Terry Jansen is a retired civil servant who lives with her cat, Dusty, in California. In 1993, she became an off-campus student at Goddard College in Vermont. For the next three years she wrote, The Civil War: A Constitutional Conflict. Her interest in history, 3-year self-representation in a Workers' Compensation case and passion for civil rights were the inspiration for her paper. An openly gay American and lifelong Democrat she voted on November 4, 2008. Ms. Jansen voted no on Proposition 8, the ban on same-sex marriage in California, as a rcumvention of her civil rights under the Due Process clause of The 5th Amendment to The U.S. Constitution. She also voted for Barack Obama, an African-American, and the 44th President of the United States who will take the oath of office to defend the Constitution to ensure the rights of all Americans.
