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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 ...10 KB (1,535 words) - 02:16, 11 August 2022
- the United States providing for the return of escaped slaves to their owners ... The Articles of Confederation of the New England Confederation of ...9 KB (1,324 words) - 07:11, 15 April 2024
- as illustrated in his Commentaries on the Laws of England.]] the Common law called Commentaries on the Laws of England, first published ...11 KB (1,662 words) - 15:40, 6 May 2023
- 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 ...13 KB (1,918 words) - 17:00, 21 January 2024
- The Geneva Conventions consist of four treaties formulated in Geneva ... * Laws of war * War crime ==Notes== ==References== *Bennett, Angela ...11 KB (1,605 words) - 06:47, 18 April 2024
- played a role in dismantling the Jim Crow laws and outlawing racial segregation ... Mary Hamilton Houston, was a hairdresser of famous clientele; his father ...10 KB (1,509 words) - 19:09, 4 December 2023
- The Nullification Crisis was a sectional crisis during the presidency ... During the beginning of his term, Jackson was forced to confront the ...7 KB (1,113 words) - 00:42, 17 November 2022
- The Alien and Sedition Acts were four laws passed by the United States ... The most controversial of the four statutes was the Sedition Act, ...12 KB (1,748 words) - 18:22, 21 July 2023
- (FIFA, French for International Federation of Association Football) is the ... game became apparent at the beginning of the twentieth century with ...12 KB (1,724 words) - 00:03, 25 March 2024
- American neoclassical economist, a pioneer of the marginalist revolution ... as the relationship between distribution of income and production, which ...13 KB (1,870 words) - 07:36, 5 April 2024
- 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 ...10 KB (1,578 words) - 07:05, 13 June 2023
- British Poor Laws were a body of laws designed during the Elizabethan ... Poor Laws provided relief in various forms, including care for the ...17 KB (2,625 words) - 08:51, 24 November 2022
- The Law Library of the United States Congress was established in 1832 ... universal access to and the understanding of law serves an important role ...19 KB (2,884 words) - 06:58, 4 March 2023
- 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 ...10 KB (1,484 words) - 22:43, 10 November 2022
- Richard Cumberland (1631 - 1718) was an English philosopher and bishop ... In 1672, he wrote De legibus naturae (On Natural Laws), propounding ...13 KB (2,116 words) - 20:13, 8 December 2022
- [[File:Cesare Beccaria in Dei delitti crop.jpg|thumb|Marquis of Beccaria]] His work was significant in the development of Utilitarianism. Beccaria advocated ...11 KB (1,635 words) - 00:08, 4 December 2023
- 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 ...14 KB (2,274 words) - 22:41, 29 January 2023
- 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 ...10 KB (1,554 words) - 18:13, 31 October 2023
- the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages. The term ... made it more profitable to smuggle. The cost of enforcing prohibition was high ...13 KB (1,926 words) - 23:11, 30 November 2022
- Obscenity is either the state of being lewd and indecent, or something ... Still, most societies regard the existence of standards defining what ...14 KB (2,133 words) - 19:55, 17 November 2022
- Racial segregation is the separation, either by law or by action, ... Racial segregation is characterized by separation of people of different ...23 KB (3,411 words) - 22:42, 7 December 2022
- by Herbert Spencer's application of the evolution theory of Charles ... American history, promoting the concept of the United States as the climax ...10 KB (1,417 words) - 06:36, 8 April 2024
- the greatest of China's Legalist philosophers. Along with Li ... work is collected in the 55 chapters of Han Feizi, which is also important ...13 KB (2,134 words) - 20:49, 21 January 2024
- Clarence Walker Barron (July 2, 1855 – October 2, 1928) is one of ... His notes of conversations, which revealed how closely connected and ...12 KB (1,777 words) - 10:25, 19 December 2023
- for combatants as defined in laws of war. In the history of war (which ... have conducted operations according to the laws of war To be entitled ...27 KB (4,158 words) - 00:40, 12 April 2023
- clearly formulate the fundamental principles of thermodynamics. He also placed ... Clausius was born in Köslin in the Province of Pomerania, the son ...13 KB (1,927 words) - 21:04, 21 December 2022
- to all slaves in the Confederate States of America. It was not a law passed ... on January 1, 1863, declaring the freedom of all slaves in the Confederate ...16 KB (2,559 words) - 17:52, 13 February 2024
- in the U.S. Navy during the American Civil War he was the first black man ... helped to bolster support for the entrance of blacks into the military. They ...13 KB (2,026 words) - 02:16, 16 December 2022
- Carl Robert Byoir (June 24, 1888 – February 3, 1957) was one of ... he was 18 years old, Byoir became the editor of the Waterloo Times-Tribune ...11 KB (1,664 words) - 00:54, 13 January 2023
- Jim Crow laws were state and local laws enacted in the Southern and ... to the U.S. and the first popularizer of blackface performance, which ...24 KB (3,703 words) - 12:44, 1 August 2022
- a famous nineteenth century American example of "miscegenation." ... + genus "kind") is the mixing of different races, especially ...21 KB (3,025 words) - 11:09, 10 March 2023
- 27, 1963) was an American economist, the son of John Bates Clark. He was one ... Clark recognized that there were aspects of human nature that influenced ...11 KB (1,541 words) - 06:33, 3 August 2022
- against religious sites, and the seizure of church property. mere secularism or the French tradition of laïcité, which advocates ...18 KB (2,564 words) - 23:52, 27 April 2022
- objective is to support an issue or matter of private interest or public ... they are not bound by the competition of the business sector. In this ...18 KB (2,646 words) - 09:59, 11 March 2023
- General. He also was the fifth Chief Justice of the United States, holding ... role for the federal government in the area of economic regulation, Taney ...15 KB (2,278 words) - 21:33, 16 April 2023
- was an English political theorist and one of the first absolutists. Born ... on natural law, which equated the authority of the king over his subjects ...12 KB (1,931 words) - 05:04, 15 December 2022
- [[Image:Photo of William Graham Sumner.jpg|250px|right|thumb|William ... sociologist, famous for his strong support of laissez-faire economy, free ...16 KB (2,256 words) - 12:13, 8 May 2023
- affairs, particularly in the areas of Russia and Eurasia, China, ... Andrew Carnegie, like other leading internationalists of his day, ...7 KB (1,074 words) - 00:34, 29 November 2023
- Prize. He was the fourteenth Prime Minister of Canada from April 22, 1963 ... He improved pensions, and waged a "war on poverty." He pursued ...24 KB (3,567 words) - 22:02, 25 October 2022
- Conflicts: The Selected Works on the Laws of War by the late professor ... Conflicts: The Selected Works on the Laws of War by the Late Professor ...10 KB (1,536 words) - 15:30, 28 January 2023
- The Ethiopian Civil War (1974-1991)Benjamin. A. Valentino, Final Solutions: ... those displaced by the Eritrean-Ethiopian War. This may qualify as a war ...11 KB (1,659 words) - 04:34, 22 March 2024
- turning Lieutenant William Bligh and some of the officers and crew adrift ... Mutiny is the act of conspiring to disobey an order that a group of ...14 KB (2,145 words) - 02:39, 11 March 2023
- reformer and social activist, leader of the women's suffrage movement ... grandfather, Henry Clay. She was a cousin of Ephraim McDowell and American ...7 KB (1,006 words) - 04:55, 5 November 2022
- teacher and politician. He was president of the African National Congress ... that year was the former Secretary-General of the United Nations, Dag Hammarskjöld ...12 KB (1,897 words) - 01:19, 11 May 2021
- The Compromise of 1850 was a series of laws that attempted to resolve ... The compromise was possible after the death of President Zachary Taylor, who ...12 KB (1,866 words) - 00:22, 8 January 2024
- Natural law or the law of nature (Latin lex naturalis) is law whose ... Though Aristotle is often referred to as “the father of natural law,” ...24 KB (3,647 words) - 15:20, 11 November 2022
- Educated through the difficult life of an American emigrant in the ... Gompers founded the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and held the position ...14 KB (2,176 words) - 01:17, 21 April 2023
- was an Argentine intellectual and author of highly experimental novels ... Along with Borges, Cortazar is often considered to be one of the most ...9 KB (1,243 words) - 21:13, 4 October 2022
- violations of international law and the laws of war. Because the court was ... treaty obligations and the customary laws of war. For example at the trial ...26 KB (4,019 words) - 01:19, 17 November 2022
- Freedom of speech is the ability to speak without censorship or limitation ... Freedom of speech is a key factor in the spread of information in ...18 KB (2,627 words) - 10:48, 11 April 2024
- The Northwest Ordinance (formally An Ordinance for the Government ... Arguably the single most important piece of legislation passed by ...10 KB (1,533 words) - 06:38, 16 November 2022
- The Treaty of Nanking (Nánjīng Tiáoyuē) is the agreement which ... The establishment of Hong Kong and of other Treaty Port settlements ...13 KB (2,030 words) - 23:41, 21 April 2020
- from South Carolina during the first half of the nineteenth century. Calhoun ... Calhoun began his career as a staunch nationalist, favoring war with ...14 KB (2,040 words) - 16:58, 5 April 2024
- October 17, 1938) was a leading theoretician of German Social Democracy before ... He became an important critic of the anti-democratic tendencies of ...14 KB (2,094 words) - 10:45, 28 February 2023
- In law, treason is the crime of disloyalty to one's nation. A ... drawing and quartering. However, the charge of treason was greatly abused ...14 KB (2,143 words) - 12:38, 18 April 2023
- gained international fame as the co-author of The Polish Peasant in Europe ... information from written records of the society they were studying ...11 KB (1,469 words) - 07:56, 21 May 2021
- Congress, involving primarily the regulation of slavery in the western territories ... This compromise was viewed in its day as one of the most important ...9 KB (1,362 words) - 19:18, 9 November 2022
- pacifist, publicist, journalist, co-founder of the German peace movement, ... Nieder! (Lay Down Your Arms!) the title of the Baroness' famous 1889 ...12 KB (1,786 words) - 07:20, 20 July 2023
- who opposed U.S. involvement in both World War I and World War II (finally ... that he attested to. He was a stalwart of socialism who opposed communism ...11 KB (1,518 words) - 02:47, 16 November 2022
- Nicolai Hartmann (February 20, 1882 – October 9, 1950) was one of ... by his own existence within the restrictions of time and space, and by the ...15 KB (2,188 words) - 23:34, 14 November 2022
- In 1949, she became acting supervisor of the West Area Computers, the ... Vaughan prepared for the introduction of machine computers in the early ...15 KB (2,076 words) - 17:29, 30 January 2024
- Supreme Court decision in the jurisprudence of the United States, upholding ... The decision was handed down by a vote of 7 to 1, with the majority ...10 KB (1,574 words) - 08:04, 24 November 2022
- American politician and a long-time member of the United States Congress ... candidate to speak out against the Vietnam War, and for making this stance ...18 KB (2,729 words) - 04:13, 23 March 2024
- reformer. He is best known as the author of the report Social Insurance ... India, on March 5, 1879, the eldest son of a judge in the Indian Civil ...11 KB (1,631 words) - 15:39, 6 May 2023
- the composition, structure, and properties of matter, as well as the changes ... Disciplines within chemistry are traditionally grouped by the type ...20 KB (2,886 words) - 14:48, 5 December 2023
- :This article is about the legal term alien referring to citizens ... country or is not a native or citizen of the land in which they live ...15 KB (2,229 words) - 00:39, 9 January 2023
- woman ever allowed to practice at the bar of the United States Supreme Court ... Until her death in 1917, she worked tirelessly on behalf of the Universal ...11 KB (1,718 words) - 08:56, 27 September 2023
- Catherine Booth (January 17, 1829 – October 4, 1890) was the wife ... Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England, the daughter of John Mumford and Sarah Milward ...9 KB (1,475 words) - 16:14, 3 December 2023
- Kidnapping is the crime of taking away of a person by force, deceit ... As humankind becomes more aware of the need to recognize all people ...15 KB (2,257 words) - 04:00, 6 October 2022
- Deuteronomy is the fifth book of the Hebrew Bible. It is part of Judaism ... The language of Deuteronomy is often inspiring and poetic, portrayed ...25 KB (3,999 words) - 07:26, 17 November 2023
- the Oregon question) arose as a result of competing British and American ... with Russia and Spain. By Article III of the Anglo-American Convention ...14 KB (2,192 words) - 01:12, 18 November 2022
- Pacis (“On the Law (and Rights and Wrongs) of War and Peace,” 1625) secured ... *De iure belli ac pacis (On the laws of war and peace) - 1625 ...25 KB (3,772 words) - 12:17, 4 February 2023
- Gwangjong (광종 光宗) (949 – 975) was the fourth Emperor of ... Gwangjong eliminated many of his powerful rivals by sending them to ...12 KB (1,752 words) - 02:33, 28 July 2023
- colonists against against the imposition of a British tax on tea and to ... sentiment against various restrictive laws imposed by Great Britain on ...9 KB (1,449 words) - 19:52, 20 November 2023
- politician who served as Governor General of Canada. Buchan was an officer ... Buchan was the eldest child in the family of four sons and one surviving ...18 KB (2,741 words) - 04:22, 3 August 2022
- Along with Roberto Bellarmine, he was one of the leading thinkers who defended ... was the first systematic and extensive work of metaphysics composed in the ...12 KB (1,759 words) - 04:55, 9 April 2024
- Civil rights are the protections and privileges of personal power ... Laws guaranteeing civil rights may be written down, derived from custom ...29 KB (4,520 words) - 22:29, 10 December 2023
- As a Pythagorean mystic, he thought of the universe as founded on ... Many of Kepler's writings reflect his deep desire to understand ...31 KB (4,812 words) - 07:18, 5 April 2024
- Wade-Giles: Fa-chia; literally "School of law") was one of the four ... virtue.” Legalists held utilitarian views of humanity and received support ...22 KB (3,459 words) - 19:04, 25 October 2022
- and German-controlled lands as a part of Hitler's anti-Semitic policy. ... diplomat died and Germany was in the grip of skillfully orchestrated anti ...26 KB (3,708 words) - 04:37, 4 March 2023
- [[Image:Traktat brzeski 1918.jpg|thumb|right|300px|The first two pages ... of international law. For example, laws of war were long a matter of ...26 KB (3,960 words) - 14:53, 2 May 2023
- Meiji-jidai) denotes the 45 year reign of Emperor Meiji, running, in ... revolution that brought about the fall of the Tokugawa shogunate and ...24 KB (3,557 words) - 04:15, 9 November 2022
- that determines punishments for members of the military subject to military ... mean that the captain is suspected of wrongdoing, but merely that ...19 KB (2,889 words) - 08:45, 10 January 2024
- #039;s work advanced economics in a number of aspects: He formalized production ... He was the creator of much of the nomenclature used in the world of ...13 KB (1,910 words) - 17:19, 16 April 2023
- where conflict occurs between groups of people, for a variety of reasons ... The history of conflict theory can be traced back to thinkers such ...10 KB (1,445 words) - 08:14, 14 January 2023
- Petersburg. In 1925, to mark the centennial of the event, the square was renamed ... The Decembrists represented the elite of the military officers whose ...14 KB (2,074 words) - 09:01, 28 January 2024
- and close sweatshops, and was co-founder of the National Association for ... just three days before the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. ...10 KB (1,387 words) - 16:15, 7 November 2022
- Freedom is traditionally understood as independence of the arbitrary ... A slave is constantly subject to the will of another. By contrast ...28 KB (4,455 words) - 10:43, 11 April 2024
- ) was the legislature of the Kingdom of France from October 1, 1791 ... in July 1789 after the Estates General of 1789 failed to reach an agreement ...23 KB (3,164 words) - 20:20, 30 September 2023
- anthropologist who developed the theory of "structural-functionalism ... he soon became interested in the work of W. H. R. Rivers, Alfred North ...15 KB (2,175 words) - 18:05, 20 July 2023
- a moral and political connotation. In terms of morality, ‘absolutism’ ... In terms of politics, ‘absolutism’ refers to a type of government ...18 KB (2,761 words) - 06:37, 14 June 2023
- Army and the third and ninth Prime Minister of Japan. A general and a member ... Japanese army and instituting a system of conscription, and in organizing ...14 KB (2,206 words) - 10:08, 22 May 2023
- His stories, especially his treatment of the Cossacks in the war with ... Born to a Jewish family in Odessa during a period of social unrest ...11 KB (1,625 words) - 18:50, 7 March 2024
- Who Holds Firm the Good"), was the son of Hystaspes and Persian Emperor ... that the Greeks and Persians were members of kindred peoples. He employed ...12 KB (1,863 words) - 22:19, 25 January 2024
- Civil disobedience encompasses the active refusal to obey certain ... [[Image:Midge potts arrested.jpg|thumb|300px|right|An anti-war activist ...28 KB (4,286 words) - 22:27, 10 December 2023
- Utopia is a term denoting a visionary or ideally perfect state of ... intelligence can bring about the betterment of society. It is usually characterized ...19 KB (2,908 words) - 14:05, 3 May 2023
- 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 ...16 KB (2,520 words) - 04:56, 1 May 2023
- was the first woman appointed to the board of Edmonton Hospital. In 1916 ... #039;s role in winning legal recognition of the "person-hood" ...28 KB (4,315 words) - 10:23, 21 January 2023
- Massachusetts in the United States House of Representatives and later served ... Butler was born in Deerfield, New Hampshire, the son of Captain John ...20 KB (3,004 words) - 09:28, 28 September 2023
- 1996) was the thirty-ninth Vice President of the United States serving under ... Spiro Agnew was born Spiros Anagnostopoulos in the Towson section ...19 KB (2,916 words) - 15:44, 27 April 2023
