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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (48697)7/7/2005 4:02:29 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF  Respond to of 50167
 
If we are to keep our democracy,
there must be one commandment:
"Thou shalt not ration justice."

Learned Hand (1872-1961)
American Jurist



To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (48697)7/7/2005 4:03:27 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 50167
 
July 7:

1456 - Joan of Arc was acquitted posthumously.
1846 - American forces led by Commodore John Drake Sloat occupied Monterey and Yerba Buena, beginning the annexation of California.
1898 - The United States annexed Hawai'i.
1937 - The Marco Polo Bridge Incident marked the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War.
1946 - Mother Cabrini, the first U.S. saint, was canonized.