Talk:Crimes Act of 1790

Crimes Act of 1790 has been listed as one of the Social sciences and society good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.

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Date	Process	Result
August 7, 2012	Good article nominee	Listed

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on June 19, 2012.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that, as a U.S. Senator, future Chief Justice Oliver Ellsworth (pictured) drafted a statute that authorized punitive, court-ordered dissection of convicted murderers' corpses?

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GA Review

This review is transcluded from Talk:Crimes Act of 1790/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: GregJackP (talk · contribs) 00:08, 7 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Well-written:

Criteria	Notes	Result
(a) (prose)	Pass	Pass
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Criteria	Notes	Result
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Notes	Result
Pass	Pass

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Pass	Pass

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M'Culloch v. McCulloch

Why is McCulloch v. Maryland piped to M'Culloch v. Maryland? I realize that either style may be correct with regards to this Scottish convention and that conceivably it could even be MacCulloch, but the case has generally been known as McCulloch since its hearing. Where is the evidence that plantiff used/preferred/whatever the alternate spelling? 75.200.109.125 (talk) 01:25, 27 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

It's a quote. Savidan 01:50, 27 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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