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Sep 16: "Phantoms of Lost Liberty" at MICA

Tom Swiss [ 6 September 2005 - 3:21pm ]

Phantoms of Lost Liberty: The U.S. Constitution in Crisis.

Friday, September 16, 2005
10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Falvey Hall, Brown Center
Maryland Institute College of Art
1301 W. Mount Royal Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21217

It is often said that September 11th changed everything. Does this mean the U.S. Constitution, too? There's a Constitutional debate raging right now and it is over how much power the government has in its War on Terror. Are secret arrests permissible? Torture? Surveillance? Restrictions on speech and protest? Lying by police and government officials? Is the Constitution even relevant in this new kind of warfare? Or is it quaint and outmoded? Many people have argued that Americans now face the greatest Constitutional crisis of our history.

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Maryland Institute College of Art and Women for Mutual Security have gathered a group of legal experts and civil libertarians on Constitution Day - the 218th anniversary of the Constitution - to discuss the burning questions of the Constitution in these times of Terror.

Tom Swiss - proprietor, unreasonable.org

 

start of public schools

Anonymous (not verified) [ 29 May 2006 - 11:31am ]

I have just discovered that public schools in Carroll Co. starts Aug. 4th,2006. This is rediculous. Who decides this? Are they elected or appointed? If elected, when do we get to vote them out of office? If appointed, who appoints them? How do we find out who they are and how they voted? It's time we stood up and made our opinions known. With only 2 months summer vacation, kids get burned out on school and dis-interested. Do all county schools state-wide start at the same time?

Have you heard about the

Jason Health (not verified) [ 4 November 2008 - 4:04pm ]

Have you heard about the Constitution-free zones that the Homeland Security has declared that place the majority of our citizens in areas where the Constitution is not in effect? Google it and be aware.

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