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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 ...25 KB (3,783 words) - 04:40, 22 November 2023
- 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 ...12 KB (1,826 words) - 01:42, 8 December 2022
- The Supreme Court of the United States (or the United States Supreme ... The Supreme Court is the only court established by the United States ...40 KB (6,036 words) - 23:51, 26 February 2023
- James Buchanan (April 23, 1791 – June 1, 1868) was the fifteenth ... Pennsylvania, on April 23, 1791, to James Buchanan and Elizabeth ...17 KB (2,451 words) - 21:06, 20 March 2024
- A Militia is an organization of citizens prepared to provide defense ... and have historically been found inadequate to their appointed task of defending ...26 KB (3,981 words) - 10:59, 10 March 2023
- 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 ...24 KB (3,494 words) - 00:24, 18 November 2022
- The Equal Protection Clause, part of the Fourteenth Amendment to ... More concretely, the Equal Protection Clause, along with the rest ...45 KB (6,808 words) - 12:57, 12 February 2022
- | order=27th President of the United States | date1=March 4, 1909 ... | place of birth=Cincinnati, Ohio, United States | dead=dead ...32 KB (4,775 words) - 11:00, 9 May 2023
- – 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 ...13 KB (1,928 words) - 18:32, 8 December 2023
- 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 ...22 KB (3,597 words) - 08:38, 24 November 2022
- 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
- (August 12, 1924 – August 17, 1988) was the president and military ruler ... During his tenure, he advanced the Islamization of Pakistan and carried ...33 KB (4,947 words) - 01:49, 11 March 2023
- 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
- 21, 1919) was an American pioneer in the areas of feminism, abolitionism ... One of the first women in the country to be awarded a medical degree ...17 KB (2,716 words) - 16:01, 7 November 2022
- The Belfast Agreement, alternatively and widely known as the Good ... Former British Prime Minister John Major had laid some of the groundwork ...31 KB (4,792 words) - 08:51, 27 September 2023
- Viscount Taaffe and Baron of Ballymote, in the peerage of Ireland) (Note ... Taaffe contributed significantly to the democratization process in ...13 KB (1,955 words) - 18:17, 12 February 2024
- ) (born August 15, 1945) was the Prime Minister of Bangladesh from ... During her period in office, the leader of the official opposition ...24 KB (3,377 words) - 23:03, 30 January 2023
- exposes issues that are generally shocking to the public. Generally, muckraking ... Given their name by Theodore Roosevelt when he likened their work ...11 KB (1,585 words) - 17:31, 11 May 2020
- residence in nearby Fayetteville for the majority of her life. She ... of attitude was farsighted, anticipating the struggles that non-whites ...19 KB (2,944 words) - 16:51, 7 November 2022
- 26, 1902) was an activist and a leader of the early women's rights ... their disagreement over ratification of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments ...33 KB (5,008 words) - 16:16, 13 February 2024
- Washington, D.C. is the capital city of the United States of America ... The city is commonly referred to as Washington, The District, or simply ...39 KB (5,697 words) - 23:11, 3 May 2023
- The Underground Railroad was a network of clandestine routes by which ... It is estimated that at its height between 1810 and 1850, 30,000 to ...21 KB (3,294 words) - 01:36, 3 May 2023
- Reconstruction is the name of the historical period following the ... Reconstruction is generally dated from 1865 to 1877, but some historians ...46 KB (6,871 words) - 19:08, 16 April 2023
- serve as a method of coercion or as a tool to control groups seen as a threat ... Torture is almost universally considered to be a violation of human ...35 KB (5,314 words) - 04:41, 1 May 2023
- Millard Fillmore (January 7, 1800 – March 8, 1874) was the thirteenth ... While Fillmore is considered by many as one of the lesser United States ...15 KB (2,217 words) - 17:59, 9 November 2022
- The Southern United States—commonly referred to as the American ... After the Civil War, the South was largely devastated in terms of ...38 KB (5,665 words) - 15:40, 4 February 2023
- attorney and politician who served as a United States senator from Utah ... Hatch chaired the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and ...48 KB (6,423 words) - 21:40, 4 December 2022
- detective novels and short stories. Among the enduring characters he created ... and sex. Pioneered by Carroll John Daly in the mid-1920s, hardboiled crime ...19 KB (2,838 words) - 22:25, 25 January 2024
- American labor and political leader, one of the founders of the International ... His health suffered in prison but he earned the respect of fellow inmates ...21 KB (3,204 words) - 04:16, 23 March 2024
- political leader who used her stature as First Lady of the United States ... Roosevelt was a leader in forming the United Nations, the U.S. United ...23 KB (3,549 words) - 00:11, 13 February 2024
- Warren Gamaliel Harding (November 2, 1865 – August 2, 1923) was ... His political leanings were conservative, which enabled him to become ...19 KB (2,918 words) - 22:55, 3 May 2023
