n for these veterans defending Americans of the United States in past wars‚ we may not be free right now. These men and women risk their lives to our freedom‚ and this took a great deal of bravery and sacrifice. Many veterans even died‚ and I have seen on the news where many more are still dying‚ and families are losing their loved ones. It is very sad that many people choose to risk their lives‚ but they knew the risks and felt it was their duty and honor to fight on our behalf. So what is a veteran
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Chapter5) Civil Liberties and the Bill of Rights -Freedom from government -Civil Liberty shows the ‘gradual expansion’‚ but not always constant expansion in the case of threat to the nation (War‚ Insecurity‚ 9/11->we need restriction of freedom) -Protection of unpopular minorities against the tyranny of the majority -Court sometimes cannot protect minority‚ they tend to follow American general society’s thought. & Elected branches which want popular position rely on courts to do dirty work.
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“successful.” It doesn’t matter where you came from‚ what religion‚ or what ethnicity you are. America is the land of the free. The things that make you an American is being a symbol of the “American Dream.” In school students were taught the pledge of allegiance. When
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However‚ some people have still presented lawsuits arguing that the Pledge of Allegiance violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment due to the phrase “under God”. Prayer was a normal practice in colonial schools‚ which were normally branches of a nearby Protestant church. Leading up to and through the nineteenth century
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The Bill of Rights is the basic human rights of American Citizens. Based on the magna Carta and the English Bill of Rights the United States Bill of Rights was put together by many people. George Mason wrote the first draft of the United States Bill of Rights. James Madison wanted the Bill of Rights to include freedom of religion‚ the first amendment. James Wilson thought that with the Bill of Rights they should give the people more power than the government. Though the Bill of Rights was written
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Nazi Racial Ideology: Hitler and the Nazi party had a strong belief in Social Darwinism. They believed that each race didn’t have just have physical traits but traits that were meant for that race that made them superior compared to other races. The Nazi’s believed that the German Aryan Race had traits that made them superior to anybody else. Everybody else who wasn’t Aryan or deemed worthy were considered inferior. Races like the Slavs and Jews were deemed to have inferior traits thus they were
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constitutionality of a Pennsylvania regulation that permitted the expulsion of children for not saluting the flag or reciting the Pledge of Allegiance to it. However‚ in West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette (1943)‚ the Court reversed itself and overturned a West Virginia law that compelled public school children to salute the flag and recite the Pledge of Allegiance. The two decisions have come to be known as the Flag Salute cases. Their importance lay in the First Amendment issues that were
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Examine Anthony Smith’s Fundamental Features of National Identity National identity refers to the set of attributes and beliefs shared by those who belong to the same nation‚ the legitimate form of a political organization. Our independence and the way the achieve liberty is through self-rule. According to Anthony Smith a nation is a self-identifying group or community based on such factors as a common culture‚ history‚ language‚ ethnicity and religion. (Power Point Lecture) Nations can adopt
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School District on Tuesday for allegedly breaching an atheist student’s constitutional right to opt out of reciting the school’s daily Pledge of Allegiance. A sophomore student was threatened by her teacher with disciplinary action if she did not rise for the daily oath‚ and she was also pressured and told in front of her classmates that not standing for the pledge was disrespectful to Americans (Ashtari.) Even though people think that students would do more good by knowing about god‚ religion in
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reciting the pledge each day (McCarthy‚ Martha). These legal actions were taken because some recent court cases has found that people were going against the prospect of saying “under God” in the pledge‚ they claim that saluting the flag contradicted their declared fidelity to God alone‚ a spiritual commitment that the First Amendment’s "free exercise" clause protects (Sifton‚ Elisabeth). But by a ruling in 1943‚ students are also allowed to not partake in the reciting of the pledge‚ so there really
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