The common defense

Constitutional

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🗓️ 4 December 2017

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

One intention the framers had when creating the U.S. Constitution was to “provide for the common defense.” But who shoulders that duty has not always been so clear.

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0:00.0	In 1971, a case came before the US Supreme Court concerning the military draft.
0:09.7	It was a case about a fighter who didn't want to fight.
0:14.1	More specifically, a world famous American boxer who fought in the ring but was opposed
0:21.2	to fighting the war in Vietnam.
0:23.2	Welcome to Miami Beach and the giant convention hall for what may be the richest heavyweight
0:27.6	championship fight of all time and into the ring.
0:30.4	The case was clay versus United States.
0:35.2	Clay being the former Olympic light heavyweight champion, Cache's Clay.
0:46.0	Later known as Muhammad Ali.
0:49.0	The story of the case starts in a way with that name change.
1:13.8	Back in 1964, when Cache's Clay was 22 years old, he won the world heavyweight boxing title
1:24.0	in a major upset in Miami Beach.
1:42.9	Two days after the victory, Clay announced publicly that he was a convert to the nation
1:49.7	of Islam.
1:50.7	It's great interest in the fact that you have joined the Muslim religion.
1:54.4	How long have you had this interest, Cache's?
1:56.4	Oh, for the past six years, I would say, after hearing a father teach his own Negro history
2:01.8	and who we were before we got here.
2:05.0	Two weeks after the victory, he said from now on, he would go by his new name, Muhammad Ali.
2:12.2	Cache's Clay was the name of the white slave master.
2:15.2	But now that since we are free, we are no longer slaves.
2:17.6	Therefore, I'm going back into the name of a black man.
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