When the Supreme Court stopped the recounts, George W. Chapter 28Īggressive state voter-registration-roll purges: This practice concerns voting registration and first came to widespread attention during the 2000 presidential race in Florida.

Status of force agreements are a type of executive agreement with other heads-of-state in countries where the U.S. has with another country’s head-of-state. Chapter 5Īgreements, executive agreements: These are agreements that the U.S. It is by balancing each one of these Powers against the other two, that the Effort in human Nature towards Tyranny can alone be checked and restrained and any degree of Freedom preserved in the Constitution.” Chapter 13Īd hominem: This literally means “against the man.” In argument, it means that we attack the person who made the argument to discredit what s/he said or wrote, instead of attacking the argument on its merits. Chapter 65Īdams, Abigail (1744-1826): First Lady Abigail Adams famously wrote to her husband, John, in 1776 to “Remember the ladies” in the deliberations over independence from Britain, and also that “If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.” John Adams wrote back, with respect to giving more consideration to female interests in the laws of the new country, “I cannot but laugh.” Chapter 69Īdams, John (1735-1826): He wrote this to Richard Henry Lee: “A Legislative, an Executive and a Judicial power, comprehend the whole of what is meant and understood by Government.

The Schempp’s were church-going Unitarians who objected to the practice. Schempp (1963): In this case, the Court struck down a Pennsylvania school’s daily practice of having a student read the Lord’s Prayer and a Bible passage over the school’s PA system. In this case, Justice Clarence Thomas firmly asserted in his concurring opinion that “I do not see a philosophical or historical basis for asserting that ‘commercial’ speech is of ‘lower value’ than ‘noncommercial speech.’” Many scholars applaud this view. Rhode Island (1996): The Court has worked to empower corporations with the kind of freedom of expression traditionally reserved for natural persons, and corporations are taking full advantage of the leeway granted to them by the conservative majority.

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