The Americans are a people of tradition. We celebrate holidays throughout the year to honor people, to commemorate certain events, and even to cheer for a team we want to win the Super Bowl. Such traditions helped form the very basis of the great United States of America. We pass these traditions on to our children, just as they were passed on to us by those who came before us. We learn what it means to be American. This can range from voting in every election to eating every other meal at McDonalds. It is a legacy that is left to us and that we create. Within government, there are policies that help protect our traditions and reaffirm their meaning and values. In the case of Brown v. Board of Education, we rejected the idea of ​​separate but equal. In the case of Marbury v. Madison, we had a judicial review. These cases have helped shape government policy in the right way and have contributed to every aspect of our daily lives. Policies like those drawn from these cases make America a land of opportunity. The first was that the people, everyone, enjoyed individual rights and freedoms. Among these rights are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. In the Constitution, there is one article in particular that provides the individual with the ability to protect these rights if necessary through violent methods. There have always been people who deny that guns, in any form, are not necessary for the general public and are not part of our heritage and history. That being said, it is undeniable that, in the courts and in our homes, weapons of all kinds play an important role in our lives, whether spoken or physical. Therefore, the concept of weapons is a legacy that was built for us Americans and is closely related to...... middle of paper ...... Law passed. The idea of ​​this law was to decrease the ownership and possession of "gangster" weapons, including short-barreled firearms and machine guns. Instead of banning them completely, the federal government decided to levy an extremely high tax on property transfers. At the time, the transfer tax was $200, with a $2,000 fine and jail time for non-payment. At today's monetary values, that would be over $3,500 and $35,300. The goal of excluding them from existence was entirely possible. United States v. Miller was the challenge to the constitutionality of this law. In it, the Supreme Court ruled that the 2nd protection only protected weapons adapted for military use and not those that “constitute the arsenal of the public enemy”. This case demonstrated to the public how laws can be interpreted in different ways depending on who is translating them...