Passports for Minors. All minors under age 16 must apply for a passport in person, even if the passport is a renewal. The child must present a certified birth certificate with raised seal, listing both parents' full names.
The Victims' Rights Amendment is rooted in the simple idea that victims of crime, no less than their perpetrators, deserve a role in the criminal process. To that end, the federal Amendment matches constitutional protections for criminal defendants with a bill of rights for victims of violent crimes.
By the reference in the Amendment to the âcommon law,â the Court thought, âthe Framers of the Seventh Amendment were concerned with preserving the right of trial by jury in civil cases where it existed at common law, rather than the various incidents of trial by jury.â11. The Amendment has for its primary purpose the preservation of âthe common law distinction between the province of the court and that of the jury, whereby, in the absence of express or implied consent to the ...