Justice Douglas focused on the question of faith for July 2. In An Almanac of Liberty, he wrote: The question of faith goes to the very heart of the problem of survival. Faith in men of opposing political creeds — faith in people who worship God from a temple too strange for us to call …
As we continuously discuss loyalty, partisanship, and civility, we forget how our Founders acted illegally, angered many, and defied the power-that-be. Samuel Adams organized and directed people to revolt against the King. Although loyalists called him and evil and vindictive man and fought to develop an aristocracy that would follow the crown, Adams rallied the …
My Country – English Only Laws On April 9, 1919, Nebraska passed a law outlawing any person in any school to teach any subject in any language other than English. One Meyer was convicted under the law for teaching a collection of Bible stories in German at a Lutheran school. The Nebraska Supreme Court upheld …