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8 Nov 2022, 3:21 pm by Eugene Volokh
In his debates with Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln emphasized the fundamental importance of the right to exercise one's labors: "In the right to eat bread, without leave of anybody else, which his own hand earns, he is my equal and the equal of Judge Douglas, and the equal of every living man. [read post]
2 May 2017, 9:06 am by Scott Bomboy
In 1861, the newly minted President Abraham Lincoln dealt with the secession crisis in South Carolina that President Jackson averted in 1833. [read post]
5 Mar 2012, 4:00 am by Terry Hart
Recent work by Abraham Drassinower, for example, presents a rights-based justification of copyright that conceives works as communicative acts.Pg. 65. [read post]
28 Jan 2014, 7:30 am
The book is filled with accounts from men like Emanuel Fortune, Elija Marrs, Abraham Galloway, Wyatt Outlaw, George Brooks and David Cooper, whose stories confirm in detail the assessment of one Freedman’s Bureau agent that any politically active colored man really must go armed. [read post]
24 Nov 2015, 3:40 am by SHG
Most notably, his administration oversaw the segregation of the federal government, destroying the careers of thousands of talented and accomplished black civil servants — including John Abraham Davis, my paternal grandfather. [read post]
19 Feb 2020, 9:11 am by Geraldine Davila Gonzalez
La Biblioteca del Congreso ya ha lanzado múltiples campañas exitosas donde miles de voluntarios han transcrito casi 100,000 páginas de una variedad de documentos, como el diario de un soldado de la guerra civil estadounidense, cartas al presidente Abraham Lincoln, las cartas, los diarios y los discursos de líderes sufragistas como Susan B. [read post]
5 Sep 2011, 4:40 pm by lawmrh
It was when the professor first described Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of human needs. [read post]
She drew an important comparison to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in 1865, a historical moment that underscored the inherent risks public officials and their families face. [read post]
4 Dec 2020, 8:37 am by Steve Lubet
” The opposition was led by Illinois senator – and Abraham Lincoln’s foil – Stephen Douglas, who overcame his own pro-slavery sentiments in light of the rigged elections behind the Lecompton Constitution itself. [read post]
23 Mar 2023, 9:31 am by Mary Szarkowicz
The United States remains an important player in the region’s diplomacy, Blinken noted, and the China development would not diminish U.S. involvement through the Abraham Accords. [read post]
30 Mar 2007, 1:23 am
As it is.So to win the Presidency the pols rant and they raveAttempting to catch popularity's wave,While Abraham Lincoln can but turn in his graveThat for this the nation he managed to save;For this: to make the Presidency A golden business opportunityWhile leaders screw commoners in "the land of the free"And are so much less than they ought to be.For this the nation he managed to save? [read post]
5 Oct 2007, 4:23 am
As Abraham Sofaer, the State Department's legal advisor when CAT was debated, explained (in a January 21, 2005 letter to Sen. [read post]
14 Apr 2021, 9:14 am by Marina Wilson
Did you know that Abraham Lincoln was a lawyer practicing in the Lincoln-Herndon Law Offices before he became the President? [read post]
26 Mar 2008, 8:25 am
In our history, the following Presidents served in wars:   George Washington (Revolutionary War); James Monroe (Revolutionary War); Andrew Jackson (Revolutionary War, War of 1812, First Seminole War); William Henry Harrison (Indian Wars in the Northwest Territory, War of 1812); John Tyler (War of 1812); Zachary Taylor (War of 1812, Second Seminole War, Mexican War); Franklin Pierce (Mexican War); James Buchanan (War of 1812); Abraham Lincoln (Black Hawk War); Andrew Johnson… [read post]
13 Sep 2011, 8:25 am by Lovechilde
By 1 May 2003, when Bush made his famous “mission accomplished” speech on the flight deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln, Rumsfeld and his associates seemed vindicated. [read post]
8 Jan 2019, 9:16 am by Scott Bomboy
President Abraham Lincoln also used emergency powers during the Civil War that tested constitutional boundaries. [read post]
11 Aug 2007, 1:52 am
Abraham Lincoln, quoting the New Testament, noted that a house divided against itself cannot stand. [read post]
31 May 2018, 3:00 am by NCC Staff
The most famous instance of this was the race for Senate in Illinois in 1858, in which Abraham Lincoln faced off with Stephen Douglass despite neither being on the ballot. [read post]
7 Nov 2022, 6:06 am by Clara Apt
Ben Abraham and Jocelyn Perry analyze the “mixed results” of the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference and suggest that implementation of the 2015 Paris Agreement will depend on countries’ commitment to addressing the threat of climate change. [read post]