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... today, Webster's dictionary's first definition of "appease" is "to bring peace, calm; to soothe,"...-because statesmen mutually agreed that compromise was a lesser evil than further bloodshed and losse... Treaty signed with the United States in 1850 to guarantee the waterway remained neutral. In 190...
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...Rather, they manufacture a hybrid definition, whereby "bear arms" connotes the actual carrying ... Chandler , 5 La. Ann. 489, 490 (1850), the Louisiana Supreme Court held that citizens h...The compromises they ultimately reached, reflected in Article I's ...
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This paper uses the examples of three nineteenth-century cities-London, Philadelphia, and New York-to explore both what is permanent about the problem of water provision (that consumers want it clean, accessible, and free) and what is mediated by the forces of government policy and economic constraints. In some cases, municipal authorities first claimed control over water supplies before figuring out how to pay for their works. In others, they calculated that such arrangements were both too expensive and too risky to bear alone. Both approaches were complicated by the high costs of providing water to urban areas and by urban dwellers' belief that water should flow from their taps without charge. The result was, and remains, a market in which price is largely dictated by political demand...
... water supply, the disease did not just compromise the water system; it also compromised the city. As... 1801, the city had 959,000 inhabitants; by 1850, that number had more than doubled to 2.3 million....Yet because these meters, by definition, would need to be installed in each and every hous...
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..." effects a substantive change in the definition of a crime or increases punishment or denies a def... of finding ground for a rational compromise between individual rights and public welfare. The ...v. Nesbit, 51 U.S. (10 How.) 395 , 401 (1850); Carpenter v. Pennsylvania, 58 U.S. (17 How.) 456...
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...(10) One disgruntled delegate at the 1850 Kentucky constitutional convention mused, "[W]e ha...It is referred to as a full definition of mobocracy." (67) An anonymous letter published ..., Article III as a Constitutional Compromise: Modern Textualism and State Sovereign Immunity, 8...
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..., to June 7, 1856 Independent Variable Definition Constant Clay proposes omnibus bill Jan. 19, 1850 ...
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... that generated the need for a compromise between the interests oflarger and smaller States ...In 1850, Congress enacted legislation sponsored by Represe... enforceable right, but with the definition of such a right. When a court concludes that an is...
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... citizenship of female-led families is compromised by the demands of work and family, a compromise fe...(18) . The tension between these two definitions of sexual citizenship rests on the role of marriag... than Nathaniel Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter (1850). Judge Leon Higginbotham reminds us that among th...
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... possessed of superior military talents." In 1850, Chief Justice Taney, for the Court, said: "His du...; the House majority felt otherwise and compromise legislation was finally enacted acceptable to both... its pronouncements regarding the definition of "inferior officer" and, disregarding some impli...
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