... to the Senate, "It is said that this bill will interfere with lawful trade, with the customary business of life. I deny it. It only aims at unlawful combinations. It does not in the least affect combinations in aid of production where there is free and fair competition." (Document N) The first court case involving the Sherman Anti-trust Act was US vs. E. C. Knight ... company was accused of having a monopoly of the sugar industry. The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court gave his interpretation of the new law, "What the law struck was at combinations, contracts, and conspiracies to monopo...

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... greater number of citizens and extent of territory which may be brought within the compass of republican than of democratic government; and it is this circumstance principally which renders factious combinations less to be dreaded in the former than in the latter." It appears that the very same political parties we stand by, were a part of Madison's cure for "faction mischief ... ...

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... or disrepute; or to excite against them hatred of the good people of the United States, or to stir up sedition within the United States, or to excite any unlawful combinations therein, for opposing or resisting any law of the United States, or any act of the President of the United States." The law did however allow truth as a defense and ... ...

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... that it was unconstitutional and that foreigners owned too much stock and had too much control. Jackson was determined to destroy the bank. He paid off the national debt and ordered his Secretary of the Treasury to remove the $10 million in federal deposits from the bank and place them in selected state banks. He had to fire two secretaries of ... 1832, South Carolina passed a law to nullify the tariff. Jackson was willing to use force and strongly denounced disunion and nullification. He began to strengthen forts in South Carolina and ordered warships to the area.1 (p.243) The crisis w...

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... Ferrer, and also the cook. Pedro Montes and Jose Ruiz lives were spared because their help was needed in steering the ship. They put many ashore in the Caribbean, but ordered Montes and Ruiz to sail to Africa, their homeland. Montes steered the Amistad toward Africa but very slowly. At night, he reversed his course, and headed west to America. On ... from Africa was not. Judge Judson agreed, and ruled that the Africans had been kidnapped, and they had the right of escape, even if they had to use violence. He ordered that President Van Buren send these people back to their homeland and t...

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... establishing them as ladinos were forged. The judge, persuaded by this evidence, concluded that even under Spanish law, the Mendians were free men, and ordered President Van Buren to have them transported back to Africa. Van Buren ordered the government's lawyers to appeal the case to the Supreme Court. Attorney Roger Sherman Baldwin and President John Quincy Adams, took the case to ... ...

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... board member threatening a lethal attack on multiple schools, naming the sites, how students would be harmed and the specific date these attacks would take place. The superintendent of the schools ordered the schools to remain closed because of the fear of violence and to avoid the endangerment of the students and faculty, a decision made because of the recent Oregon community college ... ...

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... practice to the National Labor Relations Board. When the case was tried, the administrative law judge presiding over the case ruled in favor of the union in the dispute and ordered Noel Canning to sign the collective bargaining agreement. The case was appealed to the NLRB, and they upheld the administrative law judge's decision. Noel Canning immediately appealed their case to ... ...

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Missouri's state prisons are overcrowded and the State Supreme Court has ordered the state to remedy this problem. Missouri passed a pair of reforms this session. The ACLU has worked for several years to lay the groundwork for a sizable reform that would reduce ... ...

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... to the American soldiers camp. The Indians were unarmed and had no intentions of attacking the soldiers. Philip F. Wells, and interpreter for General Forsyth, states: "The captured Indians had been ordered to give up their arms, but Big Foot replies that his people had no arms They had about a dozen old-fashioned guns, tied together with strings - not a decent one in ... ...

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... upon slavery in the States turned out to be the most debated point. States were openly divided in their economical, political, social and moral ideologies. Yet the impulse for a well-ordered, prosperous union gave way to making many compromises despite those ideals. With the intention to secure participation of all 13 States in the Union, the framers of the Constitution allowed ... ...

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... it's start in the decade before that, the "peaceful 50s". The civil rights movement actually started with legal battles before moving into the streets of American cities. The Supreme Court ordered the desegregation of schools with "all deliberate speed" and overturned it's former "separate but equal" policy that had for so long been the law of the land. This led to ... ...

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... . F), the state discriminated against anything anti-slavery or black freedom. Also, Jackson blatantly showed that he had no intention of improving the condition of Native Americans. In 1838, President Jackson ordered that the Cherokee nation(Doc. G) be removed from their native land in Georgia to Oklahoma. Even thought this was deemed unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, Jackson continued with his plan ... ...

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... . F), the state discriminated against anything anti-slavery or black freedom. Also, Jackson blatantly showed that he had no intention of improving the condition of Native Americans. In 1838, President Jackson ordered that the Cherokee nation(Doc. G) be removed from their native land in Georgia to Oklahoma. Even thought this was deemed unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, Jackson continued with his plan ... ...

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... us as Shay's Rebellion by itself speaks of how badly this country needs a stronger and improved constitution. How can a bunch of farmers or rebels close a number of courts that had ordered the sale of their land? Congress could not settle such a dispute. Why? Well because the Articles of Confederation do not give Congress such a power. These are the reasons I believe we ... ...

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... in good faith and had not violated federal law. IV. Issues: Did the district court and Court of Appeals reconsider the state's law properly? V. Decision & Action: No It is so ordered Vacated and Remanded VI. Reasoning: per White. The District Court, the Court of Appeals, and respondents recognize that the state of Mississippi had the constitutional duty to stop the dual ... ...

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... should be allowed to order out any suspicious aliens he believes are plotting against us. He feels that the D-R Party is overacting thinking it is going to be them getting ordered out, when it will be an suspicious aliens. On the other hand, aliens believe they should be able to stay in America, but it will not be every alien, just ... ...

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... they were already supposed to be free. Congress drafted the 14th and 15th Amendments in hopes of righting the wrongs that had been committed against African Americans. The 14th Amendment ordered the states to give equal rights and privileges to all US citizens. Although African Americans were not yet allowed the right to vote, they had equal representation in Congress. In ... ...

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... of a man who had an incompetent court-appointed lawyer to handle his defense. While the justices tap-danced around the issue of federal review of cases, the fact that they ordered hearings in the two death penalty cases on the basis of constitutional claims may work in the favor of many death row prisoners who are making appeals in the federal ... ...

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... and economic conditions. From 1785 to 1787, there were several land ordinances passed that would provide for an orderly settlement of the new land the U.S. had received. In 1785, they ordered the national government to do a survey on the land. They would then sell the land and use the money to pay off the war debt. This was an incredibly smart ... ...

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... and equality of economic opportunity. Jackson merely used the Constitution as an excuse to rule the way he wanted to. He also falsely claimed to support individual liberties when he ordered the forced removal of the Indians to Western lands and the gross mistreatment of lower classes by the government. Political democracy was supported by educated masses, the Spoils System and ... ...

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... American interests in Spanish-ruled Cuba. Suddenly the U.S.S. Maine blew up in Havana harbor taking the lives of 266 men. The American media stipulated war. Reacting to a blockade on Cuba ordered by President McKinley, the Spanish had declared war. During this time congress was debating whether or not the United States. should favor international expansion. The Republicans heavily favored United States ... ...

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... was prepared to control these trusts, his first being the Northern Securities Company headed by Morgan and Hill. He brought the company to court, and in 1904, Northern Securities was ordered to dissolve. Roosevelt did this to over 40 trusts, but he wasn't worthy of the nickname "trustbuster." He was hoping that other trusts would follow in the paths of those ... ...

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... /she cannot take. I've observed the misunderstanding of religion from many incidence. I've also personally experienced the lack of knowing religious background. I've witness at a Mc Donald's that a Muslim family ordered chicken sandwiches. But instead of chicken sandwiches, they gave him a cheeseburger. Mc Donald's messed up some order with another family's order. The Muslim family were insulted by the workers. This ... ...

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... women. She tested the application of the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments by casting ballots in the state and congressional election in Rochester, New York, in 1872. She was indicted and ordered to pay a fine, but the order was never enforced. Susan B. Anthony started the women suffrage movement, but died before women gained the right to vote. "To think I have had more ... ...

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