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Supreme Court Ruling Unemployment Compensation
1,456 wordsThe justices determine which cases to take. They never explain the reason for their choices. Whether or not a case is accepted "strikes me as a rather subjective decision, made up in part of intuition and in part of legal judgment, " Rehnquist wrote in "The Supreme Court: How It Was, How It Is, " his 1987 book about the court. Important factors, he said, are whether the legal question has been decided differently by two lower courts and needs resolution by the high court, whether a lower-court d...
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Declaration Of Independence Secretary Of State
3,913 words... ain fully slow, and the treaty had to be ratified by a specified date. Napoleon, who was thought by some to have already repented this transaction, could not have been expected to tolerate any departure from its terms. Recognizing that this was no time for constitutional purism, the president yielded to his friends, while strict constructionist arguments were taken up ineffectually by the New England Federalists. Nearly everybody else enthusiastically approved of the acquisition. In May 1801...
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John Smith And Winthrop
1,852 wordsLife in New England in the early years of America was a chance for people to start over while including in this new way of life the philosophies they believed in. Leaders and prominent men like John Winthrop and John Smith saw America as a place to spread their ideas and make them into a functioning community. These men had different visions of what America was when they arrived there and of what it should become in time. Each of them wanted a type of change to occur in the New World. Winthrop w...
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German Americans German Immigrants
1,283 wordsIn 1990 the U. S. Census Bureau reported that 57, 985, 595 people in the United States claimed some measure of German ancestry. This makes up almost a quarter of the U. S. population. German immigration started as early as 1607. The first three Germans to migrate to the U. S. were, F. Unger, H. Keffer, and F. Today who were followers of Captain John Smith who settled in Jamestown, Virginia. They started the first German colony, known as the damned dutch. From 1820 - 1970 they estimated about 6. ...
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Separation Of Church And State Ten Commandments
743 wordsWHY should the Ten Commandments be in Public Schools? The Ten Commandments are a basic set of divine laws in the bible; the Ten Commandments form the fundamental ethical code of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. According to the biblical narrative, God gave the commandments to Moses on Mt. Sinai and inscribed them on two stone tablets and enshrined them into t he Arc of Covenant. Two slightly different versions of the commandments are found in Exodus 20: 1 - 17 and Deut. 5: 6 - 21. State legisla...
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Confession Of Faith Gods Grace
1,701 words"We shall be as a City upon a Hill, the eyes of all people are upon us, " the Puritan John Winthrop wrote. The Puritans departed for the New World due to their beliefs that the Church of England was hopelessly corrupt and no longer stood for their way of life. They felt that they could create an ideal Christian society in a New World, which would be a model for others to follow. Some even compared themselves to the Hebrews and held the notion that they were founding the New Israel. (Brow) As rel...
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Prayer In School Separation Of Church And State
742 wordsA very controversial widespread issue today is the right to have prayer in public schools. The proposed amendment reads: To secure the peoples right to acknowledge God according to the dictates of conscience. The peoples rights to pray and to recognize their belief, heritage or traditions on public property, shall not be infringed. The government shall not require any person to join in the prayer or religious activity, initiate or designate school prayers, discriminate against any religion, or d...
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Hand Of God Gods Wrath
1,492 wordsThe Puritans Conflict Between Divine Approval and Prosperity You probably are not sensible of this; you find you are kept out of hell, but do not see the hand of God in it; but look at other things, as the good state of your bodily constitution, your care of your own life, the means you use for your own preservation. But indeed these things nothing; if god should withdraw His hand, they would avail no more to keep you from falling, than the thin air to hold up a person that is suspended in it. -...
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Catholic Church Religious Freedom
1,301 wordsWhen the settlers first came to America they were meet by the Indians. Once the settlers were able to make it on there own, they no longer needed Indian help. Then they began to try to change the ways of the Indian. One of the aspects that the settlers spent much time on trying to change of the Indians was there religion. One of the main religions that the Indians were forced to try to convert to was that of Catholicism. Many attempts were made to change the Indians ways and convert them, but to...
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Differences Between New England And Chesapeake Settlers
764 wordsWhen first English settlers began arriving in America in the 1700 's they mainly settled in two regions - New England and the Chesapeake. Even though both groups of people were English by origin, they had developed two very different societies. Each group had it's own beliefs and expectations of what they will find in this new world, and the results of their settlement were very different as well. When the ship headed for Virginia left England in 1635, it was filled mostly with men in their twen...
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Milvian Bridge Jesus Christ
1,126 wordsSome of the most important writings of the Apostolic Age were those of the new testament and the Apocryphal writings. These apocryphal writings resembled the New Testament writings, and many of them fell into the literary categories of gospel, acts, letters, and apocalypse's. These writings did not belong neither to the New Testament canon nor did the writings recognize any of the fathers of the church. Some of the documents were written for initiates in groups such as the Gnostics. For the grou...
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Cyber Patrol Religious Freedom
1,303 wordsDoes Internet Censorship Internet Censorship Does censorship violate the first amendment? This is one of the largest questions in Congress at the moment: whether or not to require blocking software in schools and libraries that receive government funding, cutting their funds if they do not. By law, all printed materials are protected from censorship due to freedom of speech and freedom of the press, but does this include the Internet? Yes, it does and, therefore, blocking software companies, suc...
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2,284 wordsThe third president of the United States, a diplomat, statesman, architect, scientist, and philosopher, Thomas Jefferson is one of the most eminent figures in American history. No leader in the period of the American Enlightenment was as articulate, wise, or conscious of the implications and consequences of a free society as Thomas Jefferson. Thomas Jefferson was born on April 13, 1743, at Shadwell, a tobacco plantation in Virginia. His father, Peter Jefferson, was a self-made success, and altho...
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Secretary Of State Declaration Of Independence
3,733 wordsThomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), 3 d PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. As the author of the Declaration of Independence and the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, he is probably the most conspicuous champion of political and spiritual freedom in his countrys history. He voiced the aspirations of the new nation in matchless phrase, and one may doubt if any other American has been so often quoted. As a public official legislator, diplomat, and executive he served the province and commonwealth of...
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Napoleon Bonaparte Military Leader
2,980 wordsFrom the moment of his birth, something in the stars said that Napoleon Bonaparte would one day emerge as the leading power of the French. He was a man of many talents. His distinctive personality was a clear indicator of his glory and fame to come. He tended to appeal to others senses in order to gain for himself. His rule was to mark the close of the revolution, a return to order and stability, a rejoining of the history of France with the first stage of the Revolution, but only the first stag...
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England Colonies Religious Freedom
285 wordsThe New England Colonies The New England Colonies were made up of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New Hampshire. Massachusetts founders were John Carver, William Bradford, and John Winthrop and they founded it in 1620. One of the reasons Carver, Bradford, and Winthrop founded Massachusetts was for religious freedom. Ferdinando Gorges and John Mason founded New Hampshire, and they discovered it in 1622. The reason that Gorged and Mason Founded New Hampshire was for profit from trade...
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Due To The Fact Plymouth Colony
463 wordsOne of the most notable people of the colonial era in America was Roger Williams. Born in London, England; educated at the University of Cambridge, he became one of the key players in the Religious controversies of his time. In February of 1631, Roger Williams immigrated to New England as a refuge for the persecuted Puritans of England. Shortly after his arrival in Boston, Williams obtained an appointment as a teacher in Salem, Massachusetts. But because Williams had some strong arguments agains...
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Hand Of God God
1,513 wordsThe Puritans? Conflict Between Divine Approval and Prosperity You probably are not sensible of this; you find you are kept out of hell, but do not see the hand of God in it; but look at other things, as the good state of your bodily constitution, your care of your own life, the means you use for your own preservation. But indeed these things nothing; if god should withdraw His hand, they would avail no more to keep you from falling, than the thin air to hold up a person that is suspended in it. ...
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U S Supreme Court Congress Shall Make
1,881 wordsSeparation of Church and State The principle of separation between Religion and government was a part of America s history for many centuries. The influence of religion on humankind can be traced back to the first records of history. Religion has served as a pillar of strength to some and binding chains to others. There are vast amounts of information and anthropological studies revealing the interaction of religion and humankind. The first period is the early period, which will encompass from C...
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Supreme Court Ruling Majority Opinion
2,934 wordsThe justices determine which cases to take. They never explain the reason for their choices. Whether or not a case is accepted " strikes me as a rather subjective decision, made up in part of intuition and in part of legal judgment, " Rehnquist wrote in " The Supreme Court: How It Was, How It Is, " his 1987 book about the court. Important factors, he said, are whether the legal question has been decided differently by two lower courts and needs resolution by the high court, w...
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