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  • enforce Prohibition in Chicago, Illinois, as the leader of a legendary team ... The cost of enforcing prohibition was high, and the lack of tax revenues ...
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  • The Northwest Ordinance (formally An Ordinance for the Government ... Arguably the single most important piece of legislation passed by ...
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  • The Trail of Tears refers to the forced relocation in 1838, of the ... This was caused by the Indian Removal Act of 1830. The Cherokee Trail ...
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  • the United States, the 10th Chief Justice of the United States, a leader of ... | title=Chief Justice of the United States | before=Edward Douglass White ...
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  • Constitutional law is the foundational body of law of nation states ... These foundational or basic laws of states or organizations, guided ...
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  • The Supreme Court of the United States (or the United States Supreme ... The court consists of nine justices: chief justice of the United States ...
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  • 1869), was an American lawyer, politician, United States Attorney General in ... Stanton was born in Steubenville, Ohio, the eldest of the four children ...
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  • religion established by Felix Adler in 1876. The Ethical Culture Movement is ... In adhering to its social and moral imperatives, the Ethical Culture ...
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  • The Doctors' Trial is the unofficial name for the particular ... The Doctor's Trial was one of a series of trials held in Nuremberg ...
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  • 1935) was an American jurist who served on the Supreme Court of the United ... and pithy opinions, and his deference to the decisions of elected legislatures ...
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  • December 15, 1890) was a Hunkpapa Lakota chief and holy man. He is notable ... Sitting Bull was born around 1831 near the Grand River in present ...
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  • [[Image:Old Bailey Microcosm edited.jpg|250px|thumb|A trial at the ... civil, labor, administrative, and criminal justice under its laws. In common ...
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  • teacher and politician. He was president of the African National Congress ... He was awarded the 1960 Nobel Peace Prize for his role in the ANC ...
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  • Dred Scott v. Sandford,John Vishneski, "What the Court Decided ... also known as the "Dred Scott Case" or "Dred Scott ...
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  • was a landmark United States Supreme Court decision establishing that ... The decision in Roe v. Wade prompted a still-continuing national debate ...
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  • social worker who specifically focused on the advancement of child welfare ... One of four children, Grace Abbott was raised in a home environment ...
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  • American Quaker poet and forceful advocate of the abolition of slavery in ... John Greenleaf Whittier was born on December 17, 1807, the second ...
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  • Watergate is a general term for a series of political scandals, which ... Investigations conducted by the FBI, Senate Watergate Committee, House ...
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  • official, and legal scholar who served as the Solicitor General of the United ... The contentious confirmation battle that led to the Senate rejecting ...
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  • ) (born August 15, 1945) was the Prime Minister of Bangladesh from ... During her period in office, the leader of the official opposition ...
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