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A closing argument, summation, or summing up is the concluding statement of each party's counsel reiterating the important arguments for the trier of fact, often the jury, in a court case. A closing argument occurs after the presentation of evidence. A closing argument may not contain any new information and may only use evidence introduced at ...
Resorting to constitutional arguments, [5] [8] [9] Representative James Madison challenged Congress’s broad authority to grant charters of incorporation under the “necessary and proper” clause of the US Constitution, [10] and charging Hamilton with violating a literal or strict constructionist interpretation of the founding document.
The Compromise of 1790 was a compromise among Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison, where Hamilton won the decision for the national government to take over and pay the state debts, and Jefferson and Madison obtained the national capital, called the District of Columbia, for the South.
The Funding Act of 1790, the full title of which is An Act making provision for the [payment of the] Debt of the United States, was passed on August 4, 1790, by the United States Congress as part of the Compromise of 1790, to address the issue of funding (debt service, repayment, and retirement) of the domestic debt incurred by the state governments, first as Thirteen Colonies, then as states ...
Closing arguments began Tuesday in the People of the State of New York v. Donald J. Trump, with the former president's lawyer maintaining his client is innocent while casting prosecutors' key ...
Supporters of Democratic presidential nominee U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris gather in front of the White House ahead of a rally on the National Mall one week before the Nov. 5 U.S ...
On Oct. 29, I had the chance to join 75,000 of my closest friends on the Ellipse to hear Kamala Harris’s closing argument in her campaign for the presidency. It moved me on many levels: as a ...
Note: The red vertical line denotes September 24, 1789, the date on which the U.S. federal judiciary was established by Congress. The green vertical line denotes February 2, 1790, the date on which the U.S. Supreme Court convened for the first time.