... were based on Philippine soil. Thus Secretary John Foster Dulles & Secretary Carlos Romulo could state in a joint note in 1954 that an armed that "an attack on the Philippines could not but also be an attack upon the military forces of the US." But even during all those intimate years, transcending the transient intimacies in Subic or Angeles bars, we could never ... get a clear statement from the US as to when & where the attack on one party should be regarded as an attack on the other, & what manner of retaliation could be rightfully expected. That was not unexpected in the Philippine...

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... : Terrorism. In the wake of 9/11, the United States government had signed into law the USA PATRIOT Act, just six weeks after the attack, an overnight revision of the nation's surveillance laws. Its formal name is the "Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept ... make it safe for democracy. The USA PATRIOT Act was rushed into law by the Bush Administration as a retroactive act to a direct terrorist attack. The horrific events of 9/11 planted fears in American people beyond their understanding. If during McCarthyism people were scared that the C...

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... this legislation are doing just that. In the wake of the September 11th terrorist attacks, security has been vastly stepped up in addition to safety precautions. (A large scale "dirty bomb" attack and response simulation took place last week and involved people from Seattle to Chicago.) America feels the need to protect itself from any other possible ... attack against our homeland. The content of the Patriot Act and its legislative changes may be just another step in ensuring the safety of the American people. By allowing our government ... new prosecution guidelines from Attorney Ge...

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... Government ceased public immigration hearings and also withheld "sensitive information" by either removing the information from government web sites or just not informing the public. This is an attack on our freedom of information. The government can prosecute librarians or keepers of any other records if they tell anyone the government subpoenaed information related to a terror investigation; this directly ... attack our freedom of speech. The following policy attacks our freedom of association. The government can monitor religious and political institutions without suspecting criminal...

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... United States and its people. The United States responded to the attacks on September 11th with military action, and most Americans view these attacks with the same veracity as the attack on Pearl Harbor (Berger 2). A valid counterpoint against this is, Numerous Supreme Court cases have ruled that any person in conflict with the government can invoke due process "be that ... our government, it was meant as an act of war that was targeted directly at the United States. in order to try and destroy the American economy and infrastructure. This attack provoked us to use military engagement ...

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... states whom will have the best interests in mind of their people and their residing state. Madison goes on to state how difficult it would be to initiate such an attack on the states without setting off massive alarms. As seen in this condensed statement. "the people and the States should, for a sufficient period of time, elect an uninterrupted succession of ... zeal, than like the sober apprehensions of genuine patriotism." An interpretation is that we would have to be all completely numb to the world around us not to see an attack coming. Madison discusses the power of the National Ar...

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... create the American culture. The tragic events of September 11th will live on in the hearts of each individual's heart forever. For the first time since the attack on Pearl Harbor has there been attack on American soil, and as a result of the violence, people felt like they in order to ease the pain of losing so many lives, they needed to ... ...

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... will allow American troops to be more knowledgeable so that they will be able to protect themselves against nuclear, biological, and chemical exposure. And, if the United States launch and attack against Iraq it needs to know everything they possibly can. Though this legislation has been introduced, I feel that it won't pass. Especially when Congress has passed the National Defense Authorization ... United States was invaded. The President is using his powers to protect American troops and the citizens of this country in case we are exposed to a nuclear, biological, or chemical attack. ...

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... of the Magna Carta is chapter 39 'no free man shall be arrested of imprisoned or disseised or outlawed or exiled or in anyway victimised, neither will we attack him or send anyone to attack him, except by lawful judgement of his peers or by the law of the land'11. The importance of this chapter relates to the use of legal ... ...

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... . This left it up to the states to provide their own militia and weapons (which they could not have in peace time). Under this system, a state could mobilize only once attack was imminent. Shays" Rebellion is a perfect example of how the system fails. Massachusetts had to use private funding to raise a militia to put down Captain Shays and his fellow insurgents ... . Congress only provided 1500 troops and the troops got to Massachusetts after much of the fighting had already taken place. If there were a surprise attack from another nation, or even worse an armed conflict between two state...

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... harassing Syrian refugees, America has become more fearful than it has been in quite some time. In one case we have an email sent to a school board member threatening a lethal attack on multiple schools, naming the sites, how students would be harmed and the specific date these attacks would take place. The superintendent of the schools ordered the schools to remain ... ...

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... in 2008 called the FISA Amendments Act of 2008 (Boykoff 2006). The most significant amendment to the bill was The Patriotic Act of 2001 after the country faced the biggest attack from a foreign terrorist group. The United States Department of Justice announced that it would seek legislation that would give powers to state authorities to protect the homeland from such activities ... ...

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... be disbanded to reacquire our rights as Americans. The Patriot Act is active until 2015 after President Barack Obama signed for an extension in 2011. There has not been a terrorist attack on American soil in over thirteen years. It's time that we got our privacy rights back and begin to live how our Founding Fathers foresaw us living. Keep in mind ... ...

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Shortly after Imperial Japan's infamous attack on the United States fleet at Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt had to make a decision regarding how to handle the sizable Japanese-American population on the west coast. The problem ... ...

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... in the last paragraph), there is no representative to conduct foreign affairs with other countries that could involve peace treaties, trade agreements, etc. If there was ever a foreign power to attack the United States when it was under the Articles of Confederation, the nation would have been doomed. Congress does have the ability to create peace or to declare war, but ... ...

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... September 11 attacks that were a series of four coordinated suicide attacks. The Islamist militant group al-Qaeda hijacked four passenger jets and proved that America is still vulnerable. This terrorist attack resulted in an intensification of the national security. Terrorism is not in line with Islamic beliefs. Airports increased the security level and we suddenly began to hear words as Gitmo ... ...

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... the power of the legislative branch to use unconstitutional means to protect the well being of the nation. People of race common to that of the enemies who made the attack on the twin towers, might as well be seen in the same light as the Japanese Americans of World War II. We are condemned to repeat the same atrocity during ... ...

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... responsibility is individual, not social. Therefore, people must be willing to accept poverty as a consequence of their own actions and society has no liability for this consequence. They may also attack my program and say that it is unjust to raise taxes in order to further support members of society and their own bad choices. However, bad choices aren't always the ... ...

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... is censorship, but since they don't have legality on their side, they rely on public pressure. They deploy research to prove a causal relationship between antisocial behavior and the thing under attack, enlist the support of politicians, who hold hearings to give a gloss of impartial assessment, and bring their cause to the media, which push for an official response. (Par. 3) Organizations such ... ...

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... as an institution as well as updated information regarding the importance of the opposition and minor parties. Currently, these areas have not been included which leaves them wide open for attack and speculation and allows individual governments to interpret and rule as they see appropriate, thus hindering stability within the nation. Within the Australian constitution, limited provision is made for the ... ...

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... . Many thought that the Jacobeans were going to use that day to rise up in insurrection and "cut the throats of honest citizens." They even thought they were going to attack President Adams and citizens of Philadelphia came out by the hundreds to protect him. Federalist saw this as a demonstration of support for the government. Those who spoke against the Sedition ... ...

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... switching hands from the Federalists to the Republicans. The Federalists had lost the presidential election, and the Republicans took over many strategic political positions. The federal courts were under a continued attack by newly appointed President Jefferson and the Republican Party who wished to bring the courts under the command of the executive branch. In spite of this, the lone area of ... ...

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... its citizens support principles to sink the state governments, consolidate them into one, and to monarchise that." Jefferson believed that this resentment against the independence of the states was a direct attack against the Constitution, and that it defied the true theory of the important document. The Constitution, according to Jefferson, stated that the states should remain "Independent as to everything within ... ...

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... potentially be nullified by individual states. States might decide to secede from the Union upon free will in avoiding unwanted taxes, such as the tariffs. The Nullification Theory is an attack on the United States Constitution in order to allow states the right to strike down a law that does not adhere to that states particular agenda. With the resignation of John ... ...

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... was also a time when colonists "objected to strict enforcement" of many British laws and taxes placed on colonial imports. In the late eighteenth century, colonists began to boycott British goods, attack British troops, and protest as an attempt to get rid of these unfair laws and taxes. They established a Continental Congress, which "coordinated the colonies resistance to British policies." In 1775 ... ...

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