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- 581: The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
- ... contain a substantial body of law including: freedom of speech and press, separation of church and state, free exercise of religion, due process of law, equal protection, and privacy.(Walker 3) The Encyclopedia of the Constitution defines civil liberties as "those rights that an individual citizens may assert against the government." In a formal sense, the ACLU is a private voluntary organization dedicated to defending the Bill of Rights. Officially established ... Union." Webster's New Lexicon Dictionary. 1989 Walker, Samuel. In Defense of American Liberties: A History of the ACLU. New York: Oxford UP, 1990. Norman Dorsem, "Civil Liberties." in Leonard Levy, ed., Encylopedia of the Constitution (New York:Macmillan, 1986), pp. 263-270 Dionne, E.J. Why Americans Hate Politics. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1991
- 582: How America Should React To Ho
- ... three homosexual couples asked the court to recognize their right to get married and the court did. However, the state government refused to legalize this marriage. Consequently, a new amendment was introduced to the state Constitution. At the same time, majority of the states are not even considering this option and homosexuality itself is still illegal there. Still, not only authorities try to determine the position they should take towards homosexuals ... and with our bodies we are free to do whatever we please. Therefore, there is no point to call it illegal. Moreover, discrimination against people of different sexual orientation will be a violation of the constitution, which guarantees common rights for everybody. Thus, despite our own preference we have neither moral nor legal right to discriminate against them. As for disapproval of different religions of homosexuality, everyone should have the "freedom ...
- 583: Civil War
- ... Sumter and the Civil War began. The Norths primary reasons for going to war was to keep the country together. The South was fighting for "state sovereignty, the right of secession and interpreting the constitution the way they wanted to," Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era, James McPherson, (p. 310).Slavery was not the reason the Civil War began. Lincoln had argued that it was unconstitutional for any ... slavery. Lincoln even mentioned "that he had no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with slavery in the states where it exists," Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era, James McPherson, (p. 312). The Constitution protected and will continue to protect slavery where it existed. As was stated earlier, the North fought the war to keep the Union together, because of the fact that secession was unconstitutional. Militarily, both the ...
- 584: Harris v. City of Zion/Kuhn v. City of Rolling Meadows
- ... early America. This is at the utmost unfortunate. The court has rendered a decision, which as I see it, is a strict and narrow, interpretation of the religion clauses of the 1st amendment of the Constitution. The holding of this court has completely overlooked the historical facts and suppositions present here today. The court's decision enjoining the City of Zion and Rolling Meadows, IL, to remove the "religious" symbols from ... done so only on the grounds of historical fact and invocation. Simply because the United States has practiced an act over a period of time, does not give the act exception from adhering to the Constitution. Or if it does, then this too needs to become a "test" just as the Lemon test itself has come into our possession and practice. I think that it would be enough to say the ...
- 585: The Presidential Election of 2000
- ... of a flat rate tax of 17%. This plan also calls for the dismantling of the Internal Revenue Service, one of Forbes' chief adversaries. He is in favor of a Tax Limitation Amendment to the Constitution. This amendment would make it extremely hard for Congress to raise taxes. Like many other Republicans, he supports the end of the marriage tax and with his plan, there would be no separate tax on ... tax credits on money used for tuition and the expansion of charter schools in Minnesota, a school choice program for low-income families in Washington, D.C., and an amendment to the New Hampshire state Constitution to block court imposed tax increases. He supported California's Proposition 227 that gave parents the right to place their children in working English immersion programs and he has also fought for the protection of ...
- 586: The USA Becoming Less Democratic Prior To The Revolution
- ... Lockwood] as a civil authority (which he also was) had no right to meddle with [religious] affairs." (Doc. I). Separation of church and state is one of the first amendments of the U.S. democratic constitution, and the jailing of a minister for preaching is not a democratic practice. In a respnse Lockwood says that "In a civil community there is necessary subordination of persons, some are entrusted with power and ... tolerated. Had America been becoming more democratic, this situation should not have occurred. A sure sign of social unrest is military action against those in power. It should be considered that in the United States constitution there is the right to bear arms, which is plainly and obviously in the context that it is in, there to give the common people the right to defend themselves against tyranny. In Weathersfield there ...
- 587: Comparison Of Colonies
- ... freemen could be in these two houses, but there was more representation due to higher numbers of representatives. This was much like New Haven, which had a bicameral government as well. New Haven had a Constitution called the "Fundamental Orders." It stated that the 7 officials, solely from the church, were only to meet twice a year. Although the meeting times became even more drastically spaced apart, all free men could ... break away from theocracy and move closer to democracy. The furthest developed government, in theory, was that of the Carolinas. A man named Berkeley obtained the land as a proprietor from King Charles. The Fundamental Constitution was set up as a balance between aristocracy and democracy. When the King gave the land to the proprietors, a bicameral government was set up. The governor was the head of the government. Directly below ...
- 588: Teddy Roosevelt
- ... the thrill of power. As President TR sought to redefine the authority of the office of chief executive. Unlike most of his predecessors, who believed that the President should only perform tasks granted by the Constitution, Roosevelt inverted this and believed that the President should do everything in his power for the people, except what was strictly forbidden by the Constitution. He thus did a great deal to expand the powers of the Chief Executive. Trust Busting The first major issue that would command the full attention of the new President and much of the news ...
- 589: Plato's Republic
- ... work, which favors the opposition. But, his ideas themselves are in no way impossible to accomplish. Plato had this to say to sum up all his beliefs, there will never be a perfect state or constitution, nor yet a perfect man, until some happy circumstance compels these few philosophers who have escaped corruption but are now called useless, to take charge, whether they like it or not, of a state which ... even today in some foreign region far beyond our horizon, men of the highest gifts for philosophy are constrained to take charge of a commonwealth, we are ready to maintain that, then and there, the constitution we have described has been realized, or will be realized when once the philosophic muse becomes mistress of a state. For that might happen. Our plan is difficult--we have admitted as much--but not ...
- 590: Censorship of Music in the Media
- ... points or ideas at the expense of others. Government sponsored or assisted efforts aimed at offensive lyrics in a music strike at the heart of constitutionally protected liberty of expression. No one doubts that the Constitution forbids government from restricting access to or labeling books that are sold in the mainstream; music receives precisely the same constitutional protection. As with all classical First Amendment disputes, the controversy over musical lyrics is ... t like from taking place at any state-owned venue in South Carolina. We have to ask how these politicians and others like them how they are able to ignore the First Amendment to the Constitution when supposedly they were elected by the people to uphold our precious freedoms? The Supreme Court decided that the National Endowment for the Arts cannot give funds to any artist if the works of that ...
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