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United Irishmen
United Irishmen or United Irish Society, Irish political organization. It was founded at Belfast in 1791 by Theobald Wolfe Tone . Disgruntled by the use of English patronage to control Irish politics, the organization aimed at legislative reform "founded on the principles of civil,... Read more |
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Freedom of religion
RELIGIOUS LIBERTY RELIGIOUS LIBERTY. The United States adopted a policy of religious liberty partly because influential people, including Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, advocated it, but partly because the sheer number of competing religious groups in eighteenth-century America made the... Read more |
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Civil Liberties
Civil Liberties and War. From the outset of the new American government under the Articles of Confederation, the need for striking a delicate balance between authority and liberty was essential. Fear of powerful central control was stated clearly regarding the English king in the U.S. Declaration of... Read more |
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Jerry Falwell
Jerry Lamon Falwell , 1933-2007, American fundamentalist Baptist pastor, b. Lynchburg, Va. A popular preacher and founder of the Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg, Falwell began (1968) airing his services on television on a program that was later named "The Old-Time Gospel Hour." Falwell... Read more |
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Family Compact
Family Compact name popularly applied to a small, powerful group of men who dominated the government of Upper Canada (Ontario) from the closing years of the 18th cent. to the beginnings of responsible government under the Baldwin-LaFontaine Reform ministry (1848-51). The group, some of whose... Read more |
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Boerne v. Flores
Boerne v. Flores, 521 U.S. 507 (1997), argued 19 Feb. 1997, decided 25 June 1997 by a vote of 6 to 3; opinion delivered by Kennedy; concurring opinions by Scalia and Stevens; dissenting opinions by Breyer, O'Connor, and Souter. In 1993, Congress passed the Religious Freedom and Restoration Act... Read more |
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Nathaniel Ward
WARD, NATHANIEL Nathaniel Ward was a Puritan minister, attorney, and writer who compiled a code of statutes for colonial Massachusetts entitled The Body of Liberties, which was adopted by the colony in 1641. This code, which combined English common law with Mosaic law (laws derived from the Old... Read more |
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Hopedale Community
Hopedale Community A Spiritualist community founded by Rev. Adin Ballou (1828-1886) in 1841 near Milford, Massachusetts. From 1850 on, this religious and socialistic community was the scene of various spirit manifestations and helped spread Spiritualism in the United States. Ballou proclaimed... Read more |
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Elohim
Elohim , term used to designate the God of Israel. The use of Elohim in Israel's religious texts is an attempt to treat the particular Hebrew God, Yahweh, in a more general religious context.... Read more |
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amphictyony
amphictyony , in ancient Greece, a league connected with maintaining a temple or shrine. There were a number of these, but by far the most important was the Great, or Delphic, Amphictyony (or simply the Amphictyonic League), a league originally of 12 tribes. It had meetings in the spring at the... Read more |
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Everson v. Board of Education of Ewing Township
...Everson involved a New Jersey statute...that individual religious liberty could be best achieved...taxed to support a religious institution of any...Virginia Bill for Religious Liberty. At this...support them. Its ... |
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Gibbons, James Cardinal
...Plenary Council, some of whose legislation continues to govern the U.S. Roman...1810–1885), Archbishop of New York.In Rome in 1887, he defended...gave an address praising American religious liberty. As the nation's only cardinal... |
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Civil Liberties and War
Civil Liberties and War. From the outset of the new American government...authority and liberty was essential...main enemy of liberty was Congress, which...statement of religious freedom.The very...national security ... |
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Public Opinion
...disintegrating and new ones are forming...support from major religious denominations and...s seminal civil liberties decisions of the...economic regulatory legislation by demonstrating...economic reform legislation in 1937 in the wake...had ... |
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Catholic Relief Acts
...to how far their rhetoric of liberty extended to the Catholic majority...s act of 1774 introducing a new oath of allegiance prepared...government looked to further relief legislation to prevent any alliance between...significantly to the growth of religious ... |
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Equality
...intolerance challenging religious, ethnic, and racial injustice...authorized, through the New Deal of the 1930s and the Great Society legislation of the 1960s, economic inequality...leading nowhere. As a new century dawned, the...Capitalism; Civil ... |
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liberalism
...shape in the struggle for religious toleration in the 16th and...with the arrival of ‘New Liberalism’, committed to social reform and welfare legislation. In contemporary debate...importance of personal liberty in the face of encroachment... |
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New Religious Liberty Legislation Can Be Passed Under Constitutional Commerce...
...allowed government to regulate religious enterprises under the Constitution...Clause, or which have allowed religious institutions to challenge...subcommittee, that newly introduced legislation protecting religious liberty is within ... |
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Connecticut Voters Want Strong First Amendment Religious Liberty Protections...
...bill without strong religious freedom protection NEW HAVEN, Conn., April...Connecticut voters want any legislation to steer clear of violating First Amendment religious liberty protections and oppose many of the ... |
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Connecticut Voters Want Strong First Amendment Religious Liberty Protections...
...according to a new Knights of Columbus...voters want any legislation to steer clear...First Amendment religious liberty protections and oppose many of the legislation's potential consequences...legislation without ... |
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Compromise on religious liberty slated for action in U.S. Congress
...Young Israelof New Rochelle, N...memberMichael Turek.Now legislation that was scheduled...to expand.The Religious Liberty Protection Act...R-Utah) is a newer, more limited...governments are blocking religious ... |
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PROTETING RELIGIOUS LIBERTY:DOUGLAS LAYCOCK
...1999 Senate Committee on the Judiciary Legislation to Protect Religious Liberty Testimony of Douglas Laycock University...the opportunity to testify in support of new legislation to protect religious ... |
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PROTETING RELIGIOUS LIBERTY:CHAI FELDBLUM
...direct a Federal Legislation Clinic at the Law...authority to pass the Religious Liberty Protection Act...other pieces of legislation that Congress might...beginning with New York v. United...legislation to protect ... |
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Americans United, Others Drop Support For Religious Liberty Bill.(Brief Article)
...of the Religious Liberty Protection Act (RLPA), legislation intended to enhance religious freedom protections...from infringing on religious liberty. The legislation was a response to...United, believe the ... |
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RELIGIOUS LIBERTY PROTECTION ACT:MARCI A. HAMILTON
...The "Religious Liberty Protection Act...55 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10003...invalidated the Religious Freedom Restoration...litigating the Religious Freedom Restoration Act and similar religious liberty ... |
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RELIGIOUS LIBERTY:MARCI A. HAMILTON
...The Religious Liberty Protection Act...55 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10003...invalidated the Religious Freedom Restoration...litigating the Religious Freedom Restoration Act and similar religious liberty ... |
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RELIGIOUS LIBERTY:RABBI DAVID ZWIEBEL
...Religious Liberty Protection...and social legislation. However...need for legislation to protect...numerous other religious and civil liberties groups in...to promote legislation along the lines of the ... |
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