Tag: Native Americans
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Jefferson: Use Debt to Steal Indian Land
Thomas Jefferson to William Henry Harrison, 27 February 1803: You will recieve herewith an answer to your letter as President of the Convention: and from the Secretary at War you recieve from time to time information & instructions as to our Indian affairs. these communications being for the public records are restrained always to particular…
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Justice Scalia on the Historical Reasons for an Armed Militia
On June 26, 2008, the Supreme Court affirmed by a vote of 5 to 4 the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in Heller v. District of Columbia. District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008), is a landmark case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the Second…