Tag: Legal history
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Equal Protection
Equal Protection in the United States Equal Protection Clause Prohibition of discrimination and the use of unreasonable classifications. The protection is drawn from the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. This clause was added to the Constitution after the Civil War. At the […]
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Equal Protection
Equal Protection in the United States Equal Protection Clause Prohibition of discrimination and the use of unreasonable classifications. The protection is drawn from the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. This clause was added to the Constitution after the Civil War. At the […]
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Currency Act
Currency Act in the United States Introduction to Currency Act: (1764) In the context of the legal history: Parliament assumed control of the colonial currency system. It banned the issue of any new bills and the re-issue of existing currency. Parliament preferred a hard currency System based […]
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Currency Act
Currency Act in the United States Introduction to Currency Act: (1764) In the context of the legal history: Parliament assumed control of the colonial currency system. It banned the issue of any new bills and the re-issue of existing currency. Parliament preferred a hard currency System based […]
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Committee on Public Information
Committee on Public Information in the United States Committee on Public Information (CPI) in the U.S. Legal History Summary U.S. propaganda agency of World War I.
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Committee on Public Information
Committee on Public Information in the United States Committee on Public Information (CPI) in the U.S. Legal History Summary U.S. propaganda agency of World War I.
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Columbian Exchange
Columbian Exchange in the United States Columbian Exchange in the U.S. Legal History Summary The process of transferring plants, animals, foods, diseases, wealth, and culture between Europe and the Americas, beginning at the time of Christopher Columbus and continuing throughout the era of […]
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Columbian Exchange
Columbian Exchange in the United States Columbian Exchange in the U.S. Legal History Summary The process of transferring plants, animals, foods, diseases, wealth, and culture between Europe and the Americas, beginning at the time of Christopher Columbus and continuing throughout the era of […]
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Hessians
Hessians in the United States Hessians in the U.S. Legal History Summary Six German principalities provided 30,000 soldiers to Great Britain to fight against the American rebels during the War for Independence. More than half of these troops-for-hire came from Hesse-Cassel. Hessian thus would […]
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Hessians
Hessians in the United States Hessians in the U.S. Legal History Summary Six German principalities provided 30,000 soldiers to Great Britain to fight against the American rebels during the War for Independence. More than half of these troops-for-hire came from Hesse-Cassel. Hessian thus would […]
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Chinese Exclusion
Chinese Exclusion in the United States Chinese Exclusion Background Chinese Exclusion Act Background
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Chinese Exclusion
Chinese Exclusion in the United States Chinese Exclusion Background Chinese Exclusion Act Background
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War Powers Act, 1973
War Powers Act, 1973 in the United States Introduction to War Powers Act, 1973 In the context of the legal history: Gave any president the power to go to war under certain circumstances, but required that he could only do so for 90 days before being required to officially bring the matter […]
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War Powers Act, 1973
War Powers Act, 1973 in the United States Introduction to War Powers Act, 1973 In the context of the legal history: Gave any president the power to go to war under certain circumstances, but required that he could only do so for 90 days before being required to officially bring the matter […]
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Lochner Era
Lochner Era in the United States Lochner Era Background