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31 Jul 2022, 6:30 am
Even in the founding era, a number of influential people thought those in the new United States were diverse enough to be worrisome—there were those German-speakers in Pennsylvania; there were Quakers, Catholics, and Jews; people living in southern states and those on the western frontier were seen as having such different values from those in the northern Atlantic states that it was hard to imagine how they might form a single union.[2]Sandy argues there was no singular… [read post]
16 May 2012, 1:30 pm
The eleven responsible parties are Quaker Chemical Corporation; Art Weiss, Inc.; Astro Seal, Inc.; Craneveyor Corp.; EBA, Inc. [read post]
8 Dec 2009, 8:57 am
One of my first jobs after law school was as a criminal prosecutor for Salt Lake City. [read post]
28 Jan 2007, 1:37 pm
It was the Philadelphia Quakers of the 19th century who dreamed up the idea, establishing a program at the city's Walnut Street prison under which inmates were housed in isolation in the hope of providing them with an opportunity for quiet contemplation during which they would develop insight into their crimes. [read post]
28 Dec 2023, 8:24 am
New York City, N.Y. [read post]
27 Mar 2018, 4:12 am
First, in both cases, the union’s means was threats of and actual violence and property damage (in the Doughtery case the Ironworkers were alleged to have burnt down a Quaker meeting house). [read post]
27 Mar 2018, 4:12 am
First, in both cases, the union’s means was threats of and actual violence and property damage (in the Doughtery case the Ironworkers were alleged to have burnt down a Quaker meeting house). [read post]
10 Mar 2008, 9:05 pm
By 1956, forty-two states, including California, and more than two thousand county or city governments had enacted loyalty oaths for public employees. [read post]
24 Jan 2012, 10:43 am
Circuit, A Quaker Action Group v. [read post]
12 Dec 2019, 12:01 am
By the start of the American Revolution, Philadelphia was the largest city in British North America. [read post]
5 Aug 2017, 7:26 am
Go Quakers.Scott Henson: The fighting Quakers. [read post]
6 Jul 2014, 12:30 am
"In HistoryToday, two books on the politics of the Atlantic slave trade are reviewed: William Pettigrew's Freedom's Debt: The Royal African Company and the Politics of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1672-1752 (University of North Carolina Press) and Brycchan Carey's From Peace to Freedom: Quaker Rhetoric and the Birth of American Slavery, 1657-1761 (Yale University Press).Greg Lukianoff's Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American… [read post]
22 Nov 2015, 12:30 am
The titans of New Jersey politics during this period were Arthur Vanderbilt—“The warrior lawyer”-- a Republican WASP from Newark; and Frank Hague, --“Celtic chieftain” – an Irish Catholic Democrat from Jersey City. [read post]
29 May 2018, 1:01 am
The primary political subdivisions of Rhode Island are its cities and towns, which perform functions commonly done by counties in other states. [read post]
18 Oct 2020, 3:46 pm
When you think about it, it makes sense that California, with its crowded cities and fragile habitat, would have strict laws about exotic pets. [read post]
18 Oct 2020, 3:46 pm
When you think about it, it makes sense that California, with its crowded cities and fragile habitat, would have strict laws about exotic pets. [read post]
10 Jan 2011, 6:46 am
Giuliani, Mayor of the City of New York, et al, 290 F.3d 143 (2nd Cir. 2002), now US Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor, then a circuit court appeals judge, dissented from the majority decision that the New York City Police Department didn’t violate a policeman’s First Amendment rights when it fired him for mailing (from home and anonymously) bigoted screeds against Jews and Blacks. [read post]
28 Aug 2010, 12:45 pm
Witness the protracted period of contemplation, discussion, and, presumably, massaging the respective partnerships, both of whom are known to be strongly democratic, Quaker-meeting-ish (in the good, consensus-driven sense). [read post]
28 Jan 2025, 4:35 am
An Israeli airstrike killed two Palestinian militants in an occupied West Bank city of Tulkarm yesterday, Hamas said yesterday. [read post]
9 Aug 2022, 9:01 pm
SA misled his audience by saying that Philadelphia tried to “expel” CSS from the foster care program, as if a city has no legitimate interest in demanding that its contractors conduct official city business without discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation. [read post]
