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Weimer Constitution signed
On July 31, 1919, the Constitution
of the German Reich was signed in Weimar, Germany as the
country's post-empire foundational law. The document set up a full
democracy in Germany with a President, Parliament, and independent
judiciary. It also made Germany the first nation to give women the
right to vote. The so-called Weimar Republic lasted until the rise
of Adolf Hitler in 1933.Learn more
about the
Weimar Republic from Western New England
College.
Jurist James Kent born
On July 31, 1763, James Kent, first professor of
law at Columbia College, Chancellor of New York, and author of a
four-volume set of Commentaries
on American Law, was born near Brewster,
NY. Learn
more about James Kent.
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