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    This event was a court trial caused by a Tennessee teacher challenging the law, that governor Austin Peay had just passed, to ban the teaching of evolution in schools. This all started out with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) looking for a teacher that would challenge those laws. The man that had come forth was John T. Scopes, a high school teacher from Tennessee. It was April 23rd of 1925 when John Scopes had assigned the chapter on evolution, and he was…

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    “He who troubles his own house will inherit the wind, and the fool will be servant to the wise of heart”. Proverb 11:29 explains when someone creates a conflict within their own community, they must suffer the consequences of their actions. This is evident in the two sources I will be examining which is the film Inherit the Wind, directed by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee debuted in 1960 as well as the Scopes Trial also known as The Monkey Trial that took place in the state of Tennessee on…

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    George Rappleyea Thesis

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    George Rappleyea by Doug Linder quotes, “... but he saw his real chance to challenge the new law when, while sitting in his office at the coal yard, he spotted a story in that same paper. The story in the May 4th edition quoted an American Civil Liberties Union chairperson, Professor Charles Skinner, as saying the organization was “looking for a Tennessee teacher who is willing to accept our services in testing this law in the courts”,” Scientific American, in which there is an article by…

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    However, there was no practical evidence indicating the effectiveness other than turning regular citizens in to suspects. For instance, according to American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), between 2003 and 2006, the government issued 192, 499 National Security Letters (NSLs) which led to only one terror related conviction. Under the Patriot Act, NSLs are issued by FBI agent without a judge’s approval, to obtain personal…

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    John Scopes Research Paper

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    John T. Scopes John Thomas Scopes was born 3 August, 1900, in Paducah Kentucky. At a young age, Scopes family moved to Illinois, first to Danville, then eventually settling in Salem. Johns father, Thomas, and mother, Mary, made sure to educate their five children as much as possible. They often made the children read literature and philosophy. Thomas Scopes, an Englishman, was said to have stepped off the boat in Galveston, TX with four books, including Darwin’s Origin of Species .Thomas Scopes…

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    “Loving” by Jeff Nichols portrays the rigorous challenge of interracial marriage in America 1967. A moral dilemma of the film shown is if marriage should be legally permitted regardless of race. Marriage should be legally permitted no matter the race based on rulings made by the Supreme Court case, Loving’s v. Virginia. Utilitarianism strongly supports happiness for the greatest majority, therefore miscegenation is right. John Rawls’ social contract theory presents the principles of peace among…

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    “Don 't Abandon Due Process, Not Even For Terrorism”, is an article written on September twenty-second by Andrew Napolitano. The article discusses the use by the American Justice system of the practice of Due Process in extreme cases such as terrorism. Due Process is defined as, “fair treatment through the normal judicial system, especially as a citizen 's entitlement”. Since the turn of the twenty first century there has been a worldwide increase in the amount of large scale terror attacks…

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    Citation Gardner; re BWV [2003] VSC 173 Jurisdiction Supreme Court of Victoria Single Judge: Morris J Procedural History First instance – Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (“the Tribunal”) Present Case- Supreme Court of Victoria Facts BWV is critically ill and has a degenerating form of dementia which inhibits her cognitive functions. BWV obtains essential fluids and nutrition to keep her alive, through a percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (“PEG”). The medical witnesses who…

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    Information policy is one of the most ancient forms of governance. Due to our practice laws been diverse and fragment it’s helpful to think of them as elements in a system. Information policy system is open constantly and it’s affected by a lot of changes in the environment. The center of system is constitutional elements drawn from the words of the constitution and Supreme Court of calculated form of government that protect the rights of expression and political action. The constitution…

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    The Land of the Unfree The word “patriot” has changed in meaning throughout time; however it has always seemed to be defined as someone that vigorously supports their country. Within the last few decades terrorism has become a major issue and if it wasn’t for the creation of the USA Patriot Act in 2001, by President George W. Bush, we probably would have had a larger amount of terrorist attacks then we actually had. The Patriot Act has helped monitor foreign communications, as well as…

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