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  2. Law School Admission Test - Wikipedia

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    Examinees have the option of canceling their scores within six calendar days after the exam, before they get their scores. LSAC still reports to law schools that the student registered for and took the exam, but releases no score. Test takers typically receive their scores online between three and four weeks after the exam. [33]

  3. Sherbert v. Verner - Wikipedia

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    Sherbert v. Verner, 374 U.S. 398 (1963), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment required the government to demonstrate both a compelling interest and that the law in question was narrowly tailored before it denied unemployment compensation to someone who was fired because her job requirements substantially conflicted ...

  4. History of the American legal profession - Wikipedia

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    The history of the American legal profession covers the work, training, and professional activities of lawyers from the colonial era to the present. Lawyers grew increasingly powerful in the colonial era as experts in the English common law, which was adopted by the colonies. By the 21st century, over one million practitioners in the United ...

  5. Literacy test - Wikipedia

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    When introduced in the 1890s, the literacy test was a device to restrict the total number of immigrants while not offending the large element of ethnic voters. The "old" immigration (British, Dutch, Irish, German, Scandinavian) had fallen off and was replaced by a "new" immigration from Italy, Russia and other points in Southern and eastern ...

  6. Naturalization Act of 1790 - Wikipedia

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    The Naturalization Act of 1790 (1 Stat. 103, enacted March 26, 1790) was a law of the United States Congress that set the first uniform rules for the granting of United States citizenship by naturalization. The law limited naturalization to "free white person (s) ... of good character", thus excluding Native Americans, indentured servants ...

  7. Affirmative action in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The plan opposed all segregation in the new post-war Armed Forces: "Nothing could be more tragic for the future attitude of our people, and for the unity of our nation" than a citizens' military that emphasized "class or racial difference." [18]: 39–40 On February 2, 1948, President Truman delivered a special message to Congress.

  8. Legal history - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Legal history or the history of law is the study of how law has evolved and why it has changed. Legal history is closely connected to the development of civilisations [1] and operates in the wider context of social history. Certain jurists and historians of legal process have seen legal history as the recording of the evolution of laws ...

  9. Law school in the United States - Wikipedia

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    A law school in the United States is an educational institution where students obtain a professional education in law after first obtaining an undergraduate degree. Law schools in the U.S. confer the degree of Juris Doctor (J.D.), which is a professional doctorate. [ 1 ] It is the degree usually required to practice law in the United States ...