Bleeding Kansas, Nebraska Grangerism, Dakota and Oklahoma Progressivism
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A Vision for America "[A] society reveals itself in its law and nowhere better than in the reports of the decisions of the state courts. The state reports are, however, the wasteland of American legal history. ... [The work of state court judges] is undeservedly unstudied. So long as that condition exists, there can be no history of American law, and without it, no adequate history of this nation's civilization." |
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8.1.1 Great Plains (1850-1900): Constitutions As Barometers of Social Change
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