Tag: Rights
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Gloria Steinem on Abortion
On September 13, 2018, Netflix released a documentary about abortion called “Reversing Roe.” If you have not watched it, stop reading this article and go watch it! The documentary provides a clear and accessible overview of more than 50 years of the social and legal history of the issue of abortion in the United States.…
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Pentagon Papers: Vietnam’s Declaration of Independence
Pentagon Papers, Volume 1, B-33 – B-34: On 26 August in a ceremony at Hue, the Emperor Bao Dai relinquished his power to Ho Chi Minh’s representatives. He spoke of “mighty democratic forces in the north of Our Realm,” and of apprehension that “conflict between the North and the South should be inevitable.” To avoid…
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The Founding Fathers vs. the “Dangerous Influence of Those Multitudes Without Property”
Hi. Following up on my article The True Purpose of the US Senate The proceedings of the Constitutional Convention of 1787 are full of interesting information. Let’s read some of the commentary on the discussion concerning Article 4: The legislative Power of the United States shall be vested in two (Branches a Senate and a House…
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U.S. Declaration of Independence on the “Merciless Indian Savages”
We all love to quote from the Declaration of Independence: We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness — That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving…
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Justice Scalia on the Historical Reasons for an Armed Militia
On June 26, 2008, the Supreme Court affirmed by a vote of 5 to 4 the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in Heller v. District of Columbia. District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008), is a landmark case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the Second…
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John Adams On Reasons for Restricting Democracy
26 May 1776, Philadelphia, USA. Letter from John Adams to James Sullivan (Lawyer and politician of Massachusetts) Adams is responding to Sulliavn’s claim that “Laws and Government are founded on the Consent of the people, and that consent should by each member of Society be given in proportion to his Right. Every member of Society…
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John Locke Justifies the Theft of Land from Native Americans
Let’s talk John Locke. On 16 January 1811, Thomas Jefferson wrote a letter to Benjamin Rush stating: The room being hung around with a collection of the portraits of remarkable men, among them were those of Bacon, Newton & Locke. Hamilton asked me who they were. I told him they were my trinity of the…