Search Results - "Preluders"

The Clean Water Act TMDL program V aftershock and prelude / by Houck, Oliver A.

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Strangers to the Law : Gay People on Trial / by Keen, Lisa

Table of Contents: “…The stakes -- Prelude to a trial -- The science of sexuality -- History of hate -- The politics of law -- Civil rights and "special rights" -- Morality plays -- The Colorado verdicts -- The U.S. …”
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The powers of war and peace the constitution and foreign affairs after 9/11 / by Yoo, John

Table of Contents: “…The eighteenth-century Anglo-American Constitution and foreign affairs -- Foreign affairs and the prelude to the constitution -- Writing and ratifying a foreign affairs constitution -- War powers for a new world -- International politics as law?…”
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John McKinley and the antebellum Supreme Court circuit riding in the old Southwest / by Brown, Steven Preston

Table of Contents: “…The most prominent man in alabama : an introduction to Justice John Mckinley -- Logans, law, and political futility -- Alabama fever and Georgia faction -- The politics of political change -- Prelude to the court : Jacksonian devotion in Alabama and Washington -- The burdens of justice on the antebellum Supreme Court -- The Supreme Court and the original ninth circuit, 18371842 -- Circuit relief and declining health, 1843-1852 -- The legacies of Justice John Mckinley.…”
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Gun control in the Third Reich : disarming the Jews and "enemies of the state" / by Halbrook, Stephen P.

Table of Contents: “…-- The Nazi seizure of power -- Disarming the politically unreliable : the case of Brandenburg -- Defining enemies of the state -- From the night of the long knives to the Nurnberg laws -- The Gestapo -- Hitler's gun control act -- October prelude : arresting Jewish firearm owners -- Goebbels orchestrates a pogrom -- Jewish victims speak -- Conclusion : whither the German resistance, whither the holocaust?…”
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Who owns the Crown lands of Hawaii? by Van Dyke, Jon M.

Table of Contents: “…Land tenure at the eve of Western contact -- Before the Mahele -- The Mahele -- The government lands -- The transfer of lands from Kauikeaouli to Alexander Liholiho (1854-55) -- The passing of Alexander Liholiho (1863) -- In the matter of the estate of his Majesty Kamehameha IV (1864) -- The 1865 statute making the Crown lands inalienable -- The ascension of William Charles Lunalilo to the throne (1872) -- The transition between the Kamehameha line and Kaläkaua's Keawe-a-heulu line -- Claus Spreckels, Princess Ruth Keelikolani, and the claim to a half -- Interest in the Crown lands -- The inalienable Crown lands (1865-93) -- 1887 Bayonet Constitution and the Reciprocity/Pearl-Harbor Treaty : preludes to overthrow -- Population, voting and citizenship in the Kingdom of Hawaii -- The 1893 overthrow of the kingdom -- The Republic of Hawaii (1894-98) -- The 1895 Land Act -- Annexation by the United States (1898) -- The Crown lands during the territorial period (1898-1959) -- Liliuokalani v. …”
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