... back in 1942. Betts vs. Brady was decided by a majority of six to three. This clearly proved that the due process clause of the fourteenth amendment did not assure a lawyer's help in a state criminal trial. A lawyer didn't have to be provided to a person unless he or she had "special circumstances". Clarence Earl Gideon had none of these special circumstances. In fact ... were biased towards Gideon and Fortas from the beginning. Smith Betts put forth the exact same case to the Supreme Court twenty years earlier. The difference was that different justices sat back then. Six out of nine o...

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... said my a famous person in our history " the man who becomes Americanized ... and who talks United States instead of the dialect of the country which he has of his own free will abandoned, is not only doing his plain duty by his adopted land, but is also rendering himself s service of immeasurable value... A man who speaks German or Swedish may nevertheless ... culture opened to them are open to other cultures. By the time they apply for college, students with four or more years of foreign language study score higher on the SAT verbal section, according to the PSMLA. By adulthood, if th...

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