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The Sixth Amendment grants criminal defendants the right to a speedy and public trial by an impartial jury consisting of jurors from the state and district in which the crime was alleged to have been committed. The right to a jury applies only to offenses in which the penalty is imprisonment for longer than six months.
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Answer: the AWSA and the NWSA fought for women’s rights.
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The Seneca Convention of 1848 was the first women's convention in the United States and was the bedrock for the Women Suffrage movement in the United States.
Even though the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA) and the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) were formed in 1869, the Seneca Convention which was more than 20 years earlier was the match that lit the fire for the suffrage movement that the AWSA and the NWSA became part of.
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Tenure of Office Act
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In 1868, President Andrew Johnson was impeached after he removed Secretary of War Edwin Stanton from office without first getting approval from the Senate. President Johnson was impeached because he had violated the Tenure of Office Act.
The Tenure of Office Act was a United States federal law which was putt in place to restrict the power of the president from removing some people in government without the approval of the Senate. President Andrew Johnson flouted this law when he removed Secretary of War Edwin Stanton from office without first getting approval from the Senate.
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The Greek democracy established in Athens was direct rather than representative: any male citizen over the age of 20 could and was required to participate. The officials of the democracy were elected in part by the Assembly and in large part by lottery in a process known as sortition.
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