The article offers highlights of the Twentieth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution which was ratified by the States on January 23, 1933. Senator Norris of Nebraska reportedly had proposed this Amendment in 1923. The Amendment ...
Many influential Americans of the Gilded Age firmly believed that Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution, published in 1859, explained the functions of human society as well as nature. Progress, they argued, depended upon the “survival of the fittest.” Englishman Herbert Spencer (whose books sold...
American suppositions about family structure meant that women suffered disproportionately from the Depression. Since the start of the twentieth century, single women had become an increasing share of the workforce, but married women, Americans were likely to believe, took a job because they wanted to...
Rather it originated in a letter from Thomas Jefferson in response to the Danbury Baptist Association, which was concerned about the implications of the 1st Amendment on religious freedom. Reassuring the Baptist Association, Jefferson explained that the 1st Amendment effectuated a separation between ...
A) in contrast, B) for example, C) meanwhile, D) consequently, 29 In 1933, the Twentieth Amendment to the US Constitution was ratified. The amendment mandates that presidential inaugurations be held on January 20, approximately ten weeks after the November election. ___ this amendment requires...
450 feet. With regard to the difference between the male and female birth-rates, I contend the figures given by Mrs. Besant fully justify the expression “enormously in excess” when we are dealing with large areas of population. An average of about one-twentieth more in one sex than in ...
P32:At the time, no one realized that this strategic acquisition would make the twentieth-century demographics of Atlanta unique among American cities. 误:这次战略性的收购将会让亚特兰大20世纪的人口在美国城市中雄踞榜首正:当时谁也没有意识到这项战略收购将使得二十世纪的亚特兰大具备在美国城市当中独一无...
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Director was one of the most important economists of the twentieth century. He founded the Journal of Law and Economics, perhaps the most influential economics journal of the last fifty years. He also was a teacher of Robert Bork and Richard Posner, and led the application of law and ...
In the United States, the temperance movement, which sought to curb the consumption of alcohol, had a large influence on American politics and American society in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, culminating in the prohibition of alcohol, through the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States ...