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quote icon The Hopewell tradition, also called the Hopewell culture and Hopewellian exchange, describes a network of precontact Native American cultures that flourished in settlements along rivers in the northeastern and midwestern Eastern Woodlands from 100 BCE to 500 CE, in the Middle Woodland period. The Hopewell tradition was not a single culture or society but a widely dispersed set of populations connected by a common network of trade routes. At its greatest extent, the Hopewell exchange system ran from the northern shores of Lake Ontario south to the Crystal River Indian Mounds in modern-day Florida. Within this area, societies exchanged goods and ideas, with the highest amount of activity along waterways, which were the main transportation routes.

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quote icon Today, the best-surviving features of the Hopewell tradition era are earthwork mounds. Researchers have speculated about their purposes and debate continues. Great geometric earthworks are one of the most impressive Native American monuments throughout American prehistory, and were built by cultures following the Hopewell. Eastern Woodlands mounds typically have various geometric shapes and rise to impressive heights.

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quote icon Around 500 CE, the Hopewell exchange ceased, mound building stopped, and characteristic art forms were no longer produced. War is a possible cause, as villages dating to the Late Woodland period shifted to larger communities protected by palisade walls and ditches. ... Conclusive reasons for the evident dispersal of the people have not yet been determined.

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quote icon Anarchy: The absence of government and absolute freedom of the individual.

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quote icon Many philosophers criticize physical explanations of how the universe arose from nothing, claiming that they merely beg the question.

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quote icon “DEBT CEILING: A statutorily imposed debt ceiling has been in effect since 1917 when the US Congress passed the Second Liberty Bond Act. Before 1917 there was no debt ceiling in force, but there were parliamentary procedural limitations on the amount of debt that could be issued by the government”.

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quote icon “During the progressive era, many initiatives were promoted and fought for, but were prevented from coming to full fruition in either legislative bodies or judicial proceedings. One case in particular, Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co., enraged early progressive activists hoping to achieve an income tax. This led progressives to the belief that the Constitution was unamendable, and ultimately to find a new way to achieve the desired level of progress.”

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quote icon ...there is a basic tendency in the development of the human personality toward self-fulfillment, or self-actualization. This implies that as an individual matures, they want to be given more responsibility, broader horizons, and the opportunity to develop their personal potential. This process is interrupted whenever a person's environment fails to encourage and nurture these desires.

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quote icon Pragmatism is a philosophical tradition that rejects the idea that the function of thought is to describe, represent, or mirror reality.

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quote icon Beginning in 1789, The French Revolution overthrew the monarchy and established a republic with the motto “liberty, equality, fraternity”. Notice that justice is not mentioned in the motto.

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quote icon “Another common view of the Living Constitution is as synonymous with ‘judicial activism’ a phrase generally used to accuse judges of resolving cases based on their own political convictions or preferences.”

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quote icon $$$ “The book has sold 30 million copies worldwide and has been translated into 50 languages. Due partly to an appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show, the book and film had grossed $300 million in sales by 2009. TV host Oprah Winfrey is a proponent of the book. On The Larry King Show she said that the message of The Secret is the message she's been trying to share with the world on her show for the past 21 years.

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quote icon “The earliest mentions of the Constitution as "living", particularly in the context of a new way of interpreting it, comes out of Woodrow Wilson's book Constitutional Government in the United States where he wrote: ‘Living political constitutions must be Darwinian in structure and in practice.’”

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quote icon “According to the pragmatist view, the Constitution should be seen as evolving over time as a matter of social necessity. Looking solely to original meaning, when the original intent was largely to permit many practices universally condemned today, is under this view cause to reject pure originalism out of hand.”

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quote icon “Economist Thomas Sowell argues in his book Knowledge and Decisions that since the original designers of the Constitution provided for the process of changing it, they never intended for their original words to change meaning.”

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quote icon After the First French Republic was established, then came the “Reign of Terror” in which 16,594 official death sentences were issued.

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quote icon Sacred cow (idiom), something considered (perhaps unreasonably) immune from question or criticism.

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quote icon “A Theory of Justice is a 1971 work of political philosophy and ethics by John Rawls, in which the author addresses the problem of distributive justice (the socially just distribution of goods in a society). The theory utilizes an updated form of Kantian philosophy and a variant form of conventional social contract theory.”

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quote icon “Rawls develops what he claims are principles of justice through the use of an artificial device he calls the original position; in which, everyone decides principles of justice from behind a veil of ignorance. This "veil" is one that essentially blinds people to all facts about themselves so they cannot tailor principles to their own advantage. According to Rawls, ignorance of these details about oneself will lead to principles that are fair to all.”

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quote icon Ray was convicted of three counts of negligent homicide following his arrest on February 3, 2010. He was sentenced to two years in Arizona state prison and was released under supervision on July 12, 2013.

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quote icon Many philosophers criticize physical explanations of how the universe arose from nothing, claiming that they merely beg the question.

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quote icon "Superiority" is a science fiction short story by Arthur C. Clarke, first published in 1951. It depicts an arms race, and shows how the side which is more technologically advanced can be defeated, despite its apparent superiority, because of its own organizational flaws and its willingness to discard old technology without having fully perfected the new. The story was at one point required reading for an industrial design course at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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quote icon “The use of the term ‘ordinance’ in Latter-day Saint parlance is distinct from the use of the term in other branches of Christian tradition, where ‘ordinance’ is often used to imply that the act is merely symbolic and does not convey grace.”

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quote icon A state of lawlessness or political disorder due to the absence of governmental authority (Merriam-Webster), Absence of government and absolute freedom of the individual.

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quote icon “Utilitarianism is an ethical and philosophical theory that states that the best action is the one that maximizes utility, which is usually defined as that which produces the greatest well-being of the greatest number of people. … Jeremy Bentham, the founder of utilitarianism, described utility as the sum of all pleasure that results from an action, minus the suffering of anyone involved in the action.”

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quote icon Authoritarianism: The enforcement or advocacy of strict obedience to authority at the expense of personal freedom. (Google Dictionary) A form of government characterized by strong central power and limited political freedoms. Individual freedoms are subordinate to the state and there is no constitutional accountability under an authoritarian regime.

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quote icon “Non-binary, also known as genderqueer, is a spectrum of gender identities that are not exclusively masculine or feminine‍—‌identities that are outside the gender binary. Non-binary people may identify as having two or more genders (being bigender, trigender, or pangender); having no gender (being agender, nongendered, genderless, genderfree or neutrois); moving between genders or having a fluctuating gender identity (genderfluid); or being third gender or other-gendered, a category that includes those who do not place a name to their gender.”

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quote icon Egalitarianism: A social philosophy advocating the removal of economic inequalities among people.

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