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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 …
Posted in: In the News
Posted by: Jim Martin
Friday, October 27 marks the 335th anniversary of the founding of the city of Philadelphia by William Penn.
Posted in: Law Library, Pic of the Week
Posted by: Jim Martin
On Thursday, June 8, the Manuscripts Division in association with the Law Library sponsored a symposium examining the effects of World War I on civil liberties in the United States. Mary Dudziak, of Emory University, provided a historical overview of how Woodrow Wilson went from being reelected as the peace candidate- to in April 1917, requesting a …
Posted in: Event, World War I
Posted by: Jim Martin
Saturday is the 150th anniversary of the organization of the Dominion of Canada. Confederation was a product of the work of the Charlottetown and Quebec Conferences of 1864, the London Conference of 1866, and the passage of the British North America Act of 1867 by the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Four provinces comprised …
Posted in: Law Library
Posted by: Jim Martin
The following is a guest post by Ryan Reft, a historian in the Manuscripts Division of the Library of Congress. But when men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe even more than they believe the very foundations of their own conduct that the ultimate good …
Posted in: Event, Guest Post, World War I
Posted by: Jim Martin
This Saturday is Armed Forces Day in the United States, a day set aside to recognize the men and women who serve in the active and reserve components of the armed forces of the United States. The day has been observed since 1950. This blog post is devoted to a few of the men who …
Posted in: Law Library
Posted by: Jim Martin
Today is the deadline for filing returns for personal income taxes for 2016. The current federal income tax can be traced back to the Revenue Act of 1913, which was passed after the ratification, by the states, of the 16th Amendment to the Constitution. The act provided that taxes on individual taxpayers would be imposed beginning …
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