Category: Historical

  • Legal History

    Legal History in the United States See a comprehensive list of legal history topics here. With the exception of Louisiana, which continued to follow the (French) civil law system, the U.S. legal tradition were developed essentialy from the English common law system, with some influences of […]

  • McKinley Tariff

    McKinley Tariff in the United States The McKinley Act or Tariff, a name popularly given to a the Tariff Act of 1890 reported to Congress, 21 May 1890, by the Ways and Means Committee of the House of Representatives, of which William McKinley was chairman. It became a law in October 1890 and […]

  • McKinley Tariff

    McKinley Tariff in the United States The McKinley Act or Tariff, a name popularly given to a the Tariff Act of 1890 reported to Congress, 21 May 1890, by the Ways and Means Committee of the House of Representatives, of which William McKinley was chairman. It became a law in October 1890 and […]

  • British North America

    British North America in the United States Under the terms agreed in Paris in 1783, the regions historically settled -in accordance to Bamber Gascoigne´ Encyclopedia of Britain about “ British North America” -by the French now become the only remaining part of the British empire in […]

  • Colonial Charters

    Colonial Charters in the United States History of the Colonial Charters According to theEncyclopedia of the American Constitution, maybe no other American constitutional topic has been subject to such changing and contrary interpretations as has that of colonial charters. For example, […]

  • US House of Representatives Internet Law Library

    U.S. House of Representatives Internet Law Library in the United States The (formerly) U.S. House of Representatives Internet Law Library was a huge collection of link, used as a free online resource for legal research, specially for students to begin their research. Created in 1995 by the […]