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In June 1964, hundreds of mostly white students from northern colleges gathered in Mississippi, responding to the call of human rights groups to hold Freedom Summer. Activists planned to eliminate the laws of Jim Crow and the infamous racist customs of this state, trying to register tens of thousands of black residents of Mississippi as voters. This movement prompted Congress to sign the landmark Voting Rights Act next year.
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That Thomas Jefferson was a true believer of <em>basic human rights</em>
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He stated these rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness in the Declaration, and was inspired by the work of John Locke, who wrote about the necessity of a government controlled by the people. Thomas Jefferson also believed in religious freedom and the separation of church and state
This is an example of the defense of the natural rights of free people (B).
Natural rights are rights which are believed to be so self-evident that they cannot be questioned. The United States Declaration of Independence lists the following natural rights: "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness."
This excerpt defends the natural right to <u>liberty</u>, as exemplified by such phrases as:
- "being of right free;"
- "the love of liberty natural to all men;"
- "enjoy their liberty."
The main significance of the War Powers Act was that "It prevented Congress from withholding funding <span>for a war," since it gave FDR the ability to completely rearrange the executive branch. </span>
