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| | Scopes Trial - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Scopes himself never testified, as there was never a legal issue as to whether he had taught evolution. | | | Second, the lawyers argued that the statute violated Scopes' rights under the Due Process Clause of the U.S. Constitution, as it prohibited him from teaching evolution. | | | It was Mencken who provided the trial with its most colorful labels such as the "Monkey trial" of "the infidel Scopes." It was also the first U.S. trial to be broadcast on national radio. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scopes_Trial
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| | Smithsonian Institution Archives |
| | Scopes was tried and convicted for violating a state law prohibiting the teaching of the theory of evolution. | | | The nitrate negatives, including portraits of trial participants, and images from the trial itself and significant places in Dayton, were discovered in archival material donated to the Smithsonian by Science Service in 1971. | | | That Monday afternoon, because of the extreme heat, Judge Raulston decided to move the court proceedings outdoors. |
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http://www.siarchives.si.edu/research/scopes.html
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| | CNN.com - 75 years after the Scopes trial pitted science against religion, the debate goes on - July 12, 2000 |
| | His trial, which began this week in 1925, became one of the most celebrated courtroom proceedings in U.S. legal history -- a "trial of the century" -- because of the high-profile players involved, the media attention it received and the issues it raised. | | | But experts say the trial was more of a publicity stunt than a serious court proceeding. | | | The legal issue was somewhat beside the point -- whether Scopes broke the anti-evolution law. |
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http://archives.cnn.com/2000/LAW/07/13/scopes.monkey.trial
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| | Search Tuna Report for the scopes trial |
| | Scopes was, however, later released by the state supreme court on a technicality.... | | | The Scopes Trial Chapter Eight: The Scopes Trial In 1925, there was a minor criminal trial in a small town in Tennessee that riveted the attention of the nation, because it focused on some issues of eugenics.... | | | Scopes Trial Testing The Butler Act Publicity And... |
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| | An introduction to the John Scopes (Monkey) Trial |
| | The prosecution opened its case by asking the court to take judicial notice of the Book of Genesis, as it appears in the King James version. | | | After drugstore owner Fred Robinson took the stand to testify as to Scope's statement that "any teacher in the state who was teaching Hunter's Biology was violating the law," the prosecution rested. | | | The court commented, "Nothing is to be gained by prolonging the life of this bizarre case." |
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http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scopes/evolut.htm
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| | RDP Ministry - Scopes Trial |
| | Scopes was no longer the issue as tension had now climaxed between the two lawyers. | | | The judge did allow the scientists to make statements regarding evolution and have them entered into the record so that the appellate judges could determine if the arguments were pertinent should the case go to the state supreme court. | | | He allowed himself to be charged with violating the Butler Act, a warrant was sworn out, and Scopes left the drug store not to go to jail, but instead to the local tennis court. |
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http://www.rdpministry.com/view/?pageID=103904
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| | Scopes Trial Activity |
| | A moot court differs from a trial in that there are no witnesses, testimonies or cross examinations. | | | This activity is designed for students to experience a moot court of the Scopes Trial. | | | All pertinent laws and clauses of the 1st amendment must be discussed with students prior to this activity. |
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http://www.woodrow.org/teachers/bi/1991/scopes_activity.html
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| | Scopes trial |
| | Scopes was, however, later released by the state supreme court on a technicality. | | | Scopes trial, Tennessee legal case involving the teaching of evolution in public schools. | | | The Scopes Trial: a Brief History with Documents.(Book Review) |
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http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0844087.html
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| | The Myth of the Scopes Trial - Does God Exist? - JanFeb00 |
| | The Scopes trial originated in New York City when the ACLU placed an ad in Tennessee's newspapers offering to pay the expenses of any teacher willing to test the Butler Law. | | | When Darrow arrives at court, he is greeted by scowling, booing residents. | | | Randy Moore of the University of Louisville has done a areas service in this matter by comparing the video of Inherit the Wind distributed by MGM Home Entertainment (copyright 1993) with the actual Scopes trial. |
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http://www.doesgodexist.org/JanFeb00/TheMythOfTheScopesTrial.html
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| | The Monkey Trial |
| | All the attorneys in the trial on both sides were referred to by these courtesy titles as appropriate. | | | verbally present their views in open court at the Scopes trial (except for Dr. Metcalf), written statements were entered into the record. | | | was, for all practical purposes, the lead attorney for the Prosecution at the trial as well as a show-boater and a nonstop talker. |
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http://www.themonkeytrial.com
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| | The Scopes Trial: History gone wrong |
| | At that stage, local lawyers assumed they would be conducting the trial. However Clarence Darrow, who eventually was to be counsel for the defence at the trial, came to hear of what was going on. | | | It is © Matthias Media, and may not be reproduced without prior written permission. | | | (In reality, Bryan had always been opposed to there being any fine attached to the anti-evolution law. He even offered to pay the imposed fine for Scopes.) |
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http://www.facingthechallenge.org/scopes1.htm
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| | July 21, 2000, Hour Two: Scopes Trial 75th Anniversary |
| | Scopes was convicted of breaking the anti-evolution-teaching law, and was fined $100. | | | Court TV: The Greatest Trials of All Time | | | The court's decision was later overturned by the state supreme court on a technicality. |
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http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/2000/Jul/hour2_072100.html
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| | The Scopes Trial |
| | Citizens began to be pursued into their houses, arrested without warrants, and jailed without any form of trial. | | | At the time that Mencken wrote this, alcohol had been prohibited by law to the American people, as well as almost every form of sex, disturbing reading matter, and so on. | | | The ancient writ of habeas corpus was suspended: the Bill of Rights was boldly thrown overboard." |
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http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/mencken.htm
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| | The Greatest Trials of All Time |
| | COURT TV is a registered trademark and COURT TV ONLINE is a service mark of the Courtroom Television Network. | | | No part of this site may be reproduced in any form without permission of Court TV. | | | HOMEPAGE | VERDICTS | FAMOUS CASES | TRIAL TRACKING | LEGAL DOCUMENTS | PROGRAM GUIDE | CTTV STORE | GAMES/CONTEST | LEGAL TERMS | SEARCH | INDEX | HOW TO GET CTTV | COMMENTS |
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| | Inherit/1925 |
| | However, the court's decision stemmed from the very point Darrow sought to avoid - a technicality. | | | He began his scheme saying, "Let's take this thing to court and test the legality of it. | | | The trial itself also passed on when more than a year later, on January 14, 1927, the State Supreme Court in Nashville handed down a decision which reversed the earlier one. |
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| | Scopes Trial |
| | The American Civil Liberties Union decided to take up the case and America's most famous criminal lawyer,Clarence Darrow, offered to defend Scopes without a fee. | | | William Jennings Bryan, fundamentalist, and Clarence Darrow, agnostic and pleader of unpopular causes, locked horns today under the most remarkable circumstances ever known by American court procedure. | | | installed its own radio transmitter and it became the first trial in American history to be broadcast to the nation. |
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| | Scopes Trial - EvoWiki |
| | John Scopes, a substitute teacher, agreed to admit to teaching evolution in order to test the law. | | | His objective was to shoot down the anti-evolution law by losing the trial and the appeal trial before the Tennessee Supreme Court, then appealing to a federal court and having the law declared unconstitutional. | | | This intention failed because the ruling was reversed on a technicality by the Tennessee Supreme Court. |
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| | The Scopes Trial (Cornerstones of Freedom Second Series) |
| | I did my dissertation on the rhetoric of the Scopes Trial, so I am in a position to point out errors in this Cornerstones of Freedom volume, such as the idea that Herbert and Sue Hicks were a local husband and wife team of lawyers. | | | Technically the defense lost all three parts of the trial and Darrow asked the jury to find Scopes guilty so the defense could make an appeal to the state Supreme Court, but the spectacle of Darrow questioning Bryan about his beliefs was what got the biggest headlines. | | | Malone, who had served under Bryan when the Great Commoner was Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of State, responded to Bryan's attack with the speech that was considered the oratorical highlight of the trial. |
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http://www.freeglossary.com/p:0516242210
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| | Scopes Trial Term Papers, Essay Research Paper Help, Essays on Scopes Trial |
| | Please read our FAQ page for answers to any questions you may have. | | | Copyright © 1999-2006 Scopes Trial Essays, Term Papers, Book Reports, and Research Papers from www.essaytown.com All rights reserved. | | | and they are responsible for citing EssayTown as a Scopes Trial reference source. |
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| | The legend of the Scopes trial. By David Greenberg |
| | Instead, the ACLU hoped to send the case up to the U.S. Supreme Court to review the law's constitutionality. | | | For although the case never reached the U.S. Supreme Court—the Tennessee Supreme Court overturned the guilty verdict on a technicality—federal jurisprudence embraced the idea that evolution was fact, worthy of teaching in public schools, and creationism was religion, unfit for the science classroom. | | | Disturbed by relaxed sexual standards and social codes, and angered by Supreme Court rulings limiting the government's entanglement with religion—including Epperson v. |
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| | Edward J. Larson. Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate over Science and Religion. Book ... |
| | Larson offers a complete account of the trial itself, drawing on court documents as well as newspaper stories, but his most important contribution to our understanding of the Scopes trial comes in Part III, which examines the various ways that the Scopes trial has been interpreted since 1925. | | | From that initial vignette Larson proceeds, in effect, to deconstruct the Scopes trial, to separate myth from history in one of the most misunderstood and misrepresented cases in the twentieth century. | | | Scopes himself remained a cipher throughout the trial, ceding the stage to much larger personalities: Darrow, Bryan, and the irascible H. Mencken, who covered the trial for the Baltimore Sun. |
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| | The Scopes Trial |
| | In 1925 science teacher John Scopes agreed to challenge Tennessee's new anti-evolution law in court. | | | Efforts to enforce a new state statute against the teaching of evolution in public schools had precipitated the arrest of Dayton educator John T. Scopes. | | | Yet Scopes was reluctant to participate in the ACLU's efforts until talked into it by Dayton neighbors who hoped that a prominent local trial would stimulate prosperity in their sleepy southeastern Tennessee town. |
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| | Trial of the Century: How the Scopes Trial Framed the Modern Debate over Science and Religion (L.A. Times): Gaffney ... |
| | By clarifying the difference between law and justice and by rejecting the defense that the defendants followed their superior's orders as a justification for genocide, the Nuremberg tribunal stands out as a beacon of light in a century scarred by dark slaughter, legal and illegal. | | | Two great advocates, William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow, struggled with one another in a test of the constitutionality of a recent state statute against the teaching of evolution in public schools. | | | By the time Larson begins to retell what occurred at the trial, we are well introduced to the history of the ideas that the trial was meant to test. |
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| | Scopes Trial & Inherit the Wind Q&A |
| | The full ‘scope’ of the trial of the century | | | Scopes Trial Facts v Inherit the Wind fiction (Review of Summer of the Gods) | | | The Monkey Trial - The Scopes Trial and the Decline of the Church (Special Video Preview) |
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| | Scopes Trial/Historical Resources |
| | Bryan's death in Dayton on July 26, 1925, a memorial association with a national membership was formed to establish in Dayton an educational institution in his honor. | | | Bryan (1860-1925) expressed the wish that a prep school and junior college for men might be established on one of Dayton's scenic hills. | | | For more information on the history of William Jennings Bryan, the Scopes Trial, or Bryan College, explore our articles. |
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| | Between the Wars: The Scopes Trial |
| | With their appearance, and because of their respective reputations, the trial all but ignored Scopes (although he was finally convicted and fined $100); the highlight came on the afternoon of the seventh day when Darrow surprised everyone by calling Bryan to the stand in order to expose the intellectual weaknesses in Bryan's Fundamentalism. | | | A local school teacher, John Scopes, had violated Tennessee law by teaching the theory of evolution. | | | For about two hours the two men faced each other in their shirt-sleeves. |
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