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Women's Suffrage: The Averted Triumph

by Carrie Chapman Catt and Nettie Rogers Shuler How the Woman Suffrage Movement BeganThat Adjective Male 1866 The Averted Triumph 1848-1860It was not until 1848 that the compact, made…

Supreme Court Decision

The 2000 election will go down in history, not only for the gridlock in Florida, but also for the way in which it split the Supreme Court, which had never before stepped in to rule on a…

Women's Suffrage: That Adjective Male 1866

by Carrie Chapman Catt and Nettie Rogers Shuler The Averted TriumphThe Negro's HourThat Adjective Male 1866Before the Civil War, there was no movement in the United States to secure…

A Plea for the Right of Recall

A Plea for the Right of Recallby AMICUS appeared in the Columbian Herald, August 28, 1788.See also Federalist No. 53Some time before a Convention of the United States was held, I mentioned in…

Gideon v. Wainwright

(Encyclopedia) Gideon v. Wainwright, case decided in 1963 by the U.S. Supreme Court. Clarence Earl Gideon was convicted of a felony in a Florida court. He had defended himself after being denied a…

Women's Suffrage: The Opposition Grows Grimmer

by Carrie Chapman Catt and Nettie Rogers Shuler Last of All Suffrage ConventionsThe Struggle for the Thirty-Sixth StateThe Opposition Grows GrimmerNo observer accustomed to judge popular…