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...courts. To press that advantage, conservatives plan to put their imprint next year on a variety of issues ranging from abortion to school vouchers. Their biggest push by far, however, will be passage of a host of bills dealing with illegal immigrants, including one that just might challenge the 14th Amendment, which defines citizenship and requires states to provide civil rights to anyone born on U.S. soil...
...bills aimed at cutting off benefits to illegal aliens, taxing their remittances south of the border, and requiring proof of citizenship at the voting booth. The harshest bill would deny welfare and other benefits even to the U.S.-born children of illegal aliens - rights supposedly given them under the 14th Amendment. Latino groups, who were only recently being wooed by Republican candidates, were left aghast at the onslaught, calling it "a hate campaign" against immigrants and "anti-human being" to boot...
...Combined, the three earned the Crimson a 15th place finish in the division. Harvard’s 107 points beat Eckerd by five and were also five behind Rhode Island at 14th...
...Society in conjunction with the Harvard University Press (HUP), is working to make 45 volumes of documents available on the society’s Web site by June 2008. Adams was the second U.S. president—and the first of seven with a Harvard College diploma. He graduated 14th in a class of 24—though class rank at the time was determined by a student’s “dignity of birth” rather than his academic performance, according to an official University history. His son, John Quincy, was the sixth U.S. president. Their...
...that the ACLU didn't challenge the 10 felonies already in the state constitution. That's because it is generally legal for states to disenfranchise felons - the U.S. Constitution says so. (OK, not in so many words, but that's how the Supreme Court reads section two of the 14th Amendment.) Forty-eight states prohibit current inmates from voting, 36 keep parolees from the polls, 31 exclude probationers, and only two - Vermont and Maine - allow inmates to vote, according to the Sentencing Project, a liberal advocacy group in Washington...