Search results for "First Amendment to the United States Constitution" - New World Encyclopedia
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- 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
- The Four Freedoms are goals famously articulated by United States ... a milestone in his work of turning the United States away from isolationism ...12 KB (1,763 words) - 12:27, 22 May 2021
- The United States Senate is the smaller body, of the United States ... As the upper chamber of Congress, the Senate has several powers of ...71 KB (10,564 words) - 21:06, 30 December 2023
- official, and legal scholar who served as the Solicitor General of the United ... The contentious confirmation battle that led to the Senate rejecting ...35 KB (4,931 words) - 21:10, 16 April 2023
- 24, 1862), nicknamed Old Kinderhook, was the eighth president of the United ... He was the first of a series of eight presidents between Andrew Jackson ...22 KB (3,321 words) - 15:53, 7 November 2022
- 2023) was an American jurist who served as the first female Associate Justice ... Due to her case-by-case approach to jurisprudence and her relatively ...45 KB (6,555 words) - 21:58, 19 December 2023
- century advocate of Pan-Africanism, and the leader of Ghana and its predecessor ... an advocate of pan-Africanism, he continued to contribute to the generation ...26 KB (3,734 words) - 04:40, 4 March 2023
- event. Villaraigosa is a former director of the ACLU Southern California affiliate ... The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is a national non-profit ...25 KB (3,875 words) - 02:54, 24 July 2023
- In law, defamation is the communication of a statement that makes ... The legal requirements of proving defamation are often difficult to ...26 KB (4,112 words) - 09:09, 28 January 2024
- 24, 1825 - February 22, 1911), born to free parents in Baltimore, ... Brown, and Harriet Tubman, all who worked in the abolitionist cause, if not ...24 KB (3,721 words) - 06:41, 1 April 2024
- [[Image:Electric chair.jpg|thumb|250 px|The first electric chair, ... The electric chair is an execution method in which the person being ...11 KB (1,758 words) - 02:55, 29 December 2021
