While Capone was busy working as a legit clerk for a legit company, Torrio was king of an illicit, but lucrative, business empire in Chicago, running gambling rings and brothels. When the 18th Amendment became law in 1920, it ushered in the era of Prohibition. In turn, Torrio smelled pr...
Lydia Taft became the first woman to vote in colonial America, 164 years before the Nineteenth Amendment was passed. In 1756, long beforethe women’s suffrage movementgained any traction, Lydia Taft was legally allowed to vote. Her husband Josiah Taft was a prominent member of their community ...
Beyond the political back-and-forth, the busing and flying of migrants to locations selected by Republican officials has also raised questions about current border policies, who the people being transported are, what their legal status is, why they're in the U.S., what their futures hold and...
Thus, the defendant should not be punished by having a constructively closed courtroom, which it will be our position that that's what the court is proposing. By having the third-floor closed circuit T-V, that's a constructively closed courtroom which violates the defendant's 6th Amendment ri...
Comprehensive and meticulously documented facts about freedom of speech. Learn why the founders of the U.S. included free speech in the Bill of Rights, how courts have ruled in such cases, and much more.
an amendment was proposed and subsequently ratified, that set a limit to the presidency at two terms. People felt that having a president serve so many terms could lead to political corruption, with too much power given to one person for too long. There have been a few attempts to repeal ...
Chief Timoney replied, “Absolutely! Listen, I’m fully aware of, cognizant of, supportive off the Second Amendment, but there’s no way anybody can convince me that an ordinary citizen should be walking around the streets of our cities carrying a military assault weapon.” ...
Ranjan Batra and Ken Sullivan saw the movie, got curious about the history of the amendment itself, and discovered the oversight. From there, according to Batra, "[Ken] had the connections and his father knew someone who had actually written the bill for ratification in ...
focusing on how to rebuild and keep the nation together, rather than continuing to lay blame at the feet of the newly-returned southern states. However, he did help to push through the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which outlawed slavery and achieved ratification on December 6, 1865...
1. Prohibition is the only amendment to the Constitution to have ever been repealed. In 1919, the 18th Amendment was ratified, putting Prohibition in place one year later; it was repealed Dec. 5, 1933, marking the first time in U.S. history (so far) that we backtracked on an additi...