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Constitutionality of Retroactive Tax Legislation

Description: Report that examines the constitutional provisions that might be implicated by retroactive tax legislation, including legislation that seems intended to punish past behavior.
Date: October 25, 2012
Creator: Lunder, Erika K.; Meltz, Robert & Thomas, Kenneth R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Selected Racially Mixed Texas Public High School Social Studies Students' and Teachers' Perceptions Toward Citizenship and Factors Which May Influence Student Perceptions of the Bill Of Rights

Description: This study's purposes were to (1) determine perceptions toward citizenship and the Bill of Rights among social studies students and teachers and (2) examine variables useful in predicting their degree of support for the Bill of Rights. To accomplish these purposes, a thirty-item perceptions scale and a demographic questionnaire was administered to 72 teachers and 249 5 students in 25 racially mixed Texas public high schools. A random sample of 703 students was drawn for statistical analysis wit… more
Date: August 1981
Creator: Montgomery, Lee
Partner: UNT Libraries
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[News Clip: Hill]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: September 18, 1978, 6:00 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 17 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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These Unalienable Rights

Description: This report is about "The unalienable Rights" which is a handbook of bill of rights. We are talking about the Right of free expression.
Date: July 1, 1970
Creator: Library of Congress
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Herring v. United States: Extension of the Good-Faith Exception to the Exclusionary Rule in Fourth Amendment Cases

Description: In Herring v. United States, a 2009 decision, the Supreme Court for the first time applied the good-faith exception to bar application of the exclusionary rule in a case involving police error regarding a warrant. This report discusses the Court's current Fourth Amendment jurisprudence and the legal implications.
Date: February 2, 2009
Creator: Henning, Anna C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Bill of Rights Jefferson Blvd, 1989]

Description: Panoramic photograph of a man walking down a sidewalk to the left of a building. There is a torn sticker on the building's side which reads "Bill of Rights". The man wears a white button-up, glasses, and a black tie. The intersection of two streets is visible behind him. [1989, Dallas, TX]
Date: 1989
Creator: Doherty, Richard
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Constitutional Convention]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about Rights an Suffrage Committee who is expected to complete approval of article two dealing with voter qualifications and elections.
Date: February 1, 1974, 8:25 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Constitution]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of writers of the new Texas Constitution are slated to vote preliminary approval for article one of the new guiding document - the Bill of Rights.
Date: January 31, 1974, 8:25 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Constitution]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of legislator delegates of the the Texas Constitutional Convention which can point to solid progress in drafting 2 of the 11 articles of the proposed new state constitutional.
Date: February 1, 1974, 6:30 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[National Archives books]

Description: Photograph of three books, The Declaration of Independence, The Constitution of the United States of America and The Bill of Rights, propped up on the National Archives table at the 2019 Archives Bazaar held at the Patterson-Appleton Center in Denton, TX, on Saturday, November 2, 2019.
Date: November 2, 2019
Creator: Esparza, Anna
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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