The city's nationally famous urban renewal project, Constitution Plaza, was dedicated in 1964; the Hartford Civic Center opened in 1975.
Ellsworth Grant, a historian whose books include "The Miracle of Connecticut," said that Travelers financed Hartford's first urban renewal project, Constitution Plaza, in 1960, and Aetna built the Civic Center in 1974.
Allen neglects one argument for her thesis that the United States is a "secular project": the Constitution mandates the establishment of a political truth by guaranteeing each state the same form of government ("republican").
In the late 1980s and early '90s, Natal and KwaZulu became the scene of violent clashes between rival black political parties that were vying for the support of black South Africans prior to the establishment of majority rule under a projected new constitution.
Jake Laperruque is senior counsel for The Constitution Project at the Project On Government Oversight, where he works on issues of surveillance, national security and defending privacy rights in the digital age.
The Constitution Project's task force on detainee treatment, led by two former members of Congress with experience in the executive branch — a Republican, Asa Hutchinson, and a Democrat, James R. Jones — seeks to produce a stronger national consensus on the torture question.
But the sweeping report issued on Tuesday by an 11-member task force convened by the Constitution Project, a legal research and advocacy group, provides a valuable, even necessary reckoning.
Katherine Hawkins, who formerly worked as an investigator for the non-profit Constitution Project's task force on detainee treatment, said she doubts the report's release will ever convince those with "a direct personal stake" that the CIA was in the wrong with tactics like waterboarding.
Virginia Sloan, executive director of the Constitution Project, a nonpartisan group that seeks broader recognition of constitutional issues, said that "these are things we need to think about and hesitate about before we go forward because civil liberties, once lost, are not easily regained".
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