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- 921: Marijuana
- ... variety of new and better medicines like aspirin, morpheine (habit forming), chloral, barbituates tranquilizers, and when it got on the list of drugs thought by the world community to require legal restrictions. Our first President, George Washington, grew cannabis on his plantation. The cannabis he grew was more fibrous and is better known as hemp. Hemp was used to make rope, twine, paper and canvas (the word "canvas" comes from Cannabis) and ...
- 922: Lyndon B Johnson
- ... her children. Johnson attended public schools in Johnson City and received a B.S. degree from Southwest Texas State Teachers College in San Marcos. He then taught for a year in Houston before going to Washington in 1931 as secretary to a Democratic Texas congressman, Richard M. Kleberg. During the next 4 years Johnson developed a wide network of political contacts in Washington, D.C. On Nov. 17, 1934, he married Claudia Alta Taylor, known as "Lady Bird." A warm, intelligent, ambitious woman, she was a great asset to Johnson's career. They had two daughters, Lynda Byrd ... 1949. Senator and Vice-President Johnson moved quickly into the Senate hierarchy. In 1953 he won the job of Senate Democratic leader. The next year he was easily re-elected as senator and returned to Washington as majority leader, a post he held for the next 6 years despite a serious heart attack in 1955. The Texan proved to be a shrewd, skillful Senate leader. A consistent opponent of civil ...
- 923: Thomas Jefferson
- ... American exploration, and from his childhood teacher developed a love for Greek and Latin. In 1760, at the age of 16, Jefferson entered the College of William and Mary and studied under William Small and George Wythe. Through Small, he got his first views of the expansion of science and of the system of things in which we are placed. Through Small and Wythe, Jefferson became acquainted with Governor Francis Fauquier ... a plan for decimal coinage and composed an ordinance for the Northwest Territory that formed the foundation for the Ordinance of 1787. In 1785, he became minister to France. Appointed secretary of state in President Washington's Cabinet in 1790, Jefferson defended local interests against Alexander Hamilton's policies and led a group called the Republicans. He was elected vice-president in 1796 and protested the enactment of the Alien and ...
- 924: Jury Nullification and Its Effects on Black America
- ... discussed. Although numerous articles and books have been published devising means by which to reduce variance within the system, the most recent, and probably most contentious, is that of Paul Butler, Associate Professor of Law, George Washington University Law School, and former Special Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Columbia. Butler's thesis, published in an article in the Yale Law Journal, is that "for pragmatic and political reasons, the ...
- 925: Lyndon B Johnson
- ... her children. Johnson attended public schools in Johnson City and received a B.S. degree from Southwest Texas State Teachers College in San Marcos. He then taught for a year in Houston before going to Washington in 1931 as secretary to a Democratic Texas congressman, Richard M. Kleberg. During the next 4 years Johnson developed a wide network of political contacts in Washington, D.C. On Nov. 17, 1934, he married Claudia Alta Taylor, known as "Lady Bird." A warm, intelligent, ambitious woman, she was a great asset to Johnson's career. They had two daughters, Lynda Byrd ... 1949. Senator and Vice-President Johnson moved quickly into the Senate hierarchy. In 1953 he won the job of Senate Democratic leader. The next year he was easily re-elected as senator and returned to Washington as majority leader, a post he held for the next 6 years despite a serious heart attack in 1955. The Texan proved to be a shrewd, skillful Senate leader. A consistent opponent of civil ...
- 926: The Communication Decency Act: The Fight For Freedom of Speech on the Internet
- ... sites. What have Internet users learned from the courts? After all was said and done, we have learned that passing unconstitutional laws like the CDA is not the exception but the rule these days in Washington, DC. Next, the people responsible for giving us the CDA are respectable Republicans and Democrats, not liberals and conservatives. If someone would have asked an Internet user who is opposed to the CDA to vote ... the stupidity part of it. The ingnorance is the politicians refusing to listen to us. They do not want to understand. Some ways you can help fight this terrible bill would be to march through Washington, DC on July 30, 1997. Many people have turned their web pages backgrounds black to show they are protesting. Some display blue ribbons to show an Internet users' displeasure with the CDA. Another way to ... act should pass. I hope you consider what I, and many others, have been saying. Thank you for your time, Ryne Crabb " Another huge part of this world-wide protest was the Electronic March on Washington, DC. People, of all ages, who care about the unconstitutionality of the CDA, went to the White House and made signs, etc. while marching around the White House's property. Also, everybody was asked ...
- 927: Why Gun Control is Needed
- Why Gun Control is Needed The year was 1787, and Benjamin Franklin, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and George Washington were signing their names to a document that stated, "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free-state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be ...
- 928: Eleanor Roosevelt
- ... people. But it was more than that. She as much as her husband had come to personify the Roosvelt era. Bess Furman had ended her story about Mrs. Roosevelt's debut as first lady with "Washington had never; seen the like-a social transformation had taken place with the New Deal." And Cissy Patterson, the publisher of the Washington Herald, whom Eleanor had known in her debutante days, ended an interview with Eleanor on an unusual note of admiration: "Mrs. Roosevelt had solved the problem of living better than any woman I have ever ... the ability to look at oneslf honestly. Until one could do that, one was unable to be sympathetic with or understanding of others. Always available to people and to cause, she soon became one of Washington's legends. She tirelessy toured the nation and gave out speeches on several subjects infused them with her spontaneity and warmth. When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent ...
- 929: Juvenile Justice
- ... has become weak in its old age (Hetter 39). The first known execution of a juvenile on these shores was in 1642: Thomas Graunger, sixteen, of Plymouth Colony, Mass., was hanged for bestiality. The youngest: George Stinney, executed in South Carolina in 1944 at the age of fourteen. He was so small they had trouble fitting him into the electric chair. Records show that since that first execution, about 350 people ... carry the weight it once did. Many states now impose life imprisonment with no possibility of parole on the violent offenders. Still, some argue that a life sentence isn't enough. David Pierce of the Washington Legal Foundation says, The death penalty incapacitates in a way no other form of imprisonment can; also, Inmates do commit crimes behind bars against guards and each other, and they do escape from time to ...
- 930: Capital Punishment
- ... punishment for crimes like murdering someone while involved in felonies like abduction, armed robbery, rape, and forcible sodomy, also for contract murder, murder of a cop or killing someone under twelve years of age. In Washington you get the death penalty if you commit premeditated murder. In Wyoming you get the punishment of death if you commit "premeditated murder; felony murder in the perpetration [attempts] of sexual assaults, arson, robbery, burglary ... injection is used today in Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.(AOL1) Hanging is used in Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire, and Washington.(AOL1) Electrocution is used in Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Nebraska, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia.(AOL1) The gas chamber is used in states like Arizona, California, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, North ...
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