Ideas
The tension between everyone having the same chance to achieve vs. having the same achievements
Equality of Opportunity vs. Equality of Outcome
The person who filed first affirmative action case
Bakke
Name of California Based Jewish band
Eighth Day
Wrote about the natural rights of life liberty and property
John Locke
Children's Book is written about him in Hannaukah at Valley Forge
George Washington
Author of the idea of the "invisible hand" in markets.
Adam Smith
Supreme Court Justice who expressed approval for how affirmative action paved the way for an opportunity for her as the first Latina SC justice.
Sonja Sotomayer
Eighth Us President
Martin Van Buren
Belived that men were savage and life was "nasty, brutish, and short".
Thomas Hobbes
Harry Truman
Author of “History has taught us that freedom cannot long survive unless it is based on moral foundations. You can get the economics right, but in addition, liberty must be cultivated as a moral quality.”
Margaret Thatcher
Framer associated with a "wall of separation between church and state"
Thomas Jefferson
Eighth Amendment to the US Constitution
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
Wrote about the need for separation of powers
Baron de Montesqieu
Was president when General Grant issued anti-semitic order on Chanukah in 1862
Abraham Lincoln
Author of the idea that the roots of America emerge from 5 cities- Jerusalem, Athens, Rome, London, and Philadelphia.
Russell Kirk
An American author, economist, political commentator and academic who is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution that we've read in class.
Thomas Sowell
Significance of the number 8 in Kabballah
Above nature
Wrote the "Social Contract" and its opening line is: "Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains".
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Who started the White House Chanukah Party tradition?
George W. Bush
The originator of this idea:
"The position of the Americans is quite exceptional, and it may be believed that no democratic people will ever be placed in a similar one."
Alexis de Tocqueville
Most venerated text in 18th-century America
The Bible
Eighth of the "Trei Asar"
Chavakuk
Author of the Leviathin
Thomas Hobbes
Wrote about his Macabbee friends in the NYC police department
Theodore Roosevelt