The tactics used included literacy tests, grandfather clauses, poll taxes, and just plain scaring blacks and other groups out of showing up to the polls, usually with violence. ... In the discussion about whether these laws should be allowed, there have been comparisons made between Voter ID laws and the poll taxes that were used to stop minorities from voting back in the Jim Crow era. ... We call those poll taxes.... In the Patterson case, the court upheld a law that approved "burdening voters to protect election integrity, a conclusion that seems to bless the new ID requirements," as stated ...

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In 1971, a couple of those Americans, antagonistic Goldwater Republicans abhorred by Richard Nixon and what the GOP had become--socially conservative and the pusher of big government--gathered in the home of MIT graduate and founder of a new political economic classification known as the Nolan Chart, David Nolan. ... During the 1970s and 1980s, antiwar, anti-authoritism, antigovernment and anti-tax feelings came together to revive a long-stagnant political tendency." (6:6) In the following paragraphs I will discuss Libertarians stand on hot-button contemporary issues scourging the nation--ev...

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What is thought of as "probably the most important and the most satisfactory Act ever passed by Congress," the Judiciary Act of 1789 created for the people a system of courts that would ensure the presence of justice in the new American society. ... Often considered the decision most important to the future of America, the case dealt with the subject of a state tax on note issues of the Bank of the United States, which had been slotted in by Congress in 1816. Maryland argued in this case that the creation of the bank was the result of Congress exceeding its powers; hence, seeing that the b...

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In January of 1973, the United States Supreme Court decided on the case of Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113, 93 S.Ct. 705, 35 L.Ed.2d 147. The Decision made by the United States Supreme Court gave every woman a federal constitutional right to an abortion. Since that decision in 1973, the issue of abortion has been at the center of much controversy and has left many Americans divided over the issue of abortion. As the legal scholar Ronald Oworkin once said, "No judicial decision in our time has aroused as much sustained public outrage, emotion, and physical violence or as much intemperate professi...

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