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Early American

adjective

(of furniture, buildings, utensils, etc.) built or made in the U.S. in the colonial period or somewhat later.
built or made in imitation of works of this period.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of Early American¹

First recorded in 1890–95

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As Justice Sonia Sotomayor points out in her furious dissent, Barrett’s history lesson is, at a minimum, dubious: There is a “long history of injunctive relief granted to nonparties,” including in the Court of Chancery and early American courts.

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Many early American Jews, especially in the South, embraced slavery wholeheartedly.

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And that’s how the pardon power operated in early American history: Prosecutors and judges routinely recommended clemency in unjust cases, which presidents granted as a matter of course.

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As a historian of early American women and gender, however, I saw the deep and troubling roots of this rhetoric.

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Early American women were subject to laws steeped in coverture’s assumptions of gendered inequality, and these restrictions continued long after the United States won its independence from Britain.

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early adopter early to bed, early to rise (makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise)

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