Incorporation - the legal doctrine whereby the Supreme Court applies the Bill of Rights to the states, was not part of the original, legal meaning of the Constitution. Instead, it arose out of the 14th Amendment, and the court first started applying it “selectively” in 1925.
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The event marked the first time in history where a republican governor took office under a constitution written and ratified by representatives of the people.
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On June 28, 1776, American forces won their first significant battle of the War for Independence when South Carolina troops defeated a British naval force.
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This language would have created a strong prohibition against state or local enforcement of federal gun control. But an amendment created a loophole that will, in its best reading, significantly narrow the practical effect of the law.
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It says a lot about the Swamp that the case clipping bureaucrats’ power was one in which they were probably trying to do the right thing.
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Caesar Rodney was born in Kent County, Delaware on Oct. 7, 1728. He was a central figure in Delaware's quest for independence from Great Britain.
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Most people think federal law is always supreme over conflicting state law. Most people are wrong.
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According to the Supreme Court, the legality of NSA mass surveillance can't even be legally challenged. This was the message the Court sent when it refused to take up Jewel v. NSA, allowing an appellate court decision to stand.
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Brutus called a national debt "exceeding their ability ever to discharge” a calamity. But he was far from alone.
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Together, the two new laws will allow medical marijuana patients from outside Louisiana to obtain medicinal cannabis in the state.
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