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| "What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections of human nature." |
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James Madison
-1788, Federalist Papers |
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| "The vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty." |
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Alexander Hamilton
-Federalist Papers |
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| "Government is a necessary ______" |
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Thomas Payne, author of "common sense" |
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| "Men ought not to think it slavery, for government is their ________." |
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Aristotle:
"Justice is the ______ between men." |
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Polis - the city or place where groups of people come together.
Politikos - the lawmakers
Politeia - the Constitution |
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| "Man is by nature a political ________. And it is a characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust." |
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| political animal; Aristotle |
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| According to ______________, government is who gets what, when, and how. |
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| "To govern is to _______." JFK |
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| "It is generally considered obvious that government should not, indeed, cannot legislate morality. But, in fact, it does so frequently, it should do so more often, and it never does anything more important." |
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George F. Will
-author of Statecraft and Soulcraft |
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| "An injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." |
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MLK Jr.
- A letter from a Birmingham Jail |
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| "There never was a government over a very extensive country without destroying the liberties of the people." |
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| George Mason, an Anti-Federalist |
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| "It is of great importance not only to guard a society against the oppression of its rulers, but to guard one part of society against the _______ of the other part." |
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| Oppression; James Madison |
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| Made illegal and writing...publishing any scandalous and malicious writing(s) against the gov. |
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| President ___________ pardoned 2 persons still imprisoned under the Sedition Act in 1801. |
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| After the 1920 arrest of more than 4,000 persons under 1918's Sedition Act, the ________ was formed. |
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| ACLU - American Civil Liberties Union |
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| Gitlow v. State of New York |
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| Gitlow is sentenced to 5 years in prison due to the Criminal Anarchy Act. Supreme Court overturns decision on 1st Amendment grounds. |
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| Supreme Court ruling against warrentless searches (applied to the States). 4th Amendment. |
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| As early as 1925 Supreme Court Justices began to mention a right to _____ in their written rulings and dissents. |
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| Birth control case. Ruling overturned on basis of right to privacy. 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th Amendments. |
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| "We deal with a right to privacy older than the Bill of Rights." |
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| Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas |
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