CommonPass
A digital “health passport” framework initiated by The Commons Project, the World Economic Forum and The Rockefeller Foundation, which during the first week of July …
Rights / Laws
Black Voting History
Most today are completely unaware that it was not Democrats but was actually Republicans who not only helped achieve the passage of explicit constitutional voting …
Electoral College
The method by which the United States elects a president every four years. This mechanism was devised by the Founding Fathers as a compromise between …
Pursuit of Happiness
John Locke coined the phrase in his 1690 book An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. Thomas Jefferson took the phrase “pursuit of happiness” from Locke and …
Judicial activism
when courts do not confine themselves to reasonable interpretations of laws, but instead create law through judicial will. Alternatively, judicial activism is when courts do not limit their …
Draconian
Traditional Athenian law code allegedly introduced by Draco c. 621 BCE. Aristotle, the chief source for knowledge of Draco, claims that his were the first written Athenian laws and that Draco …
Posse Comitatus
The Posse Comitatus Act is a United States federal law signed on June 18, 1878 by President Rutherford B. Hayes. The purpose of the act …
Kangaroo Court
A judicial tribunal or assembly that blatantly disregards recognized standards of law or justice, and often carries little or no official standing in the territory …
Show Trial
A show trial is a public trial in which the judicial authorities have already determined the guilt of the defendant. The actual trial has as …
Martial Law
The exercise of government and control by military authorities over the civilian population of a designated territory. Martial law is an extreme and rare measure …