The meaning of any political statement depends on the context in which it is said. The slogan "Black Lives Matter" began after videos circulated showing police killing black people, sometimes for trivial offenses. In that context, it clearly means not that black lives matter more than others or that white people’s lives don’t matter, but that black lives matter just as much as others. That is the point that needed to be made in response to those videos. "Black lives matter" is therefore not a racist slogan—just the opposite.

President nixon resigned from office in 1974 after he was informed that the senate would impeach him, as allowed in the constitution, for his actions in the watergate scandal. one of the key reasons that nixon’s actions became public was a) the freedom of press guaranteed by the first amendment. b) the right to confront witnesses as guaranteed by the sixth amendment. c) the limitation of judicial powers as defined in article 3 of the constitution. d) the prohibition against illegal search and seizure as guaranteed by the fourth amendment.