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21Clarence Thomas — Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United …
22African-American Civil Rights Movement (1896–1954) — The Civil Rights Movement in the United States has been a long, primarily nonviolent struggle to bring full civil rights and equality under the law to all Americans. The movement has had a lasting impact on United States society, in its tactics,… …
23Corporate personhood — refers to the question about which subset of rights that are afforded under the law to natural persons should also be afforded to corporations as legal persons. In Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1819), corporations were recognized as having the… …
24Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission — Supreme Court of the United States Argued March 24, 2009 …
25Roger Putnam — Roger Lowell Putnam (December 19, 1893 November 24, 1972) was an American politician and businessman. A member of the prominent Lowell family of Boston, he served as mayor of Springfield, Massachusetts, from 1937 to 1943 and as director of the… …
26National Westminster Bank plc v Spectrum Plus Limited — [2005] UKHL 41 was a UK company law decision of House of Lords which settled a number of outstanding legal issues relating to floating charges and recharacterisation risk under the English common law. However, the House of Lords also considered… …
27Robert Wright (judge) — Sir Robert Wright (c1634 1689) was an English judge and Chief Justice of the King’s Bench 1687 89.Early lifeWright was the son of Jermyn Wright of Wangford in Suffolk, by his wife Anne, daughter of Richard Bachcroft of Bexwell in Norfolk. He was… …
28Sedition Act (Malaysia) — The Sedition Act in Malaysia is a law prohibiting discourse deemed as seditious. The act was originally enacted by the colonial authorities of British Malaya in 1948. The act criminalises speech with seditious tendency , including that which… …
29India — /in dee euh/, n. 1. Hindi, Bharat. a republic in S Asia: a union comprising 25 states and 7 union territories; formerly a British colony; gained independence Aug. 15, 1947; became a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations Jan. 26, 1950.… …
30Russia — /rush euh/, n. 1. Also called Russian Empire. Russian, Rossiya. a former empire in E Europe and N and W Asia: overthrown by the Russian Revolution 1917. Cap.: St. Petersburg (1703 1917). 2. See Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. 3. See Russian… …
