In the 1840s and 1850s, the Supreme Court began addressing these impositions on statesâ rights. In Prigg v. Pennsylvania (1842), the court struck down a Pennsylvania law preventing the transportation of any ânegro or mullatoâ for the purposes of returning the person to slaveryâbecause federal law superseded state law.
The dumbbell, a type of free weight, is a piece of equipment used in weight training. It can be used individually or in pairs, with one in each hand.
Today, most of the time someone or something is described as dumb when it shows a lack of thought, like your dumb idea of wearing flip-flops in a snowstorm. Dumb is the Old English word that means mute, speechless, and itself came from an even older word dheubh meaning confusion, stupefaction, dizziness.. Today, dumb still means unable to speak, but it doesn't have anything to do with intelligence. Its other meaning, however, does.