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Liberty party Liberty party
Liberty party in U.S. history, an antislavery political organization founded in 1840. It was formed by those abolitionists , under the leadership of James G. Birney and Gerrit Smith , who repudiated William Lloyd Garrison's nonpolitical stand. Birney, their presidential candidate in 1840,... Read more
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Liberty Liberty
LIBERTY. Liberty is an integral concept in Western political and social thought. Liberty as an inalienable social and political attribute of individuals emerged in the formation of the modern political discourse in the West. Since Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831) the concept has... Read more
William Joseph Brennan Jr William Joseph Brennan Jr
William Joseph Brennan, Jr. 1906-97, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1956-90), b. Newark, N.J. After receiving his law degree from Harvard, he practiced law in Newark. He served as a New Jersey superior court judge (1949-50), appellate division judge (1950-52), and state supreme court... Read more
Washington and Lee University Washington and Lee University
Washington and Lee University at Lexington, Va.; coeducational; founded and opened 1749 as Augusta Academy. It was called Liberty Hall in 1776; became Liberty Hall Academy (a college) in 1782, Washington Academy (following a gift from George Washington) in 1798, Washington College in 1813; and... Read more
Whiskey Rebellion Whiskey Rebellion
Whiskey Rebellion 1794, uprising in the Pennsylvania counties W of the Alleghenies, caused by Alexander Hamilton 's excise tax of 1791. The settlers, mainly Scotch-Irish, for whom whiskey was an important economic commodity, resented the tax as discriminatory and detrimental to their liberty and... Read more
Platt Amendment Platt Amendment
Platt Amendment (1901).In 1901, U.S. Senator Orville Platt introduced an amendment to the U.S. Army appropriations bill specifying several conditions for the American military evacuation of Cuba. The two key provisions of the Platt Amendment, first proposed by Secretary of War Elihu Root,... Read more
Jerry Falwell Jerry Falwell
Jerry Lamon Falwell , 1933-2007, American fundamentalist Baptist pastor, b. Lynchburg, Va. A popular preacher and founder of the Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg, Falwell began (1968) airing his services on television on a program that was later named "The Old-Time Gospel Hour." Falwell... Read more
treaty of Lambeth treaty of Lambeth
Lambeth, treaty of, 1217. After John's death in 1216, the supporters of his young son Henry III defeated Louis of France's men at Lincoln. On 20 September 1217 the treaty of Lambeth ratified terms agreed at Kingston upon Thames. Louis abandoned all claims to the English throne and retired to... Read more
Proclamations Proclamations
PROCLAMATIONS PROCLAMATIONS. American government proclamations antedate independence. For example, on 16 March 1776, the Second Continental Congress, at the time of "impending calamity and distress when the Liberties of America are imminently endangered," issued a Proclamation "publicly to... Read more

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