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Margna Carta
The Magna Carta (“Great Charter”) is a document guaranteeing English political liberties that was drafted at Runnymede, a meadow by the River Thames, and signed by King John on June 15, 1215, under pressure from his rebellious barons. -
Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
On March 9, 1776, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations—commonly referred to simply as The Wealth of Nations—was first published. 1 Smith, a Scottish moral philosopher by trade, wrote the book to describe the industrialized capitalist system that was upending the mercantilist system. -
Declaration of Independence
The declaration of Independence the founding document of the United States was approved by the Continental Congress on July 4 1776 -
Articles of Confederation
Articles of Confederation, first U.S. constitution (1781–89), which served as a bridge between the initial government by the Continental Congress of the Revolutionary period and the federal government provided under the U.S. Constitution of 1787. Because the experience of overbearing British central authority was vivid in colonial minds, the drafters of the Articles deliberately established a confederation of sovereign states. The Articles were written in 1776–77 and March 1, 1781. -
Constitutional Convention
Constitutional Convention, (1787), in U.S. history, convention that drew up the Constitution of the United States. Stimulated by severe economic troubles, which produced radical political movements such as Shays’s Rebellion, and urged on by a demand for a stronger central government, the convention... -
Unites States Constitution
Constitution of the United States of America the fundamental law of the U.S federal system of government and a landmark document of the Western world. -
Judiciary Act of 1789
An Act to Establish the Judicial Courts of the United States," was signed into law by President George Washington on September 24, 1789. Article III of the Constitution established a Supreme Court, but left to Congress the authority to create lower federal courts as needed -
Judiciary Act 1789
The Judiciary Act of 1789, officially titled "An Act to Establish the Judicial Courts of the United States," was signed into law by President George Washington on September 24, 1789. Article III of the Constitution established a Supreme Court, but left to Congress the authority to create lower federal courts as needed. Principally authored by Senator Oliver Ellsworth of Connecticut, the Judiciary Act of 1789 established the structure and jurisdiction of the federal court system -
Plessy v. Ferguson
a legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court put forward the controversial “separate but equal” doctrine, according to which laws mandating racial segregation (generally of African Americans and whites) in public accommodations (e.g., inns and public conveyances) were constitutional provided that the separate facilities for each race were equal. -
ECONOMICS CAPS
ice caps are meant to limit the economic rents a resource owner can extract from its asset base above a pre-established level. Assuming rational economic actors, price caps are expected to work if the supply of a commodity is relatively inelastic, i.e. the producer of that good cannot sustainably diminish the production or has few alternatives to sell its goods. Price caps work effectively as a tax applied to the supplier of a commodity and need to be carefully engineered so that the supply. -
Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District.
The dissent argued that the First Amendment does not grant the right to express any opinion at any time. Students attend school to learn, not teach. The armbands were a distraction. School officials, acting on a legitimate interest in school order, should have broad authority to maintain a productive learning environment.