... of a given circumstance cannot be acutely foreseen. The State Cannot reasonably be required to measure the danger from every such utterance in the nice balance of a jeweler's scale. A single revolutionary spark may kindle a fire that, smoldering for a time, may burst into a sweeping and destructive conflagration." - Justice Edward Sanford; Gitlow v. The People Of New York, 268 US 652 This quote directly illustrates ... the court's opinion in this case. It is the direct duty of the United States government to stop the spark before it starts a flame. Due to the circumstances in which this...

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... Amendment quickly established the first movement of civil rights, rights that could not be taken away due to race. The backlash created by this amendment triggered much change and helped spark the "Gilded Age." The government was acknowledging black freedmen as citizens of the United States, erasing the line that divided black and white citizens. Without black workers in the field ... the agricultural industry prevail? As this was debated, alternatives to the customary plantation production process needed to be reformed, making way for the industrial revolution. Another important amendm...

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... including public schools were in fact unconstitutional and overturned as the ˜separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.' This case became know as Brown vs. Board of Education and provided a spark to the American civil rights movement and increased the protection of rights of the individuals in America especially black citizens. The Constitution has also expanded due to the amendment process ... ...

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... advertising inspires increased donations and faster membership growth." (7:4) Browne intends that national television campaign will gain the LP "many times as much public recognition as [they] have today." (7:3) It will spark interest from the media as well as others who will begin to take the LP more seriously and not shy away from asserting their Libertarian beliefs. Already the campaign is ... ...

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... prevented our country from being a place where all men are equal. During the colonial period, two economic systems were created and separated by free and slave labor. These differences would spark a series of future events that would create a chasm in the United States called sectionalism. Sectionalism divided our country through social, political, and economic differences. These differences would culminate during the ... ...

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... and socially. There was, however, an event where Jackson took a wrong turn. When South Carolina asked that all non-slave states make any anti-slavery papers and media that could spark a slave revolt illegal, President Jackson did nothing. Even more so when South Carolina asked that the Postal Service not transport mail that contained such anti-slavery documents through South Carolina ... ...

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... and socially. There was, however, an event where Jackson took a wrong turn. When South Carolina asked that all non-slave states make any anti-slavery papers and media that could spark a slave revolt illegal, President Jackson did nothing. Even more so when South Carolina asked that the Postal Service not transport mail that contained such anti-slavery documents through South Carolina ... ...

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... respective countries ("America and Guns" 16). Governments in other western countries usually make adjustments to their gun laws in direct relationship to violent incidents. Massacres like these don't seem to spark the same enthusiasm among politicians to change any gun control laws significantly. The fact is that in 1996 two people in New Zealand, 15 in Japan, 30 in Britain, 106 ... ...

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... advertising inspires increased donations and faster membership growth." (7:4) Browne intends that national television campaign will gain the LP "many times as much public recognition as [they] have today." (7:3) It will spark interest from the media as well as others who will begin to take the LP more seriously and not shy away from asserting their Libertarian beliefs. Already the campaign is ... ...

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... ; an article that belligerently dishonored a particular sect of people. One man in particular blatantly stated that he would not print the article in his paper. He does not want to spark any unnecessary disputes among the students. Another man, without hesitation, replied that he would print the article in his paper, but running along side this opinionated article would be an ... ...

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... , without this change none of the other amendments would have been possible. This was the amendment that made it illegal to hold a person in slavery. This could be called the spark that started the fire, because after this blacks started to receive many rights that they had never had. But these new right didn't come without many hardships. The blacks might ... ...

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... and non-Muslims, [to decide] that he was a violent man, a man of war." (World Wide Web, 2003) This interview was soon after 9/11, and many Muslims were afraid it would spark a streak of hate crimes against them. Falwell's politics have also got him in some legal trouble. In October of 1987 Jerry Falwell was fined $6000 by the Federal Election Commission ... ...

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... or distributed in the mail (National Center for Education Statistics). As of late, this Act has come under harsh scrutiny and criticism by many educational and equal opportunity groups. The spark of this debate: the issuing of state and federal financial aid (for college) to individual's who have been convicted of crimes involving drugs (i.e. possession, distribution, etc.). Now on the surface ... ...

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... claimed that Barry Bonds, Jason Giambi, Gary Sheffield and other professional athletes received steroids from BALCO, a San Francisco-area nutritional supplements lab that is under federal investigation. The report helped spark a controversy as spring training opened, that has yet to die down. Bonds, Giambi and Sheffield repeatedly have denied using steroids. No athletes have been charged in the case, nor have ... ...

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... to the kite, and attached to the wire a silk string with a metal key tied to its ends. Lightning struck the wire, traveled down the wet string, and made the key spark. Franklin's experiment showed that lightning is a form of electricity. The next two people who tried it were killed. One useful result of his discovery was the lightning rod. Lightning often ... ...

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... changing parts. This allowed us to understand the Constitution and the things that were done to arrive at it. This was my favorite part of the class. I believe it help spark my love of history, because it made history come alive. Everyday, if the class worked and acted good, we were treated to thirty minutes to an hour of cartoons or ... ...

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... would be to declare their own confederation, that would tolerate the slave driven economy (although the civil war was more about state rights than it was slavery, slavery was the spark that ignited the powder). The South claimed that the Union states were infringing the South's constitutional rights, and seceded from the United States, thus beginning the American Civil War. Although ... ...

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