During the pandemic of 2020, the City of Mayberry passes an ordinance that requires all citizens to wear a face mask in public. Addison believes that the government cannot regulate his personal behavior and refuses to wear a mask; he says that forcing him to wear a mask violates his constitutional rights! A police officer stops Addison on the street and arrests him for violating the city ordinance. Can Addison successfully challenge the mask ordinance on constitutional grounds?

a. Yes, this ordinance violates a citizen's right to privacy.
b. No, the federal government has the authority to regulate this kind of behavior, and the city police officer is acting as an agent of the federal government.
c. Yes, this ordinance violates a citizen's right to free speech.
d. No, requiring people to wear a face mask during a pandemic is a valid exercise of the state's police power.

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According to the situation presented and the laws of the United States Constitution, it can be inferred that the federal government is acting appropriately without violating the rights of citizens through the police (option D).

Why can the government issue ordinances to modify the behavior of citizens?

The government is the group of people that governs a State for the benefit of the citizens according to the needs of reality at each moment of history.

According to the above, during the pandemic, the government had to make decisions regarding this current global problem, for which it had to implement ordinances to modify certain aspects of citizens' lives, such as imposing the use of a mask to prevent the spread of the virus.

If a citizen like Addison does not feel comfortable with this type of ordinance and argues that it violates his rights, it is false because in a democracy the rights of the people are above individual rights.

So, public health is a right for all citizens and Addison would be putting people's health at risk by not wearing a mask, so it is completely legal to arrest him (option D).

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