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  2. McCarthyism - Wikipedia

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    Historian Ellen Schrecker states, "in this country, McCarthyism did more damage to the constitution than the American Communist Party ever did." [ 171 ] Historian John Earl Haynes , while acknowledging that inexcusable excesses occurred during McCarthyism, argues that some contemporary historians of McCarthyism underplay the un-democratic ...

  3. Category:McCarthyism - Wikipedia

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    McCarthyism was a period of intense anti-Communist suspicion in the United States that lasted roughly from the late 1940s to the late 1950s. Although associated with Senator Joseph McCarthy , it was a broad cultural and political phenomenon that also encompassed industry blacklists, the activities of the House Un-American Activities Committee ...

  4. Joseph McCarthy - Wikipedia

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    Joseph Raymond McCarthy (November 14, 1908 – May 2, 1957) was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death at age 48 in 1957. Beginning in 1950, McCarthy became the most visible public face of a period in the United States in which Cold War tensions fueled fears of ...

  5. Roy Cohn - Wikipedia

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    Roy Marcus Cohn (/ k oʊ n / KOHN; February 20, 1927 – August 2, 1986) was an American lawyer and prosecutor known for his role as Senator Joseph McCarthy's chief counsel during the Army–McCarthy hearings in 1954, when he assisted McCarthy's investigations of suspected communists.

  6. Green Feather Movement - Wikipedia

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    Although the student senate approved the constitution, IU President Herman B. Wells denied the Green Feather Movement’s request for official recognition because they were too political, and he feared that university approval would be interpreted as endorsing the group’s anti-McCarthy position, again citing the 1945 policy.

  7. Constitution of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The U.S. Constitution was a federal one and was greatly influenced by the study of Magna Carta and other federations, both ancient and extant. The Due Process Clause of the Constitution was partly based on common law and on Magna Carta (1215), which had become a foundation of English liberty against arbitrary power wielded by a ruler.

  8. Harisiades v. Shaughnessy - Wikipedia

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    Harisiades v. Shaughnessy, 342 U.S. 580 (1952), was a United States Supreme Court case which determined that the Alien Registration Act of 1940's authorization of deportation of legal resident for membership in Communist parties, even past, did not violate the First Amendment, the Fifth Amendment, nor the constitution's Ex Post Facto Clause.

  9. MCCARTHY Shutdown Act - Wikipedia

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    The MCCARTHY Shutdown Act (short for My Constituents Cannot Afford Rebellious Tantrums, Handle Your Shutdown Act) is a proposed United States federal law which (if passed) would prohibit members of Congress from being paid during a government shutdown among other provisions.