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Law and Government aim to protect individual's freedoms. However most laws restrict an individual's freedom. Therefore the government creates constitutions to protect your rights to keep them out of reach of the government. The bill of rights is usually just associated with the federal government. The state and other local governments did not have to obey them. That is until the 14th amendment was put into place. This amendment was the due process clause. This amendment applied the Bill of Rights to both state and local governments. This helped keep peoples rights out of the hands of the government even more.
The second amendment guarantees us the right to keep and bear arms, as well as keep a well-regulated militia. Our forefathers in case of a possible coupe or a military take over put this amendment in place from another country. This way the citizens would be able to protect themselves, and hopefully keep the takeover from happening. The freedom of religion hits on two major......


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