Recall of General
Douglas McArthur 1951 [At USInfo]
Truman repressed perhaps the greatest challenge made by a military leader to the Civilian
government.
Barry Goldwater: Conscience of a Conservative, 1964
Goldwater's 1964 compaign is often cited as the onset of the modern conservative movement.
What was different was his refusal to mix theology and politics. See for instance his
speech Ban
on Gays is Senseless Attempt to Stall the Inevitable [At CMU].
President Dwight Eisenhower: Farewell to the
Nation, January 17, 1961 [At this Site]
The remarkable speech in which the Republican president slammed the
"military-industrial" complex.
Students for a Democratic Society: Port Huron Statement,
June 15, 1962 [At Hanover]
Obituary: Mario Savio, 1960s student radical leader [At this
Site]
James Fallows: Immigration:
How It's Affecting Us, The Atlantic Monthly, November 1983 [At The Atlantic, subscription required]
"Immigration tends to select for those who are especially resilient, adaptable, and
hardworking".
Lowell Weiss: Timing is
Everything, The Atlantic Monthly, January1994 [At The Atlantic, subscription required]
The fate of two groups of Vietnamese immigrants in America.
Roy Beck: The
Ordeal of Immigration in Wausau, The Atlantic Monthly, April 1994 [At The
Atlantic]
Effects of Southeast Asian refugees in Wausau.
Jack Miles: A Bold Proposal
on Immigration, The Atlantic Monthly, June 1994 [At The Atlantic, subscription required]
"The United States can and should clamp down on points of illegal entry into this
country"
Benjamin Schwarz: The Diversity
Myth, The Atlantic Monthly, May 1995 [At The Atlantic, subscription required]
Matthew Connelly and Paul Kennedy: Must It Be the
Rest Against the West?, The Atlantic Monthly, December 1994 [At The Atlantic, subscription required]
Immigration issue as a problem of global inequalities. See critique by Virginia Abernethy: Optimism and
Overpopulation [At The Atlantic, subscription required]
William O. Douglas (1898-1980):A Living Bill of
Rights, excerpts, 1961 [At Internet Archive, from Civnet]
Balance of Power
Youngstown Sheet &
Tube Co. v. Sawyer, 1952 [At USInfo]
Steel owners sought to defend their rights against the executive by addressing the issue
of the balance of power.
Korematsu v. United
States, 1944 [At USInfo]
The Court allowed the internment of Japanese Americans during the Second World War.
Only three members dissented.
Harry S. Truman: Excutive
Order 9981 1948 [At USInfo]
Established equal treatment of Blacks in the hitherto segregated armed forces.
Brown v. Board of
Education, 1954 [At USInfo]
The finale of the NAACP's legislative campaign to overturn the "separate but
equal" doctrine in education.
Cooper v. Aaron,
1958 [At USInfo]
Forced the South to put Brown into effect.
Abrams v. United
States, 1919 [At USInfo]
The dissent by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes which is seen as the start of modern judicial
approaches to free speech.
Whitney v. California,
1927 [At USInfo]
Justice Louis D. Brandeis's concurrence is counted as one of the greatest defences of free
speech.
Near v. Minnesota,
1931 [At USInfo]
Extended the First Amendment to cover state courts.
West Virginia Board of
Education v.Barnette, 1943 [At USInfo]
In Minersville School District v. Gobitis (1940), the Supreme Court sustained local
school board requirements that all students salute the flag. Jehovah's Witnesses refused
to compromise, and in this case the Supreme Court reversed its earlier decision.
Engel v. Vitale,
1962 [At USInfo]
The Supreme court effectively bans school prayer.
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