Tag: Legal history
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Lochner Era
Lochner Era in the United States Lochner Era Background
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Compromise of 1877
Compromise of 1877 in the United States United States Constitution According to the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, about its article titled COMPROMISE OF 1877Four of the sectional compromises in nineteenth-century America were efforts to settle quarrels by mutual concessions and […]
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First 100 Days
First 100 Days in the United States First 100 Days in the U.S. Legal History Summary President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s first 100 days in office, when he proposed and Congress passed fifteen major bills that reshaped the U.S. economy.
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First 100 Days
First 100 Days in the United States First 100 Days in the U.S. Legal History Summary President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s first 100 days in office, when he proposed and Congress passed fifteen major bills that reshaped the U.S. economy.
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Peace
Peace in United States Peace Definition (Law Fr, peas,' pees; hat. pax). Quiet, orderly behavior; the quiet, orderly behavior of the citizens or subjects of a community towards one another, and towards the government, which is said to be broken by acts of a certain kind. See "Breach of […]
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Peace
Peace in United States Peace Definition (Law Fr, peas,' pees; hat. pax). Quiet, orderly behavior; the quiet, orderly behavior of the citizens or subjects of a community towards one another, and towards the government, which is said to be broken by acts of a certain kind. See "Breach of […]
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Electric Trolley
Electric Trolley in the United States Electric Trolley in the U.S. Legal History Summary Public transportation for urban neighborhoods, using electric current from overhead wires. Between 1888 and 1902, 97 percent of urban transit mileage had been electrified.
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Electric Trolley
Electric Trolley in the United States Electric Trolley in the U.S. Legal History Summary Public transportation for urban neighborhoods, using electric current from overhead wires. Between 1888 and 1902, 97 percent of urban transit mileage had been electrified.
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Black Power
Black Power in the United States Black Power in the U.S. Legal History Summary A rallying cry for more militant blacks advocated by younger leaders like Stokely Carmichael and H. Rap Brown, beginning in the mid-1960s. It called for African Americans to form their own economic, political, and […]
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Black Power
Black Power in the United States Black Power in the U.S. Legal History Summary A rallying cry for more militant blacks advocated by younger leaders like Stokely Carmichael and H. Rap Brown, beginning in the mid-1960s. It called for African Americans to form their own economic, political, and […]
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The Fair Deal
The Fair Deal in the United States The Fair Deal in the U.S. Legal History Summary Failed 1948 legislative package proposed by President Truman. It included an expansion of Social Security, federal aid to education, a higher minimum wage, a national plan for medical insurance, and civil rights […]
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The Fair Deal
The Fair Deal in the United States The Fair Deal in the U.S. Legal History Summary Failed 1948 legislative package proposed by President Truman. It included an expansion of Social Security, federal aid to education, a higher minimum wage, a national plan for medical insurance, and civil rights […]
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Calvinism
Calvinism in the United States Calvinism in the U.S. Legal History Summary Broadly influential Protestant theology emanating from the French theologian John Calvin, who fled to Switzerland, where he reordered life in the community of Geneva according to his conception of the Bible. Calvinism […]
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Calvinism
Calvinism in the United States Calvinism in the U.S. Legal History Summary Broadly influential Protestant theology emanating from the French theologian John Calvin, who fled to Switzerland, where he reordered life in the community of Geneva according to his conception of the Bible. Calvinism […]
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Powers Treaties
Powers Treaties in the United States Introduction to Five Powers Treaty, Four Powers Treaty, Nine Powers Treaty In the context of the legal history: Five Powers Treaty: Signed as part of the Washington Naval Conference, U.S., Great Britain, Japan, France, and Italy set a ten year suspension of […]