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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]
22 Nov 2015, 7:26 am by Lawrence B. Ebert
Of relevance to the Civil War, John Wilkes Booth stayed at the hotel April 5–6, 1865, eight days before assassinating Abraham Lincoln. [read post]
19 Nov 2015, 8:20 am by Ralph Behr, Esq
 The reason was that Maryland was about to join the Confederacy and Washington D.C., the nations capital, was so full of spies and agents for the Confederacy that Abraham Lincoln asked the U.S. [read post]
6 Nov 2015, 1:46 am by rhapsodyinbooks
Breckinridge, Constitutional Union candidate John Bell, and Northern Democrat Stephen Douglas, a U.S. senator for Illinois. [read post]
18 Oct 2015, 9:32 am by INFORRM
  As Lord Hoffmann said in the Privy Council libel case of Gleaner v Abrahams ([2004] 1 AC 628) “Personal injury awards are almost always made in actions based on negligence or breach of statutory duty rather than intentional wrongdoing. [read post]
20 Sep 2015, 9:00 am
”  It’s a view of the nation’s founding that, oddly and ironically, aligns many on the Left (like Bernie Sanders, whom Wilentz quotes as saying that “the United States in many ways was created, and I’m sorry to have to say this, from way back, on racist principles, that’s a fact”) with South Carolina’s pre-Civil-War Senator John Calhoun, who was the staunchest and most eloquent advocate for slavery, and opposed to (among others)… [read post]
10 Sep 2015, 8:00 am by Dan Ernst
”—George Rutherglen, John Barbee Minor Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Virginia. [read post]
18 Aug 2015, 7:30 am by Mark Graber
For the Symposium on Roberta Kwall, The Myth of the Cultural Jew Many Americans consider themselves cultural Italians, cultural Jamaicans, cultural Koreans or the like. [read post]
13 Aug 2015, 12:01 pm
The essays address the contributions of figures such as John Locke, George Washington, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, Noah Webster, Joseph Story, Daniel Webster, and Abraham Lincoln to the development of IP rights within the context of American constitutionalism. [read post]
4 Jul 2015, 7:10 am
” Or, as the influential British political theorist John Locke wrote, “no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions. [read post]
3 Jul 2015, 8:14 pm by Jon Gelman
And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.New Hampshire: Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew ThorntonMassachusetts: Samuel Adams, John Adams, John Hancock, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge GerryRhode Island: Stephen Hopkins, William ElleryConnecticut: Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver WolcottNew York: William Floyd,… [read post]