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Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage

by Frederick Douglass A very limited statement of the argument for impartial suffrage, and for including the negro in the body politic, would require more space than can be reasonably…

Robert H. Bork

Robert H. Bork was one of the most famous rejected Supreme Court nominees in American history. Bork made the news in the summer of 1987, when President Ronald Reagan named him to replace retiring…

modernism

(Encyclopedia) modernism, in religion, a general movement in the late 19th and 20th cent. that tried to reconcile historical Christianity with the findings of modern science and philosophy. Modernism…

jurisprudence

(Encyclopedia) jurisprudencejurisprudencej&oobreve;rˌĭspr&oomacr;dˈəns [key], study of the nature and the origin and development of law. It is variously regarded as a branch of ethics or of…

expatriation

(Encyclopedia) expatriation, loss of nationality. Such loss is usually, although not necessarily, voluntary. Generally it applies to those persons who have renounced nationality and citizenship in…

Yevtushenko, Yevgeny Aleksandrovich

(Encyclopedia) Yevtushenko, Yevgeny AleksandrovichYevtushenko, Yevgeny Aleksandrovichyĕvˌt&oomacr;shĕngˈkō, Rus. yĭvgāˈnyē əlyĭksänˈdrəvĭch yĭvtəshĕnˈkō [key], 1933–2017, Russian poet, b. Zima…

Canning, George

(Encyclopedia) Canning, George, 1770–1827, British statesman. Canning was converted to Toryism by the French Revolution, became a disciple of William Pitt, and was his undersecretary for foreign…

nonconformists

(Encyclopedia) nonconformists, in religion, those who refuse to conform to the requirements (in doctrine or discipline) of an established church. The term is applied especially to Protestant…

public ownership

(Encyclopedia) public ownership, government ownership of lands, streets, public buildings, utilities, and other business enterprises. The theory that all land and its resources belong ultimately to…