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However, after declaring America's independence from England, Thomas Jefferson and other founders believed their legislative and political actions had already eliminated the remaining vestiges of European feudalism.

Californians are expected to shed the last vestiges of Proposition 8, the 2008 voter-approved measure that banned same-sex marriage and was later declared unconstitutional.

Inmates are sentenced to time behind bars, not forced labor, a vestige of chain gangs and slavery.

Solvang, the vestige of a Danish settlement once regarded as something of an oddity of the Central Valley, now has lines out the door of every restaurant.

Footwear was one of the last vestiges of my old relationship to clothes.