In the colonial period, it was the governor of the colony--usually appointed by the king or queen--who held the most political power, although white men who owned land could vote in state assemblies.
Before Gideon v. Wainwright (1963), Gideon was a criminal, who was too poor to hire a lawyer. Gideon was sentenced to jail, but he appealed to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court ruled contrary to the Florida court (which ruled that only ones who can pay for a lawyer can have one), that everybody was to be given a lawyer no matter if they can pay or not.
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The Nazis eventually ran out of food, supplies and lost most of their numbers because of the harsh winter conditions in the Soviet Union.
Within the Dominican Order Savonarola was repackaged as an innocuous, purely devotional figure and he inspired many of those who led the Counter Reformation. This was an effort to revive and to reform the Catholic Church to combat the rise of Protestantism
