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Speech Or Debate Clause
Speech Or Debate Clause The Constitution provides that members of Congress “for any Speech or Debate in either House … shall not be questioned in any other Place” (Art. I, sec. 6). This protection, which grew out of centuries of struggle between the English parliament and... Read more |
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Cedron
Cedron , in the Bible. 1 The same as Kidron . 2 Place, near Jamnia, fortified against the Maccabees.... Read more |
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USA PATRIOT Act
USA Patriot Act. The Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001 (USA PATRIOT Act, hereafter cited as Patriot Act) significantly increased the surveillance and investigative powers of law enforcement agencies. It also... Read more |
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Curragh mutiny
Curragh mutiny. In March 1914 57 officers of the 3rd Cavalry Brigade, stationed at Curragh near Dublin, informed the commander-in-chief that they would accept dismissal rather than undertake operations against Ulstermen to impose the Irish Home Rule Bill. They succeeded in obtaining a written... Read more |
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Urban VIII
Urban VIII 1568-1644, pope (1623-44), a Florentine named Maffeo Barberini; successor of Gregory XV. Throughout his pontificate the Thirty Years War raged in Germany. For various political reasons, Urban gave little help to the Catholics. The old story that Urban rejoiced at Protestant victories... Read more |
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India Bill
India Bill, 1783. An abortive reform of the East India Company, drafted largely by Edmund Burke and introduced by the Fox–North coalition. Opponents expressed exaggerated fears that the patronage thus created would give the coalition a stranglehold on power. The actual cause of the bill's... Read more |
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William Branch Giles
William Branch Giles , 1762-1830, American statesman, b. Amelia co., Va. After practicing as a lawyer in Petersburg, Va., he entered the U.S. House of Representatives as an Anti-Federalist in 1790. There he opposed the establishment of the Bank of the United States and in 1793 brought charges of... Read more |
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Admission
ADMISSION A voluntary acknowledgment made by a party to a lawsuit or in a criminal prosecution that certain facts that are inconsistent with the party's claims in the controversy are true. In a lawsuit over whether a defendant negligently drove a car into the plaintiff pedestrian, the defendant's... Read more |
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Charles Hamilton Houston
Charles Hamilton Houston 1895–1950 Lawyer, educator, civil rights activist At a Glance… Excelled in School, Became Activist-Dean Pursued Civil Rights as a Teacher and Lawyer Argued Against Discrimination Before Supreme Court Sources Charles Hamilton Houston, a groundbreaking lawyer... Read more |
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Crusader for A Religious Right; Michael Horowitz Hopes to Stop Persecution of...
...brains behind a hotly contested legislative proposal...Saudi Arabia where such persecution allegedly takes place...as this week on the bill, which would set up...t think religious persecution should take priority...against overseas religious ... |
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House panel tackles conflicting 9/11 drafts; Immigration, budget authority...
...The House Republican bill is too weak. If the...proposed [in the House bill]," said Rep. Jane...Collins-Lieberman bill for the House bills in their respective committees. Among the contested provisions are immigration...political and ... |
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Joan's Story: Race, Delusions and Contested Memories; Joan E. Eatock,...
...eviction riots in 1930s working class Sydney, a century of racial persecution, internal Communist Party brawls, imprisonment, family feuds...far western NSW. Both mother Lucy (1874-1950) and father Bill (1869-1943) had Aboriginal ancestry and met in western... |
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SPECIAL PROSECUTOR LAW HAS PROBLEMS, CRITICS SAY.(NEWS)
...an administration and subject minor figures to persecution. The most hotly contested part of the law is its so-called trigger provisions...files to obtain confidential information about Bill Clinton, then a candidate for president. DiGenova... |
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Italian parliament approves premier immunity bill
...approves premier immunity bill ROME, June 18 (Xinhua...Wednesday approved a hotly-contested bill which would freeze a...Silvio Berlusconi. The bill, which was already approved...the victims of judicial persecution by "politicized" ... |
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Italian parliament set to approve premier immunity bill
...approve premier immunity bill ROME, June 18 (Xinhua...to approve a hotly-contested bill which would freeze a...Silvio Berlusconi. The bill, which has already been...the victims of judicial persecution by "politicized" magistrates... |
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Egypt denies persecuting Christians.(World)(Briefing/Middle East)
...CAIRO - Accusations of persecution of Egypt's 6 million...Christians is one of the most contested and sensitive issues...Freedom From Religious Persecution Act, introduced by...Virginia Republican. The bill would establish a State...to monitor religious ... |
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Getting political asylum right.(COMMENTARY)
...take a hard look at the bill, it is important to reiterate that the bill does not abrogate political asylum. Rather, the bill seeks a narrow reform...political asylum based on persecution by Muslim fundamentalists...substitute its own views about ... |
 "The Record (Bergen County, NJ)")
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SEPARATION OF CHURCH, STATE IS THE KEY
...and conviction: The Bill of Rights and the Rocky...Rockies arouse awe, the Bill of Rights elicits endless debate. Among the most contested of its clauses are the...The authors of the Bill of Rights were extremely...refuge from religious ... |
 "The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)")
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COLLEGE BASKETBALL: PENDERS STEPS DOWN AT TEXAS
...has been in disarray since Bill Frieder resigned under fire...settle his lawsuit alleging persecution by the organization, although...since 1990, is one away from Bill Tilden's record for consecutive...Russians in a first-round tie contested on the same ... |
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