After the war, the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution legally abolished slavery, while the 14th expanded citizenship and the 15th gave voting rights to formerly enslaved black men.
She developed Tanzania's first database of constitutional resources, connecting her government to more Tanzanians so they could understand the law, their rights, and their responsibilities.
I can tell you with a high degree of certainty that most people, the first time they learn legally what happened to their rights and obligations when they got married is when they walk into a divorce lawyer's office.
It's the idea that nature should be recognized as a legal person, and this is defined as a human or non-human entity that has legal rights and a subject to obligations.
The new Republican party in 1856 proclaimed it " the right and duty of Congress to prohibit in the Territories those twin relics of barbarism, polygamy and slavery."
At a stroke, gay marriage, with every legal right and obligation enjoyed by and conferred on heterosexual marriage, had become a fact of American life.