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For more than 40 years the Historic Documents series has made primary source research easy by presenting full primary documents and excerpts from documents on the important events of each year for the United States and the world. Each volume includes approximately 70 events with well over 100 documents from the previous year, from official or other influential reports and surveys, to speeches from leaders and opinion makers, to court cases, legislation, testimony, and much more.
Historic Documents is renowned for the well-written and informative background, history, and context it provides for each document. Each volume begins with an insightful essay that sets the year's events in context, and each document or group of documents is preceded by a comprehensive introduction that provides background information on the event. Full-source citations are provided. Readers have easy access to material through a detailed, thematic table of contents and a cumulative five-year index that directs them to related material in earlier volumes.
Supreme Court Rules on Same-Sex Marriage: June 26, 2013
Supreme Court Rules on Same-Sex Marriage: June 26, 2013
On the same day that the Supreme Court struck down a key section of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), it also released another decision with a profound impact on samesex marriage. In Hollingsworth v. Perry, the Court dismissed an appeal to a federal district court ruling that California's Proposition 8 is unconstitutional. The Supreme Court's opinion was based on technical grounds and did not address the constitutionality of the proposition's definition of marriage as the union of a man and woman, deciding instead that private parties did not have the necessary standing to defend the state antigay marriage law in federal court when the state government officials ...
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