Word: citizenship
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wrong direction. The bill politicizes the bombing, turns it into an occasion for a legislative event. More than a piece of legislation or a poignant evocation of American innocence lost, this country needs to enter a gutwrenching dialogue with itself about the social and political disenfranchisement of its own citizenship, especially those that have taken up arms against the United States government...
...Faculty citizenship has never been perfect, butadministrators and even a few honest professorsacknowledge that the connections between facultyand the people who they allegedly teach havefrayed perhaps beyond repair...
...There sort of a tone that blames the anti-warmovement for polarizing the war and for distrustin the government," Smith said. "Our way ofthinking about the war was a whole new way ofthinking about citizenship and participatorydemocracy. It's important for us to claim our ownhistory and our own experience of this...
...similar measures passed by 21 other states. It is likely to slow the populist rush for such limits, at least for a while. Writing for the majority, Justice John Paul Stevens said that the Constitution prohibits states from imposing qualifications upon candidates beyond minimum age, residency and citizenship --the ones explicitly stated in its text. Justice Clarence Thomas dissented, saying the Constitution is simply silent on the issue. Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich said today's decision demonstrated the need for aconstitutional amendment to limit congressional terms. Such an amendment failed in the House earlier this year...
...women, who evidently decided that being American was not worth sharing in the common burden, hired high-priced lobbyists, including ex-congressmen, who roamed the hallowed halls of the house of democracy convincing our representatives that it was in the national interest to debase the idea of citizenship...