American Democracy in Context. Joseph A. Pika

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       symbolic speech, 86

       time, place, and manner restrictions, 90

       writ of habeas corpus, 99

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      The horizontal axis shows the responses and the vertical axis shows the percent from 0 to 100.

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       Guarantees rights of Americans: 73%

       Only guarantees rights of state militia members: 20%

       No opinion: 7%

      Note: Survey respondents were asked in 2008 whether they believe the Second Amendment guarantees the rights of individual Americans to own guns, or whether they believe it only guarantees members of state militias such as National Guard units the rights to own guns. How did public opinion square with the Supreme Court’s interpretation of the Second Amendment prior to 2008? Did the Court do the right thing when it incorporated the Second Amendment?

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      The horizontal axis shows the response choices and the vertical axis shows the percent from 0 to 60.

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       Strongly agree: 48%

       Mildly agree: 18%

       Mildly disagree: 13%

       Strongly disagree: 15%

       Don’t know: 7%

      Note: How did those surveyed in this poll respond when asked whether they agreed that “The First Amendment requires a clear separation between church and state”? What do you think “a clear separation between church and state” means? Is the answer obvious?

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      Abortion laws around the world, 2019.

      To save the woman’s life or prohibited altogether: Mexico; Guatemala; El Salvador; Honduras; Costa Rica; Panama; Dominican Republic; Jamaica; Venezuela; Suriname; Brazil; Chile; Paraguay; Mauritania; Mali; Senegal; Cote d’Ivoire; Nigeria; Gabon; Congo; Angola; Madagascar; Malawi; Tanzania; Somalia; Uganda; South Sudan; Sudan; Libya; Egypt; Syria; Iraq; Yemen; Oman; United Arab Emirates; Iran; Afghanistan; Sri Lanka; Bangladesh; Bhutan; Myanmar; Vietnam; Philippines; Indonesia; Papua New Guinea

      To preserve health: Colombia; Ecuador; Peru; Bolivia; Argentina; Morocco; Algeria Niger; Chad; countries around Cote d’Ivoire; Cameroon; Central African Republic; Democratic Republic of Congo; Kenya; Eritrea; Namibia; Botswana; Zimbabwe; Lesotho; Jordan; Saudi Arabia; Pakistan; Poland; Northern Ireland; Thailand Malaysia; New Zealand

      Socioeconomic grounds: United Kingdom; Finland; Ethiopia; Zambia; India; Taiwan; Japan

      Without restriction as to reason: United States; Canada; Guyana; French Guiana; Uruguay; South Africa; Mozambique; Tunisia; all of Europe except U.K., Poland, and Finland; all countries from Russia to China; Vietnam; Cambodia; Australia

      Data unavailable: Western Sahara

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      The horizontal axis lists the countries and the vertical axis shows the numbers from 0 to 450 in increments of 50.

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       Somalia: 13

       Singapore: 13

       Pakistan: 14 plus

       Japan: 15

       U.S.A.: 25

       Egypt: 43 plus

       Iraq: 52 plus

       Vietnam: 85 plus

       Saudi Arabia: 149

       Iran: 253 plus

       China: somewhere in the range of 400 to 450

      Note: Plus signs indicate that the figure calculated by Amnesty International is a minimum.

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      The survey respondents were asked, “Are you in favor of the death penalty for a person convicted of murder?”

      The horizontal axis shows the dates of the survey from 1st to 6th of December 1937 to October 1 to 10 of 2018. The vertical axis shows the percent from 0 to 100.

      The lines representing those in favor and those not in favor follow a symmetrical pattern.

      The details are as follows, with all values approximated from the graph.

      Favor: The line starts at 60% in 1937, drops to 42% in 1966 and then rises to peak at 80% from 1988 to 1995 before dropping gradually to end at 55% in 2018.

      Not in favor: The line starts at 32% in 1937, rises to 48% in 1966 and then drops to a low of 8% in 1995 before rising gradually to end at 40% in 2018.

      5 Civil Rights

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       After reading this chapter, you should be able to do the following:

       Identify how the U.S. Constitution and the U.S. Supreme Court addressed slavery prior to the Civil War.

       Examine the history of discrimination against African Americans and their struggle for equal treatment after the Civil War.

       Evaluate the role of the courts in expanding African American civil rights in the twentieth century.

       Review the history of gender inequality in the United States.

       Analyze the roots and ramifications of ethnic discrimination in the United States.

       Investigate how the fight for civil rights has moved beyond race, gender, and ethnic origins, including expanded rights for the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community.

       Explain the actions the federal government has taken toward redressing past discrimination and evaluate the effectiveness of these actions.

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