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Essay 30-C: The Twenty-Sixth Amendment and The Founding Documents
Americans in the state of Georgia have been able to vote at age eighteen since the middle of World War II, but it was not until 1971, with the passage of the Twenty-Sixth Amendment, that 18-year-old Americans in every state became eligible to vote. In Colonial America, colonists…
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Essay 30-B: The Twenty-Sixth Amendment and Jennings Randolph
Jennings Randolph’s long public life offers an important window into one of the Declaration of Independence’s most enduring principles: government by consent. Born in Salem, West Virginia, on March 8, 1902, Randolph grew up in a state where public service, education, and…
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Essay 30-A: The Twenty-Sixth Amendment and The People
As a soldier who was 20 years old in 1967 in Vietnam, I have always believed that if a man is old enough to wear the uniform, carry a rifle, and risk his life for his country, then he ought to be old enough to vote for the people sending him into harm’s way. The Twenty-Sixth…
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Essay 29-C: The Civil Rights Movement Leading to the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act and the Founding Documents
The Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s - and beyond - drew heavily upon American founding documents and their core premise, ‘the consent of the governed’. This is nowhere better illustrated than in Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, delivered on the steps of the…
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Essay 29-B: The Civil Rights Movement Leading to the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act and Martin Luther King
On April 12, 1963, The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., was arrested in Birmingham, Alabama, for his protest against the continuing enforcement of segregation in that city, roiled by racial confrontations and violence. Placed in solitary confinement in a small bare cell with no…
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Essay 29-A: The Civil Rights Movement Leading to the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act and the People
Teaching the Civil Rights Movement requires us to tell the full story of the American Experiment, replete with triumphs, tragedies, and the perpetual effort to realize the justice to which our founding documents aspire. The Declaration of Independence asserts two non-negotiable…
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Essay 28-C: The Apollo Project and Moon Landing By Nasa and the Founding Documents
"Not because they are easy, but because they are hard." When President John F. Kennedy spoke these words at Rice University in September 1962, he captured a core principle that has reverberated since the Declaration of Independence: that a free people can self-govern, expand…
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Essay 28-B: The Apollo Project and Moon Landing By Nasa And Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson
We Did Not Get to the Moon by Accident People forget how many people it took. Not the astronauts. Everybody remembers the astronauts. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin got the parades, the magazine covers, and the footprints in the history books, and they earned every bit of it.…
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Essay 28-A: The Apollo Project and Moon Landing By Nasa and The People
“We choose to go to the Moon… we choose to go to the Moon… we choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things,” President John F. Kennedy declared at Rice University on September 12, 1962, “not because they are easy, but because they are hard!” Seven years later,…
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Essay 27-C: The National Highway Act and the Founding Documents
When one considers the marvel that is our Interstate Highway System, few today could imagine that it ever posed a challenging constitutional issue for the nation. Indeed, especially after the passage of the Highway Act in 1956 during the Eisenhower Administration with an 89-1…
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Essay 27-B: Dwight D. Eisenhower And The Highway Act That Linked America
Next time you are stuck in traffic on the highway, and trust me, there will be a next time, take a moment to appreciate its architecture. The clear signage, standardized lane sizes, and even the quality of its pavement are a tribute to American planning and engineering. The…
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Essay 27-A: The National Highway Act That Linked The American Nation and the People
The National Highway Act and Popular Consent in the American Republic The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, commonly known as the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act, stands as one of the most ambitious public works projects in American history. Signed by President…
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Essay 26-C: The Gi Bill And The Founding Documents
The American Founders would have understood and appreciated the principle behind the G.I. Bill. The Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, better known as the G.I. Bill, provided World War II veterans access to higher education, low-interest home loans, business opportunities,…