6040 quiz Q&A June 20th

SG 3-4:

1. “Prior to the Scopes trial, the ACLU did not display any particular interest in challenging government efforts to protect or promote religious beliefs.” After the new Tennessee statute, the ACLU began to question whether is violated freedoms and individual liberties in ‘the broader American society.” (p.60)
2. 1917- to ‘defend conscientious objector and antiwar protesters.
3. 12 different antiwar pamphlets
4. To combat revolutionary radicalism
5. ?
6. “…a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evil that Congress has a right to prevent.” (p.66)
7. “By demonstrations, publicity, pamphlets, legal aid, bail, test cases in court, financial appeals- by all these methods of daily service the friends of progress to a new social order make common cause.” (p.67)
8. my question- see below
9. The ACLU’s commitment to to defend the rights of organized labor
10. The famed alleged religious censorship case Vanderbilt University v. Alexander Winchell
11. Dayton’s promotional book responded with “Why not Dayton?” pointing out major events happen in obscure places, for example Christ’s crucifixion at Calvary.
12. The majority, acting through the legislature, cannot define the tenets of science or religion for individual public school teachers or students
13. “…we would still be hanging and burning witches and punishing persons who thought the earth was round.” (p. 103)

Pete’s questions:

1. Darrow regarded Christianity as a 'slave religion' p. 71

2. To serve as a national guild for university professors

3. “Whenever any such issue arises in any school or college described in this memorandum, those interested should write or wire the American Civil Liberties Union” “Aid will be furnished at once wither through local correspondents, consulting attorneys or direct from the New York headquarters. In important cases a representative will be sent to the scene of trouble.”

4. Psychological determinism

Don’s questions:

1. Massachusetts Puritans
2. To defend the right of public school teachers to free speech both inside and outside the classroom, and explicitly adopted AAPU’s conception of academic freedom.

My questions:

1. Arthur G. Hays become the most influential lawyer on the ACLU executive committee. What was his mission? (p. 68)
2. What did Cornell University president have to say about the Vanderbilt University v/ Winchell case? (p.77)
3. What did George W. Rappleyea write to the Chattanooga Times in reference to Tennessee’s antievolution law? (p. 88)
4. Name a couple ways Dayton prepared to house the influx of visitors to the city for the trial. (p.96)
5. What was the projected estimated number of visitors to Dayton for the trial? (p. 105)

discussion question: What are you thoughts to Bryan’s stance that the taxpayers, being the majority rule, should in control of what is taught in schools? “The absurdity of this suggestion becomes apparent when the liberty is employed to teach anything that the taxpayers really object to.” (P. 104)

TM 7-11:

1. A deep and real battle with authority
2. Nathan Leopold was one of two people who kidnapped and murdered a boy jus to see if they could get away with it. He believed himself to be a Nietzschean superman, a man so superior to others that moral codes did not apply to him.
3. Happiness
4. A compound sense of failure

Don’ questions:

1. Our Penal Machinery and Its Victims
2. One day in her store she spotted some chewing gum on the floor. When she bent over to clean it up, a bunch of toys fell on her back, injuring her.
3. Kicking the soccer ball with his father and feeling the intense joy of being done with his father, entirely in his focus.
4. With all is allure, including speaking with an upper-class accent and voted Conservative, yet was a man who didn’t seem to quite fit in anywhere.

My Questions:

1. How does Chapman describe his mother on page 101?
2. According to the preacher Leland Frazier, what was the ‘jail preacher’ doing at his church? (p.111)
3. In what way was Chapman describing the ‘violent criminals’ he came into contact with at St. Ann’s? (p. 118)
4. Who where Chapman’s only friends in school? (p. 122)
5. What did Chapman hit another student with that ultimately led to his leave from St. Ann’s? (P. 132)