Career
In 1790, when the Southwest Territory was formed, territorial governor William Blount appointed Roane to the position of Attorney and Solicitor for Greene County and later Territorial Attorney General for the Washington District. In 1796 he was Jefferson County's delegate to the constitutional convention that wrote the original Tennessee Constitution that took effect that same year when Tennessee became a U.S. state. Later in 1796 he became one of the three judges of the Superior Court of Law and Equity, the highest court established under the new state constitution.
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“What exacerbates the strain in the working class is the absence of money to pay for services they need, economic insecurity, poor daycare, and lack of dignity and boredom in each partner’s job. What exacerbates it in upper-middle class is the instability of paid help and the enormous demands of the career system in which both partners become willing believers. But the tug between traditional and egalitarian models of marriage runs from top to bottom of the class ladder.”
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