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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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  • (May 20, 1825 – November 5, 1921), was the first woman to be ordained ... The honor of being the first woman to be ordained as a Christian minister ...
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  • reformer and social activist, leader of the women's suffrage movement ... Woodlake, Kentucky and grew up at Ashland, the farm established by her great ...
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  • was a landmark case in which the Supreme Court of the United States ... The Supreme Court overturned Griswold's conviction and invalidated ...
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  • The Missouri Compromise was an agreement passed in 1820 between the ... This compromise was viewed in its day as one of the most important ...
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  • Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896), was a landmark United States ... The decision was handed down by a vote of 7 to 1, with the majority ...
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  • Prohibition In the United States (1920-1933) was the era during which ... Many social problems have been attributed to the Prohibition era. ...
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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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  • by James Madison or Alexander Hamilton, the fifty-fourth of The Federalist ... Titled, "The Apportionment of Members Among the States" ...
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  • The Radical Republicans were members of the Republican Party who were ... The Radical Republicans took a hard line against the Confederacy early ...
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  • A grand jury is a type of jury, in the common law legal system, part ... is prima-facie evidence for an indictment, the grand jury offers valuable ...
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  • Article 1, Section 8, Clause 3 of the United States Constitution, ... The use of the Commerce Clause by Congress to justify its legislative ...
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  • George Mason IV (December 11, 1725 – October 7, 1792) was a United ... George Mason wrote the Virginia Declaration of Rights, which detailed ...
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  • Federalist No. 68 is the 68th essay of The Federalist Papers, and ... Throughout its proceedings, the US Constitutional Convention of 1787 ...
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  • The United States Bill of Rights consists of the first 10 amendments ... The Bill of Rights also restricts Congress' power by prohibiting ...
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  • Federalist No. 78 is an essay by Alexander Hamilton, the seventy-eighth ... Titled "The Judiciary Department", Federalist No. 78 was ...
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  • The United States Constitution is the supreme law of the United States ... The U.S. Constitution is the oldest written national constitution ...
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  • The term women's suffrage refers to an economic and political ... Women's suffrage is the most widely applicable aspect of the ...
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  • The Emancipation Proclamation was a presidential order in 1863 that ... It was a declaration by Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, declaring ...
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  • The Three-fifths Compromise was an agreement reached during the 1787 ... In the United States Constitution, the Three-fifths Compromise is ...
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