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Voices In Time

c. 654 | Visigothic Kingdom

Feast of Reasons

A kingdom scares its people into good behavior.More

Voices In Time

1947 | Nuremburg

Cold Comfort

The International Military Tribunal passes judgment.More

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1748 | Paris

Intelligent Design

Montesquieu sees laws everywhere.More

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2002 | Montgomery, AL

Christian Rock

Roy Moore hears a commandment.More

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1838 | Springfield, Il

Mobocracy

Abraham Lincoln urges his constituents to revere the law.More

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1857 | New York City

Frederick Douglass Corrects the Record

Have the people mistaken the requirements of their own Constitution?More

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1807 | Fontainebleau

Regime Change

Napoleon Bonaparte lays down the law.More

Voices In Time

1793 | Sainte-Pélagie Prison

Last Orders

Madame Roland’s view from the dungeon.More

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1979 | New York City

Paper Moon

The United Nations shoots law into space.More

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1938 | Moscow

Show Trial

The interrogation of Nikolay Bukharin.More

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1852 | London

Circumlocution

Charles Dickens portrays a lawsuit.More

Voices In Time

1893 | Boston

Jury of Her Peers

Lucy Stone wants to be judged by fewer men.More

Voices In Time

1452 | Rome

Grace and Favor

Poggio Bracciolini brings the law jokes.More

Voices In Time

1910 | New York City

Enmity of the State

Emma Goldman defines anarchy.More

Voices In Time

c. 1683 | Amsterdam

Preservation Society

John Locke on the right to bear farms.More

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1546 | Eisleben

In the Same Boat

Martin Luther sees both sides.More

Voices In Time

1897 | Boston

Times Change

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. tracks the arc of justice. More

Voices In Time

1909 | Albania

Blood Will Have Blood

M. Edith Durham learns the Law of Blood. More

Voices In Time

1767 | St. Petersburg

Weight of the Crown

Catherine the Great provides a rule-of-law how-to.More

Voices In Time

2010 | Washington, DC

Money Talks

John Paul Stevens unpacks freedom of speech.More

Voices In Time

1991 | Yellow Springs, OH

Sexual Politics

The Antioch student handbook establishes rules of consent.More

Voices In Time

1893 | Washington, DC

Forbidden Fruit

A food fight goes to court.More

Voices In Time

1758 | Oxford

Paper Chase

William Blackstone dreams of a better legal education.More

Voices In Time

1717 | Windsor

Vert and Venison

Defending the royal deer.More

Voices In Time

1878 | London

An Ethics of One’s Own

Edith Simcox thinks on natural law. More

Voices In Time

1536 | Tower of London

Plea Bargain

Anne Boleyn speaks in favor of her head.More

Voices In Time

1574 | Greenwich

Vanity of Vanities

Elizabeth I unleashes the fashion police.More

Voices In Time

1693 | Boston

Higher Law

The devil, adversary at law.More

Voices In Time

1831 | Washington, DC

This Land Is Our Land

John Marshall makes a decision about the Cherokee Nation’s home.More

Voices In Time

1865 | Wonderland

Order in the Court

Alice confronts legal jabberwocky.More

Voices In Time

1869 | Avignon

Partners in Crime

John Stuart Mill looks at marriage and sees injustice.More

Voices In Time

527 | Constantinople

Judicial Review

Edward Gibbon dissects Roman law.More

Voices In Time

1780 | Olney

Face Value

William Cowper adjudicates a poetical property case.More

Voices In Time

1748 | Turin

False Witness

David Hume considers miracles.More

Voices In Time

1838 | Charleston, SC

Fighting Words

When nothing but a duel will do.More

Voices In Time

1785 | Königsberg

On Principle

Immanuel Kant on how to make a moral law.More

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