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The First Amendment provides that the state may not pass any law which abridges freedom of speech or freedom of association, which the Supreme Court has declared to be fundamental liberties. The Internet is a high speed telecommunications network which links tens of millions of computer users around the world. Access to the Internet is largely controlled by online service providers who connect the personal computers of their subscribers to the Internet through modems. The original development of the Internet was largely funded with federal funds --from the Department of Defense and the National Science Foundation. One of the distinctive features of the Internet is its interactive nature, including Electronic Bulletin Boards (BBS), which "allows users to 'post' messages or pictures for others, read or view messages left by others and converse with other BBS users."

The contents of messages on the Internet are clearly speech, entitled to protection under the First Amendment. Belsie says that "the Internet is so new that no one knows how to categorize it, much less regulate it." What has initially drawn the a

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-averse and more vigorous." Others argue that term limits will offset the advantages conferred on incumbents under the present system of federal campaign financing laws and enhance democracy by ensuring more competitive elections. The argument against term limits is that they would deprive Congress and the nation of the experience of seasoned legislators which is needed in a complex world. For proponents of term limits, the failure of a constitutional amendment to pass the Congress with the necessary majorities is symptomatic of the grip of the incumbents backed by special interests and their ability to defeat efforts to reform Congress. The counterargument is that the Founding Fathers knew what they were doing when they made it more difficult to amend the national constitution than state constitutions so as to protect the stability of the system of separation of powers and checks and balances they created in 1787. Racial Discrimination Affirmative action programs. Title VII of the federal Civil Rights Act of 1964 set up the Equal Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to implement policies aimed at ending discrimination on racial and other grounds in federal employment and other programs which use federal funds. A raft of regulatio
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