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Posted by: Jim Martin
On this day in 1832, John C. Calhoun submitted his resignation as the seventh Vice President of the United States. First elected to the House of Representatives in 1810, he would spend almost all of the remainder of his life serving in either the executive or legislative branches. He had a towering intellect, an overweening ambition, and a strong sense …
Posted in: Education, Law Library
Posted by: Jim Martin
The Pic of the Week shows a French translation of the American Bill of Rights from 1790.
Posted in: Law Library, Pic of the Week
Posted by: Jim Martin
It is a curiosity of history that while the office of the Attorney General of the United States was created by the first congress as a part of the Judiciary Act of 1789, the Department of Justice was not authorized until over eighty years later, in 1870. Section 35 of the Judiciary Act provided And …
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