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If the answer is no, women are somehow less equal than every other group protected by the US Constitution - let's just get that out there on the table.
Kamala Lopez: Could Michael Moore Know Why Women Are Unhappy? 2009
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Competition seems to be what the Founders had in mind with the US Constitution--a weak central government with strong State governments, each with a right to secede.
What is Real Freedom?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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But it is the agenda of the Scottish Enlightenment - as enacted by the US Constitution - which make the slogan of “liberty, fraternity and equality” real.
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The human rights provisions of the United Nations Charter would have been binding at the federal and state level of government given its status under the US Constitution as a ratified treaty.
Archive 2008-09-01 Mary L. Dudziak 2008
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The human rights provisions of the United Nations Charter would have been binding at the federal and state level of government given its status under the US Constitution as a ratified treaty.
Reviewed: Richardson, The Origins of African American Interests in International Law Mary L. Dudziak 2008
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However, the US Constitution won because of the need to limit the power of the government because any government will naturally assume power whether you name rights or not.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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The power struggle between the Bush/Cheney dictatorship and the rule of We the People under the US Constitution continues, and the outcome is far from certain.
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False prophets like Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell forget that under the holy US Constitution, "governing authority" rests with We the People, and the president is to be subject to US, to our Representatives in Congress.
To close the "God gap", progressives must reclaim the Bible 2007
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Once they followed the three phase process to become a state, those state governments were then governed by the state constitutions adopted via this process, and also having joined “the union”, they fell under the US Constitution, as well.
Think Progress » Gonzales: ‘There Is No Express Grant of Habeas Corpus In The Constitution’ 2007
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In an oddity of history, our US Constitution is silent on this all-important issue; which is to say that the people have never stated our collective definition of a good election.
Solving the Election Crisis: Should We Consider a Constitutional Amendment? 2007
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