| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - This language had been in place since 1859, but no one took much notice until 1978, when Oregon Supreme Court Justice Hans Linde propounded the revolutionary idea that states had the power to confer additional rights upon their citizens beyond those guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution. (Until Linde, state constitutions were routinely ignored in civil-rights cases.) The 1978 case was a relatively d
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