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Townhall: One Dangerous Doctor?

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Post date May 31, 2015
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Update on the Dr. Bosworth case, at Townhall.com. Click on over, then come back here for more information.

Argus Leader: Annette Bosworth found guilty on all charges
KSFY Television: Life After Conviction – What’s next for Dr. Annette Bosworth?
Casper Star Tribune: Former Senate candidate Bosworth plans to appeal her conviction
Citizens in Charge: Bosworth Case May Chill Participation in South Dakota
Argus Leader: Report – Bosworth Prosecution Overkill
Ballot Access News: Paul Jacob Identifies Hugely Disproportionate Possible Criminal Penalty for Petitioning Infraction
Conservative Angle: Over-criminalizing in America
Townhall: An Egyptian Crackdown in South Dakota
Common Sense: Blood Sport Justice?
Hutterian Brethern

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Video: Report on the Prosecution of Dr. Bosworth

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Post date May 30, 2015
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From the steps of the capitol in Pierre, South Dakota….

For more information: Bosworth Case May Chill; PDF of the report presented.

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Jeremy Bentham

“Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.”

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Averroës

“Knowledge is the conformity of the object and the intellect.”

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“The seventeenth century is everywhere a time in which the state’s power over everything individual increases, whether that power be in absolutist hands or may be considered the result of a contract, etc. People begin to dispute the sacred right of the individual ruler or authority without being aware that at the same time they are playing into the hands of a colossal state power.”

Jacob Burckhardt, Reflections on History

Today

Habeas corpus

On May 27, 1863, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney of Maryland issued Ex parte Merryman, challenging the authority of President Abraham Lincoln to suspend the writ of habeas corpus in Maryland, the legal procedure that prevents the government from holding an individual indefinitely without showing cause.

Two days earlier, John Merryman, a vocal secessionist, had been arrested in Cockeysville. Although military officials continued to arrest suspected Southern sympathizers, the incident led to a softening of the policy.

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Jacob Burckhardt

“Nothing in the world is better suited to laziness than orthodoxy. If you gag your mouth, stop up your ears and put a blinder over your eyes, you can sleep peacefully.”

Jacob Burckhardt was a teacher and reserved, cautious mentor to Friedrich Nietzsche.

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John Calvin

“There are people who are known to be very liberal, yet they never give without scolding or pride or even insolence.”

John Calvin, De Vita Hominis Christiani, 1550.

Today

Burckhardt Born

May 25, 1818, the Swiss historian and academic Jacob Burckhardt was born. Burckhardt’s best known work is The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (1860), but is remembered here as the author of Reflections on History (1905).

Erratum: In our daily email, we erroneously gave May 25 as the date for William of Okham’s fleeing the papal city of Avignon. That event, and John Calvin’s banishment years later, both occurred on May 26 of their respective years. We are sorry for the error.

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