Search results for "First Amendment to the United States Constitution" - New World Encyclopedia
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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 ...44 KB (6,390 words) - 07:20, 15 April 2024
- was a landmark United States Supreme Court decision establishing that ... The decision in Roe v. Wade prompted a still-continuing national debate ...34 KB (5,154 words) - 02:29, 16 December 2022
- 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 ...24 KB (3,606 words) - 20:48, 26 March 2024
- The United States Electoral College is a term used to describe the 538 ... Presidential electors who meet every four years to cast the official ...55 KB (8,357 words) - 11:55, 3 May 2023
- 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 ...11 KB (1,631 words) - 02:51, 8 January 2024
- The phrase separation of church and state is a common interpretation ... The role of religion in American public life remains an unresolved ...29 KB (4,563 words) - 19:48, 21 April 2023
- fifty years of her life advocating for the social and legal equality ... Anthony's lifelong efforts were rewarded posthumously with the ...18 KB (2,853 words) - 13:58, 28 April 2023
- 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 ...11 KB (1,685 words) - 23:53, 11 January 2023
- 12, 1805 – May 24, 1879) was a prominent United States abolitionist, journalist ... widely accepted and institutional racism and the degrading conditions of blacks ...24 KB (3,479 words) - 18:24, 17 April 2023
- 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 ...11 KB (1,729 words) - 06:00, 8 May 2020
- for slavery, most famous for serving as the only president of the Confederate ... Before the Civil War, Davis served in the Mississippi legislature ...22 KB (3,305 words) - 04:35, 31 July 2022
- Freedom of the press (or press freedom) is the guarantee by a government ... these examples, the First Amendment to the United States Constitution restricted ...23 KB (3,543 words) - 10:49, 11 April 2024
- - 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 ...13 KB (2,026 words) - 02:16, 16 December 2022
- The temperance movement attempted to greatly reduce the amount of ... Most of the biggest supporters in all countries have been women, often ...23 KB (3,290 words) - 05:37, 27 February 2023
- an organization whose primary objective is to support an issue or matter ... organization must pursue goals that benefit the community, rather than personal ...18 KB (2,646 words) - 09:59, 11 March 2023
- Andrew Johnson (December 29, 1808 – July 31, 1875) was the seventeenth ... Johnson was a United States Senator from Tennessee at the time of ...20 KB (2,946 words) - 17:51, 27 July 2023
- 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 ...32 KB (4,882 words) - 18:46, 23 March 2023
- diplomat, and jurist, best known as the first Chief Justice of the ... Considered one of the "Founding Fathers" of the United States ...24 KB (3,727 words) - 22:16, 31 October 2023
- Civil rights are the protections and privileges of personal power ... down, derived from custom or implied. In the United States and most continental ...29 KB (4,520 words) - 22:29, 10 December 2023
- 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 ...12 KB (1,848 words) - 09:56, 28 September 2023
