What the law requires (or allows) is not always fair or just or honorable. Politics is often polarizing. Stories in this collection help us to examine the highs and lows of "the law" over the centuries.
This section of the Versailles Treaty describes, and quantifies, the types of war damages ("reparations") Germany would pay as a result of World War I...
Image of George Mason's handwritten Declaration of Rights which he drafted in May, 1776.
On the 23rd of October, 1915, the Cleveland Advocate ran this political advertisement. It urges people to vote "NO" on the "Prohibition Amendmen...
This is a page from the Affidavit of Sengbe (also referenced as Singweh and/or Cinqué), leader of the Amistad rebels. The original docume...
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