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v. t. e. The one-drop rule was a legal principle of racial classification that was prominent in the 20th-century United States. It asserted that any person with even one ancestor of black ancestry ("one drop" of "black blood") [1] [2] is considered black ( Negro or colored in historical terms). It is an example of hypodescent, the automatic ...
United States v. Trump Seal of the District Court for the Southern District of Florida Court United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida Full case name United States of America v. Donald J. Trump, Waltine Nauta, and Carlos De Oliveira Docket nos. 9:23-cr-80101-AMC Charge 40 against Trump; 8 against Nauta; 4 against de Oliveira Willful retention of national defense ...
t. e. The Weimar Republic, [d] officially known as the German Reich, [e] was a historical period of Germany from 9 November 1918 to 23 March 1933, during which it was a constitutional federal republic for the first time in history; hence it is also referred to, and unofficially proclaimed itself, as the German Republic.
The Geographic Names Information System is a United States-based geographical database. It is generally reliable for its place names and locations/coordinates. Editors should take care that GNIS uses a different convention for its coordinates, using a particular feature of a location rather than the geometric center that most WikiProjects use.
The national flag of the United States, often referred to as the American flag or the U.S. flag, consists of thirteen equal horizontal stripes of red (top and bottom) alternating with white, with a blue rectangle in the canton, referred to as the union and bearing fifty small, white, five-pointed stars arranged in nine offset horizontal rows, where rows of six stars (top and bottom) alternate ...
The United States Constitution has been a notable model for governance worldwide, especially through the 1970s. Its international influence is found in similarities in phrasing and borrowed passages in other constitutions, as well as in the principles of the rule of law, separation of powers, and recognition of individual rights. [citation needed]
The law of primacy in persuasion, otherwise known as a primacy effect, as postulated by Frederick Hansen Lund in 1925 holds that the side of an issue presented first will have greater effectiveness in persuasion than the side presented subsequently. [1] Lund presented college students with a document in support of one side of a controversial ...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC) is the national public health agency of the United States. It is a United States federal agency under the Department of Health and Human Services, and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. [2] [3] The agency's main goal is the protection of public health and safety through the control and ...