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  • activist and reformer, the chairman of the committee on labor laws ... in Brooklyn, New York City, the youngest of ten children to Joseph Goldmark ...
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  • as illustrated in his Commentaries on the Laws of England.]] the Common law called Commentaries on the Laws of England, first published ...
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  • B.C.E. middle chronology) was the sixth king of Babylon. He became the first ... A great literary revival followed. One of the most important works ...
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  • The Geneva Conventions consist of four treaties formulated in Geneva ... * Laws of war * War crime ==Notes== ==References== *Bennett, Angela ...
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  • played a role in dismantling the Jim Crow laws and outlawing racial segregation ... Mary Hamilton Houston, was a hairdresser of famous clientele; his father ...
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  • The Nullification Crisis was a sectional crisis during the presidency ... During the beginning of his term, Jackson was forced to confront the ...
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  • The Alien and Sedition Acts were four laws passed by the United States ... The most controversial of the four statutes was the Sedition Act, ...
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  • (FIFA, French for International Federation of Association Football) is the ... game became apparent at the beginning of the twentieth century with ...
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  • American neoclassical economist, a pioneer of the marginalist revolution ... as the relationship between distribution of income and production, which ...
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  • who wrote An Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution ... British society in his day, the "Rule of Law" cannot be absolute ...
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  • British Poor Laws were a body of laws designed during the Elizabethan ... Poor Laws provided relief in various forms, including care for the ...
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  • The Law Library of the United States Congress was established in 1832 ... universal access to and the understanding of law serves an important role ...
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  • Pope Pius XII on June 29, 1943, during World War II, which affirms that the ... who live under the visible representative of Christ. However, there are ...
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  • Richard Cumberland (1631 - 1718) was an English philosopher and bishop ... In 1672, he wrote De legibus naturae (On Natural Laws), propounding ...
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  • [[File:Cesare Beccaria in Dei delitti crop.jpg|thumb|Marquis of Beccaria]] His work was significant in the development of Utilitarianism. Beccaria advocated ...
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  • is a teleological and consequential theory of ethics concerned with the outcome ... He believed that there are no absolute laws other than the law of Agapē ...
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  • to in history as Bloody Kansas or the Border War, was a sequence of violent ... Kansas" was coined by Horace Greeley of the New York Tribune. The events ...
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  • the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages. The term ... made it more profitable to smuggle. The cost of enforcing prohibition was high ...
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  • Obscenity is either the state of being lewd and indecent, or something ... Still, most societies regard the existence of standards defining what ...
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  • Racial segregation is the separation, either by law or by action, ... Racial segregation is characterized by separation of people of different ...
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