's decision to ignore it all together.

[Nutmegger]

2. I'd have to say the first

It's pretty bad when Quakers are being spied upon because they're viewed as a freaking threat.

[serryjw]

3. The First!

Without an unbridled media we have nothing!

[Skip Intro]

4. Very short descripton of each

via wikipedia:

1st Freedoms of religion, speech, press, petition, and assembly
2nd Right to bear arms
3rd Quartering soldiers in private homes
4th Searches and seizures; warrants
5th Procedural rights
6th Rights of accused in criminal prosecutions
7th Right to trial by jury in civil cases
8th Excessive bail & fines; cruel & unusual punishment
9th Unenumerated rights retained by the people
10th Powers reserved to the states or to the people


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_amendments_to_the_US_Constitution

[Marnieworld]

6. 1st,4th,5th,6th,7th,8th

and more I'm sure but I know these for sure. It's so depressing when you see it all spelled out. :cry:

[ananda]

5. one and four

I chose the first amendment because it keeps expression and the flow of information down. Of course, the search and seizure provisions are at risk too. Six is important, too, as the hunger strikes at Gitmo are proving. And then there's eight.... Sheesh, it might be easier to ask whether any part of the Constitution isn't at risk!

* Amendment 1 - Freedom of Religion, Press, Expression
* Amendment 2 - Right to bear Arms
* Amendment 3 - Quartering of soldiers
* Amendment 4 - Search and Seizure
* Amendment 5 - Trial and Punishment, Compensation for Takings
* Amendment 6 - Right to speedy trial, confrontation of witnesses
* Amendment 7 - Trial by jury in civil cases
* Amendment 8 - Cruel and Unusual punishment
* Amendment 9 - Construction of Constitution
* Amendment 10 - Powers of the States and People

[HuskerDU]

7. The fourth amendment is already history.

What will it take to reclaim our rights as American citizens?

[hansberrym]

8. right to property (5th) took a big hit in Kelo, and the right to

be free of unreasonable searches is under attack big time, but the assault on the right to bear arms is more coordinated and unrelenting than any of the other attacks .

[Acryliccalico]

9. All of them !!!

:kick:

[Humor_In_Cuneiform]

10. 1st and 4th in the CCU, 5th, 6th, and 8th are on the endangered list. n/t

[Neil Lisst]

11. The 4th is taking the worst beating.

The Bush administration rendered the 4th amendment, flying it by private jet to a prison in Egypt, where it's waterboarded.

[BlueIris]

12. If we move beyond Bill of Rights, it's the ADA that's...totally shredded.

Egh. I can't even talk about it.

[Bluesplayer]

13. it's the 22nd

"No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once."

Without that one, Clinton would probably still be president, the economy would be booming, everyone who wants to go to college could, we'd have invested in new energy technologies, signed Kyoto, not be mortgaged to China, Saddam would still be contained, we'd have foiled the 9/11 plot, Rush L would have actually exploded in a foul spray of bile during a Hillary rant, and foxnews would by now be renamed and running old movies, with Hannity and OReilly doing a 2-man show in the Gatlin Brothers Thee-a-ter in Branson, Missouri, although Rupert Murdoch would still be a global porn czar