PART 1 Prompt for Reaction Paper #5 & PART 2 DB#4: Religion, State & Nation

I need 1-page papers: for Prompt for Reaction Paper #5
I understand that many of you are pressed for time. So, familiarizing yourself first with the paper prompt allows you to read and listen selectively if that’s what your situation requires.
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PART 1
Read through the news article “The ACLU is Changing—Not Everyone is Happy About That” at the following link:
https://bluetent.us/arenas/policy-advocacy/aclu-advocacy-agenda-policy-criticism/
Prompt for Reaction Paper #5
In recent years, especially since the George Floyd protests of late spring and summer 2020, many traditional (especially older) liberals have expressed concern about the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) shifting its program from “non-partisan” defense of civil liberties to “politicized” advocacy of social justice causes, especially racial justice causes. It is reasonable to suggest that the concern of these troubled ACLU supporters stems partly from the inconsistent and even contradictory messaging of the ACLU’s communications operatives. In their outreach to members of the public via press conferences and social media, the ACLU’s communications people emphasize the systemically racist character of many American institutions and the imperative to reduce (or eradicate) racial disparities. At the same time, much of the ACLU’s social justice-themed advocacy centers on the expansion of programs and services — child allowance payments, postal banking, etc. — that would benefit broad layers of the working and middle classes irrespective of their ethnoracial status.
Questions for you to address in your commentary: 1) In their advocacy work and their public messaging, to what extent and how are the ACLU’s program directors drawing from Critical Race Theory and the New Abolitionism — i.e. both the sociolegal vocabulary and the political content of Critical Race Theory and the New Abolitionism? In your commentary, you need to demonstrate that you have engaged with the article written by Torres, or the article written by Akbar — or both. 2) How might the ACLU programming and messaging resonate differently if it borrowed ideas from Lynd (on collective socioeconomic rights)?
These are not simple questions with straightforward answers, or questions to which there are clearly right and wrong answers. (Although some answers might be “better” than others, in the sense that they show a sound understanding of the texts and issues, are well-reasoned and well-written, and so on.) Do your best to synthesize your commentary on Questions #1 and #2.
Write no fewer than 275 and no more than 300 words in total. Submit your double-spaced essay in Word BY MONDAY 1/16 9:45 PM . I NEED THIS 1 PAGE PAPER BY MONDAY 1/16 9:45 PM.
Links or Files to Help You below will be uplaoded in Upload files
Learning Unit #5 (three parts) Content 5 Folder :
US constitutional order and political development
Content Folder
1)US Constitutional Order and Political Development January 13 2023
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US constitutional order and political development—all slides (Orren)
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3)Tigar—Original Understanding and the Constitution
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4)Tigar—By the Lawyers and for the Judges, An Irreverent History of the Bill of Rights
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5)Orren—The Primacy of Labor in American Constitutional Development
Intellectual movements in law and society
Content Folder
1)POWERPOINT SLIDES: Contemporary intellectual movements in law and society January 13 2023
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2)RECORDED LECTURE: Intellectual movements in law and society—Slides #1-#7 (Lynd)
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3)RECORDED LECTURE: Intellectual movements in law and society—Slides #8-#12 (Torres)
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4)Vago & Barkan—Law and Society, Chapter Two (pp. 48-56)
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5)Lynd—Communal Rights
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6)Torres—Critical Race Theory, The Decline of the Universalist Ideal
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7)Akbar—Toward a Radical Imagination of Law
Law, social movements, and social change
1)POWERPOINT SLIDES: Law, social movements, and social change January 13 2023
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2)RECORDED LECTURE: Law, social movements, and social change—all slides (Albiston)
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3)Vago and Barkan—Law and Society, Chapter Seven
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4)Albiston—The Dark Side of Litigation as a Social Movement Strategy
PART 2 DB#4
I need two paragraphs on DB#4: Religion, State & Nation
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Part 3 Religion: Structural Power & Authority
Religion, State & Nation: Despite classical
theorizing that with modernity, religion will
retreat from the public sphere into the private,
religion continues to exert enormous power in
public life, most especially in the organization
of the American state and in our “idea” of
“America,” the nation. Today, we will explore
the secularization thesis: what does secularism
mean? Is America a secular state? Is the
secular-religious divide a real or false binary in
the American context? We will examine the
intersection of religion and state and our
ongoing reality of an uptick in religious
nationalism and its shaping of debates of civic
life.
Links or Videos or Files to Help You below…..
Watch: “Is Religion Declining?” (7:05
minutes) – Religion for Breakfast https://
www.youtube.com/watch?
v=Hf7nf7mpUQY
Listen: “Why Hate Crimes are On The
Rise.” (17:28 minutes), Harvard Religion
Beat, https://hds.harvard.edu/news/
2019/04/23/podcast-why-hate-crimes-arerise
Read:
Gustavo Morello (2019). “Why Study
Religion from a Latin American
Sociological Perspective? An Introduction to
Religions Issue, ‘Religion in Latin America,
and among Latinos Abroad.’” Religions
10(6):399. doi: 10.3390/rel10060399.
https://www.mdpi.com/
2077-1444/10/6/399
Ron Elving (2022). “Roe draft is a reminder
that religion’s role in politics is older than
the republic” https://www.npr.org/
2022/05/14/1098800437/religion-rolepolitics
Tania Ganguli and Sopan Deb (2022).
What to Know About Irving’s Antisemitic
Movie Post and the Fallout https://
www.nytimes.com/article/kyrie-irvingantisemitic.htm