Examples of states' rights in the following topics:
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- Confederate politics were dominated by the tension between states' rights and the military needs of the Confederacy.
- Davis clashed with powerful state governors who used states' rights arguments to hamper mobilization plans.
- Governors and state legislatures, fearing that Richmond would encroach on the rights of the states, withheld soldiers and funds from the war effort.
- Vance of North Carolina, a powerful advocate of states' rights, frequently opposed Davis.
- North Carolina was also the only state to observe the right of habeas corpus during the war.
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- New York pitted the individual right of "liberty of contract" against the state's right to regulate business.
- He sued the state on the grounds that he was denied his right to "due process. " Lochner claimed that he had the right to freely contract with his employees and that the state had unfairly interfered with that right.
- The right to purchase or to sell labor is part of the liberty protected by this amendment..."
- In that case the court upheld a Washington state law setting a minimum wage.
- New York for the early 20th-century's understanding of state and federal power
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- The Bill of Rights is the collective name for the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.
- The amendments were introduced by James Madison to the 1st United States Congress as a series of legislative articles .
- While twelve amendments were passed by Congress, only ten were originally passed by the states.
- However, most state legislatures refused to ratify the Constitution without the addition of a Bill of Rights to the document.
- Second Amendment: establishes the right of the state to having militia and the right of the individual to keep and bear arms.
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- By the 1980s, the Religious Right made substantial gains in United State politics, as conservative Democrats were alienated by their Party's support for liberal social views.
- The contemporary Christian Right became increasingly vocal and organized in reaction to a series of United States Supreme Court decisions (notably Bob Jones University v.
- United States in 1983, both of which addressed issues of racial discrimination in universities).
- Forty-nine state chapters were also created as independent corporations within their states, including the Christian Coalition of Texas.
- Examine the emergence of the Christian Right in the United States
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- Women's suffrage in the United States was achieved gradually, at state and local levels, during the late 19th century and early 20th century, culminating in 1920 with the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution which gave women the right to vote.
- Susan Brownell Anthony (1820 – 1906) was a prominent American civil rights leader who played a pivotal role in the 19th century women's rights movement to introduce women's suffrage into the United States.
- Her Declaration of Sentiments, presented at the first women's rights convention held in 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York, is often credited with initiating the first organized woman's rights and woman's suffrage movements in the United States.
- This constitutionally-based argument, which came to be called "the new departure" in women's rights circles because of its divergence from earlier attempts to change voting laws on a state-by-state basis, led to first Anthony (in 1872), and later Stanton (in 1880), going to the polls and demanding to vote.
- Despite this, and similar attempts made by hundreds of other women, it would be nearly 50 years before women obtained the right to vote throughout the United States.
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- "The rights of Englishmen" refers to unwritten constitutional rights and liberties, originating in Britain peaking in the Enlightenment.
- "The rights of Englishmen" is a concept used to describe a tradition of unwritten constitutional rights and liberties, originating in Britain, from which many Anglo-American declarations of rights have drawn inspiration.
- Several other civil rights that stemmed from Magna Carta inspired the United States Bill of Rights, but remain unwritten legal precedents in Britain today, include the right to a trial by jury, a speedy trial for those accused of criminal activity, due process, habeus corpus, and protection from "unreasonable" or arbitrary searches, seizures, and punishments.
- Locke's political theory was founded on a social contract theory: that in a state of nature, all people were equal and independent, and everyone had a natural right to defend his "life, health, liberty, or possessions. " However, Locke argued, as it is more rational to live in an organized society where labor is divided and civil conflicts could be decided without violence, governments were established to protect the "life, health, liberty, and possessions" of men.
- Essentially, Lockean conceptions of political rights included the right of man to determine the political structure that would oversee the protection of his natural rights.
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- However, most state legislatures refused to ratify the Constitution without the Bill of Rights being added to the document.
- By this stage, five of the states had ratified the Constitution with relative ease.
- James Madison recognized that Congress should respond to the demands of the state conventions and authored the text of the Bill of Rights.
- He based much of the Bill of Rights on the Virginia Declaration of Rights (1776) primarily authored by George Mason.
- He carefully considered the state amendment recommendations as well.
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- The Civil Rights Act of 1957, primarily a voting rights bill, was the first civil rights legislation enacted by Congress in the United States since the Reconstruction Era following the American Civil War.
- Thomson of Alexandria, to unite white politicians and leaders in Virginia in a campaign of new state laws and policies to prevent public school desegregation.
- On February 18 in Marion, Alabama, state troopers violently broke up a nighttime voting-rights march during which officer James Bonard Fowler shot and killed young African-American protester Jimmie Lee Jackson, who was unarmed and protecting his mother.
- Designed to enforce the voting rights guaranteed by the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution, the Act secured voting rights for racial minorities throughout the country, especially in the South.
- Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X at the United States Capitol on March 26, 1964.
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- The inclusion of Human Rights in U.S.
- The inclusion of Human Rights in U.S.
- Congress argued the opposite, in favor of distancing the United States from oppressive regimes.
- While the recent intervention in Libya may show how far the United States has come, the situation in Syria may shows how much more work needs to be done.
- Derian as Coordinator for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs, and in August 1977, had the post elevated to that of Assistant Secretary of State.
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- Congress asserted its authority to legislate about civil rights under three parts of the United States Constitution: its power to regulate interstate commerce under Article One (section 8), its duty to guarantee all citizens equal protection of the laws (under the Fourteenth Amendment), and its duty to protect voting rights (under the Fifteenth Amendment).
- Attorney General to launch lawsuits against state governments which operated segregated school systems.
- Russell stated: "We will resist to the bitter end any measure or any movement which would have a tendency to bring about social equality and intermingling and amalgamation of the races in our (Southern) states."
- Protecting African Americans’ right to vote was as important as ending racial inequality in the United States.
- His proposal, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, prohibited states and local governments from passing laws that discriminated against voters on the basis of race.