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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
