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The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is a nonprofit organization of conservative state legislators and private sector representatives who draft and share model legislation for distribution among state governments in the United States.
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:Sir Francis Drake is best known for circumnavigating Earth (1577–80), preying on Spanish ships along the way. Later he was credited for his defense of England by raiding Spain's harbour at Cádiz in 1587 and (according to many sources) by disrupting the Spanish Armada in the English Channel with fire ships in 1588.
The U.S. Constitution established America’s national government and fundamental laws, and guaranteed certain basic rights for its citizens. It was signed on September 17, 1787, by delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, presided over by George Washington. Under America’s first governing document, the Articles of Confederation, the national government was weak and states operated like independent countries. At the 1787 convention, delegates devised a plan for a stronger federal government with three branches–executive, legislative and judicial–along with a system of checks and balances to ensure no single branch would have too much power. The Bill of Rights–10 amendments guaranteeing basic individual protections such as freedom of speech and religion–became part of the Constitution in 1791. To date, there have been a total of 27 constitutional amendments.
-Civil liberties is defined as the basic rights guaranteed to individual citizens by law
-During world war 1 individuals rights were being taken away by the government
-People who opposed the war were often sent to jail or lost their jobs
-Rights like freedom of speech and the right to protest were being suppressed Civil liberties Events that had a major effect Causes -government was trying to limit the
opposition to the war
-when propaganda wasn't enough they
<span>started forcing people to support the </span>
<span>allied powers </span>
<span>-president Woodrow Wilson said "gravest threats against our national peace and safety have been uttered within our own borders." The Espionage Act, passed in </span>
<span>June 1917, provided penalties </span>
<span>of 20 years imprisonment and </span>
<span>fines up to $10,000 for those </span>
<span>convicted of interfering with </span>
<span>military recruitment. The sedition act of 1918 made </span>
<span>it a crime to disrupt military </span>
<span>recruiting or enlistments, to </span>
<span>encourage support for Germany </span>
<span>and its allies or disrespect for </span>
American war efforts. Schenck vs. United States
-Charles Schenck was the Secretary
of the Socialist Party of America and
<span>responsible for printing, distributing, </span>
and mailing to prospective draftees
during WWI opposing the war
<span>-convicted of violating the Espionage Act </span>
-appealed to the Supreme Court saying their
decision violated his first amendment rights
-court held that Schenck's conviction was constitutional
<span>-the first amendment did not protect speech encouraging insubordination </span>
-"clear and present danger"
-Schenck spent 6 months in prison Activists Eugene V. Debs
<span>*an American Labor and </span>
political leader, and 5 time
Socialist Party of America Candidate
for the American presidency
<span>*made an anti-war speech in Canton, </span>
Ohio protesting involvement in WWI
*arrested under Espionage act
<span>*sentenced to serve 10 yrs in prison and </span>
<span>disenfranchised for life Upton Sinclair</span>
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