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The Founders looked ...for classically liberal models of republican government, the most interesting...belonged to the Romans and the Jews.

From the establishment of a government for Oklahoma Territory in what is now western Oklahoma, and from the beginning of the reservations held by various Indian tribes in what is

11/27/2013: On July 4th, 1889, seventy-five delegates from northern Dakota Territory met in Bismarck for the North Dakota Constitutional Convention. The Enabling Act, passed in February of that year, allowed for the creation of a state constitution that would go into effect when North Dakota became a state in the coming months. Most of the seventy-five delegates were farmers or lawyers from the eastern part of the state, but their differing opinions created tension and disagreements.

To mark the anniversary of the passing of the German Basic Law (Grundgesetz), we explain the history of the constitution and the key rights it upholds.

<p>Jane Stanford&#39;s murder by poisoning in 1905 was part of a long chain of inequities and moral abdications that attended the great Gilded Age fortunes at every step, from their accumulation to their dispersal as philanthropy.&nbsp;</p>