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Landmark United States Supreme Court decisions focusing on civil rights and equal protection between 1856 and 1948.

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... by events in August 2008, when US forces bombed the Afghan village of Azizabad. This gave rise to a public dispute between the US Government and the United Nations about the level of fatalities caused by the attack and about whether those killed had been civilians or Taliban-linked insurgents. Allegations soon emerged that the attack had been based on false information de...

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...The Declaration of Independence of The United States of America This publication of “The Declaration of Indepen d... ...The Declaration of Independence of The United States of America This publication of “The Declaration of Indepen dence of... ...s of America This publication of “The Declaration of Indepen dence of The United States of America” is part of The Pennsylvania State University’s on... ...erica This publication of “The Declaration of Indepen dence of The United States of America” is part of The Pennsylvania State University’s ongoing e... ...y univeristy. This publication of The Declaration of Independence of the United States is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This... ...risty. This publication of The Declaration of Independence of the United States is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portab... ...ectronic transmission, in any way. The Declaration of Independence of the United States the Pennsylvania State University , Jim Manis, Faculty Edito... ...c transmission, in any way. The Declaration of Independence of the United States the Pennsylvania State University , Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazl... ...s an equal opportunity University. The Declaration of Independence of The United States of America W hen in the Course of human events, it becomes ne...

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...gh lengthy, it is a great read for people who want to learn more about different types of government and the foundations of our own government in the United States of America. (Summary by Allyson Hester)...

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... Study Commission was given the task of conducting a comprehensive legal and factual study on the social and economic implications of gambling in the United States. This report presents the principal findings of that work and recommendations for action. (Summary from the Introduction, modified by Sam Stinson)...

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...9/11 Commission Report, formally titled Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, is the official report of the events leading up to the September 11, 2001 attacks. It was prepared by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (informally sometimes known as the 9/11 ...

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The Bill of Rights are the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution, and were ratified on December 15, 1791.

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...While claiming to be historical papers on the causes of the United States Civil War, the author indulges in some Slavery Apologetics. An interesting view from a southern lady on what caused the war and why the south was the underdog. (Summary by FNH)...

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... Josiah Priest, A. M. 5th edition. This is a compilation of pro-slavery literature and propaganda that went through numerous editions in the Southern United States before the Civil War. It contains the highly influential book, Slavery, as it Relates to the Negro, or African Race, by Rev Josiah Priest, which was originally published in 1843. This compilation also includes m...

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...he Eighteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Beginning in 1920, this Amendment prohibited the sale and manufacture of alcoholic beverages in the United States, until it was repealed in 1933. Franklin contends that the Amendment is not only a crime against the Constitution of the United States, and not only a crime against the whole spirit of our Federal system, but a ...

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...al associated with the Transcendentalist movement. Her book Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845) is considered the first major feminist work in the United States. Her life was short but full. She became the first editor of the transcendentalist journal The Dial in 1840, before joining the staff of the New York Tribune under Horace Greeley in 1844. By the time she was in ...

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...Nonfiction. Appalled by the savagery of World War I, Owen Wister in 1915 published an attempt to move the United States out of neutrality into joining the Allies against Germany. His aim was the quicker defeat of that nation. (Wister: “the new Trinity of German worship – the Super-man, the Super-race, and the Super-state.”) He wa...

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...ter an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks its own importance; comprehending in its consequences nothing less than the existence of the union, the safety and welfare of the parts of which it is composed, the fate of an empi...

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...overnment, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks its own importance; comprehend... ...nt, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subject speaks its own importance; comprehending in ... ...rivate circles of those who oppose the new Constitution, that the thirteen States are of too great extent for any general system, and that we must of ... ...he prosperity of the people of America depended on their continuing firmly united, and the wishes, prayers, and efforts of our best and wisest citizen... ...or safety and happiness in union, we ought to seek it in a division of the States into distinct confederacies or sovereign- ties. However extraordinar... ...at Provi- dence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people—a people descended from the same ances- tors, speaking the sa... ...ence, that an inheritance so proper and convenient for a band of brethren, united to each other by the strongest ties, should never be split into a nu... ...treaties, and en- tered into various compacts and conventions with foreign states. A strong sense of the value and blessings of union induced the peop... ...ong and uniformly entertained of the importance of their continuing firmly united under one federal government, vested with sufficient powers for all ...

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...: Uncorrelated Variables Chapter 35: The System Isn’t Broken—It’s Flawed Chapter 36: Defining Oligarchy and Democracy Chapter 37: Oligarchy in the United States Chapter 38: Democracy Isn’t Tyranny Chapter 39: History of Democratic Reform Chapter 40: Opposition to Democracy Chapter 41: Arguments against Direct Democracy Chapter 42: Sensationalism and Doom and Gloom ...

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..., THE PRESIDENT OF THE PORTUGUESE REPUB- LIC, HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN OF THE UNITED KING- DOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND RESOLVED to mark a n... ...; Jorge BRAG de MACEDO, Minister for Finance; HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN OF THE UNITED KING- DOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRE- LAND: The Rt. Hon. Doug... ...ner demonstrating consistency and solidarity, relations between the Member States and between their peoples. ARTICLE B The Union shall set itself the ... ... the protection of the rights and interests of the nationals of its Member States through the introduction of a citizenship of the Union; - to develop... ...cil shall bring together the Heads of State or of Government of the Member States and the President of the Commission. They shall be as- sisted by the... ...y shall be as- sisted by the Ministers for Foreign Affairs of the Mem- ber States and by a Member of the Commission. The European Council shall meet a... ... take account of the objec- tives they have approved in the context of the United 65 The Maastrict Treaty Nations and other competent international o... ...reece, Spain, France, Ireland, Italy, Luxem- bourg, Netherlands, Portugal, United Kingdom; —for the following cycle of six years: Denmark, Bel- gium, ... ..., Spain, Italy, Ireland, 69 The Maastrict Treaty Netherlands, Luxembourg, United Kingdom, Portugal. 44) The following Article shall be inserted: ARTI...

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...ar would soon have buried its causes in oblivion. When the new Confederate States, made an in dependent Power by English help, had begun their crusad... ...interpretation of the war in which we have been so nearly engaged with the United States, appear by many degrees the most probable. There is no de ny... ...etation of the war in which we have been so nearly engaged with the United States, appear by many degrees the most probable. There is no de nying tha... ...hat ought to have been wished, regarding the contest in which the Northern States are engaged with the South. In considering this matter, we ought to ... ...judgment or feeling, who will say that his opinion of America and American states men, is not raised by such an act, done on such grounds? The act it... ...slavery question exclusively was the party constituted which now rules the United States: on slavery Fremont was rejected, on slavery Lincoln was elec... ...the slave owners are fighting to enforce it. The present government of the United States is not an Abolitionist government. Abolitionists, in America,... ...tract excellence of which they are in arms to vindicate, is that which the united voice of mankind habitually selects as the type of all hateful quali... ...al masters will probably not exceed the amount of compensa tion which the United States will be willing and able to give. The assumed difficulty of g...

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...equisites of civilized life have nothing else to rest on. These deplorable states of feel ing, in any people who have emerged from savage life, are, ... ...n all respects an adequate one, of the Pnyx and the Forum. There have been states of society in which even a monarchy of any great territorial extent ... ... and convictions of those whose personal position is different, and by the united authority of the instructed. When, therefore, the instructed in gene... ...unctions of a government are not a fixed thing, but different in different states of society; much more extensive in a backward than in an advanced st... ...hat these doctrines could not be applied without some modifications to all states of society and of the human mind; nevertheless, by far the greater n... ... in the opposite type. The striving, go ahead character of England and the United States is only a fit subject of disapproving criticism on ac count ... ...e Athenian Con stitution had many such provisions, and so has that of the United States. But while it is essential to representative government that ... ...gree only during the temporary ascendancy which great and popular talents, united with a distinguished position, have given to some one man. Themistoc... ...d made the body, in spite of itself, obey the impulse given by the man who united special knowledge with individual vigor and originality. That the Ro...

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...ial status in production. Capital is a col lective product, and only by the united action of many members, nay, in the last resort, only by the unite... ...to. The supremacy of the proletariat will cause them to vanish still faster. United action, of the leading civilised countries at least, is one of the... ...sides, eternal truths, such as Freedom, Justice, etc. that are common to all states of society. But Communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes a...

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...reated. Though slaves were no part of the commonwealth, it was in the free states that slaves were first felt to have rights as hu man beings. The St... ...oms which never had any ground but the law of force, last on into ages and states of general opinion which never would have permitted their first esta... ...reeding of slaves expressly for it, was a general prac tice between slave states. Yet not only was there a greater strength of sentiment against it, ... ... why need I go back to Aristotle? Did not the slave owners of the Southern United States maintain the same doctrine, with all the fanaticism with whic... ...ed I go back to Aristotle? Did not the slave owners of the Southern United States maintain the same doctrine, with all the fanaticism with which men d... ... Spartan women; who, though no less subordinate by law than in other Greek states, were more free in fact, and being trained to bodily exercises in th... ...ear more urgent. Though there are not in this country, as there are in the United States, periodical conventions and an organised party to agitate for... ...shows that the natural motives which lead to a voluntary adjustment of the united life of two persons in a manner acceptable to both, do on the whole,... ...usceptible of good feeling, and consideration for those with whom they are united by the strongest ties, than men are. On the contrary, we are perpetu...

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...ub lished, they would, I am convinced, place his character as a practical statesman fully on a level with his eminence as a speculative writer. 18 A... ...spondence with India in one of the leading departments, that of the Native States. This contin ued to be my official duty until I was appointed Exami... ...d speak 73 John Stuart Mill ers of the Cambridge Union and of the Oxford United De bating Society. It is curiously illustrative of the tendencies o... ...or my state of mind, was that they expressed, not mere outward beauty, but states of feeling, and of thought coloured by feeling, under the excitement... ...t is only one of his minor merits, that he was the originator of all sound statesmanship in regard to the subject of his largest work, India. He wrote... ... the name of friendship, in a really earnest mind. All these circumstances united, made the number very small of those whose society, and still more w... ...urther extension of slavery, but whose fidelity to the Constitution of the United States made them disapprove of any attempt by the Federal Government... ..., and John Brown the voluntary martyr. 8 Then, too, the whole mind of the United States would be let loose from its bonds, no longer corrupted by the... ...ure of the Southern envoys on board a British vessel, by an officer of the United States. Even English forgetfulness has not yet had time to lose all ...

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...njury. For the same reason, we may leave out of consideration those backward states of society in which the race itself may be considered as in its no... ...er—and that a high general average of energy is not desirable. In some early states of society , these forces might be, and were, too much ahead of th... ...ely realized—where both society and the government are most demo cratic—the United States—the feeling of the ma jority , to whom any appearance of a... ...lized—where both society and the government are most demo cratic—the United States—the feeling of the ma jority , to whom any appearance of a more s... ...nting intemperance the people of one English colony , and of nearly half the United States, have been interdicted by law from making any use whatever ... ...ntemperance the people of one English colony , and of nearly half the United States, have been interdicted by law from making any use whatever of ferm... ...ting the law has caused its repeal in several of On Liberty — Mill 104 the States which had adopted it, including the one from which it derives its ...

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...e been undersold. The adoption by France, Russia, the Netherlands, and the United States, of a more severely restrictive commercial policy, subsequent... ...undersold. The adoption by France, Russia, the Netherlands, and the United States, of a more severely restrictive commercial policy, subsequently to 1... ...Economy does not treat of the production and distribution of wealth in all states of mankind, but only in what is termed the social state; nor so far ... ...culiar to this state, almost all being called into action in the two other states. But those simple laws of human nature, operating in that wider fiel... ...nsequence of the social union; what those which are different in different states of society; in what historical order those states tend to suc- ceed ... ... In how much greater a degree must this difficulty exist in the affairs of states, where even the number of recorded experiments is so scanty in compa... ...ded to his theory. The most memorable example in modern times of a man who united the spirit of philosophy with the pursuits of ac- tive life, and kep...

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...ing that the interests of all are to be regarded equally. And since in all states of civilization, every person, except an absolute monarch, has equal... ...use the consciousness of being without it is a pain, or for both rea sons united; as in truth the pleasure and pain seldom exist separately, but almo... ...ing Note, objects to being considered an oppo nent of Utilitarianism; and states that he regards happiness as the ultimate end of morality; but deems...

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...rdest things, 42 The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: V ol. 2 Can pocket states, can fetch or carry kings; A single leaf shall waft an army o’er, Or... ...n knights and squires confound, Or water all the quorum ten miles round? A statesman’s slumbers how this speech would spoil! ‘Sir, Spain has sent a th... ...l; and avarice creeping on, Spread like a low-born mist, and blot the sun, Statesman and patriot ply alike the stocks, Peeress and butler share alike ... ...hrewsbury, 42 and love; Or just as gay, at council, in a ring Of mimick’d statesmen, and their merry king. 310 No wit to flatter, left... ... worthy kings. VARIATION. After VER. 22 in the MS.— Must bishops, lawyers, statesmen have the skill To build, to plant, judge paintings, what you will... ...d for wit! See under Ripley rise a new Whitehall, While Jones’ and Boyle’s united labours fall; 379 While Wren with sorrow to the grave descends, 229... ... Button’s, and a justice of the peace.’—P . 379 ‘While Jones’ and Boyle’s united labours fall:’ at the time when this poem was written, the banquetin...