The 14th Amendment was recognized right away to be problematic. The concept of person was both too narrow and too broad, and the courts went to work to overcome both of those flaws.


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Social Security is based on a principle. It's based on the principle that you care about other p...
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Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.
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I'm about as monolingual as you come, but nevertheless, I have a variety of different languages ...
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If you're working 50 hours a week to try to maintain family income, and your children have the k...
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Descriptive grammar is an attempt to give an account of what the current system is for either a soci...
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Obama has succeeded in descending even below George W. Bush in approval in the Arab world. It's ...
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By very conservative estimates, Turkish repression of Kurds in the 1990s falls in the category of Ko...
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The first scholarly edition of Magna Carta was published by the eminent jurist William Blackstone. I...
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The Occupy movement is - it was a big surprise.
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The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.
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Haitian rice farmers are quite efficient, but they can't compete with U.S. agribusiness that rel...
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A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the d...
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If you're in favour of any policy - reform, revolution, stability, regression, whatever - if you...
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There's never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it's mostly a fabrication.
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In societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and brought to fair trial. ...
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The Federal Reserve has an official commitment to two different policies. One is to prevent inflatio...
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For many of the world's conflicts, it is difficult even to conjure up a feasible settlement.
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The country that consistently ranks among the highest in educational achievement is Finland. A rich ...
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The events of October 1962 are widely hailed as Kennedy's finest hour.
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In the universities, cheap, vulnerable labor means adjuncts and graduate students.
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It cannot be too often stressed that Israel had no credible pretext for its 2008-9 attack on Gaza, w...
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In November 2008, the day of the presidential election, Israeli military forces invaded Gaza and kil...
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The Oslo Accords in 1993 determined that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank are a single territorial e...
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From the U.S. point of view, negotiations are, in effect, a way for Israel to continue its policies ...
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There's a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which say...
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Historical grammar is a study of how, say, modern English developed from Middle English, and how tha...
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When George W. Bush came into office, North Korea had maybe one nuclear weapon and verifiably wasn&#...
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The good news from the U.S. military survey of focus groups is that Iraqis do accept the Nuremberg p...
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The polls show that concern over inequality among the general public rose pretty sharply after the O...
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If workers are more insecure, that's very 'healthy' for the society, because if workers ...
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The 'anti-globalisation movement' is the most significant proponent of globalisation - but i...
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The term 'globalisation' is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-ri...
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In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in ...
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When I arrived in Laos and found young Americans living there, out of free choice, I was surprised. ...
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Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop mea...
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My father was a great sympathizer of Ahad Ha'am. Every Friday night we would read Hebrew togethe...
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Popular struggles to bring about a freer and more just society have been resisted by violence and re...
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Somebody will be able to overcome any encryption technique you use!
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I am opposed to the accumulation of executive power anywhere.
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Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let...
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