Aさんの おぼえた日記 - 2017年1月21日(土)

QUOTATION OF THE DAY
"This American carnage（大虐殺） stops right here and stops right now."
DONALD J. TRUMP, the 45th president of the United States, in his Inaugural Address, emphasizing his goal of ending what he perceives as a national decline.

Saturday, January 21, 2017

（０）OPINION：What We’re Seeing
Dispatches from opinion writers in Washington and around the world.

（００）What President Trump Doesn’t Get About America　　By THE EDITORIAL BOARD
It was already pretty great, despite its flaws, before he took office Friday.

（１）Donald Trump Is Sworn In as President, Capping His Swift Ascent
Donald J. Trump was inaugurated as the 45th president of the United States after one of the most divisive election campaigns in modern times.

（２）In Inaugural Address, Trump Continues to Shun（遠ざける） Establishment
Uncompromising in tone and entirely in keeping with his insurgent（暴動を起こす） campaign, President Trump dispensed with appeals to unity or attempts to build bridges to his opponents.

（３）Many Left. Many Arrived. All Felt the Mood of a New Era.
The atmosphere was unmistakable on Friday in Washington, where crowds gathered for President Trump’s inauguration, protests broke out and many residents simply skipped town.

（４）With Echoes of the ’30s, Trump Resurrects（蘇らせる） a Hard-Line Vision of ‘America First’
In his inaugural address, President Trump appeared to herald（予告する） the end of an American experiment to shape a world that would be eager to follow the United States’ lead.
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写真の上右の文面：THE 45TH PRESIDENT
TRUMP, SWORN IN, ISSUES A CALL: 'THIS AMERICAN CARNAGE STOPS’

UNIQUELY DARK VISION OF THE U.S.
Wasting Little Time Rolling Back Obama Policies
— Sporadic（散発的な） Arrests During Protests

WASHINGTON — Donald John Trump was inaugurated as the 45th president of the United States on Friday, ushering（もたらす） in a new era that he vowed would shatter the established order and reverse a national decline that he called “this American carnage.” In a ceremony that capped a remarkable rise to power, Mr. Trump presented himself as the leader of a populist uprising to restore lost greatness. He outlined a dark vision of an America afflicted by “the ravages” of economic dislocation（混乱） and foreign exploitation, requiring his can-do（積極的な） approach to turn around. “I will fight for you with every breath in my body, and I will never, ever let you down,” Mr. Trump told hundreds of thousands of rain-soaked admirers and onlookers（傍観者） in a forceful 16-minute Inaugural Address（16分の就任演説） from the West Front of the Capitol. “America will start winning again, winning like never before. We will bring back our jobs. We will bring back our borders. We will bring back our wealth. And we will bring back our dreams.” Mr. Trump’s ascension（上昇） amounted（達する） to a hostile takeover of a capital facing its most significant disruption in generations. While officially a Republican, he has taken on leaders of both parties and, with no prior political career of his own, made clear that he saw himself as the ultimate outsider（自分をアウトサイダーだと位置づける） not beholden（恩義を受けて） to the current system. “We will no longer accept politicians who are all talk and no action, constantly complaining but never doing anything about it,” he said. “The time for empty talk is over. Now arrives the hour of action. Do not allow anyone to tell you that it cannot be done.” Mr. Trump’s view of the United States was strikingly grim（気味の悪い） for an Inaugural Address — a country where mothers and children are “trapped in poverty in our inner cities,” where “rusted-out factories” are “scattered like tombstones across the landscape” and where drugs and crime “have stolen too many lives.” “This American carnage,” he declared, “stops right here and stops right now.” He got started right away with rolling back the policies of his predecessor, former President Barack Obama, by issuing orders freezing new ... 14面に続く、と！
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60-Second Civics: Episode 2772, The Constitution As a Bill of Rights
In addition to amendments, the Constitution itself was written to protect certain freedoms.
When was the most recent constitutional amendment passed?
a. 1992
b. 1993
c. 1892
d. 1972
Nicely done! Choice a is correct.

＊　The Twenty-seventh Amendment (Amendment XXVII) to the United States Constitution（1992年のが、27回目の修正） prohibits any law that increases or decreases the salary of members of Congress from taking effect until the start of the next set of terms of office for Representatives. It is the most recent amendment to be adopted, but one of the first proposed（1回目：1789年に提出され、以後200年間忘れ去られ、1982年に掘り起こされ、1992年に可決！）.