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- 1241: Freedom Of Speech, To Bear Arms, and From Dictatorship
- ... by expressing my opinions without being punished by the government. Many people today don't realize how fortunate they are to have as much freedom as we do today. This freedom is guaranteed in the Constitution and Bill of Rights making the backbone of this country for over two hundred years. The freedom to bear arms for one is the most important freedom to me because of how important owning a ...
- 1242: The Supreme Court Decision of Roe vs Wade
- ... s rights and privacy issues. Jane Roe was an alias for a Texas woman who wanted an abortion, but Texas laws made it illegal. When this case came to trial, it was difficult because the constitution never stated certain values so it was always interpreted through its justices. The courts had dealt with similar things like this but never to this extent. There were nine justices put on this case. Chief ...
- 1243: John Marshall: Chief Justice and His Rulings
- ... this decision was that he felt the bank was unconstitutional, regardless of the fact that Marshall had previously ruled that the bank was in fact with in the range of the "elastic clause" in the constitution. Later, Marshall ruled in the case of the Cherokee's vs. Georgia that the Cherokees did not have to leave their land, and yield to the government of Georgia. This was an attack on State ...
- 1244: The Rise and Fall of American Communism
- ... birth was “very sacred,” “…you cannot become American if you think of yourselves in groups.” “America does not consist of groups,” he maintained. Soon other patriotic American days were created, such as September 17th, dubbed Constitution Day, and the most famous loyalty day of all, July 4th. That day, labeled Independence Day, was designed to include events such as the pageant in New York City, first held in 1918, in which ...
- 1245: Constitutionalism
- Constitutionalism Constitutionalism: the limitation of government by law, balance of power between the authority and power of government, and the rights and liberties of the subjects, has an written or unwritten constitution. Unlike absolutism, constitutionalism has power resides in the electorate and is exercised by the electorate’s representatives, whose power resides solely in the monarch’s hands. Many of the causes of the war, in fact ...
- 1246: The Executive Branches of Governments
- ... Act of 1970 transformed it into a government-owned corporation. As a corporation, the postal service has its own authority to set rates for mail, hire employees, raise capital, and modernize its equipment. Yet the Constitution specifically delegates to Congress the power to set policy and pass laws while giving the executive branch the authority to enforce them.. Most government agencies are considered part of the executive branch because they carry ...
- 1247: Fascism
- ... agenda to deal with. Even though these groups have differences generally they do agree on certain main issues. With their core administration dealing with issues centering on anti-government. The issues are gun control, taxes, Constitution liberties, and federal regulations. These militia groups believe that the government is tyrannical, and there is a secret elite conspiracy on controlling the government, the economy, the culture, or all three. Just as Hitler used ...
- 1248: Fidel Castro's Reign In Cuba
- ... cold war. He was continually friendly and helpful to American business interest. But he failed to bring democracy to Cuba or secure the broad popular support that might have legitimized his rape of the 1940 Constitution. As the people of Cuba grew increasingly dissatisfied with his gangster style politics, the tiny rebellions that had sprouted began to grow. Meanwhile the U.S. government was aware of and shared the distaste for ...
- 1249: McCarthy's Communist Witch-Hunt
- ... notorious examples of this is Senator Joseph McCarthy. In his search for Communists in the U.S. government he infringed upon civil rights and freedoms, such as freedom of speech, provided to all Americans by Constitution. His actions caused a lot of innocent people, mostly government employees, to loose their jobs and reputation. In addition, in the case of Hollywood Ten, the freedom of speech - the most vital freedom in democratic ...
- 1250: Government Intervention of the Internet
- ... say it. The key to the world-wide success of the Internet is its protection of free speech, not only in America, but not in other countries where free speech is not protected by a constitution. To be found on the Internet is a huge collection of obscene graphics, Anarchists’ cookbooks and countless other things that offend some people. With over 30 million Internet users in the U.S. alone everything ...
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