My Country – Sterilization Laws In 1935, an Oklahoma law provided for sterilization of habitual criminals. A habitual criminal was as a person who was convicted two or more times for crimes “amounting to...
My Country – Douglas C. Macintosh Born in Canada, Douglas C. Macintosh went to the University of Chicago and then studied theology at Yale. During World War I, he served as a chaplain...
My Country – The Legal Fiction of Corporate Personhood Not long after we ratified the Fourteenth Amendment, the Supreme Court extended it to corporations. At this time, jury selection continued to cause problems. Voting...
My Country – Taking Clause On May 1, 1946, the Supreme Court heard an argument regarding the taking of private property. The Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution states:...
My Country – Truman Seizes the Steel Mills On April 8, 1952, President Harry S. Truman issued an executive order directing the Secretary of Commerce to take possession of most of the steel mills...
My Country – Buck v. Bell, 274 US 200 (1927) On March 20, 1924, Virgina enacted a statute providing for the sexual sterilization of inmates found to have hereditary forms of insanity or “imbecility.” Carrie Buck The Virginia State...
