Search results for "First Amendment to the United States Constitution" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • The United States National Archives and Records Administration (NARA ... NARA has been active in digitizing their holdings to make them easily ...
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  • 17, 1858) was born in Virginia as a slave to the Peter Blow family. He was ... The U.S. Supreme Court decision on March 6, 1857, was historic as ...
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  • The Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) is the oldest continuing ... The WCTU perceived alcoholism as a consequence of larger social problems ...
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  • broadcasting executive who served as the president of Columbia Broadcasting ... Stanton was decisive and passionate in his pursuit of the development ...
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  • In United States law, adopted from the Magna Carta, due process (more ... , appearing in both its Fifth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment. ...
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  • Dred Scott v. Sandford,John Vishneski, "What the Court Decided ... also known as the "Dred Scott Case" or "Dred Scott ...
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  • The term felony is a term used in common law systems for very serious ... is prescribed and which is prosecuted by the state, the sovereign, or by ...
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  • James Monroe (April 28, 1758 – July 4, 1831) was a member of the ... unopposed for a second term in 1820. With the opposition Federalist Party ...
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  • James Madison (March 16, 1751 – June 28, 1836) was one of the principal ... The Constitution, as drafted, did not enumerate specific civil rights ...
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  • Obscenity is either the state of being lewd and indecent, or something ... not protected by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution and ...
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  • The Fundamental Rights, Directive Principles of State Policy and Fundamental ... to its citizens and the duties of the citizens to the State. Those ...
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  • was a landmark United States Supreme Court decision establishing that ... The decision in Roe v. Wade prompted a still-continuing national debate ...
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  • Since the 1949 Act became law, doubts were raised by legal scholars ... *The continued ability of the House of Lords to veto a bill to prolong ...
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  • The United States Electoral College is a term used to describe the 538 ... Presidential electors who meet every four years to cast the official ...
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  • The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against ... it came into force on September 3, 1981. The United States is the only ...
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  • The phrase separation of church and state is a common interpretation ... The role of religion in American public life remains an unresolved ...
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  • fifty years of her life advocating for the social and legal equality ... Anthony's lifelong efforts were rewarded posthumously with the ...
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  • A blue law, in the United States and Canada, is a type of law designed ... Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. While ...
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  • 12, 1805 – May 24, 1879) was a prominent United States abolitionist, journalist ... widely accepted and institutional racism and the degrading conditions of blacks ...
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  • in Gilded Age newspapers as a leader of the American woman's suffrage ... She is probably most famous for her declaration to run for the United ...
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  • for slavery, most famous for serving as the only president of the Confederate ... Before the Civil War, Davis served in the Mississippi legislature ...
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  • Freedom of the press (or press freedom) is the guarantee by a government ... these examples, the First Amendment to the United States Constitution restricted ...
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  • - February 23, 1915) was a mulatto slave in the United States who freed himself ... His actions as a Navy ship captain helped to bolster support for the ...
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  • The temperance movement attempted to greatly reduce the amount of ... Most of the biggest supporters in all countries have been women, often ...
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  • an organization whose primary objective is to support an issue or matter ... organization must pursue goals that benefit the community, rather than personal ...
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  • Andrew Johnson (December 29, 1808 – July 31, 1875) was the seventeenth ... Johnson was a United States Senator from Tennessee at the time of ...
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  • The Partition of Ireland took place on May 3, 1921 under the Government ... The Protestant majority in the North wanted to remain within the United ...
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  • diplomat, and jurist, best known as the first Chief Justice of the ... Considered one of the "Founding Fathers" of the United States ...
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  • Civil rights are the protections and privileges of personal power ... down, derived from custom or implied. In the United States and most continental ...
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  • well-known American jurist and a justice on the United States Supreme Court ... The decisions of past jurists and legislators may or may not have ...
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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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • The Supreme Court of the United States (or the United States Supreme ... The Supreme Court is the only court established by the United States ...
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  • James Buchanan (April 23, 1791 – June 1, 1868) was the fifteenth ... Pennsylvania, on April 23, 1791, to James Buchanan and Elizabeth ...
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  • A Militia is an organization of citizens prepared to provide defense ... and have historically been found inadequate to their appointed task of defending ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • The Equal Protection Clause, part of the Fourteenth Amendment to ... More concretely, the Equal Protection Clause, along with the rest ...
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  • | order=27th President of the United States | date1=March 4, 1909 ... | place of birth=Cincinnati, Ohio, United States | dead=dead ...
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  • – 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 ...
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  • 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 ...
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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 ...
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  • The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the federal ... Each of the 435 members of the House of Representatives represents ...
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  • Independence Day (colloquially the Fourth of July or July 4th) is ... speeches, and ceremonies, in addition to various other public and private ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • lawyer but a powerful orator, Sumner was the leader of the antislavery ... As a Radical Republican leader in the Senate during Reconstruction ...
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  • *For the history of the Korea before its division, see History of Korea. The History of South Korea formally begins with the establishment ...
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  • Spiro Theodore Agnew (November 9, 1918 – September 17, 1996) was ... Spiro Agnew was born Spiros Anagnostopoulos in the Towson section ...
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  • 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 ...
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  • Affirmative action refers to steps taken to eliminate discrimination—whether ... Although affirmative action is an attempt to redress the imbalance ...
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  • The Wilmot Proviso was introduced on August 8, 1846, in the House ... After an earlier attempt to acquire Texas by treaty had failed to ...
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