This Day in Legal History, December 15, 1791: The Bill of Rights is certified.
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This Day in Legal History, December 6, 1865: The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States is ratified, formally abolishing slavery.
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This Day in Legal History, December 5, 1933: The Twenty-First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States was ratified, officially repealing the federal prohibition enacted through the Eighteenth Amendment.
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This Day in Legal History, December 3, 1962: Edith Sampson was sworn in as the first African American female judge, after she was elected associate judge of the Municipal Court in Chicago.
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This Day in Legal History, November 6, 1860: Abraham Lincoln is elected as the 16th President of the United States.
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This Day in Legal History, October 2, 1967: Thurgood Marshall (1908-1993) was sworn in as the first African American associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. He served until 1991 and was known for opposing discrimination/death penalty,championing free speech/civil liberties.
This Day in Legal History, September 12, 1958: Landmark United States Supreme Court Case: Cooper v. Aaron, 358 US 1 (1958). Holding: States cannot nullify decisions of the federal courts.
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This Day in Legal History, August 18, 1920: The Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States was ratified, officially extending the right to vote to women.
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This Day in Legal History, August 2, 1776: Signing of the Declaration of Independence - 56 members of the Second Continental Congress started signing the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia
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This Day in Legal History, July 28, 1868: The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States is ratified. The amendment granted citizenship and equal civil and legal rights to African Americans and slaves who had been emancipated after the American Civil War.
This Day in Legal History, 7/13/1787: Congress enacted the Northwest Ordinance establishing formal procedures for transforming territories into states. The Ordinance included freedom of religion, the right to trial by jury, public education and a ban on slavery in the Northwest.
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This Day in Legal History, July 2, 1908: The first African American on the U.S. Supreme Court, Thurgood Marshall (1908-1993) was born in Baltimore, Maryland. Nominated by President Johnson, he began his 24-year career on the High Court in 1967.
This Day in Legal History, July 2, 1788: Congress announced the United States Constitution had been ratified by the required nine states and that a committee had been appointed to make preparations for the new American government.
This Day in Legal History, July 1, 1971: The Twenty-Sixth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States was ratified, extending voting rights (suffrage) to citizens aged 18 years or older.
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