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  • 131SIMSON — SIMSON, early American New York family. SOLOMON (1738–1801) was born in New York City. A prominent merchant, he and his family were active throughout their lives in the Spanish Portuguese Congregation Shearith Israel. He and his brother Sampson… …

    Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • 132Gideon v. Wainright — (1963) A U.S. Supreme Court case in which the Court used the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to extend the constitutional right to an attorney in federal criminal cases for those who could not afford representation to indigent… …

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