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Dan Mach, the national American Civil Liberties Union’s director of Freedom of Religion, presents “Polygamy, Peyote and the Pledge of Allegiance” at Weber State University in Ogden on Wednesday. (ERIN HOOLEY/Standard-Examiner)

ACLU speaker: Courts key to freedom of religion, expression

Last updated Thursday, April 5, 2012 - 8:26pm

OGDEN — Americans treasure their freedom of speech and freedom of religion, along with the ability to deny both to people they don’t like.

So Dan Mach, director of Freedom of Religion for the American Civil Liberties Union, told an audience at Weber State University on Wednesday.

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Utah closer to legal, political solutions to federal lands issue

Antone Clark Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, March 7, 2012 - 7:32pm

SALT LAKE CITY — State lawmakers moved a step closer to both legal and political solutions to wresting control of federal land from the federal government.

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Utah lawmakers mull legal options in federal lands debate

Antone Clark Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, March 5, 2012 - 10:16pm

SALT LAKE CITY — Legislators will learn from the mistakes of others before taking on the federal government over control of federal lands within the state, several local lawmakers say about current efforts to address the issue.

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Utah’s Lee divides Congress; more federal land debate

Charles F. Trentelman Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, March 5, 2012 - 10:16pm

I am sad to see Maine’s Olympia Snowe leaving the U.S. Senate.

Utah is not Maine, so normally I wouldn’t comment on Snowe, but I can’t get over the nagging thought that Snowe, a well-known moderate, is leaving because Utah’s voters elected Sen. Mike Lee two years ago.

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Utah repeals 'forever' with pie-in-the-sky federal land suit

Charles F. Trentelman Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, February 25, 2012 - 5:46pm

"The people inhabiting this State do affirm and declare that they forever disclaim all right and title to the unappropriated public lands lying within the boundaries hereof..."

-- Utah Constitution, Article 3, Section 2

When Rep. Mike Noel, R-Kanab, is the voice of reason, the argument has gone off the rails. Utah suing the federal government to get Utah's federal land is one such train wreck.

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Utah House OKs bill for deployed exemption

Standard-Examiner staff Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, February 23, 2012 - 11:58pm

SALT LAKE CITY — If voters pass a constitutional amendment this fall, military personnel who are deployed will be exempt from paying property tax.

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Patent law in the United States continues to evolve

Tom Fehr Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, February 17, 2012 - 11:33pm

Patents have existed throughout the history of the United States because of their value. In Colonial America, inventions were safeguarded by the governing bodies of the colonies.

After independence but before the adoption of the Constitution, the protection of inventions was handled by the states.

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WSU to host talk on slavery, Constitution

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Sunday, February 5, 2012 - 11:35pm

OGDEN — Weber State University will host a talk, “Weber Reads: Slavery and the Constitution,” at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Stewart Library Hetzel-Hoellein Room.

This free presentation will feature Adrienne Gillespie, WSU’s Center for Diversity & Unity coordinator.

Call 801-626-7613 for information.

Weber State is at 3848 Harrison Blvd.

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Illustration by LEZLIE SOKOLIK/Weber County Library

An American story: 'Weber Reads the Founders and their Documents'

Amy Nicholson Standard-Examiner

Last updated Sunday, January 8, 2012 - 8:37am

Many cities around the country have book discussion groups, but Weber Reads is unlike most of those, according to volunteer coordinator Margaret Rostkowski.

For one thing, she says, Ogden is the ideal city because it is small enough that a lot of people know each other, yet large enough to have resources such as Weber State University.

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Hatch laments failure of his balanced budget amendment

Charles F. Trentelman Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, December 15, 2011 - 12:34am

OGDEN -- Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, said Wednesday's defeat of the latest version of his constitutional amendment to balance the federal budget was expected, but there's no other way to bring federal spending under control.

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(From left) Adam Berman, Jennifer Carver and Nick Nava participate in a Friday forum featuring student military veterans to conclude Constitution Week at Weber State University in Ogden.

Why serve? Student veterans spurred by Sept. 11 tragedy

Nancy Van Valkenburg Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, September 17, 2011 - 12:16am

OGDEN -- Jennifer Carver and Nick Nava avoided watching television Sunday, the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

Adam Berman turned his TV on and saw the coverage, then slept away the rest of the day.

It is all too real for the three Weber State University students, veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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St. Joseph High School student Ciera Archuleta studies founding principles in the nation’s Capitol. She recently was awarded a scholarship to study history in Washington, D.C.

St. Joseph High senior studies history of Constitution

Rachel J. Trotter Standard-Examiner

Last updated Sunday, August 21, 2011 - 10:12pm

OGDEN -- St. Joseph Catholic High School senior Ciera Archuleta is a self-proclaimed "history junkie," so when she received a scholarship allowing her to spend six weeks completely focused on the history of the Constitution, it was like a dream come true.

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Davis County Constitution Party convention to be held Friday

Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Wednesday, June 15, 2011 - 10:33pm

SYRACUSE -- The Davis County Constitution Party will have its annual convention at 6 p.m. Friday at Syracuse Community Center, 1912 W. 1900 South, in Syracuse.

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Convicted murderer Houston appeals life sentence

Michael McFall, Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Sunday, June 5, 2011 - 11:05pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- Robert Cameron Houston is about to fight for the possibility of one day leaving prison.

Houston pleaded guilty to the aggravated murder of Raechale Elton, an employee at a Clearfield group home for troubled youths. Houston, then 17 1/2, was a resident of the home when the crime occurred in February 2006.

In 2007, Houston was sentenced to life in prison without parole. He was just 18.

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In this photo taken Friday, May 20, 2011, Zeldon Nelson, the chief executive officer of the National Center for Constitutional Studies, poses in the shipping center located in the basement of his home on his 700-acre family farm just north of the Utah-Idaho border in Malta, Idaho. The Tea Party Patriots national umbrella group is promoting Nelson's center as a constitutional resource for public school children, but some groups including the Washington, D.C.-based Constitutional Accountability Center say using a group that believes the constitution is divinely inspired is "indoctrination, not education." (John Miller/Associated Press)

Tea party targets schools for 'Constitution Week' based on teachings of Skousen

John Miller, The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, May 25, 2011 - 11:45am

MALTA, Idaho -- America's kids will be learning about the U.S. Constitution this coming school year with help from a decidedly conservative Idaho publishing house, if a tea party group gets its way.

The Tea Party Patriots, Georgia-based but claiming 1,000 chapters nationally, are instructing members to remind teachers that a 2004 federal law requires public schools to teach Constitution lessons every Sept. 17, commemorating the day the document was signed. And they'd like the teachers to use material from the Malta, Idaho-based National Center for Constitutional Studies, which promotes the Constitution as a divinely-inspired document.

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