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Bush vs. Constitution.(PROSPECTS)(George W. Bush)
American Prospect, The, March, 2006 by Starr, Paul
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REPEATEDLY THROUGH OUR HISTORY, THE LIBERTIES guaranteed by the Constitution have been threatened in war by an overreacting government and then reaffirmed in peace by calmer leadership. The Mien and Sedition Acts of 1798, Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus, the suppression of free speech during and after World War I, the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, McCarthyism, and the wiretapping of Vietnam-era dissenters--all of these came to be seen, once fears subsided, as violations of our freedoms and embarrassments to our heritage.
George W. Bush's ...
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