There have always been conflicts between individual rights and national security interests in democracies. Limits on civil liberties during wartime, including restrictions on free speech, public assembly, and mass detentions, have been the most serious threats to individual freedom. Even in peacetime, counter-terrorist measures including profiling, detention, and exclusion, along with the use of national identification cards, have raised concerns about racism, constitutional violations, and the loss of privacy. With the passage of new anti-terrorist laws after September 11, 2001, these tensions have increased. Supporters of broader governmental powers insist that they are part of the increased security measures necessary to safeguard national security. In contrast, many civil rights groups fear that the infringement upon individual rights is another step in the erosion of democratic civil society.
Wartime measures. The severest restrictions on civil liberties have occurred in times of war. In September 1862, during the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) suspended the right of habeas corpus in order to allow federal authorities to arrest and detain suspected Confederate sympathizers without arrest warrants or speedy trials. Well aware of the drastic nature of such a step, Lincoln justified it as a necessary wartime measure. After the United States Supreme Court found Lincoln's abrogation of habeas corpus an unconstitutional intrusion on Congressional authority, Congress itself ratified the measure by passing the Habeas Corpus Act in September 1863. Through 1864, about 14,000 people were arrested under the act; about one in seven were detained at length in federal prisons, most on allegations of offering aid to the Confederacy but others on corruption and fraud charges.
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B
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The answer is B because they had a highly advanced numeral system with place values. Maya mathematics were also far ahead of Europe for many centuries.
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Women usually wear long dresses and skirts in vibrant colors and patterns with blankets around their waists, and for special occasions (like church or weddings) they wear a traditional Basotho dress called the seshoeshoe. Seshoeshoe are worn in endless varieties of designs, patterns and colours.
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The correct answer is letter A
Explanation: The discovery Christopher Columbus was important because it led to the colonization of the Americas. He thought he had arrived in India, that was his object. But when he arrived there he met natives who were very obedient and docile.
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Following is a transcript of President Nixon's news conference in Washington last night, as recorded by The New York Times:
OPENING STATEMENT
Ladies and gentlemen, before going to your questions, I have a statement with regard to the Mideast which I think will anticipate some of the questions because this will update the information which is breaking rather fast in that area, as you know, for the past two days.
The cease‐fire is holding. There have been some violations, but generally speaking it can be said that it is holding at this time.
As you know, as a result of the U.N. resolution, which was agreed to yesterday by a vote of 14 to 0, a peace‐keeping force will go to the Mideast, and this force, however, will not include any forces from the major powers including, of course, the United States and Soviet Union.
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