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The One Fixed Star In Higher Education: What Standard Of Judicial Scrutiny Should Courts Apply To Compelled Curricular Speech In The Public University Classroom, Joseph J. Martins
The One Fixed Star In Higher Education: What Standard Of Judicial Scrutiny Should Courts Apply To Compelled Curricular Speech In The Public University Classroom, Joseph J. Martins
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Virtually three-quarters of a century ago, the Supreme Court in West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette recognized that the First Amendment protects citizens from being forced to speak. Often, new legal doctrines are announced cautiously and narrowly in anticipation of future judicial development. Not so with Barnette. The Court boldly proclaimed that the right to be free from state-compelled affirmation is so fundamental that it stands as the one “fixed star in our constitutional constellation” that cannot be moved. State assertions of power that seek to coerce citizens to affirm government-approved ideas will inevitably fail, except when narrowly …
Woodrow Wilson: A Failure Of Leadership - A Broken Middle East, Timothy P. O'Brien
Woodrow Wilson: A Failure Of Leadership - A Broken Middle East, Timothy P. O'Brien
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President Woodrow Wilson failed to engage and lead the Great Powers at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, thereby missing the opportunity to influence and shape the eventual outcomes of their far-reaching policy decisions. Had he been more effective there, many of the dysfunctions in the Middle East may well not exist today.
First Amendment Enclave: Is The Public University Curriculum Immune From The Sweep Of The Compelled Speech Doctrine?, Joseph J. Martins
First Amendment Enclave: Is The Public University Curriculum Immune From The Sweep Of The Compelled Speech Doctrine?, Joseph J. Martins
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Seventy years ago, in West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, the United States Supreme Court eloquently held that the state could not compel public schoolchildren to salute the flag while reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. The decision has been heralded as one of the Court’s most significant free speech cases because it acknowledged expansive protection for freedom of conscience. But recently, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit held that Barnette’s protection does not extend to college students who challenge their public institution’s curriculum because university enrollment is “voluntary.” The impact of this …
Erik Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn: The Intelligent American's Guide To Europe (1979) Study Guide, 2002-2014, Steven Alan Samson
Erik Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn: The Intelligent American's Guide To Europe (1979) Study Guide, 2002-2014, Steven Alan Samson
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Flora: Mrs. J.E.B. Stuart, Brenda A. Ayres
Flora: Mrs. J.E.B. Stuart, Brenda A. Ayres
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This is the story of the Confederate General JEB Stuart through the eyes of his wife, Flora Stuart. Flora wore mourning for the last sixty years of her life after the death of her husband at Yellow Tavern in 1864. She devoted the rest of her life to commemorating the gallantry, Christian faith, and sacrifice of one of the most colorful and controversial cavalry officers during the Civil War.
Persephone In The River Phlegethon; Or, The Women At Gettysburg, Brenda A. Ayres
Persephone In The River Phlegethon; Or, The Women At Gettysburg, Brenda A. Ayres
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This paper identifies the heroic women who participated in the Battle of Gettysburg, both on the homefront and on the battlefield.
Reconciliation In Civil War Movies, Brenda A. Ayres
Reconciliation In Civil War Movies, Brenda A. Ayres
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This paper analyzes the theme of reconcilation in six Civil War movies: Shenandoah (1965), The Colt (2005), The Littlest Rebel (1935), The Little Colonel (1935), Johnny Shiloh (1965), and Mosby's Marauders (1967).
Erik Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn: The Intelligent American’S Guide To Europe (1979) Study Guide, Steven Alan Samson
Erik Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn: The Intelligent American’S Guide To Europe (1979) Study Guide, Steven Alan Samson
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Roger Scruton: The West And The Rest Study Guide, Steven Alan Samson
Roger Scruton: The West And The Rest Study Guide, Steven Alan Samson
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In The West and the Rest, Scruton examines the clash between two civilizations: Islam and the West. He contrasts the dynamic, highly institutionalized, but increasingly decadent secular legal tradition of the West, which promotes such ideas as citizenship, corporate personality, and territorial jurisdiction, with the backward-looking but unified vision of a universal community associated with the Koran. One thing that troubles the relationship of these two civilizations today is a crisis of confidence in the West, which has produced a nihilistic, self-condemning “culture of repudiation.” This countercultural solvent has been infiltrating the flood of cultural byproducts of the West that …
Jonathan R. White: Terrorism Study Guide, Steven Alan Samson
Jonathan R. White: Terrorism Study Guide, Steven Alan Samson
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The American Pageant Study Guide, Steven Alan Samson
The American Pageant Study Guide, Steven Alan Samson
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