![]() Constitution’s general welfare and equal protection clauses enable what founding father John Adams called “a more equal liberty” to advance, however unevenly, throughout American history. leaders and leading to the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The violence is widely credited for galvanizing U.S. In this March 1965 photo, clouds of tear gas fill the air as state troopers infamously break up a civil rights march in Selma, Ala. They were aimed at building a national citizenship based on “the equal protection of the laws,” and they prohibited the states from denying that protection to any American. Other key sections come from what are known as the Reconstruction amendments (the 13th, 14th and 15th) that emerged from the blood and ashes of the Civil War. history - the full name for the Social Security Act of 1935, for example, was “an act to provide for the general welfare by establishing a system of federal old-age benefits.” This idea anchors many of the landmarks of U.S. Constitution begin in the preamble, which says that one of its core purposes is to “promote the general welfare” as opposed to private interests. This is why we hear so much about the second phrase of the Second Amendment - “ … the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”īut for all its limitations, the constitution remains the supreme law of the land in America, the one document that can guarantee the rights and liberties that Democrats correctly see as under threat from Republican extremism.Īs such, they need to rediscover its pro-democratic dimensions so they can work with the document - and make it work for them. (National Archives Museum)įrustrated by the document’s anti-majoritarian elements, including the Electoral College and the Senate, American progressives tend to cede the constitutional ground to their opponents, who eagerly turn the lines they like into holy writ. Constitution as displayed at the National Archives Museum in Washington, D.C. ![]() This report by The Canadian Press was first published in French on May 9, 2022.The U.S. Gaston DeSerres, head physician at the Immunization Unit of the Quebec Institute of Public Health (INSPQ), points out that seroprevalence studies, such as the one conducted by Hema-Québec, are very useful to public health authorities in monitoring the evolution of the pandemic and are essential for validating models used to predict its evolution. Since the end of March, the organization has had difficulty reaching its weekly objectives due to cancellations of appointments by infected individuals, even though the needs remain the same.Īs a result, the organization is appealing to reach the number of donations needed.ĭr. Hema-Québec reports that the increased presence of COVID-19 in the population has an impact on its daily blood and plasma collection activities. Tests conducted on donors registered in a plasma sample bank have established that 27.8 per cent of the Quebec population contracted COVID-19 between the end of 2021 and March 2022. Hema-Québec said that, due to the Omicron variant wave, a sample collected before the arrival of the variant and another collected since the beginning of 2022 were required for the same individual. The approach developed by the researchers consists of comparing the level of antibodies in the same individual, on two samples spaced in time. The Quebec blood agency explains that to obtain the results of this fourth phase of the study, analyses were performed using a test that identifies antibodies present only in people who have been recently infected with the coronavirus. A new study out of Hema-Quebec and the Ministry of Health has found that more than one in four Quebec adults developed antibodies to COVID-19 between the beginning of the year and mid-March.
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