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Constitution Issue Presentation Notes Bethers 1

The document contains notes from a student on various constitutional issues including criminal justice, punishments, national security, school prayer, gun control, right to assemble, right to live and die, and affirmative action. It discusses related topics such as exclusionary rule, prison overcrowding, freedom of press, abortion, euthanasia and more. The student also included a reflection on working collaboratively on the assignment with their group.

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Constitution Issue Presentation Notes Bethers 1

The document contains notes from a student on various constitutional issues including criminal justice, punishments, national security, school prayer, gun control, right to assemble, right to live and die, and affirmative action. It discusses related topics such as exclusionary rule, prison overcrowding, freedom of press, abortion, euthanasia and more. The student also included a reflection on working collaboratively on the assignment with their group.

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Ben Bethers

McKay Period 4
IB English
1 October 2021

Constitutional Issues Notes Bethers

1. Criminal Justice and a Defendant’s Right to a Fair Trial:


a. The hypothetical case was a man confessing that he was guilty over the phone but
still asking for defense
b. Most lawyers do not want to provide defense for someone that already seems
guilty
c. First Amendment vs Sixth Amendment: Press can report the facts of a trial but the
defendant has the right to an impartial jury
d. Exclusionary Rule: You cannot use evidence in court that was obtained in illegal
ways
e. Exclusionary Rule can be both good and bad
f. Ethical: Individual believes
g. Legal: How something is seen through the law
h. Moral: Common belief that are held by a group of people
i. Relevant because today defendants to not have full access to their rights and juries
can be tainted by the press
2. Crime and Punishments:
a. Prisons are severely overcrowded and the treatment of the prisoners is deplorable,
argument is that treatment in prisons is unconstitutional
b. A jail is where you are held while you are awaiting a trial or for a short
punishment
c. A prison is where criminals are held after they are sentenced
d. Fourth Amendment requires that police need a warrant to look through someone’s
things
e. Alarcon order calls for overcrowded prisoners for people with the lowest bails to
be released
f. Are judges allowed to create orders for prisons, or is that the job of the legislative
job
g. We do not want cameras in prisons because prisoners could act in different ways
on camera
h. Is the death penalty constitutional?
i. We need a safe society, but we don’t want to pay the taxes to house or care for the
prisoners
j. We are electing people who make decisions for us regarding prisoners
3. National Security and Freedom of the Press:
a. This was our issue to present on
4. School Prayer, Gun Control, and the Right To Assemble:
a. School prayer is required prayer in a school setting
b. Gun control is when laws are passed that control the sales and manufacture of
guns
c. Right to peacefully assemble is the right the people were given to protest and
march as long it is peaceful
d. If a reverend wants to say a prayer for his son in school, does this contradict the
first amendment
e. No government state or federal has the right to take away guns from its citizens in
America
f. Is the right to assemble sanctioned when groups appear to be about to commit
crimes
g. To what extent is speech in schools considered prayer?
h. Should anything that mentions God, like the pledge of allegiance, be banned in
school
i. Second Amendment guarantees the rights to bear arms, or have guns
j. Where do we draw the line between peaceful assembly and potential threats?
k. We need to find the balance between safety of the public and the right to assemble
5. Right To Live, Right To Die:
a. Euthanasia is purposefully killing a patient to prevent pain
b. Abortion is terminating a pregenancy
c. Competency regards whether or not a patient has the capability to determine
whether or not they want to die
d. It is illegal to commit suicide
e. A doctor is required to administer care to a patient
f. A doctor cannot be given the order to kill someone
g. We cannot give the right to kill to doctors because that means that doctors can
decide when to kill someone
h. Should someone stay alive if they are in severe pain
i. No one has the right to kill anyone including themselves
j. Fetus is not recognized as a human until the first trimester
k. Does the mother have the right to kill a baby
l. Does the father have the right to prevent an abortion
m. Once a child is born, the mother cannot make a decision regarding a rights
n. What if there are disagreements between the mother and the father, should the
woman be the only one to survive?
o. When does a fetus become a baby, when do they become a human?
6. Affirmative Action Versus Reverse Discrimination:
a. Affirmative action is where an ethnic minority gets priority over a majority who
may be more qualified
b. You can only have affirmative action to increase diversity
c. Diversification can bring in different ideas and cultures into a society
d. Color blindness is someone trying to ignore different colors and cultures and
colorconiousness is when people recognizes different ethnicities and cultures
e. Affirmative action is viewed as a way to catch up minorities that used to be
disadvantaged
f. Affirmative action requires so much micromanagement and less qualified
individuals can sometimes prioritized over those who are more qualified

Reflection:
1. Overall, how efficiently did your group work together on this assignment?
I feel like my group did an excellent job at dividing and conquering and then reviewing
each other's work to get a good outcome.
2. Out of the number of group members, how many participated actively most of the time?
I feel like everyone participated most of the time, we all did fairly well at staying on topic
and getting the work done that we needed to get done.
3. Out of the number of group members, how many were fully prepared with homework
notes?
I feel like everyone in our group was fully prepared with many notes and this led to some
good conversation and work we got done.
4. Explain your participation and what you feel you brought to the group. Be honest. :):
I feel like I brought a substantial amount to the group, I feel like I did my best while
everyone else did their best as well. I also feel satisfied with my performance because I
organized and decorated on top of doing my own topics on the slide. This being said, I
feel like I could have done better with helping other people who had more complex slides
to complete rather than focusing so much on decoration.
5. Which presentation was of most interest to you and why?
The right to live and right to die presentation interested me most because it taught me
about the legal standpoint of abortion and euthinatia and what doctors had to do for
patients. I enjoyed it mainly because I learned new things from it.

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