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- 391: Address at March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
- ... signed handwriting but in real life black people are still not free from segregation. Another thing that he says is that black people got a “bad check”. “We got a bad check because in the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence people had signed a promissory to which every American has to follow”. The thing that Americans have to follow is “that all men, yes black men as well as white ... signed handwriting but in real life black people are still not free from segregation. Another thing that he says is that black people got a “bad check”. “We got a bad check because in the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence people had signed a promissory to which every American has to follow”. The thing that Americans have to follow is “that all men, yes black men as well as white ...
- 392: BAMN By All Means Necessary
- ... article about Yippies were agreeable. One of them was the point that Jerry Rubin made. I agreed with his statement that the government thinks that "if your speech is ineffective, it is protected by the Constitution, [and] if your speech is effective, you are 'inciting to riot'." That's the reason, Rubins was fighting for the freedom of speech. It is true because the Yippies were protesting for their freedom against the democratic government, and the government was beating them and it was breaking the first amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The first amendment says that you have a freedom of speech, and Yippies were expressing their views and opinion, but the government ordered the police to beat them. The Yippies speeches were effective and many ...
- 393: Affirmative Action
- ... individual and something else when applied to a person of another color. If both are not accorded the same protection, then it is not equal (260). If everybody is guaranteed the same protection under the Constitution, then no one should be treated differently at the University. Hence, Affirmative Action violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. To relate the idea that race is not the main problem and that ... the education they deserved. Therefore, Affirmative Action violates the Fourteenth Amendment. Affirmative Action gives privileges to certain groups and leaving out certain groups not able to succeed without special protection. There’s nothing in the Constitution that says “A” should suffer a burden because society has hurt “B.” Although the Blacks had been discriminated during the earlier years, it does not mean that the children of the future should suffer for ...
- 394: African Americans In The Post
- ... attempted to remove the franchise from the black citizens. Once more, they were aided in their goal with the Supreme Court rulings that limited the implications of the 15th Amendment. The latest addition to the Constitution stated that The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by United States or by any State on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude ... as prisoners without any say on their future. The social practices, including segregation, curfews, violence and disfranchisement that the Blacks suffered left them anything but free as the 20th Century dawned. The amendments to the Constitution had been made, but the whites did not take the time after 1866 to abolish the prejudice that came with slavery, giving testimony to theory that the North engaged in the Civil War for economic ...
- 395: The Right to Die
- ... longer time are the most willing to participate in PAS (Sulmasy 1034). So, the patients want it, many doctors want it, what's the problem? Also, PAS can be considered a Constitutional right. In the Constitution, we are given an unalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. If we have lived our lives to the point where our happiness can only be found in death, what is next? There is no happiness in suffering. Sometimes joy may be found through death, and sometimes through PAS. Our laws are based on the Constitution. The three words, "pursuit of happiness" are proof of every human's right to undergo PAS if deemed fit. Death with dignity is an equivalent to happiness to a person with a terminal illness. This ...
- 396: Julius Caesar
- ... discovered his own military genius, Caesar was evidently fascinated and obsessed by military and imperial problems. He gave them an absolute priority over the more delicate by no less fundamental task of revising the Roman constitution. The need in the latter sphere was a solution which would introduce such elements of authoritarianism as were necessary to check corruption and administrative weakness. Caesar's first dictatorship was simply a commission to enable ... the Hellenistic kings. The month of July was named after Caesar and his statue was placed in the temple of Quirinus. Caesar was considered to be a dictator for life. According to the traditional Republican constitution this office was only to be held for six months during a dire emergency. Caesar also obtained honors to increase his prestige. He wore the robe, crown, and scepter of a triumphant general and used ...
- 397: Gun Control
- ... to be considered, though, is our national heritage or culture which holds traditions of passiveness and peace unlike the American Frontier heritage. From our textbook, Why Nothing Works , Marvin Harris points out that the "American Constitution guarantees citizens the right to bear arms, and this has made it possible for U.S. criminals to obtain firearms more readily than their counterparts in countries like Japan...". Marvin Harris indicates that "the high ... institutions to protect their security of person and property...". Robert Sherrill believes that the vast majority of people who own guns , "simply own them because it is a part of their American heritage, and the constitution gives them 'the right to bear arms'"(1973:225). He suggests that Americans choose to practice their civil liberties to its entirety. Other notable differences in the literature is Mauser's view for the differences ...
- 398: Capital Punishment: Is It Required
- ... be put to death for disclosing the location of sacred burial sites(Flanders 3). However, in recent times opponents have shown the death penalty to be racist, barbaric, and in violation with the United States Constitution as "...cruel and unusual punishment." In this country, although laws governing the application of the death penalty have undergone many changes since biblical times, the punishment endures, and controversy has never been greater. Perhaps the ... Court has steadily reduced the availability of habeas corpus review of capital convictions, placing its confidence in the notion that state judges, who take the same oath of office as federal judges to uphold the Constitution, can be trusted to enforce it."(Bright 768) This makes for the biased trying of a defendant's appeals, "given the overwhelming pressure on elected state judges to heed, and perhaps even lead to, the ...
- 399: The Reign of Terror
- ... The people saved the National Assembly from being done away with by the king. Under the Assembly it drafted a construction of limited monarchy, and divided France into 83 The third estate asked for a constitution but was refused by the king and the other two estates. Later the king ordered the troops to break up the assembly. Then the Parisians and the peasants tore down the Bastille, and out of ... to end. The Convention finally attacked Robesspiere in 1794, and he was executed the following day. The reign of terror, had finally ended. The Conservatives drove the Jacobins out of power. They replaced the Democratic constitution with the Directory. They started to meet in 1795, but they were troubled by war and economic problems. A French general named Bonapatric, later seized control of France in November 9, 1799, which ended the ...
- 400: An American Shame
- ... because they truly understand the moral truth of legal abortions. The News Mafia has damned an entire generation. You will only be their victims. Yes. Didn't they all righteously scream, "The framers of the Constitution never originally intended to include sexual immorality under the term 'high crimes and misdemeanors'." Whoa! These clairvoyant murders somehow knew the thoughts and intents of the Founding Fathers when it came to judging their adulterous ... was the "original intent" when those phrases were penned by our Founders? The News Media and their Liberal lackeys are not the rightful heirs of our Founding Fathers. They are the very people that the Constitution was written to protect us from. Yet they have subtly taken over all positions of power in this country and are rapidly redefining what our Founders said to serve their own vile purposes. If they ...
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