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...these two individuals. They were part of a protest in fundamental opposition to the policies and actions of Caspar W. Weinberger '38 and the Reagan administration--policies that have resulted in the death of 40,000 civilians in El Salvador since 1980, and in the invasion of the sovereign nation of Grenada a short time before Weinberger spoke...
...backing for his rather extreme view, Means cites Article Six of the Constitution, which dictates that the U.S. can only enter treaties with sovereign nations, and he cites the fact that the government has signed four treaties with the Lakota nation. Means says that his tribe "is a sovereign nation, and it is time we started acting sovereign...
...however, misapplied the First Amendment, which prohibits government actions that foster the establishment of a state religion. Diplomatic exchanges with the Vatican are not an endorsement of Roman Catholicism, and they do not require the United States to do anything more than receive an ambassador. Vatican City is a sovereign nation and John Paul its head of state independent of his role as the spiritual leader of the world's Roman Catholics. In fact, the United States has long sent an ambassador to the Court of St. James, despite English monarchs' dual roles as head of the British state...
...possible values of human society, one and one only is the truly sovereign, truly universal, truly sound, truly and completely acceptable goal of man in America. That goal is money, and let there be no sour grapes about it from the losers...
...Penobscots, in 1976. Their reservation games were modest, run only on Sundays. The last was just before Thanksgiving: Maine authorities have managed to cut the high-stakes jackpots (from up to $5,000 a game to $200) because the Penobscots agreed in 1980 not to be treated as a sovereign reservation. Officials in Washington State, Arizona and Oklahoma are now trying to control Indian games. However, federal appellate courts ruled as recently as 1982 that if a state allows any bingo gambling-and 42 do-then it has no authority to regulate the way that Indians run bingo on their...