________ lost so much respect for the chief justice that he later asserted his rejection of this opinion when he refused to obey a writ of habeas corpus to release prisoners held in Baltimore.
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Continental Congress
The Declaration was only adopted by the ________ on July 4, 1776, and was not signed by the delegates until August 2, 1776.
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countervoice
A(n) ________ is an expression of law that was once dominant but is no longer so or a legal principle that seeks to establish itself but is not yet fully recognized.
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academic literature
The countervoices are also found in the ________ and in the "nonjusticiable "decisions of the executive and legislative branches.
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Confederacy of eleven states
The ________ claimed the right to secede from the Union, precisely as the thirteen colonies had seceded from Great Britain in 1776.
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US Supreme Court
The ________ can rule one way, but the state supreme courts can rule another way under their state constitutions (and these decisions are not subject to appeal)
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military force of South Carolina
At dawn on April 12, 1861, the ________ started shelling a federal fortress in the middle of Charleston harbor.
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civil law tradition
The ________, based on codification and the dominant doctrine, may appear to suppress countervoices.
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The new order is found in the Reconstruction amendments, adopted respectively in 1865, 1868, and 1870
Thirteenth Amendment-prohibition of slavery, Fourteenth Amendment-U.S
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Articles of Confederation
It is generally agreed that the Constitution replaced the ______________________, but neither the 1777 nor the 1787 charters nullified, in any way, the Declaration of Independence.
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