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Wisconsin's legal history
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- Creator
- an article series by Attorney Joseph A. Ranney
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- English
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- [Madison, Wis.] : [Wisconsin Supreme Court], [1998]
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- 51 pages ; 28 cm
- OCLC
- ocm39776650
- Cover title.
- "4/98"--P. [2] of cover.
- Thomas Jefferson and the Northwest Ordinance -- Law and Wisconsin's Indians -- James D. Doty : Wisconsin's first judge -- Wisconsin's bank wars -- The beginnings of Wisconsin's progressive tradition : the 1848 constitution -- Great Wisconsin judges : Edward Whiton -- Wisconsin abolishes the death penalty -- Byron Paine, Wisconsin's first civil rights leader -- Black Wisconsinites' struggle for the vote -- The impeachment of Judge Hubbell -- The war of the governors : Bashford vs. Barstow -- Wisconsin's fight for fugitive slaves : the Booth Case -- Chief Justice Dixon and the states right movement -- Civil liberties and the Civil War -- Legislators for sale : the railroad scandal of 1856 -- "Will her thoughts be wrapped up in his happiness?" Wisconsin women's struggle for property rights -- Lavinia Goodell, Wisconsin's first woman lawyer -- Olympia Brown and Wisconsin women's struggle for the vote -- Chief Justice Ryan Tames "an empire within an empire" -- Great Wisconsin lawyers : Matt Carpenter -- Great Wisconsin lawyer : John C. Spooner -- Law "on the circuit" in the 19th century -- Demon rum and sunday lager : the temperance movement in Wisconsin -- Of Bibles and Bennetts : battles over language and religion in the 1890s -- The Bay View riots and the beginning of the Wisconsin labor movement -- The direct primary and the fight against party bossism -- Civil service reform and the beginning of Wisconsin's tradition of clean
- government -- Champions of the "Wisconsin idea" : Charles McCarthy -- Champions of the "Wisconsin idea" : John R. Commons -- Financing reform : the overhaul of Wisconsin's property tax system -- How the income tax came to Wisconsin -- Taming the jungle of public utilities -- Reforming the workplace -- The nation's first workers' compensation system -- Great Wisconsin judges : John B. Winslow, a "constructive conservative" -- Great Wisconsin judges : Roujet D. Marshall -- World War I and the assault on free speech in Wisconsin -- Victor Berger : a reluctant martyr for free speech -- Great Wisconsin judges : Marvin Rosenberry, Apostle of Administrative Law -- To help the victim : Wisconsin modernizes its injury law -- The Wait Case and equal rights for women -- The nation's first unemployment compensation law -- Beating the Great Depression : Wisconsin's "little new deal" -- Great Wisconsin judges : Edward Fairchild -- Traditional values and no-fault divorce -- "Looking further than the skin" : Wisconsin's struggle over segregation -- Attorney Lloyd Barbee