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The Treaty of Washington was a treaty signed and ratified by the United Kingdom and the United States in 1871 during the first premiership of William Gladstone and the presidency of Ulysses S. Grant. It settled various disputes between the countries, including the Alabama Claims for damages to American shipping caused by British-built warships ...
The District of Columbia Organic Act of 1871 is an Act of Congress that repealed the individual charters of the cities of Washington and Georgetown and established a new territorial government for the whole District of Columbia. Though Congress repealed the territorial government in 1874, the legislation was the first to create a single ...
Sovereign citizen movement. The sovereign citizen movement (also SovCit movement or SovCits) [ 1] is a loose group of anti-government activists, litigants, tax protesters, financial scammers, and conspiracy theorists based mainly in the United States. Sovereign citizens have their own pseudolegal belief system based on misinterpretations of ...
January–March. February 21 – District of Columbia Organic Act of 1871. March 22. In North Carolina, William Woods Holden becomes the first governor of a U.S. state to be removed from office by impeachment. The U.S. Army issues an order for the abandonment of Fort Kearny, Nebraska.
The two cases were Knox v. Lee and Parker v. Davis . The U.S. federal government had issued paper money known as United States Notes during the American Civil War, pursuant to the terms of the Legal Tender Act of 1862. In the 1869 case of Hepburn v. Griswold, the Court had held that the Legal Tender Act violated the Due Process Clause of the ...
After the war, a number of state banks were chartered, including in 1784: the Bank of New York and the Bank of Massachusetts. In 1791, Congress chartered the First Bank of the United States to succeed the Bank of North America under Article One, Section 8. However, Congress failed to renew the charter for the Bank of the United States, which ...
J. P. Morgan. John Pierpont Morgan (April 17, 1837 – March 31, 1913) [ 1] was an American financier and investment banker who dominated corporate finance on Wall Street throughout the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. As the head of the banking firm that ultimately became known as J.P. Morgan and Co., he was a driving force behind the wave of ...
United States corporate law. The New York Stock Exchange ( headquarters pictured) is the major center for listing and trading shares in United States. Most corporations are, however, incorporated under the influential Delaware General Corporation Law. United States corporate law regulates the governance, finance and power of corporations in US law.