It is a fair summary of constitutional history that the landmarks of our liberties have often been forged in cases involving not very nice people." -Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter
Protection of civil liberties and civil rights is perhaps the most fundamental political value in American society. And yet, as former Justice Frankfurter explained in the quote above, the people who test liberties and rights in our courts are not always ideal citizens. Consider some of these examples:
A pick ax murderer on death row who found God and asked for clemency
A publisher of magazines, books, and photos convicted for sending obscene materials through the United States mail
A convict whose electrocution was botched when 2,000 volts of electricity rushed into his body, causing flames to leap from his head
A university student criminally charged for writing and publishing on the internet about torturing and murdering women
Each of these people made sensational headline news as the center of one of many national civil liberties disputes in the late 20th century. They became involved in the legal process because of behavior that violated a law, and almost certainly, none of them intended to become famous. More important than the headlines they made, however, is the role they played in establishing important principles that define the many civil liberties and civil rights that Americans enjoy today.
The Iran-Contra Affair <u>involved the use of profits from Iranian arms sales to support the Contras.</u>
The Iran-Contra Affair was a main scandal in the United States during the Reagan administration. The main problem was the selling of weapons to Iran, the U.S. did not care they were on an arms embargo. The funds obtained were used to fund Contra fighters in Nicaragua which was also controversial.
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the Committee of Public Safety
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I hope you still needed this answer lol but Health would be a block grant, waste-water treatment would be a categorical grant, and research on a treatment of uterine cancer would be a project grant
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- The ongoing Cyprus dispute: is a conflict between the two communities that coexist in the island: Turkish and Cypriots (connected to the Greek culture). There was a Turkish military invasion in 1974, when the Turkish occupied the Northern third of the island and self-declared the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, only recognized by Turkey nowadays. In fact, the Republic of Cyprus is recognized in the international community and a single legitimate state, that comprises the whole island.
- Former Yugoslavia: the ethnic conflict in fact led to the Yugoslav Wars and to the disolution of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1992. The different republics that formerly constituted Yugoslavia (he SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SR Croatia, SR Macedonia, SR Montenegro, SR Serbia and SR Slovenia), declared their independence, even tough there still existed internal ethnic tensions on each.
- Iraq: ethnic conflicts due to the divisions between the Sunni and Shi'ite factions in Iraq. Concerns emerged with the arrival of Sadam Hussein to power. The conflict stills ongoing nowadays.