Search results for "First Amendment to the United States Constitution" - New World Encyclopedia
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- U.S. 483 (1954), is a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court ... A companion case dealt with the constitutionality of segregation in ...25 KB (3,783 words) - 04:40, 22 November 2023
- and briefly a politician who became the first woman to serve in the ... At 87 years of age, Felton is also the oldest freshman senator to ...12 KB (1,826 words) - 01:42, 8 December 2022
- The Supreme Court of the United States (or the United States Supreme ... The Supreme Court is the only court established by the United States ...40 KB (6,036 words) - 23:51, 26 February 2023
- James Buchanan (April 23, 1791 – June 1, 1868) was the fifteenth ... Pennsylvania, on April 23, 1791, to James Buchanan and Elizabeth ...17 KB (2,451 words) - 21:06, 20 March 2024
- A Militia is an organization of citizens prepared to provide defense ... and have historically been found inadequate to their appointed task of defending ...26 KB (3,981 words) - 10:59, 10 March 2023
- 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 ...24 KB (3,494 words) - 00:24, 18 November 2022
- The Equal Protection Clause, part of the Fourteenth Amendment to ... More concretely, the Equal Protection Clause, along with the rest ...45 KB (6,808 words) - 12:57, 12 February 2022
- | order=27th President of the United States | date1=March 4, 1909 ... | place of birth=Cincinnati, Ohio, United States | dead=dead ...32 KB (4,775 words) - 11:00, 9 May 2023
- – November 18, 1886) was a politician of the United States who served as ... Arthur had been Collector of Customs for the Port of New York. He was appointed ...13 KB (1,928 words) - 18:32, 8 December 2023
- fixed amount per individual (as opposed to a percentage of income). Raised ... tax formerly required for voting in parts of the United States that was often ...22 KB (3,597 words) - 08:38, 24 November 2022
- Perjury is the act of lying or making verifiably false statements ... Perjury is the giving of false testimony under oath. The word comes ...11 KB (1,741 words) - 17:57, 26 March 2023
- The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the federal ... Each of the 435 members of the House of Representatives represents ...50 KB (7,439 words) - 11:53, 3 May 2023
- Independence Day (colloquially the Fourth of July or July 4th) is ... speeches, and ceremonies, in addition to various other public and private ...20 KB (2,843 words) - 22:00, 4 February 2023
- The common law forms a major part of the law of those countries of ... but one example, the First Amendment to the United States Constitution states ...32 KB (5,079 words) - 00:10, 8 January 2024
- lawyer but a powerful orator, Sumner was the leader of the antislavery ... As a Radical Republican leader in the Senate during Reconstruction ...24 KB (3,821 words) - 00:34, 5 December 2023
- *For the history of the Korea before its division, see History of Korea. The History of South Korea formally begins with the establishment ...21 KB (3,199 words) - 11:47, 1 February 2024
- Spiro Theodore Agnew (November 9, 1918 – September 17, 1996) was ... Spiro Agnew was born Spiros Anagnostopoulos in the Towson section ...19 KB (2,916 words) - 15:44, 27 April 2023
- Blasphemy is the defamation of the name of one or more gods. In a ... The word blasphemy is derived from the Middle English blasfemen, which ...20 KB (3,022 words) - 14:33, 8 February 2022
- Affirmative action refers to steps taken to eliminate discrimination—whether ... Although affirmative action is an attempt to redress the imbalance ...23 KB (3,279 words) - 20:11, 7 July 2023
- The Wilmot Proviso was introduced on August 8, 1846, in the House ... After an earlier attempt to acquire Texas by treaty had failed to ...17 KB (2,658 words) - 10:55, 15 May 2023
