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  2. Debs v. United States - Wikipedia

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    Facts. Eugene V. Debs was an American labor and political leader and five-time Socialist Party of America candidate for the American Presidency. On June 16, 1918 Debs made an anti-war speech in Canton, Ohio, protesting US involvement in World War I. He was arrested on June 30 under the Espionage Act of 1917 and convicted, sentenced to serve ten ...

  3. Eugene V. Debs - Wikipedia

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    e. Eugene Victor Debs (November 5, 1855 – October 20, 1926) was an American socialist, political activist, trade unionist, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), and five-time candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States. [1] Through his presidential candidacies as well as ...

  4. In re Debs - Wikipedia

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    The court ruled that the government had a right to regulate interstate commerce and ensure the operations of the Postal Service, along with a responsibility to "ensure the general welfare of the public." In re Debs, 158 U.S. 564 (1895), was a US labor law case of the United States Supreme Court decision handed down concerning Eugene V. Debs and ...

  5. 1920 United States presidential election - Wikipedia

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    The incumbent in 1920, Woodrow Wilson. His second term expired at noon on March 4, 1921. The 1920 United States presidential election was the 34th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 2, 1920. In the first election held after the end of the First World War and the first election after the ratification of the Nineteenth ...

  6. United States v. Jones (2012) - Wikipedia

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    U.S. Const. amend. IV. United States v. Jones, 565 U.S. 400 (2012), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the court held that installing a Global Positioning System (GPS) tracking device on a vehicle and using the device to monitor the vehicle's movements constitutes a search under the Fourth Amendment. [1]

  7. History of labor law in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Bunting v. Oregon, 243 U.S. 426 (1917) in a change of policy, the US Supreme Court held the 10-hour working day was constitutional; Debs v. United States, 249 U.S. 211 (1919) after Eugene Debs protested World War I publicly he was arrested under the Espionage Act of 1917 and the Supreme Court held this was lawful. Debs won a large number of ...

  8. Workers of the world, unite! - Wikipedia

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  9. Adversary in the House - Wikipedia

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    Adversary in the House (1947) is a biographical novel based on the life of prominent socialist Eugene V. Debs and of his wife Kate, who was opposed to socialism. [1] The book is Irving Stone 's portrayal of Eugene V. Debs 's "tempestuous relationship with a wife who rejects the very values he holds most dear". [1]