How clear is it if the Pledge to Allegiance is about God or about the Nations principals and constitution? ... Those who took the time to read the decision can also have discovered that controversy about the Pledge has a long history, and that prohibiting school systems from coercing children to recite the Pledge is not some wacky new idea of a few far out California justices or of any other justices around the nation. In fact, compelling students to recite the Pledge was held to be a violation of the First Amendment of the Constitution in 1943, eleven years prior to the act of Congress that i...

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Writing in agreement to this argument except in dissent of the courts final decision, Justices Rehnquist, White, and O"Conner recall Holmes" aphorism "a page of history is worth a volume of logic". ... For instance, Stevens reiterates that our history demonstrates that the ideas we fight for in protecting the national unity of our nation were worthy of cause, and then, equally worthy of protection from desecration is the symbol in which we carried throughout these battles. ... Agreeing with the majority opinion of the court Kennedy wrote a concurring opinion in which he stated that he believ...

• Word Count: 900
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Throughout history, there has been an everlasting conflict between having a broader or narrower interpretation of the US Constitution. Some believe that the exact wordings stated in the Constitution are the rules to follow in a strict manner without any compromise. Others consider the Constitution to have looser understanding and there needs to be room for different analyses. ... His argument was that the statue and the resolution passed violated both the State and the Federal Constitution. ... By having any inclusion of church and state in any way violates the Constitution and citizen's ...

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According to Ackerman's analysis of the US constitution, history has had many faults in its recording especially the latitude of the Federal Convention provided in 1787 and later on during the Reconstruction period. The authority developed the Constitution to end the people's resentment and to assure them of their sovereign will in the social strata. ...

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The First Amendment to the constitution guarantees the right to free speech. ... Free speech has its roots in our U.S. constitution; however, essential free speech is it has been repeatedly challenged, ever changing the legislation regulating free speech. ... Since the early history of our country, the protection of basic freedoms has been of the utmost importance to Americans. ... "That is why it is important to understand the history and philosophy of the First Amendment. In the end, as Learned Hand said, "Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution o...

• Word Count: 1987
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The "separation between church and state" has been an ongoing debate for a long time in American history. ... The constitution created this law to allow individuals as well as religious groups to be able to practice their faith, however they want with complete freedom without the interference from government as well as other groups. ...

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" Three issues are emerging from this unconstitutional abuse of power: an abuse in American's privacy, an inequality on how check and balances are distributed, how the rule of law is broken meaning that the Constitution is not being followed either, and how the abuse of power by a President can ruin years of progress in a country's democracy. ... They are doing surveillance types surprisingly unprecedented in human's history. ...

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In both instances, under one ruling, the court, consistent with the sexually conservative morals of the time ruled in favor of the government, stating: "The protection given speech and press was fashioned to assure unfettered interchange of ideas for the bringing about of political and social changes desired by the people but implicit in the history of the First Amendment is the rejection of obscenity as utterly without redeeming social importance"#. To put it more simply, the First Amendment was designed to protect speech having even the slightest redeeming social importance, "even ideas ha...

• Word Count: 3509
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate