Bibliography of the day
Abstruse yet monumental: the scope and impact of the US supreme court’s birthright citizenship ruling(theguardian.com)
Potter Stewart,
Kennedy v…
“ Brownell, the Court pointed out that the provision of the Fourteenth Amendment that 'All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States * * *' does not restrict the power of Congress to enact denaturalization legislation. It was there stated that 'there is nothing in the terms, the context, the history or the manifest purpose of the Fourteenth Amendment to warrant drawing from it a restriction upon the power otherwise possessed by Congress to withdraw citizenship.' 356 U.S., at 58, n. ”
Source: Wikisource
Bayeux tapestry to return to Britain for first time in 900 years(theguardian.com)
Francis Birrell,
Guide to the Bayeux tapestry
“ The arrival of Harold in Normandy, his stay with William, his swearing of loyalty, his return to England, the death of Edward the Confessor, the subsequent election of Harold to the throne of England, with the expedition itself culminating in the Battle of Hastings, are all shown in the course of the story. It is as much a defence of William’s conduct as a history of his triumph.The Tapestry is generally considered to be contemporary, or almost contemporary, with the events it portrays, and it is evident that if such be the case it is an historical document of the very first importance. ”
Source: Gutenberg
Why is Iran’s nuclear programme so essential to its identity?(theguardian.com)
Robert Menendez,
Prospects for Change in Iran
(1998)
“ Iran claims to need the Bushehr nuclear reactors to supply energy to the country. Yet, Iran's immense oil and natural gas reserves call into question its motives for constructing expensive nuclear reactors. Iran has 9.3 percent of the world's oil reserves and natural gas reserves, second only to Russia. Clearly, Iran does not need additional energy sources, nor is nuclear energy an economic choice for Iran. So what is the motive?It should not be a revelation to anyone that Iran is seeking to acquire nuclear weapons. ”
Source: Wikisource
What if the world’s religions aren’t competing but rather one unfolding truth? | Kat Eghdamian(theguardian.com)
Effendi Shoghi,
God Passes By
“ I learned at Karlsruhe of the supraconfessional world religion of the Bahá’ís, founded in the Orient seventy years ago by a Persian, Bahá’u’lláh. This is the real religion of ‘Social Welfare’ without dogmas or priests, binding together all men of this small terrestrial globe of ours. ”
Source: Gutenberg
Why Donald Trump Is Obsessed with William McKinley(newyorker.com)
Theodore Roosevelt,
State of the Union Addresses
“ President McKinley was killed by an utterly depraved criminal belonging to that body of criminals who object to all governments, good and bad alike, who are against any form of popular liberty if it is guaranteed by even the most just and liberal laws, and who are as hostile to the upright exponent of a free people's sober will as to the tyrannical and irresponsible despot. It is not too much to say that at the time of President McKinley's death he was the most widely loved man in all the United States ”
Source: Gutenberg
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