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Japan prime minister dissolves parliament before election

November 23, 2014 01:26:34 PM

Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has dissolved the lower house of parliament , enabling an early election to see how the public views his struggling economic policies. Abe had called for the election to be held...

October 23, 2014 11:46:04 AM

The UN Human Rights Committee urged China on Thursday to ensure universal suffrage in Hong Kong, including both the right to vote and the right to stand for election without unreasonable restrictions. Currently, the Chinese government plans...

November 26, 2013 09:00:48 AM

Alex Kreit, Thomas Jefferson School of Law

July 18, 2013 09:15:00 AM

Maxwell Slackman, George Mason University School of Law

February 11, 2010 08:01:00 AM

JURIST Special Guest Columnist Gail Davidson, Executive Director of Lawyers Rights Watch Canada, says that the Supreme Court of Canada was simply wrong in taking the extraordinary step of denying Canadian Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr the remedy ordered by the...

December 17, 2007 04:52:00 PM

A federal judge ruled Monday that White House visitor logs are public documents , rejecting a Bush administration bid to have the logs treated as confidential presidential records. Visitor logs are compiled by the...

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THIS DAY @ LAW

Magna Carta established fundamental rights in England

On June 15, 1215, King John sealed the Magna Carta at Runnymede, establishing certain fundamental rights as part of the law in England. Learn more about the Magna Carta.

Twelfth Amendment Ratified

On June 15, 1804, the Twelfth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, creating separate votes in the electoral college for President and Vice-President. In prior elections, the country experienced problems with the original system in Article II, Section 1, Clause 3 of the Constitution, which failed to adequately segregate votes for President and Vice-President. This led to a tie in the 1800 election between Presidential and Vice-Presidential candidates of the same party. Learn more about the history of the Twelfth Amendment from the University of Chicago.