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Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.
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- In the Pentagon Papers case, the government asserted in the Supreme Court that the publication of the material was a threat to national security. It turned out it was not a threat to U.S. security. But even if it had been, that doesn't mean that it couldn't be published.
- We all learn in school that the judicial, legislative and executive branches of government must check and balance each other. But other non state institutions must participate in this important system of checks and balances as well. These checking institutions include the academy, the media, religious institutions and NGOs.
- No country in the history of the world has ever contributed more to humankind and accomplished more for its people in so brief a period of time as Israel has done since its relatively recent rebirth in 1948.
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- It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and some control over the other two. That's set out in the Constitution.
- The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person's standing in the political community.
- I believe that for the small numbers of Jewish people in the United States, they exercise a tremendous amount of influence on the affairs of government.
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