Civics is very important for all Americans to know…
Justice for all is unequal. America has a different set of rules that applies. The rule of law is that like how cases are treated alike: In America we have one rule for Democrats and another for Republicans, one rule for friends, another for foes, one rule for the powerful, and another for the powerless,” and when you’re found broke, you have a different set consequences. “As Americans we must ensuring the rule of law, and making the promise of equal justice under law real for all Americans — are the same principles upon which the Department of Justice was founded and for which it must always stand”.
The rule of law appears to be scarily in peril. The US Constitution has racist tenets embodied therein example: “Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons”.This “ three fifths of all other Persons, section is obviously and racist part in this clause. Here’s a Interpretation of another section of the US Constitution: Article 1, Section 9, Clause 1, is one of a handful of provisions in the original Constitution related to slavery, though it does not use the word “slave.” This Clause prohibited the federal government from limiting the importation of “persons” (understood at the time to mean primarily enslaved African persons) The Fugitive Slave Act 1850, The Fugitive Slave Clause of the United States Constitution, also known as either the Slave Clause or the Fugitives From Labor Clause, is Article IV, Section 2, Clause 3, which requires a “person held to service or labor” (usually a slave, apprentice, or indentured servant) who flees to another state to be returned to his or her master in the state from which that person escaped. “Also this clause helped to assist in creating the police departments, as they are none today”…
If justice is for all. Why under certain circumstances, Americans recently witnessing that cannot be the truth. The majority of white rioters stormed US Capitol, was seen taken selfie’s with policemen. In contrast Black Lives Protest, to “Save America Rally“ “Stop the Steal” a different set of rules was displayed, the rioters was allowed to walk out of the Capitol Building freely, with the door being held by the same officer’s that was attacked.
White males are free to do as they please without any repercussions…and with lessor penalties than those of their black counterparts. It’s safe for us to assume because of the above salve clauses that are still to this remains in the constitution. Another example, Black Codes, sometimes called Black Laws, sometimes these codes where referred to as Black Codes and Pig Laws, (Pig Laws” unfairly penalized poor African Americans for crimes such as stealing a farm animal.)were laws governing the conduct of African Americans (free and freed blacks). The misdemeanors or trivial offenses were treated as felonies, with harsh sentences and fines for African Americans. For instance “in most of the United States, there is a distinction in respect to political privileges, between free white persons and free coloured persons of African blood. Lets don’t forget about Black Codes existed before the Civil War and many Northern states had them also. The Southern U.S. states that codified such laws in everyday practice, around 1865 and 1866.The codification of black codes — black laws was implemented by Southern states, after the American Civil War, in order to restrict African Americans’ freedom, and to compel them to work for low wages. Herein are states that stood out in the implementation of the black codes, Connecticut, Ohio, Illinois, Georgia, Mississippi, Indiana, Michigan, and New York enacted laws to discourage free blacks from residing in those states. The state of Virginia enacted more than 130 slave statutes, Black Codes was also in the state South Carolina with own versions of the code and the restrictions there placed upon the people of African decent. As you can see that this problem stems from the beginnings of the establishment of the constitution, and therefore the black codes.
Laws that may apply to the alleged insurrectionist could be charged:
§5103. Restrictions on public use of United States Capitol Grounds
§5104. Unlawful activities
§5109. Penalties
(B) any other section referred to in subsection (a) may be brought in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.
In subsection (a), the words “fined under title 18” are substituted for “a felony punishable by a fine not exceeding $5,000” for consistency with chapter 227 of title 18.
In subsection (b), the words “fined under title 18” are substituted for “a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not exceeding $500” for consistency with chapter 227 of title 18.
(3) Amount of penalty. — The penalty which may be imposed on a person convicted in an action under this subsection is the highest penalty authorized by any of the laws the defendant is convicted of violating.
(Pub. L. 107–217, Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1178.)
Unlawful conduct. (2) Knowingly, with force and violence, to enter or to remain upon the floor of either House of the Congress.§ 10–503.16. Unlawful conduct.
40 U.S. Code § 5104 — Unlawful activities | U.S. Code |
Here’s some comparisons for the Black Law Codes:
Section 2. Be it further enacted, that all freedmen, free Negroes, and mulattoes in this state over the age of eighteen years found on the second Monday in January 1866, or thereafter, with no lawful employment or business, or found unlawfully assembling themselves together either in the day- or nighttime, and all white persons so assembling with freedmen, free Negroes, or mulattoes, or usually associating with freedmen, free Negroes, or mulattoes on terms of equality, or living in adultery or fornication with a freedwoman, free Negro, or mulatto, shall be deemed vagrants; and, on conviction thereof, shall be fined in the sum of not exceeding, in the case of a freedman, free Negro, or mulatto, $150, and a white man, $200, and imprisoned at the discretion of the court, the free Negro not exceeding ten days, and the white man not exceeding six months.
Section 5. Be it further enacted, that all fines and forfeitures collected under the provisions of this act shall be paid into the county treasury for general county purposes; and in case any freedman, free Negro, or mulatto shall fail for five days after the imposition of any fine or forfeiture upon him or her for violation of any of the provisions of this act to pay the same, that it shall be, and is hereby made, the duty of the sheriff of the proper county to hire out said freedman, free Negro, or mulatto to any person who will, for the shortest period of service, pay said fine or forfeiture and all costs.
Reconstruction did away with the black codes, but, after Reconstruction ended in 1877, many of their provisions were reenacted in the Jim Crow laws
