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== Nitpick ==

'''Sarah Margaret Fuller''' ([[May 23]], [[1810]] - [[June 19]], [[1850]]) was a [[journalist]], [[critic]] and [[women's rights]] activist.

I just made a modification to the text, and my justification is just a little bit too large for the edit summary. Basically, the article contained the following text: "Each district comprised one state, except for the districts of Maine and Kentucky, which at the time were part of Massachusetts and Virginia, respectively." Well, that's not quite true: the districts of Massachusetts and Virginia didn't comprise one state either. So I flipped it around: all of the states except two comprised one district. I then expanded on how Massachusetts and Virginia were divided.

Fuller was born in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts|Cambridge]], [[Massachusetts]]. (The house in which she was born is still standing and now occupied by an active community outreach program.) Her father, Timothy Fuller, a lawyer, gave her a vigorous [[classical education]] which was testing enough to have a lasting effect on her health. In 1836 she taught at the Temple School in [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]] and from 1837 to 1839 taught in [[Providence, Rhode Island|Providence]], [[Rhode Island]].

— [[User:DLJessup|DLJessup]] ([[User talk:DLJessup|talk]]) 17:47, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

Fuller became friends with [[Ralph Waldo Emerson]] and was subsequently associated with [[transcendentalism]]. She edited the transcendentalist journal, ''[[The Dial]]'' for the first two years of its existence from 1840 to 1842. When she joined [[Horace Greeley]]'s ''[[New York Tribune]]'' as literary critic in [[1844]], she became the first female journalist to work on the staff of a major newspaper.

The Judiciary Act of 1789 never fulfilled its Constitutional needs. Congress was given no responsibilty for legislation affecting the Supreme Court. They could pass legislation that could be ratified by the States and incorporated into the Constitution as an Amendment. They did this with the Bill of Rights, the first Ten Amendments. In addition, there is no vote recorded by the House of Representatives on official documents before it was given to President Washington to sign. Since an act of Congress cannot exceed powers given to it except by Amendment, all decisions rendered by an illegal court must be null and void and a Constitutional Amendment must be pursued regarding the composition of the Supreme Court.

In the mid-[[1840s]] she organized discussion groups of women in which a variety of subjects, such as art, education and women's rights, were debated. A number of significant figures in the women's rights movement attended these "conversations". Ideas brought up in these discussions were developed in Fuller's major work, ''Woman in the Nineteenth Century'' (1845), which argues for the independence of women.

The Constitution also states that the Supreme Court shall hear ALL cases involving violation of the Constitution. The Congressional law passed through the efforts of Chief Justice Taft is also null and void for Congress has no power to change any word in the Constitution without use of the Amendment procedure.

It is amazing that none of the "experts" regarding Constitutional law ever brought these facts to light.

Shel Haas

Sources: The Congressional Record, The Constitution of the United States of America

She was sent to Europe by the ''New York Tribune'' as a foreign correspondent, and there interviewed many prominent writers including [[George Sand]] and [[Thomas Carlyle]]—whom she found disappointing, due to his [[reactionary]] politics amongst other things. In [[Italy]] she met the Italian [[revolutionary]] Giovanni Ossoli, marrying in [[1847]]; she later had a son by him. The couple supported [[Giuseppe Mazzini]]'s revolution for the establishment of a [[Roman Republic (19th century)|Roman Republic]] in [[1849]] - he fought in the struggle while she volunteered to work in a supporting hospital.

Fuller, her husband, and her son all died when a boat transporting them back to America from Italy sank off [[Fire Island, New York|Fire Island]], [[New York]]. [[Henry David Thoreau]] traveled to New York in an effort to recover her body and writings, but neither were found. Among the articles lost was Fuller's manuscript on the history of the [[Roman Republic]]. Many of her writings were collected together by her brother Arthur as ''At Home and Abroad'' (1856) and ''Life Without and Life Within'' (1858). Her memorial is in [[Mount Auburn Cemetery]], Cambridge, Massachusetts.

== The Picture of the 1st Page ==

Is this image entirely necessary? I feel that unless a higher resolution can be shown for reading purposes, the use of such an image is lost. [[User:Absolute Zerr|Absolute Zerr]] 00:22, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

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* [http://courses.washington.edu/hum523/fuller/index.html ''Summer On The Lakes'', in 1843]

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