893 statements
1271 justifications
1151 verifications
Statements Related to The Constitution of the Confederate States of America explicitly provided that no law would be passed to deny or impair property in slaves
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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
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The City Attorney (Carmen A. Trutanich) and Law Enforcement officials are trying to increase raids and regulation of Medical Marijuana Dispensaries in Los Angeles
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In 1977 Iowa prosecutors passed prosecuting a white suspect (the brother-in-law of the fire captain) who was seen at the murder scene for conspiring and framing a black boy unrelated to the crime. They successfully coached witnesses and put him away for 35 years.
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Candidate Obama made three core promises to America
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President Obama passed a recovery act that created millions of jobs, many for teachers, firefighters, and police officers
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President Obama is working thoughtfully and carefully to plan the United States' involvement in Afghanistan
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The US pledge of allegiance did not contain the words "under god" until 1954 when the Catholic organization Knights of Columbus lobbied congress to add the language by law
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Over the past two decades, U.S. states have increasingly liberalized their gun restriction laws
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The US deploys drone planes in South America
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The US has passed a law requiring it to support Israel
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The health reform bills passed in the house and senate will help low and middle income people
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Sharia law is dangerous
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The body of e-mails is safer from law enforcement scrutiny than the addresses and subject
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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)
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US law enforcement backdoor entry into Gmail enabled Chinese hackers to access the system
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US federal criminal law forbids torture
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A man charged with assaulting a public servant and trying to disarm a peace officer in Texas has had police in a standoff for 10 years while he remains on his 47-acre property
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DEA is busting marijuana growers despite President Obama's promise that the federal government would not pursue those in compliance with state law
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Federal criminal law only forbids the commission of torture outside the United States
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American law does not rely upon biblical law
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Senator Patrick Moynihan, D-NY, introduced and passed a tax law that seriously inhibited the ability of computer programmers to work as independent contracters, all in order to give IBM a tax break for its overseas operations
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A 1986 US law practically decrees that computer programmers cannot be independent entrepreneurs
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The US Civil War was fought to return the seceded confederate territory to the Union
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Southern states were allowed to maintain the status quo of slavery
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Only newly created states would not be allowed to have slavery
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The cause of the US civil war was states' rights
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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
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During America's financial crisis, 1 in 6 Americans is impoverished
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Eighteen states in the U.S. have enacted barriers to either make it difficult or impossible for communities to build publicly-owned networks
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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
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Apple explicitly reserves the right to censor speech in its iPHone Developer Program License, and uses it to exclude political applications
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The sixteenth amendment to the U.S. constitution was never ratified
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The United States cannot lawfully impose an income tax upon citizens
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Texas declaration of secession relied explicitly and solely upon the abolition of slavery as its cause for secession
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The Georgia declaration of secession relied explicitly and solely upon the abolition of slavery as its cause for secession
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The Mississippi declaration of secession relied explicitly and solely upon the abolition of slavery as its cause for secession
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The South Carolina declaration of secession relied explicitly and solely upon the abolition of slavery as its cause for secession
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The slave-holding states explicitly and solely relied upon their fear of the abolition of slavery as justification for their secession
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Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens said that slavery was the chief cause of secession in his "Cornerstone Speech" given shortly before the war
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Slave-states feared that the abolition of slavery was nigh
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The cause of the US civil war was a disagreement about states' rights
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The cause of the civil war was a disagreement about only one state right, the right to hold people as property as slaves
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The constitution of the Confederate States of America included a provision that limited the Confederacy's ability to appropriate money for intrastate improvements
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The Constitution of the Confederate States of America explicitly provided that any state added to the Confederacy would be a slave-state
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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)
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The United States' racism against minorities provides justification for other countries to criticize U.S. policies and sincerity towards democracy
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Jim Crow common law (e.g., racially restrictive covenants) prevented blacks from freely buying property until 1948
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President Obama is capable of leading the United States military.
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An Oklahoma law protects doctors from lawsuits for lieing to patients when doing so might prevent the patient from aborting a fetus
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The occupation of Afghanistan is not a multilateral operation; the United States is the only country interested in remaining there.
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41% of U.S. residents believe that the healthcare reform legislation passed in 2010 creates death-panels
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In the U.S. a different law applies to the poor as applies to the rich
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Adherants of the "sovereign citizen" theory have killed 8 law enforcement officers in the United States between Jan. 2008 and Dec. 2010
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Pubmed is the United States National Library of Medicine's online database for medical articles
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The common law of agency dictates that one authorized by another to make statements on behalf of the latter does make statements for the latter
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Recent law graduates are increasingly starting solo practices
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The U.S. Constitution, Amendment 1, protects a citizen's right to film police officers performing their duties
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Gravity is not an emergent property
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Comcast will deny internet to a person who exceeds their data usage threshold twice in a six month period
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The nineteenth amendment to the U.S. constitution giving women the right to vote was ratified on August 18, 1920
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The United States comprises 11 cultural nations
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Southeast asia uses bonded labor to provide plentiful cheap shrimp to the United States
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Increased patent filing fees in the America Invests Act (AIA) are a tax on innovation
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Ambien can revive persons from vegitative coma states
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The 1033 Program allows local and state U.S. law enforcement agencies to receive left-over fedreral military equipment
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The federal government is paramilitarizing local and state US law enforcement agencies
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The federal government is making local and state US law enforcement agencies more dangerous towards their public
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The federal government is making local and state US law enforcement agencies less capable of performing their work
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The federal governments 1033 program has transferred $2.6B worth of military equipment to local and state law enforcement agencies since 1997
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Old testamaent biblical law requires that a person who kills another person be put to death
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Biblical old testament law requires that if someone cause a mother to miscarry that the person pay a fine, but does not require that the person be put to death
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Old testament biblical law does not see a fetus as a person
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America has historically practiced white affirmative action programs
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