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On March 3, 1820, Congress approved the Missouri compromise, a law that maintained a balance in the Senate between free and slave…
On February 24, 1908, the Supreme Court decided Muller v. Oregon, unanimously upholding an Oregon law setting a 10-hour limit on…
On this day in 1862, Noah Swayne was confirmed by the Senate to replace Justice John McLean, one of two dissenters in the Dred…
On December 27, 1771, future Supreme Court Justice William Johnson, Jr., was born in South Carolina. Johnson has attracted a…
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More than 130 friend-of-the-court briefs have been filed by anti-abortion and abortion rights groups in the Mississippi abortion…
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The United States government is a powerful party when it goes into federal court. Just how powerful will be tested when the…
Here is a round-up of the latest from the Battle for the Constitution: a special project on the constitutional debates in…
Here is a round-up of the latest from the Battle for the Constitution: a special project on the constitutional debates in…
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