The reason the United States is the world's greatest country is exactly that: its people. ... United States, which set a clear precedent for what kind of speech is illegal. ... Without truly great characters, where would the United States be? ... The United States is the emblem of the free world; we exemplify democracy, and promulgate it on a global scale. The United States constitution and its protection of liberty has served as a model for countless other documents: The constitutions of Poland, revolutionary France, and countless Latin American Countries. ...

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The reason the United States is the world's greatest country is exactly that: its people. ... United States, which set a clear precedent for what kind of speech is illegal. ... Without truly great characters, where would the United States be? ... The United States is the emblem of the free world; we exemplify democracy, and promulgate it on a global scale. The United States constitution and its protection of liberty has served as a model for countless other documents: The constitutions of Poland, revolutionary France, and countless Latin American Countries. ...

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The reason the United States is the world's greatest country is exactly that: its people. ... United States, which set a clear precedent for what kind of speech is illegal. ... Without truly great characters, where would the United States be? ... The United States is the emblem of the free world; we exemplify democracy, and promulgate it on a global scale. The United States constitution and its protection of liberty has served as a model for countless other documents: The constitutions of Poland, revolutionary France, and countless Latin American Countries. ...

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The reason the United States is the world's greatest country is exactly that: its people. ... United States, which set a clear precedent for what kind of speech is illegal. ... Without truly great characters, where would the United States be? ... The United States is the emblem of the free world; we exemplify democracy, and promulgate it on a global scale. The United States constitution and its protection of liberty has served as a model for countless other documents: The constitutions of Poland, revolutionary France, and countless Latin American Countries. ...

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In the United States of America, people are protected by civil rights. ... It was because of a fine leader and president by the name of Abraham Lincoln who decided it was time to rid the United States of slavery and passed what is called the emancipation proclamation. ... This act stated that all citizens of the United States were given full rights under the constitution. Unfortunately the act wasn't enough to solve all the discrimination problems in the United States and was revised many times over. ... For over 200 years in the United States of America people have been struggling ...

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George Washington once said "The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitution of government.... The first amendment of the Constitution prohibits Congress from taking away one's right of speech, press, petition, as well as religion, which is a valuable part of being an American. ... That's a luxury that Americans get when we turn 16 and they fight for the freedoms all American women gained when congress passed the 19th Amendment to the U.S Constitution on June 4, 1919. ... On April 26, 2015 the United States Supreme Court le...

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Hate speech is wrong but legal in the United States of America mostly because we have the freedom of speech. ... There is no choice but to continue tolerating intolerance, until the Constitution itself would be amended, which is an event unlikely to occur. ... He states that men speak of moving society but have no resting-place without it (Jacobus, 144). ... Thomas Jefferson states in the Declaration of Independence, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness (Jacobu...

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It influenced the American Civil Rights Movement and led to a 1956 decision by the Supreme Court of the United States which made segregated seating on buses unconstitutional. ... He had a big impact on the desegregation of the United States in the 1960. ... Constitution passed in the houses of Congress. The amendment said that '[no] State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdic...

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Either way, old or new, model Americans not only set the standards for the United States, but also for other world countries. ... While the United States uses this as an advantage to gain world power individual citizens lose the value of decency and etiquette because they are too concerned and selfish to realize the larger problems outside their own small world. ... To be the ideal American is to be selfless and so loyal to the United States that no sacrifice is too great. ... The founding fathers of America set up the Constitution to allow freedom and diversity in the nation and modern A...

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From Thomas Jefferson's United States Constitution to Mahatma Gandhi non-violent teachings, King has had many influential people attribute to his spiritual upbringing and visions. ... Thomas Jefferson's Declaration of Independence states, "all men are created equal-(Declaration) and that very statement is the text our country thrives on. ... The Declaration of Independence is bursting with moral and united cries, and King notices these very cries and later in his life comes up with a civil plea of his own to society. ... The first line of the Preamble states, "We the People of t...

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The Civil Rights Movement The Civil Rights Movement in the United States was a political, legal, and social struggle by black Americans to gain full citizenship rights and to achieve racial equality. ... Constitution were passed. The 13th amendment made all blacks citizens of the United States. ... In the Plessy decision, the Supreme Court ruled that such segregation did not violate the 14th Amendment of the Constitution of the United States. ...

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The Agony and the Ecstasy: The Civil Rights Movement Throughout its history the United States has wrestled with civil rights issues. Even at this country's birth, its Founding Fathers incorporated the Three-Fifths Compromise, ending a dispute over slaves" votes, into the United States" very Constitution. ... These crises and struggles for civil rights in the United States culminate in the 1960s, producing the Civil Rights Movement. ... Gaining momentum, Congress also passed the Fourteenth Amendment, making everyone born in the United States (or brought up in the United States) to be ...

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King was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 for his work on a peaceful resolution to the racial injustices of the United States. ... He felt that the United States quickly resorted to violence to conquer and beat, rather than peacefully solve its problems. (The Peace Race) He was fervently opposed to the United States military action in Vietnam. ... The Constitution now does not contradict the law when it proclaims "All men are created equal." ...

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The equality that exists among races in the United States today has a lot to do with him. ... " He then makes the point, that although the Constitution promises that all men are to be seen as equal, the people of color are not receiving that equality. ... " Questioning the sacred law of the land, was a powerful move on his part, because it caused all Americans to think about what the words in the Constitution meant. ...

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By 1914, the organization grew to 35,000 members and 50 branches in the United States. ... In 1915 the Supreme Court ruled against the grandfather clauses that had kept blacks from voting in several states. ... The organization wrote a pamphlets titled Thirty Years of Lynching in the United States, 1889-1918 , which exposed unpunished, uninvestigated and racially motivated lynching in Southern States. ... January 31, 1865 the 13TH Amendment is passed and slavery is abolished in the United States. ... August 28, 1963 Martin Luther led the biggest protest to date in United States History with mo...

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The 15th Amendment was passed in 1870 to the Constitution. ... By any means possible politicians from southern states decided to resist the court's decision. ... The Civil Rights Movement in the United States has been a long, primarly nonviolent struggle to bring full Civil Rights and equality under the law of Americans. ... Background Throughout the history of the United States, African Americans have resisted, first against the institution of slavery and later second-class citizenship and racial segregation. ... In the United States, the most outstanding theoretic...

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What was the chain reaction that followed the Rosa Parks incident? In 1955, Rosa Parks, an African American woman refused to vacate a bus seat for a white male. When she was arrested many black citizens of the town, Montgomery, formed a group to protest. Rosa Parks could never have imagined the e...

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During the time of King's childhood, there was an enormous amount of racism in the United States. ... Eight months later the Supreme Court decided the bus segregation violated the constitution. ... While alive Martin Luther King Jr. did many things to change United States' laws and improve the rights of blacks. ...

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Slavery in the United States existed from the early senventeenth century until 1865. It was put to an end by the combination of the Emancipation Proclamation, 1863, and then the thirteenth amendment to the Constitution. ... Luckily there were television cameras on the scene to record the bloody incident and show the United States viewers what was really going on. ... Although he spent most of his time outside of the United States traveling to such places as Africa and the Middle East, he did help out in the civil rights movement. ... He established a permanent home in Guinea that year and ...

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The Letter from Birmingham Jail discusses issues of segregation between blacks and whites during Martin Luther King Jr. reign as civil rights leader in the United States. ... In Kings statement about just and unjust , he states "A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law of the law of God. ... King's long letter of knowledge was as important as the constitution was to whites back then. ...

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This is known as The Atlantic Smalls 2 Slave Trade and during its course shipped over a million slaves to the United States. Slavery was most prominent in the south, and when the threat that the slaves would be freed when Abraham Lincoln was elected scared the southern states, especially South Carolina and Georgia. ... One of the most significant events in African American history is the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which prohibited the states Smalls 5 from using literacy tests, interpreting the Constitution, and other methods of excluding African Americans from voting (Memory). ...

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The streetlights were on. Yet, it was three in the afternoon. The smog was so thick and black the sunlight cannot get through. Yesterday's newspaper rolls down the street as the wind gently blows, and the white working class tolerates no form of inter-racial mingling. Signs hang in storefronts read, "No Blacks,"" and "White Only."" ...

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Since the Civil War, much of the concern over civil rights in the United States has focused on efforts to extend these rights fully to African Americans. ... In 1952 the Supreme Court was approached by four states, Kansas, South Carolina, Virginia, and Delaware, along with the District of Columbia, challenging the segregation in public schools. ... The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) took up the case along with similar cases in the four other states. ... And here, on the sidewalk outside was a gang of white boys come to heckle, a ragtag rabble, slack-jawed, b...

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"Martin Luther King and his View of the American Dream" Introduction The reason why I have chosen the topic "Martin Luther King and his view of the American Dream" for my research paper has its roots in my early childhood. My mom was very impressed of King and read picture books about hi...

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Introduction Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 -1968 on April 4), the famous leader of the American civil rights movement. 1948 graduation. During 1948 to 1951, he continued to study in the US East Coast, Philadelphia. In 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. had an audience with President John F....

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