- Nov 07, 2020
Criminalize Quotes
This collection of criminalize quotes touches on contested policy debates, from herb use and abortion to historic economic restrictions and modern immigration law. One line recalls the Emergency Banking Act's roots in a 1917 law meant to criminalize trade with wartime enemies, while others argue against criminalizing difficult personal choices. Together the quotes reflect ongoing tension between law, morality, and individual freedom.
These criminalize quotes weigh law against personal freedom across several policy debates, a theme found in About. Both explore where legal lines should be drawn.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- American Citizens
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Emergency Banking Act reached back in time to amend the Trading with the Enemy Act of 1917, which had originally been intended to criminalize economic intercourse between American citizens and declared enemies of the United States.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where you criminalize people living with HIV or those at greatest risk, you fuel the epidemic.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must make immigration a legal, orderly process to eliminate this issue, not further criminalize it.
- Constitutional Amendment
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- Nov 07, 2020
First off, I never favored a constitutional amendment to criminalize abortion or to overturn Roe v. Wade.
- Degree
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- Nov 07, 2020