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1 day ago · Affirmative action in the United States. In the United States, affirmative action consists of government-mandated, government-approved, and voluntary private programs granting special consideration to groups considered or classified as historically excluded, specifically racial minorities and women. [1] [2] These programs tend to focus on ...
23 hours ago · Gun politics is defined in the United States by two primary opposing ideologies concerning the private ownership of firearms. Those who advocate for gun control support increasingly restrictive regulation of gun ownership; those who advocate for gun rights oppose increased restriction, or support the liberalization of gun ownership. These groups typically disagree on the interpretation of the ...
2 days ago · Albert Taylor Bledsoe, a professor at the University of Virginia, wrote this proslavery tract, Liberty and Slavery, in 1856. Bledsoe defended the constitutionality of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, justified slavery as compatible with the Bible, and argued for the right of secession. In the excerpt below, he refutes a speech by Charles Sumner ...
4 days ago · The basic structural component of The Divine Comedy is the canto. The poem consists of 100 cantos, which are grouped together into the three sections, or canticles: Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso.
2 days ago · The book defended Paley's design argument with computer calculations of the improbability of genetic sequences, which he said could not be explained by evolution but required "the abhorred necessity of divine intelligent activity behind nature", and that "the same problem would be expected to beset the relationship between the designer behind ...
5 days ago · Georgia's parliament overcame a presidential veto of a contentious bill on "foreign agents" on Tuesday, setting the stage for the speaker to sign it into law in coming days in the latest chapter ...
1 day ago · Clarence Thomas (born June 23, 1948) is an American lawyer and jurist who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was nominated by President George H. W. Bush to succeed Thurgood Marshall and has served since 1991. After Marshall, Thomas is the second African American to serve on the Supreme Court and has been its longest-serving member since Anthony ...
