Keywords: US Supreme Court
Item 99414
K.B. Sewall admission to argue at Supreme Court, 1852
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1852-01-06 Location: Mobile Media: Lithograph
Item 102120
Alida Carroll Brown, Portland, ca. 1870
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1870 Location: Portland Media: Carte de visite
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Redact: Obscuring the Maine Constitution
In 2015, Maliseet Representative Henry Bear drew the Maine legislature’s attention to a historic redaction of the Maine Constitution. Through legislation drafted in February 1875, approved by voters in September 1875, and enacted on January 1, 1876, the Sections 1, 2, and 5 of Article X (ten) of the Maine Constitution ceased to be printed. Since 1876, these sections are redacted from the document. Although they are obscured, they retain their validity.
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Begin Again: reckoning with intolerance in Maine
BEGIN AGAIN explores Maine's historic role, going back 528 years, in crisis that brought about the pandemic, social and economic inequities, and the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020.
