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>> because of americas status as a country thats always reaching for higher and higher ambition and growth in the 19th century, we started to have this idea that the university education could be a benefit to absolutely everyone. that we should be able to all have the learning that we need to have self-respect, to be able to support ourselves. and also to be able to be full citizens. that idea really culminated in the morrill act in 1860s. >> in the middle of the civil war in 1862 congress of th...

Rights act will be overturned. during oral arguments they seemed to argue section 5 formulas that use data from the 1960s and early 70s to determine what states and localities will be put under scrutiny have become a relic. >> the formula was rational and effective in 1965. the court upheld it then. it upheld it three more times after that. >> the marshall plan was very good, too, the morrill act, but times change. >> were not predicting its going to happen but we should be prepared for the poss...