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Shooting Blanks: Alabama's New Gun Rights Amendment

November 21, 2014 09:47:00 AM

JURIST Guest Columnist Fredrick Vars, of the University of Alabama School of Law, discusses the new Alabama Gun Control Law and argues that the state's gun regulations will be largely unaffected by the new constitutional amendment...Alabama voters, on November 4,...

December 21, 2012 01:50:00 PM

Faisal Kutty, Valparaiso University Law School

January 23, 2012 11:24:04 AM

JURIST Guest Columnist Will Potter, an independent journalist who specializes in the topic of eco-terrorism, says the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act classification of activists as terrorists threatens to end activism, in part to stem corporate profit loss...A recent undercover investigation...

June 6, 2009 10:16:00 AM

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld on Friday the 2007 conviction of former Ku Klux Klan member James Ford Seale for the...

September 10, 2008 10:43:00 AM

United States of America v. James Ford Seale, US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, September 9, 2008 [vacating the conviction of former Ku Klux Klan member James Ford Seale for his involvement in the 1964 deaths of two...

September 10, 2008 10:01:00 AM

A three-judge panel for the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Tuesday vacated the conviction of former Ku Klux Klan (KKK) member James Ford...

August 5, 2008 05:51:00 PM

Will Creeley : "Yesterday's Third Circuit ruling in DeJohn v. Temple University is a important victory for free speech on campus. In declaring Temple's former sexual harassment...

July 8, 2008 02:37:00 PM

Gregg Cunningham : "Why does it matter that hecklers be denied a veto over offensive speech? Social injustice will always flourish where it is ignored and trivialized. Oppressors are most ruthless when their abuses can be...

August 24, 2007 01:31:00 PM

James Ford Seale , alleged to have been a member of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) , was sentenced to three life sentences Friday for his role in the kidnapping and death of two 19-year old...

June 20, 2007 01:20:00 PM

The US House of Representatives Wednesday overwhelmingly passed the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act by 422-2 . The bill would establish an Unsolved Crimes Section within the civil rights ...

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US suffragists formed Equal Rights Party, named Presidential candidate

On September 20, 1884, a group of American suffragists formed the Equal Rights Party in San Francisco, dedicated to "equal and exact justice to every class of our citizens, without distinction of color, sex, or nationality" and in support of the proposition that "the laws of the several states be so amended that women will be recognized as voters, and their property-rights made equal with that of the male population, to the end that they may become self-supporting - rather than a dependent class." Read the full text of the first platform of the Equal Rights Party. The party immediately nominated Mrs. Belva Lockwood for US President and Marietta Snow for Vice-President. Grover Cleveland won that election, but Lockwood was included in a number of presidential primaries and is recorded to have won some 4149 votes from the male voters of the time.

Catholic Church tries Galileo for heresy

On September 20, 1633, the Roman Catholic Church tried Galileo Galilei on charges of heresy. Galileo was brought before the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith for his assertion that the Earth orbits the Sun. He was sentenced to spend the rest of his life under house arrest. Read documents from the trial of Galileo.

Suffragists formed Equal Rights Party, named Presidential candidate

On September 20, 1884, a group of suffragists formed the Equal Rights Party in San Francisco, dedicated to "equal and exact justice to every class of our citizens, without distinction of color, sex, or nationality" and in support of the proposition that "the laws of the several states be so amended that women will be recognized as voters, and their property-rights made equal with that of the male population, to the end that they may become self-supporting - rather than a dependent class."
Read the full text of the first platform of the Equal Rights Party.

The party immediately nominated Mrs. Belva Lockwood for US President and Marietta Snow for Vice-President. Grover Cleveland won that election, but Lockwood was included in a number of presidential primaries, and is recorded to have won some 4149 votes from the male voters of the time.