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Legal Profession
The Legal Profession Sources Golden Age.The plasticity of American law and its strategic position in American cultural life helped to make 1815 to 1850 a period that would be remembered as a golden age of the bar. The most glamorous attorneys of the era were the... Read more |
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Legal Age
LEGAL AGE The time of life at which a person acquires full capacity to make his or her own contracts and deeds and to transact business or to enter into some particular contract or relation, such as marriage. In most states a minor attains legal age at eighteen, although for certain acts, such as... Read more |
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Age
AGE It is difficult to imagine a world without age. Children would not grow up and then grow old. Humans would not have lives. Age is so central to the experience of living, that we have little reason to question the phenomenon. In the scientific study of aging, we scrutinize the ways we... Read more |
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age of consent
age of consent the age at which, according to the law, persons are bound by their words and acts. There are different ages at which one acquires legal capacity to consent to marriage, to choose a guardian, to conclude a contract, and the like. For marriage, the age may be higher for males than for... Read more |
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age grade and age set
age grade and age set differentiation of social role based on age, commonly found in small-scale societies of North America and East Africa. Age sets are a type of sodality (nonresidential groups that cut across kinship ties and thus promote broader social solidarity) of young men who usually... Read more |
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Discrimination
DISCRIMINATION This entry includes 6 subentries:AgeDisabledRaceReligionSexSexual Orientation Age Age discrimination is what occurs when an employer uses age as a determining (and negative) factor in a job-related decision. For example, age discrimination takes place when an employer denies an... Read more |
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Twenty-Sixth Amendment
Twenty-Sixth Amendment The Twenty-Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which was ratified in 1971, lowered the voting age from twenty-one to eighteen years of age. Section One of the Amendment states "the right of citizens of the United States, who are 18 years of age or older, to vote,... Read more |
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Daniel Manning
Daniel Manning 1831-87, American journalist and political leader, b. Albany, N.Y. At the age of 11 he went to work for the Albany Atlas, which in 1856 was consolidated with the Argus; he became editor in 1865 and owner in 1873. In 1874 he became a member of the New York Democratic committee,... Read more |
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Ice Age
ice age • n. a glacial episode during a past geological period.See glacial period. ∎ (the Ice Age) the series of glacial episodes during the Pleistocene period.... Read more |
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Graham again?
...mounting that, at age 66, he will...Senate Democratic Leader] Tom...that any other Democratic candidate, will...chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign...friend and fellow conservative, State Sen. Daniel Webster, who is actively... |
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The Man With The Golden Tongue
DANIEL WEBSTER The Man and His...Englander Daniel Webster (1782-1852...as its unity. Webster's extraordinary...equal. In an "age of the common...He was a "conservative" who lived in a "democratic age," out of... |
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REPUBLICANS' FAR-RIGHT FIELDERS.
...released by the Democratic Party: Posted...of extreme conservatives on the ballot...his extreme conservative bonafides...retirement age and reducing...of extreme conservative Republican...Republican conservatives on the ballot...Candidate Daniel Webster If elected, ... |
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Granite State Race Underscores Crumbling of GOP Core; Dole Struggles to...
...Hampshire has voted Democratic only once since...supported a Democratic presidential...themselves conservative. "He was...afternoon at the Daniel Webster Plaza shopping...it's the age factor...to blunt the Democratic offensive... |
 "The Washington Times (Washington, DC)")
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A concise, complete U.S. history.(BOOKS)
...Martin Van Buren, Daniel Webster (and, somewhat...of 1812, the Age of Jackson...the Gilded Age and the rise...I, the Jazz Age, Depression...the growth of democratic government and...excellent The Conservative Revolution... |
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THREE ELECTED TO AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES.
...18th century, Daniel Webster and Ralph Waldo...editor, "Democratic Governance...The Crisis of Democratic Representation...Building Democratic Institutions...Church and Age Unite! The...Being Right: Conservative Catholics in... |
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Election 2012: Can the Democrats retake control of the House?(USA)
...by the moderate Democratic think tank Third...chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign...some of their more conservative members to retirement...learn English until age 12. Ms. Demings...freshman Rep. Daniel Webster (R), is Orlando... |
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Tom DeLay's House of Shame; Congress has always had its share of extremists....
...Congress at least since Daniel Webster took his seat while...s ruling radical conservative claque remains united...simply better than the Democratic Party at the basic...Reform efforts by fiscal conservatives determined to curb...Texans of Another Age: LBJ |
 "The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)")
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LETTERS, WE GET LETTERS: MOST ARE WELCOME, BUT SOME ARE RUDE.(FRONT)
...last outpost of the Age of Reason. A place...drive-by shooting. Democratic government can look...prose is anything but conservative. Or consider this fax...state stylists as Daniel Webster and Robert Frost. But... |
 "The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)")
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FRESHMAN STATE REPRESENTATIVE RELISHES HIS CHALLENGE
...Freetown and Republicans Daniel K. Webster of Hanson and Susan...was a selectman. At age 20, Bob Coughlin ran...Coughlin unseated veteran Democratic lawmaker Maryanne Lewis...shares the speaker's conservative stance on fiscal matters... |
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