One of the main principles of contemporary liberal thought is the idea that individuals possess a set of basic universal rights. However, liberals rarely address the tension between universal rights and membership of a particular body politic. In bothA Theory of JusticeandPolitical Liberalism, for ex...
The American Women Quarters Program is a program that celebrates prominent American women by featuring them on the backs of U.S. quarter dollar coins. Honorees were selected by the Secretary of the Treasury in consultation with the National Women’s Hist
Constitution, both of which occasionally are described as divinely inspired. To follow these documents in the manner prescribed by the Founding Fathers is therefore posited by many believers in American exceptionalism as the key to national success. Moreover, that approach is held to be universally...
Nineteenth Amendment- an amendment to the Constitution of the United States adopted in 1920; guarantees that no state can deny the right to vote on the basis of sex law,jurisprudence- the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great probl...
The means of democracy are therefore more imperfect than those of aristocracy, and the measures which it unwittingly adopts are frequently opposed to its own cause; but the object it has in view is more useful. Let us now imagine a community so organized by nature, or by its constitution,...
Confederate officials chose their own president and wrote their own constitution, which permitted each state control over its own laws – especially laws that protected slavery. Confederate officials said they no longer recognized the power of the U.S. federal government, or its chief executive. ...
temples, as well as the activities in the school maintained by the Association of Our Lady Girl, once prevented by the Police, characterized this fact, according to has been alleged, as violation of liquid and certain right guaranteed by the Constitution, whereas the freedom to religious worship...
For example, there is no mention of capitalism in its founding texts, the Declaration of Independence (1776) and the Constitution (1788, plus 27 amendments). 但很明显,美国人期望无论建立什么制度,它都应该给人们提供金钱和金钱能买到的东西。 But clearly Americans expect that whatever system is ...
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