Word: landmarking
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...first constitutional landmark dates back to King John's acceptance at Runnymede in 1215 of Magna Carta, which established limits on the power of the monarch. The House of Commons, which together with the House of Lords makes up Parliament, has its origins in Simon de Montfort's first gathering of commoners in 1265. Another prominent date is 1689, when Parliament passed a Bill of Rights guaranteeing freedom of elections and parliamentary debate...
...Supreme Court attempted to address these questions in its landmark Roe v. Wade decision of 1973. The court's solution rested on the concept of viability, defined as the time the fetus is "potentially able to live outside the mother's womb albeit with artificial aid." Until that point, said the majority, a woman's decision to terminate a pregnancy was guaranteed by the privacy rights implicit in the 14th Amendment, which has been interpreted to include personal rights relating to marriage, procreation and contraception. But once viability occurs, the court ruled, a state may limit or proscribe abortion...
Education: In Topeka, the city of the Supreme Court's landmark 1954 school- desegregation ruling, the struggle to achieve racial balance goes on. Native Americans: Excluded from the Constitution, Indians are still adrift in their own land. Sexes: Supporters again push the era, while women's rights gain legal ground...
Presbyterians pass a landmark statement on Judaism. -- Baptist Fundamentalists win again. -- A federal court okays shunning...
Cases involving issues of race are today no longer as clear cut as they were when the Supreme Court rendered its landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education, writing that separate schools were not equal. Today, courts debate whether statistics can prove a racist justice system, even if there is no particular person who can show that he has been wronged. The Rosa Parks age has passed...