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• The United States military planned to fabricate violence apparently perpetrated by Cubans in order to create public support for attacking Cuba (1+/0- justifications)
• CIA and UK relied upon intelligence garnered from victims of Uzbeki torture (1+/0- justifications)
• President Obama is working thoughtfully and carefully to plan the United States' involvement in Afghanistan (1+/0- justifications)
• Over the past two decades, U.S. states have increasingly liberalized their gun restriction laws (1+/0- justifications)
• The militia of the United States consists of all male citizens between the ages of 17 and 45 (and any female members of the National Guard) (1+/0- justifications)
• French oil and gas company Total used slave labor to build a pipeline in Myanmar (1+/0- justifications)
• Gun control laws were used to control black americans after abolition (1+/0- justifications)
• Federal criminal law only forbids the commission of torture outside the United States (1+/0- justifications)
• Ron Paul thinks the US Civil War was a mistake because other countries did not have civil wars to end slavery (1+/0- justifications)
• The US Civil War was a mistake because other countries did not have civil wars to end slavery (1+/3- justifications)
• The US Civil War was not fought to end slavery (3+/2- justifications)
• Southern states were allowed to maintain the status quo of slavery (0+/0- justifications)
• Only newly created states would not be allowed to have slavery (0+/0- justifications)
• The cause of the US civil war was abolition of slavery (7+/1- justifications)
• The cause of the US civil war was states' rights (0+/2- justifications)
• Confederate leaders who later claimed that states' rights were the cause of the US civil war had claimed before the war that slavery was the cause (1+/0- justifications)
• Eighteen states in the U.S. have enacted barriers to either make it difficult or impossible for communities to build publicly-owned networks (1+/0- justifications)
• An oil and manufacturing company Koch Enterprises, the second largest private company in the United States, has secretly spent $50 million over ten years to support climate change denial (2+/0- justifications)
• Apple explicitly reserves the right to censor speech in its iPHone Developer Program License, and uses it to exclude political applications (1+/0- justifications)
• The United States cannot lawfully impose an income tax upon citizens (1+/0- justifications)
• Texas declaration of secession relied explicitly and solely upon the abolition of slavery as its cause for secession (1+/0- justifications)
• The Georgia declaration of secession relied explicitly and solely upon the abolition of slavery as its cause for secession (1+/0- justifications)
• The Mississippi declaration of secession relied explicitly and solely upon the abolition of slavery as its cause for secession (1+/0- justifications)
• The South Carolina declaration of secession relied explicitly and solely upon the abolition of slavery as its cause for secession (1+/0- justifications)
• The Constitution of the Confederate States of America explicitly provided that no law would be passed to deny or impair property in slaves (2+/0- justifications)
• Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens said that slavery was the chief cause of secession in his "Cornerstone Speech" given shortly before the war (1+/0- justifications)
• Slave-states feared that the abolition of slavery was nigh (0+/0- justifications)
• The cause of the US civil war was a disagreement about states' rights (1+/0- justifications)
• The constitution of the Confederate States of America included a provision that limited the Confederacy's ability to appropriate money for intrastate improvements (1+/0- justifications)
• The Constitution of the Confederate States of America explicitly provided that any state added to the Confederacy would be a slave-state (1+/0- justifications)
• The Federal Reserve refuses to reveal to which institutions it lends money out of a fear of a run on those institutions (1+/0- justifications)
• In 1797, the U.S. Senate voted unanimously in favor of a treaty that explicitly described the United States as not in any sense founded upon the Christian Religion (Treaty of Peace and Friendship, Signed at Tripoli November 4, 1796) (2+/0- justifications)
• The United States' racism against minorities provides justification for other countries to criticize U.S. policies and sincerity towards democracy (1+/0- justifications)
• President Obama is capable of leading the United States military. (1+/0- justifications)
• The occupation of Afghanistan is not a multilateral operation; the United States is the only country interested in remaining there. (1+/0- justifications)
• Adherants of the "sovereign citizen" theory have killed 8 law enforcement officers in the United States between Jan. 2008 and Dec. 2010 (1+/0- justifications)
• A black child who was born during slavery was more likely to be raised by both parents than a black child born during the twenty-first century (2+/1- justifications)
• Pubmed is the United States National Library of Medicine's online database for medical articles (1+/0- justifications)
• The United States comprises 11 cultural nations (1+/0- justifications)
• Southeast asia uses bonded labor to provide plentiful cheap shrimp to the United States (1+/0- justifications)
• Italian investigators charged Amanda Knox with Murder based solely upon observing her psychological demeanor (1+/0- justifications)
• The Chairman of the New York Federal Reserve owned Goldman Sachs stock while that company applied for recognition as a bank-holding company violating Federal Reserve policy. After receiing a clandstine waiver for his violation, he began purchasing more Goldman Sachs stock. (1+/0- justifications)
• Ambien can revive persons from vegitative coma states (1+/0- justifications)