Browsing Programs, Centers, and Institutes by Author "Unterman, Katherine"
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Long, Jillian Rose (2021-05-04)This work examines the causes behind the surge of moral amendment proposals to the federal Constitution in the late nineteenth century. These amendments began to take shape in 1860 when Congressmen attempted to pass a ...
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Currie, Lauren ElizabethPeople with disabilities have often been ignored or forgotten throughout history. This thesis is about the changes in the visibility of individuals with disabilities in the United States and how this affected their civil ...
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Epperson, Sarah Claye (2018-04-19)In the 1970s, the Supreme Court pronounced a new test for laws that treated the two sexes differently. This test, known as “intermediate scrutiny,” was stricter than the Court’s usual standard (the “rational basis” test), ...
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Burgess, Jannah CathleenThe Rise and Demise of the 1924 Child Labor Amendment provides a summary of the creation and lifespan of the proposed Child Labor Amendment to the Constitution. The proposed amendment would have given Congress the power ...