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| | Union (American Civil War) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | During the American Civil War, Loyalists to the United States living in the Border States and Confederate States were termed Unionists. | | | Map of the division of the states during the Civil War. | | | Since the Civil War, the term has been a widely used synonym for the Northern side of the conflict, and has increasingly lost the more subtle historical connotations. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_(American_Civil_War)
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| | Civil War - MSN Encarta |
| | American Civil War, a military conflict between the United States of America (the Union) and the Confederate States of America (the Confederacy) from 1861 to 1865. | | | The American Civil War is sometimes called the War Between the States, the War of Rebellion, or the War for Southern Independence. | | | Before the Civil War, the federal government’s chief source of revenue was the tariff. |
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http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761567354
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| | Causes of the Civil War - The relation of slavery, State's Rights, sectionalism, and economic factors which caused the Civil War. |
| | Causes of the Civil War - The relation of slavery, State's Rights, sectionalism, and economic factors which caused the Civil War. | | | The Civil War was caused by a myriad of conflicting pressures, principles, and prejudices, fueled by sectional differences and pride, and set into motion by a most unlikely set of political events. | | | ...visit James F. Epperson's Causes of the Civil War page |
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http://www.swcivilwar.com/cw_causes.html
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| | Civil War |
| | - In the United States, the Civil War was between the Confederacy, or southern states, and the Union, or northern states. | | | The purpose of this unit is to provide a frame for the students to use in evaluating both points of view in the Civil War. | | | Listed here are links to primary sources on the Internet that are directly related to women and the Civil War. |
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http://www.42explore2.com/civilwar.htm
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| | Facts about The Civil War |
| | The United States Civil War was the bloodiest conflict in American History, claiming more lives than The American Revolutionary War, World War I, World War II, The War against Switzerland, The War of 1812, and the Vietnam War combined. | | | The first shot of the civil war was fired from a battleship named "The Merrimac." When the ship's missile struck the heart of Manasses, Vermont, the bloody Battle of Manasses began. | | | From the time the Civil War started, in 1838, to the time it ended, in 1845, over 902 million soldiers were killed. |
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http://www.idiotica.com/encyclopedia/content/civilwar.htm
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| | American Civil War |
| | Butler, a war hero, had been a member of the Democratic Party, but his experiences during the American Civil War had made him increasingly radical. | | | It was eventually decided to charge General Robert Lee, James Seddon, the Secretary of War, and several other Confederate generals and politicians with "conspiring to injure the health and destroy the lives of United States soldiers held as prisoners by the Confederate States". | | | For example, 5,177 soldiers in the Union Army died of measles during the war. |
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http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAcivilwar.htm
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| | Genealogy and the American Civil War |
| | The American Civil War provided many documents which have information vital for those interested in family history. | | | Tennesseans in the Civil War - Part I and II by the Centennial Civil War Commission of TN. | | | However, the pre-war governments of these states never seceded from the Union. |
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http://www.illinoiscivilwar.org/cwgeneal.html
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| | Supreme Court Cases of the American Civil War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | A number of cases were tried before the Supreme Court of the United States during the period of the American Civil War. | | | A writ of certiorari brought the case to the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Salmon Chase. | | | This case is an example of a U.S. President ignoring a court's ruling on the grounds of necessity. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_Cases_of_the_American_Civil_War
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| | Civil War Veterans in Australia |
| | Australian Union and Confederate Veterans of the American Civil War of 1861 &; 1865. | | | As such, all American Civil War Veterans, Union and Confederate, should always be remembered and honoured for their bravery and gallantry in that disastrous conflict. | | | The American Civil War Round Table of Qld. |
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http://www.acwv.info
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| | MSN Encarta - Search View - Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka |
| | Reading the opinion in a courtroom packed with news reporters, he simply explained the facts of the cases before him and the history of the American doctrine of “separate but equal.” Warren acknowledged that the history of the law regarding segregation was inconclusive, particularly as it was addressed in the 14th Amendment to the Constitution. | | | Warren’s opinion explained the context of the law in regards to the case, and detailed the reasons why the court reached its judgment. | | | The Supreme Court heard arguments in the Brown case in 1952, but the justices did not decide the case that year. |
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http://encarta.msn.com/text_761588641__1/Brown_v_Board_of_Education_of_Topeka.html
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| | People For the American Way - Important Cases Await the Supreme Court |
| | As the Supreme Court prepares to begin its 2002-03 Term on Monday, October 7, a series of important civil rights and civil liberties cases are already on its docket. | | | In addition to the cases that the Court is already expected to decide, the Court may decide to review a number of other decisions that would have broad ramifications for civil rights and civil liberties. | | | American Library Association, the Court will be asked to rule on the constitutionality of a federal law that mandates that all libraries receiving federal funds install and use blocking filters on their Internet terminals. |
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http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=5594
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| | Historic Supreme Court Cases |
| | In this case, the law that compelled the evolution doctrine to be removed from the course of study was passed to agree with the religious pointofview of certain fundamentalists. | | | The Supreme Court of the United States said that education is a property interest protected by the Fourteenth Amendment's due process clause and any suspension requires prior notice and a hearing. | | | The Supreme Court of the United States upheldthe Illinois law because the movement end storage of grain were considered to be closely related to public interest. |
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http://www.socialstudieshelp.com/CourtCases.htm
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| | Halperin, director of the Washington office of the American Civil Liberties Union stated in a 1990 sponsored debate, "It is absolutely clear that dislike of flag-burning on the part of
any legislature has to do with the symbolism of the flag and with the message being expressed by those who burn it" (Pilon, 11). | | | Charles Kingsbury Miller served as chairman of the flag committees of the Illinois chapters of the Society of Colonial Wars and the Sons of American Revolution. | | | The Court simply reversed on the grounds that the statute was unconstitutionally applied to his case but not that the statute was unconstitutionally vague and overbroad, which is in fact the legal question posed by the U.S. Supreme Court (Van Alstyne 316). |
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http://www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/gvpt339/Travis.htm
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| | Speech - May 3, 2000 |
| | All during the Civil War the courts were unable or unwilling to ride herd on the Lincoln administration's policies which seriously interfered with civil liberty. | | | The courts, for their part, have largely reserved the decisions favoring civil liberties in wartime to be handed down after the war was over. | | | The Supreme Court reluctantly upheld this program during the war, but the judgment of history has been that a serious injustice was done these people, because there was no effort to separate the loyal from the disloyal. |
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http://www.supremecourtus.gov/publicinfo/speeches/sp_05-03-00.html
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| | Supreme Court Cases for AP Review |
| | The Court ruled that the charter was protected under the contract clause of the U. Constitution; upholds the sanctity of contracts. | | | The decision stems from the Yazoo land cases, 1803, and upholds the sanctity of contracts. | | | The court ruled that those subjected to in-custody interrogation be advised of their constitutional right to an attorney and their right to remain silent. |
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http://www.mury.k12.ut.us/mhs/apus/handouts/supremecourtcases.htm
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| | Supreme Court Backs Civil Liberties in Terror Cases (washingtonpost.com) |
| | The court said detainees, whether American citizens or not, retain their rights, at least to a legal hearing, even if they are held at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. | | | The rulings were the court's most significant statement in decades on the scope of presidential war powers to deal with "enemy combatants," such as someone seized on a battlefield in Afghanistan. | | | In a third related case, the court declined on technical grounds to rule on the merits of a challenge brought by Jose Padilla, who was arrested in Chicago after a flight from Pakistan, sending the case back to a lower court in South Carolina. |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11657-2004Jun28.html
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| | CNN.com - A mixed verdict on the terror war - Jul 6, 2004 |
| | "Today's historic rulings are a strong repudiation of the administration's argument that its actions in the war on terrorism are beyond the rule of law and unreviewable by American courts," said Steven R. Shapiro, director of the American Civil Liberties Union, in a written statement. | | | But the court ruled that Hamdi could use American courts to argue that he is being held illegally. | | | The court said the Cuban base is not beyond the reach of American courts even though it is outside the country. |
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http://edition.cnn.com/2004/LAW/06/28/scotus.terror.cases
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| | mparent7777: Habeas corpus ad subjiciendum: not anymore! |
| | Habeas corpus was suspended on April 27, 1861, during the American Civil War by President Lincoln in Maryland and parts of midwestern states, including southern Indiana. | | | This was one of the key Supreme Court Cases of the American Civil War, which dealt primarily with wartime civil liberties and martial law. | | | It was decided in the Supreme Court case Ex Parte Milligan 71 U.S. that the suspension was unconstitutional because civilian courts were still operating, and the Constitution (according to the Court) provided for suspension of habeas corpus only if these courts are actually forced closed. |
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http://www.livejournal.com/users/mparent7777/4460615.html
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| | Muslim American Society |
| | While U.S. court hearings on immigration matters are usually public, the government decided in the wake of the deadly attacks that some of the deportation cases warrant examination in private. | | | They scored a victory in a federal district court in the state but lost a subsequent appeal with the Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal in Philadelphia, which upheld the policy on the grounds the press and public possessed no First Amendment right of access to the hearings. | | | Without comment, the high court refused to hear an appeal arguing the government may not keep the proceedings secret without a specific, case-by-case showing that closing the hearing would be necessary, reports Reuters. |
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http://www.masnet.org/news.asp?id=81
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| | Supreme Court rejects attempt to appeal cases testing scope of secret spy court |
| | The American Civil Liberties Union and other organizations wanted the justices to consider when the government should be allowed to monitor someone's telephone conversations and e-mail, then use the information to prosecute them. | | | The spy court has approved thousands of warrants since it was established by Congress in 1978, and it only rarely turns down the government. | | | The case is one of two at the Supreme Court involving issues related to the terrorist attacks. |
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2003/03/24/national1009EST0602.DTL
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| | Brown v. the Board of Education |
| | The end of the Civil War led to a redefinition of the role of African-Americans in American culture. | | | Civil Rights Era which included not only court action, but civil disobedience and congressional legislation. | | | On May 17, 1954 the Supreme Court of the United States handed down its decision on a group of related cases involving segregation in public education. |
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http://novaonline.nv.cc.va.us/eli/evans/his135/Events/Brown54/Brown54.html
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| | Supreme Court - Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act Cases |
| | Displayed jurisdictional statements and briefs were submitted to the Court electronically. | | | The displayed documents might not be exact duplicates of the official documents and may not constitute a complete set of the jurisdictional statements and briefs filed in the cases. | | | Supreme Court - Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act Cases |
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http://www.supremecourtus.gov/bcra/bcra.html
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| | Boston.com / News / Nation / Washington / High Court to hear first terrorism cases |
| | Historians have noted that the courts tend to give the president and other leaders greater leeway in times of war and give greater weight to civil liberties in peacetime. | | | What Rehnquist and the court he leads say now will depend in large part on whether a majority of justices equates a war on terrorism with a traditional war that has a clearly defined end. | | | If so, the court could agree that fighting terrorism requires a reconsideration of government power and of the breadth of protection offered by the Constitution and the courts. |
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http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2004/04/17/high_court_to_hear_first_terrorism_cases
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| | Constitutional Law Center: Supreme Court: Landmark Decisions |
| | In the Civil Rights Cases, the Court struck down those provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1875 which entitled all persons to the full and equal enjoyment of public accomodations. | | | The Court ruled that Congress did not have the authority under the 14th Amendment to enact such a law, explaining that the 14th Amendment was intended to right wrongful acts by states, not private individuals. | | | Ferguson, the Court found that a Louisiana statute requiring separate intrastate railcars for the white and colored races neither abridged the privileges or immunities of the colored man, nor deprived him of the equal protection of the laws under the 14th Amendment. |
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http://supreme.lp.findlaw.com/supreme_court/landmark.html
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| | Why War? US Faces Setbacks in Terror Cases |
| | So far, the war on terrorism has spawned two broad categories of court cases: those the administration has taken before judges and those in which outside lawyers have challenged administration policies. | | | American John Walker Lindh pleaded guilty to being an enemy Taliban soldier and is cooperating with prosecutors. | | | The spy court, formed in 1978, issued its first-ever ruling against the government. |
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http://www.why-war.com/news/2002/08/27/usfacess.html
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| | Insights Vol. 2, No. 3: Debate: Debater 1 |
| | Following World War II, when General Tomoyuki Yamashita was sentenced to hang for the brutal atrocities he ordered against civilians in the Philippines, he petitioned the Supreme Court for habeas corpus. | | | While Americans dislike contemplating the detention of any person, let alone a fellow citizen, without formal charge or counsel in peacetime, this is part of the regrettable, but undeniable, facts of all wars, including the present one. | | | The Civil War precedent, Ex parte Milligan, 71 U.S. 2 (1866), which nominally questions the availability of military tribunals where civilian courts remain open, was later confined to its unique domestic insurgency facts and specifically the fact that Milligan was not—in international parlance—an "unlawful belligerent." Terrorists clearly are. |
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http://www.abanet.org/publiced/insights/vol2_3/debate/1.html
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| | The American Civil War |
| | The Civil War, in U.S. history, was a conflict that pitted the Northern states of the American Union against the Southern states. | | | The war had international impact, not only because of the growing international stature of the United States, but also because war threatened world access to the South's cotton. | | | The war raged for 4 years (1861-65) and was marked by some of the fiercest military campaigns of modern history. |
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http://americanrevwar.homestead.com/files/civwar/index3.html
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| | Human Rights Magazine, Winter 2003 - From the Chair |
| | Or because the courts, the Congress, and other civil authorities are reluctant to challenge the actions of those charged with waging war. | | | First, in each case, the government claimed sweeping authority to detain, without charge, without trial, and without term, individuals lawfully present in the United States, many or most of whom were singled out because of their national origin or ethnic heritage. | | | Far better for the law to be silent than for the courts to give such measures their imprimatur without adequate review. |
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http://www.abanet.org/irr/hr/winter03/chair.html
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| | LII Supreme Court Collection: Historic decisions |
| | If you are not sure of a case name, you may wish to search the entire collection using a portion of the name or a key word or phrase likely to be used in it. | | | Superior Court, 457 U.S. recent Fed?) (recent Supct? | | | Superior Court, 450 U.S. recent Fed?) (recent Supct? |
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