Sedition Act

1)The creation of the Sedition Act was to help control pro-French troublemakers by forbidding criticism of the federal government. The Sedition Act required criminal penalties for persons who said or published anything false, scandalous, or malicious against the federal government, congress or the president. The Sedition Act was created in 1798. There were twenty-five American citizens that were arrested under the Sedition Act.

2)Yes I think the sedition act was unconstitutional because people have the "freedom of speech". It is the people opinion on what they think. Just because someone does not like the president and says something about it doesn't mean he should be arrested for it. People have the right to express them selves through freedom of speech and they were taking that away from the people.

3)I think the right of free speech should be absolute except in times of war. During times of peace people should be able to speak freely about anything they want. They should be able to express themselves. During times of war speech should be a little stricter. People should be able to let the government know what they think of the matter. But not get in the way of what the government is doing.

4)During times of peace I do not believe there should be any restrictions on freedom of speech. That is what freedom of speech is for people have the right to say whatever they feel and believe.

Religion and the Pledge

1) The Pledge reads."I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands; one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." The phrase under God was added in 1954. It was added so that the U.S. could be separate from countries that did not believe in God.

2) The Ninth Circuit decision declared the phrase "under God" unconstitutional because the state can not teach religion in schools. This made parents that did not believe in god agree that there children were saying on nation under God in the pledge to the United States Flag.

3)The first amendment the Freedom of Speech is directly relevant to this case. If someone does not want to recite the Pledge of Allegiance they are not forced to. If they are against saying under God they do not have to it is the persons freedom of being and citizen of the United States.

4)Arguments for reciting "under God". There is no one who is forced to say the pledge.Saying the pledge does not harm anyone to say it. It is a freedom of religion don't say it if you don't believe in it. Saying under god is a tradition not meant to harm anyone if saying under God was unconstitutional the constitution would be unconstitutional and even Declaration of Independence.
Arguments against reciting "under God". Freedom of religion means people do not have to believe in God. Putting the phrase in the pledge and having kids in school say it everyday is against the first amendment.

5)a."Our board of education believes strongly that our students should be allowed to recite the Pledge. We are proud to defend the Pledge of Allegiance." I agree with this statement. Because I believe that everyone who lives in America should have to recite the pledge. This country was founded by people who believed in god and wanted to worship him. True this is a free country and people don't have to believe in God. But it shows respect to this great country by stating what this country was founded on and that was religion of God. People should be proud to say the Pledge of Allegiance.

Tax cuts

1)The government is trying to get all they can out of everyone with out taking everything. When the government does this they can not tax the lower class because they would take everything they have. So they can tax the rich more. On paper it looks like the rich gets better tax cuts but they don't. In the end the rich still have to pay more in tax because they make more money.

2)No I do not think the tax system is this simple because the government has professionals that come out and look over your house and belongings to see what kind of things you have. Also they have to know how much money you make. If you have a brand new vehicle and a new house they are going to tax you more for it than if you just have an old house and vehicle.
"My tax cut plan is not just about productivity, it is about people. Economics is more than narrow interests or organized envy. A tax plan must apply market principles to the public interest. And my plan sets out to make life better for average men, women and children."
— President George W. Bush. In this statement Bush is saying that the tax system isn't as simple as most people think.

Bush, George. "Increasing Tax Fairness."
The White House 1. 11 Dec 2008
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3)Mr. Kamerschen is a republican. He says in the article about the smaller people whining about not getting enough money back. But the rich people are still paying their fair share it just doesn't sound like it. He is also a republican because he is saying without the upper class the middle and lower class will not be able to give the government the money they need to run the government.

President Debate 2

Obama thinks that the Middle Class should have a break on taxes, when McCain wants to stop the wasteful spending, help people out , and restore the economy. All these things need to happen to our economy, but our Middle Class is the one that needs the most help. McCain's wants to give the big businesses a break from taxes when they do not need it. The Middle Class is the ones that keep our country going. They work, and support the small businesses, that helps support the country. Obama believes that Bush is the reason why our economy is going down hill since we had a lot of wasteful spending. He also wants to help out on the income and the wages. McCain wants to stabilize the markets, which would be good for us, but bad for them. Obama wants to cut the spending and focus on saving our money and getting out of debt. McCain blames Obama for wasteful spending and thinks that we should build nuclear plants in our country because nuclear power is the way to go. He also thinks that he can work on health, energy, and nuclear war fair at the same time. Obama wants to work on them one at a time, but he wants to do energy first, then health, and then education. McCain's programs may eliminate deficit spending, and he recommends a spending freeze. Obama believes in the clean coal technology and wants to cut the oil companies money to save money and he would like to have leadership from Washington. McCain describes Obama as Herbert Hoover, he will cause the small business to lose their jobs instead of helping the people that make our country keep going. He also wants to reduce the income tax on the Middle Class. Obama wants to have a tax cut for 90% of Americans and wants to make an investment, but wants the people to look at their backgrounds. Meaning Obama and McCain's background. McCain has talked to leaders that know how to run our country when Obama hasn't done anything to help him out. McCain wants to get away from the Bush Administration so he can fix nuclear power, green technology, and taxes. He wants to increase 95% of people's income taxes about $5,000 as a refund. Obama wants to lower the premium and thinks that the government to crack down on insurance companies that cheat the people. McCain wants to prevent the spreading of terrism as well as wanting the troops to come home to a victory. Obama thinks that we shouldn't go to war and we really shouldn't be giving them our money. He thinks that if we change policies with the Iraq people then that will make everything better, and wants to find Ben La don and kill him because they are plotting to kill more Americans. I believe that McCain did a better job in this election than the last. Because he was more outspoken in this election and had more to say. I still do not know who i am going to vote for in the upcoming election. I am leaning toward John McCain but I have not made up my decision for sure about who I want for President.

Economy

Our economy is in bad spot right now. The government is spending lots of money on the war in Iraq. I believe we should be supporting the war and that we should have went to war when 911 first happened. But now we are spending money and part of that is ending up in the hands of the Iraq people that are fighting us. The other reason the economy is the way it is, is because we have people with big businesses that do not know how to take care of there billions of dollars. Now they expect the hard working middle class to bail them out.

Sept. 14th the Lehman brothers were on the brink of collapse and they scrambled for a buyer. Sept. 15th AIG hit with a downgrade needing 85 billion bailout for AIG. Sept. 17th gold rose 70$, oil rose 6$. The Dow dropped 450 points by the end of the day. Sept. 18th central banks around the world to invest a total of $180 billion in global financial markets. AIG was tossed out of the Dow Jones industrial average and replaced with food giant Kraft. Sept. 19th Treasury Secretary Paulson outlined the governments plan to put up hundreds of billions of dollars to help stem the crisis, saying ''' the financial security of all Americans... depend on the our ability to restore our financial institutions to a sound footing.''' Sept. 20 administration asking for $700 billion to buy troubled mortgage assets and get the financial system flowing again. Sept. 21 Pelosi said ''' we will not simply hand over $700 billion blank check to wall street and hope for a better outcome.'''Sept. 22 massive federal bailout that was greeted with relief on Friday sending the Dow up 369 point. Sept. 24 debate about the bush administration's proposed $700 billion bailout raged on. Sept. 25 Washington mutual collapsed late Thursday night marking the biggest bank failure in history. Sept. 29 the house of representatives voted down the $700 billion financial bailout plan by a 228-205 margin. the Dow plunged 777 points its largest one-day point drop ever.

The $700 billion dollar bail out plan was the first bail out plan. It did not work because there were not enough regulations for the big businesses and the republicans didn't give enough support and the tax payers would have to pay it back. The billion dollar bail out that was before congress is now passed to bail out the big businesses.

Actual Democracy

1. Our founding fathers did not want a true democracy. Before they came to the United States they were under a rule of tyranny.

2. The problem with oligarchical representative republican system is human greed. The people on top are scared of loosing wealth so they get greedy and satisfy themselves not their country.

3. Our Status Que works with the people on the bottom that want to improve their position in life, but they have no political power. Then you have the people on top or wealthy that want it to stay that way. The end result, nothing happens because those that want change don’t have the ability and those that have the ability don’t want change.

Thomas Jefferson

1. market where men should be bought and sold, carrying the in another hemisphere

2.incur miserable death in their transportation thither. murdering the people upon whom he also obtruded them.

3.Jefferson does not agree with slavery in the form of torture. He also does not think we should be taking them from there homes to a new land or making them experience the horrible deaths that they had to go through to get here.

4. He was against it he was trying to prove to the people that it was wrong in enslaving these people. Because they are human beings themselves and shouldn't be treated like animals.

5. The king is saying that the African Americans are meant to take orders and work and should not have any special treatments.

canidates 08

Candidates 08

John McCain is running for the republican party against Democrat Barack Obama. He is currently a U.S. Senator from Arizona. John McCain was elected to congress in 1982. He is 71 years old born on August 29, 1936 and he was elected house of representatives in 1982 where he served two terms. McCain is a christian that goes to a baptist church. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1958 and became a naval aviator. McCain is pro life and has a 100% rating from the National Right to Life Committee. McCain is against gay marriage and thinks marriage should be between a man and a women but thinks the states should decide.



Barack Obama is an African American Democrat running for president of the united states. Obama is 47 years old a christian member of trinity United church of Christ in Chicago. He graduated from Columbia University and Harvard Law School. Obama worked as a community organizer and practiced as a civil rights attorney. He then served in the Illinois Senate from 1997 through 2004. He was a teacher at the University or Chicago Law School where he taught constitutional law. Obama tried to get a seat in the House or Representatives in 2000 but failed. Some of Obamas political views are to reduce the U.S. overall oil consumption by 10 million barrels a day. Obama supports NASA and thinks that America should have universal health care.

Super Tuesday

1.)The front runner was John McCain for the republican party. No one has dropped out of the race.

2.)No one came out front runner for the democrat party. None was determined. No one dropped out of the Democratic race.

3.)In Kansas 36,687 Demacrats voted in the caucus. Obama got the majority or the votes in Kansas. He won by 9,515 votes. I was not suprised that Obama won I would have voted for Obama because I do not believe Hillary Clinton is the right person for president. She does not have what it will take to run the country.

Cartoons

1.)The democrats are building a place made out of cards. One card says race because of Obamas race and the other card says gender because of Hillary Clintons female gender in becoming president. The donkeys are the constucters because donkeys represent democrats and Obama and Hillary are democrats. This is saying that there race and gender may have a role in wether or not they get elected president.



2.)The house is forclosed because the people couldnt make there payment to the government. The mail man is bringing them a government check for a tax retern. The picture is saying that why would they give you government money now when they already took your house.



3.)Edwards big thing is talking about poverty issues. But then he can go out and spend $400.00 on a new hair cut. This is saying he needs to stick to what he tells people and not spend that kind of money on a hair cut.



4.)Father time is holding the ground hog and the ground hog is saying the delegate scramble is far from over. The ground hog instead of seeing his shadow sees that there will be 10 more months of political pundits.

THE BROWN DECISION

1.)The people that were involved in the Brown v BOE Topeka where her father Oliver Brown, Linda Brown, The Chief Justice of the United States, The Supreme Court, and 200 plaintiffs.


2.) They went to a school with ten teachers and almost 800 students and there was no indoor plumbing other schools were getting ten times as much money on educating a white child as they did on every black child.


3.)In 1948 the military desegregated under the order of President Truman.


4.)The main factor was on the night of September 8, 1953 when Chief Justice Vinson died of a massive heart attack, Justice Felix Fankfurter reprotedly remarked to a law clerk not long afterward "This is the first indication I have ever had that there is a God."


5.)Joseph De Laine the south carolina pastor who had helped bring the briggs case to court received a letter giving him ten days to leave town or die. Around seven days hes church was burned down onthe tenth day an armed posse showed up at his house gunfire was echanged and the pastor left town never to return.

6.)The author thought the brown decision was a bad one. I disagree I believe that the decsion was a good one even though it was bad for the blacks at the time then but now the blacks have just as many rights as the whites.
African Americans were treated very poorly during this time and its good that they are finaly treated equal. With all the riots and destoying of African American homes and buildings its good they finally can be safe and not worry about the hostility.

Great Depression

1.) man sitting with his two children

2.) great depression barley getting by

3.) a. old raggedy cloths

b. they are doing fine and seem sum what happy with what little they have

5.) the nice car in the background

6.) they are poor don't have any or very few luxuries

7.) they are getting by and making the best out of what they have

8.)they need jobs new clothes and a better place to live

9.) the man and his two sons standing by him with an old torn up building behind them

Great Depression

1.) older man standing in front of his house

2.) old man forced to live in a Hooverville

3.) a. hes dressed in older looking farm clothes
b.tired

5.) the small housed they live in

6.) no fancy place to live

7.) living the best the can trying to get by

8.) money, a job, and a better place to live

9.) a man poor man with the small houses behind him

Doughboys

1.) The way they described the war with the trenches how they had to live in them when at certain times they had to get up and run strait in to enemy fire to get closer to the enemy. When they had to charge a hill that had 20 gunners in the rocks and snipers in the trees. They didn't have anything but there pack and there gun. They didn't get a bath all they were there for was to fight and win a war. Fighting on the front line in the trenches shows great bravery.

2.)They were back ups when some men were getting drove back the marines came in to relieve them and drove the Germans back so that the infantry men could get back and take care of there wounds and get rested up.

3.) I think the greatest challenge would be staying alive. And also moving from one place to another without getting shot. There were alot of Germans firing and German aircraft firing that were always on the lookout.

My greatest fear would be down in the trenches hearing the bullets hit right next to you knowing that any second one could hit you, or the bombs that were being dropped thinking of one getting dropped in the trench I was sitting in feeling the metal fall all around. Seeing my buddy die thats sitting right next to me.

socialism

1.)They believe in socialism and that you shouldn't have to work cause people will do it for you.

2.) Socialism advocates forcing "rich"people (who earn their money like everyone else)to give to the "poor" (who have the right to be rich if they so choose).

3.) Socialism has a good heart but socialism has no mind. It cannot fathom the concept that giving money to people does not help them learn to spend it any wiser it only gives them more money to spend on what they are doing currently. left wingers are more about taking money from people because there are always good people out there to work and give you money and support you.

4.) The authors purpose in this is that communism is a corrupt system of government that only benefits the poor people cause it forces the rich people that earn there money to give to the poor that don't earn there money. Communism factors an authoritarian or dictator.



Socialism is a system of government controlling society for the benefit of all members. Socialism also is a government body that advocates equal sharing. There are striking differences between socialism and communism lie religion but socialism is a precursor to communism. Socialism is designed to even the playing field. Socialism has a good heart but no mind it cannot fathom the concept that giving money to people does not help them learn to spend it any wiser it only gives them more money to spend on what they are doing currently.



Right Wing is the best way to go because people that make there money should be allowed to keep making it. The author believes in the saying "If you give a man a fish, you've fed him for a day. If you teach a man to fish, you've fed him for life." And capitalism, Capitalism believes in allowing the rich to become richer but it does not make the poor become poorer it allows the rich to pump more money back into private businesses that create jobs for the poor this is making people work to earn their living.

5.) He believes in Capitalism because he thinks that people should have to work for a living. That giving people money is not going to make them want to work at all when they get money for doing nothing.

6.) I agree with the author because I think people should have to work for living if they are able to. I disagree with people that don't work that can but they choose not to because there are people that will support them for doing nothing that's not right. People should find a job and get to work and make a living on there own.

child labor laws

1.) Fair Labor Standards Act

2.) initative seeks to promote positive and safe work experiences for young workers.

3.) 14 years minimum age of imployment and limit number hours worked my minors underage 16. wage set and safty requirements for minors under age 18.

4.) minors of any age my be employed at anytime in any occupation on a farm owned or operated by his or her parents.

5.) minimum wage for employees is 5.58$ per hour.

6.) Occupational Safety and health administration.

7.)ages 14-15, 3hours in a school day, 18 hours in a school week, 8hours on a non school day, 40 hours in a non school week and between 7am-7pm exept from June 1, through Labor Day when nighttime work hours are extended to 9pm.

Constitutional Rights Foundation

1.) John Locke's theory of natural rights is that all individuals are equal which that they are born with "inalienable"or natural rights. Which are god given and can not be taken or given away. Which are "life, liberty, and property." He also reasoned, individuals have both a right and a duty to preserve their own lives. Property meant the owner ship of ones self which included a right to personal well being. Jefferson kept the same thing Locke wrote with life and liberty but he changed the part that said property and he put in his own words "pursuit of happiness."Jefferson also went along with Locke when he said the people have the right to resist the government, alter or abolish it and create a new political system, but instead of Jefferson saying resist the government he said abolish it.

2.) Slavery is not constitutional in the sense that it does not agree with what the constitution says in life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness cause slaves had no rights.

3.)What the saying "all men are equal" means today is that every man has the same rights as the other man no matter the race or the culture. If one man has the right to do something then the other has the right to. Someone can not be tossed out of something because they are not liked if other people have the right to be there then that person or person's has the right to be there.

4.) "life"is the preservation of mankind. Individuals have both a right and a duty to preserve their own lives. "Liberty" individuals should be free to make choices about how to conduct their own lies as long as they do not interfere with the liberty of others. Liberty should be far-reaching."Property"ownership of ones self, which included a right to personal well being.

5.)"life" means we have the right to live how we want. "liberty" means that we are free to do what we wont. "pursuit of happiness" we can pursuit happiness.

Thomas Jefferson

1.Determined to keep open a market where men should be bought and sold. capturing and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere.

2.Incured miserable death in their transportation, deprived them and murdering the people, waging cruel war against human nature itself.

3.It violated the most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people.

4.The piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers, is the warfare of the christian king of Great Bitain.

5.He as prostitutede his negative for suppressing every legislative attemp to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce and that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us and to purchase that liberty of which he as deprived them.

summer vacation

summer of 2007 was not the best summer I worked about everyday and only got to sleep in about 5 days. I went to the weightroom every week day. I worked for Joe Elmenhorst, Mike Casper, Sha Thompson, and mowed the Iola Township Cemetary, I played summer baseball and we lost two games. I never went on vacation cause I had to work the whole time. I built fence, hauled hay,worked on machinary, racked hay, and made a railroad tie fence... I heard on the news that the war on Iraq was a waist of our time and that we were losing lives for no reason and soldiers say its a better place over there cause of what they are doing.