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specified circumstances. In the United States, the term civil union was introduced in the state of Vermont in 2000 to connote a status equivalent to marriage...

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Pub. L. 88–352, 78 Stat. 241, enacted July 2, 1964) is a landmark civil rights and labor law in the United States that outlaws...

Jersey: civil union, domestic partnership New York: marriage Oregon: domestic partnership Rhode Island: civil union Vermont: marriage, civil union Washington:...

ruling. Prior to the Act, same-sex couples in Vermont were allowed since 2000 to engage in civil unions, which granted some of the rights of married couples...

The Act contributed to the growing polarization of the country over the issue of slavery. It was one of the factors that led to the American Civil War...

court decision. Vermont was also the first U.S. state to introduce civil unions on July 1, 2000, following a ruling from the Vermont Supreme Court in...

to 2. Vermont was admitted to the Union by 1 Stat. 191 on March 4, 1791. Vermont's admission act is the shortest of all state admissions, and Vermont is...

Union Oklahoma Enabling Act, authorizing residents of the Oklahoma and Indian territories to form a state government and to be admitted to the union as...

(CSA), also known as the Confederacy or South, during the American Civil War. The Union was led by Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States...

states into the Union, none of which were approved: On August 20, 1781, Congress passed a resolution stating conditions under which the Vermont Republic (at...

Vermont voted 105–4 to petition Congress to become a state in the federal union. Congress acted on February 18, 1791, to admit Vermont to the Union as...

provisions were carried over to the state Constitution when Vermont joined the Union in 1791. Vermont has been a pioneer in legislation pertaining to land use...

Revolutionary War. Vermont experienced rising abolitionist sentiment and subsequently fought on the Union side of the American Civil War. Vermont was covered...

Act 250, Vermont's Land Use and Development Act, 10 V.S.A. § 6001 et seq., is a law passed in 1970 by the Vermont legislature designed to mitigate the...

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is an American nonprofit civil rights organization founded in 1920. ACLU affiliates are active in all 50 states...

Rhode Island: Domestic partners of state employees, parent-in-law. Vermont: Civil union partner, parent-in-law. Wisconsin: Parent-in-law. District of Columbia:...

countries, but civil union was first applied in Vermont. In 2013, with the Supreme Court's invalidation of Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act, same-sex...

The University of Vermont (UVM), officially titled as University of Vermont and State Agricultural College, is a public land-grant research university...

select civil servants. The five important civil service reforms were the two Tenure of Office Acts of 1820 and 1867, Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act of...

Jenkins and Lisa Miller of Rutland, Vermont, entered into a civil union in Vermont following the passage of civil union legislation earlier that year. Each...