My Country – Women’s Rights Justice Douglas reminds up on May 8, 1874, Massachusetts passed a pioneer law establishing a 10-hour work day for women and children. Massachusetts had long been an advocate for women and children through pioneers like Dorothea Dix. However, generally, the Supreme Court did not like these restrictions at the time. …
My Country – Contempt of Congress On April 23, 1917, the Supreme Court held that Congress could not hold in contempt a US Attorney, who wrote a letter, charging that a subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee was endeavoring to interfere with investigations being made by a grand jury. Historically, the House of Representatives could hold a …
My Country – Frazier-Lemke Farm Bankruptcy Act In the 1920s and 1930s, farmers accrued large amounts of debt. Farm prices feel as the industrial revolution increased manufacturing prices. Farmers found it impossible to pay off their mortgages. As we noted yesterday, historically, bankruptcy was used to liquidate the assets of a debtor, distribute the proceeds, …
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 Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded opened in 1910. Although the Virginia Colony began sterilization procedures before the law “for the relief …