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Puritan lawmakers worried that recognizing women's separate property rights would undercut the unity of married persons by acknowledging conflicting interests between husband and wife. When a man died, the Church inherited the property instead. - See more at: http://www.chacha.com/question/why-did-the-puritans-refuse-to-recognize-womens-property-rights-in-the-late-1600s-and-early-1700s#sthash.USEX5fam.dpuf
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Millard fillmore refused it because he said, "he had done nothing to earn it."
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General Motors recognized the United Automobile Workers Union.