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4 days ago · The United States Constitution Today’s special event: March 16, 1751, is President James Madison‘s birthday. The Constitution is presented in several ways on this site. This page presents the Constitution on one large HTML-enhanced page. Other pages present the Constitution as a series of individual pages, in plain text, in standard Palm DOC format, and […]
3 days ago · Under its “state action doctrine,” the Supreme Court has ruled that the First Amendment applies to government actions toward citizens. It doesn’t apply to private citizens or institutions ...
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5 days ago · However, Columbia and nearly every other major college and university in the United States quite properly value free speech as central to the mission of education and research. Moreover, Title VI also applies to public universities to which the First Amendment does apply of its own force.
16 hours ago · The conference was educational and a beautiful example of American plurality, with 800 Americans united for the separation of church and state. Ten percent under 25 and 27% under 39. People over ...
5 days ago · Although Irish Catholics began to play a major role in local and state politics in the latter nineteenth century, the first Catholic to seek a national office was the popular governor of New York, Alfred E. Smith, who was the Democratic nominee for president in 1928. Anti-Catholic prejudice, the fear that a Catholic president would "take orders" from the Pope, insured Smith's defeat. John F ...
5 days ago · Sam from California. A: These are excellent questions. Your right to protest is part of your right of free speech, protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution. Everyone has a constitutional right to protest, and a school may not stop a protest simply because they don’t like what you want to say.
5 days ago · Separation of church and state. Americans’ liberties are defined in the Bill of Rights. The very first is “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.”
