John Scopes

(noun)

John Thomas Scopes (August 3, 1900–October 21, 1970) was a substitute biology teacher in Dayton, Tennessee, who was charged on May 5, 1925, with violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of evolution in Tennessee schools.

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Examples of John Scopes in the following topics:

  • The Scopes Trial

    • The Scopes Trial of 1925 brought to national attention the debate over teaching evolution in public schools.
    • John Thomas Scopes, the "Scopes Monkey Trial" of 1925 was a landmark American legal case in which John Scopes was accused of violating the state's Butler Act by teaching evolution in a state-funded school.
    • Tennessee State Representative John W.
    • Teacher John T.
    • Scopes was the defendant in the famous Scopes Trial of 1925, which provided a forum in which to argue the teaching of evolution in public schools in schools.

  • Hamilton's Achievements

    • Hamilton justified the Bank and the broad scope of congressional power necessary to establish it by citing Congress' constitutional powers to issue currency, regulate interstate commerce, and enact any other legislation "necessary and proper" to enact the provisions of the Constitution.This broad view of congressional power was enshrined into legal precedent in the Supreme Court case McCulloch v.

  • Gibbons v. Ogden

    • Chief Justice John Marshall avoided the issue of exclusivity of federal powers over commerce, claiming it was not essential to the case.
    • Of course, the steamboats in this case did cross a state line, but Marshall suggested that his opinion had an even broader scope.
    • However, Strict Constructionists (those who believe that the Constitution must be given the narrowest possible construction) held a different view of the meaning of the Commerce Clause as interpreted in Gibbons, arguing that it was limited in scope because the decision could be interpreted to suggest that navigation only pertained to the Commerce Clause insofar as it allowed for the interstate transportation of goods.

  • The Trial of Zenger

    • John Peter Zenger (October 26, 1697 – July 28, 1746) was a German-American printer, publisher, editor and journalist in New York City.
    • John Peter Zenger, a New York newspaper editor, publicly opposed several policies implemented by the newly-appointed colonial governor William Cosby.
    • In successfully defending Zenger in this landmark case, Hamilton established the precedent that a statement, even if defamatory, is not libelous if it can be proved--expanding the scope of free expression for the colonial American press.

  • Social Justice

    • For progressive reformers, the Constitution represented a loose guideline of political governance, rather than a strict authority on the political development of the United States or the scope of federal power.
    • Early progressive thinkers such as John Dewey and Lester Ward placed a universal and comprehensive system of education at the top of the progressive agenda, reasoning that if a democracy was to be successful, its leaders, the general public, needed education .
    • This is John Dewey at the University of Chicago in 1902.

  • Black and White Abolitionism

    • John Brown was the only abolitionist known to have actually planned a violent insurrection, though David Walker promoted the idea.
    • Using an argument based upon Natural Law and a form of social contract theory, they said that slavery existed outside of the Constitution's scope of legitimate authority and therefore should be abolished.

  • The Varieties of Progressivism

    • For progressive reformers, the Constitution represented a loose guideline of political governance, rather than a strict authority on the political development of the United States or the scope of federal power.
    • Early progressive thinkers such as John Dewey and Lester Ward placed a universal and comprehensive system of education at the top of the progressive agenda, reasoning that if a democracy was to be successful the general public needed to be educated.

  • From Gradualism to Abolition

    • Indeed many Northern leaders married into slave owning Southern families without any moral qualms, including Stephen Douglas (the Democratic nominee for president in 1860), John C.
    • Using an argument based upon Natural Law and a form of social contract theory, they said that slavery existed outside of the Constitution's scope of legitimate authority and therefore should be abolished.

  • Hamilton's Economic Policy

    • To ground their claims, Jefferson and Madison also argued that the plan passed beyond the scope of federal powers as outlined in the Constitution.
    • Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton , shown here in a 1792 portrait by John Trumbull, released the “Report on Public Credit” in January 1790.

  • Hamilton's Legacy

    • He recruited James Madison and John Jay to defend the proposed Constitution through a series of essays (known today as the Federalist Papers) and made the largest contribution to that effort by writing 51 of the 85 essays published.
    • Hamilton justified the Bank and the broad scope of congressional power necessary to establish it by citing Congress' constitutional powers to issue currency, regulate interstate commerce, and enact any other legislation "necessary and proper" to enact the provisions of the Constitution.