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Google News: Vote to protect the 99 percent
[The Journal News | LoHud.com] - One of the worse decisions by the Supreme Court was the Dred Scott Decision in Equally tragic was Citizens United, which said the powerful corporate world has the same rights as a person. If the Republicans win this election they will render
Emancipation Proclamation: A 'thunderbolt' from Lincoln
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[SouthCoastToday.com] - Even former Supreme Court Justice Benjamin R. Curtis, who had dissented in the notorious Dred Scott case and resigned from the court in part because of the decision, attacked Lincoln's proclamation as an unjust extension of executive power.
The Scourge Of Tin Pan Alley
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[Wall Street Journal] - Supreme Court Chief Justice Roger B. Taney set standards for determining originality and similarity in popular songs years before he handed down the Dred Scott Decision in 1857, and Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.'s Supreme Court opinion extended copyright
Google News: History museum extends Civil War exhibit
[Alton Telegraph] - The Missouri Compromise, the Dred Scott Case and the Missouri-Kansas border conflicts exposed tensions prior to the eruption of all-out war. During the Civil War, both the Union and the Confederate governments grappled for control of Missouri. Today
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