Founded in 1920, theAmerican Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)is one of the oldest interest groups in the United States. The mission of this non-partisan, not-for-profit organization is “to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the C...
Self-ownership is the basis of liberty. If you do not own yourself, then you are a slave. American individualist anarchists, strongly influenced by the abolitionist movement against slavery, called itsovereignty of the individual. Liberty, then, is the sovereignty of the individual, and never sha...
are bent on limiting personal liberties, increasing the intrusiveness of government regulations and redistributing wealth are largely paid for their efforts. Many activists on the Left are paid as part of their regular jobs either through unions (like SEIU) or activist groups like ACORN or those ...
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of the revolution in his essay, “Radical Possibilities of the American Revolution.” Wood argues that the colonists were motivated to rebel against the British monarchy due to their need to preserve their liberties and through this revolution a radical change in government and American life ...
the protection ofnatural rightsandcivil liberties. In practice, democracy takes many different forms. Along with the two most common types of democracies—direct and representative—variants such as participatory, liberal, parliamentary, pluralist, constitutional, and socialist democracies are in use today...
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) spokesperson Gillian Branstetter said in a phone interview that the executive order does not affect documents issued by states, such as driver's licenses and birth certificates. Rather, it pertains to federal documentation only, and she described its language as...
The term internal colonialism is often used to explain the discriminatory treatment of Mexicans in the United States after theMexican-American Warof 1846-1848. As a result of the war, many Mexicans who had been living in what is now the southwestern United States became subjects of the U.S....
Trump’s order aiming to abolish “birthright citizenship” (that is, citizenship for people born on U.S. soil even if their parents are not U.S. citizens) is already being challenged in court by 22 states and the American Civil Liberties Union. Article content Ar...
Alawsuit filed Saturdayby the American Civil Liberties Union and Democracy Forward disputes that claim. “Tren de Aragua, a criminal organization, is not a nation or foreign government and is not part of the Venezuelan government, (nor) does it receive support from the government,” the lawsuit...