Word: legalization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, the legal life of the old Senate expired. It adjourned in the presence of three members-two Democrats, and the one Republican who had remained behind to make the point of no quorum. Home came the wandering Odyssei, back to their Penelopes. But they formed a club "The Exiles" to recall for later days the joys of their exile...
...evidence and some apparent misrepresentations of the evolution theory and its supporters may well be due to Mr. Bryan's unfamiliarity with the facts in the case. A lawyer who does not know law or a doctor who has not studied medicine is a quack and subject to legal control; even a high school teacher must be duly certificated. Is there not at least a moral obligation that a man professing authoritative leadership on evolution should first familiarize himself with the subject?"-Dr. Edward L. Rice, Ohio Wesleyan University (Methodist...
History. The grand jury is one of the most ancient English legal institutions. It is probable that at first it not only accused but also tried public offenders. When America was settled however, it had become an informing and accusing body without whose previous action no person charged with a felony, except in certain very special cases, could be put on trial. It has always been considered a means of protecting the citizen against unfounded accusations whether "directed by the Government or prompted by partisan passion or private enmity." The effort in many communities is to have grand jury panel...
...system of laws which allows of parties being divorced in one state but not in another; of a marriage being valid in one state but invalid elsewhere; of a child being a lawful heir in one and illegitimate in another; and of a man, not a Mormon, having two legal wives, changing one or the other according as he moves from one state to another, and which as we have seen, operates to make those entirely innocent the principle sufferers...
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