Monday, 14 December 2015

LWV urges everyone to observe a day to take action to protect rights Dec. 15

Just 10 days before the United States was attacked at Pearl Harbor in 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared Dec. 15 as Bill of Rights Day, proclaiming this historic document, "The great American charter of personal liberty and human dignity." As he signed his proclamation Nov. 27, this country was unaware - as on those days before Sept. 11, 2001 - that very shortly things would be changed in a profound ...
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