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- 411: Compromise Of 1861
- ... with a southern slave state the people there rushed over and casted their vote without even living in that particular state. Slavery won, a group of people had a meeting and drew up the Lecompton Constitution, which was overwhelmingly pro-slavery. Antislavery people and Stephen Douglas said it was a fraud and refused to vote in favor of it. The president James Buchanan supported it and Douglas rejected it. Both were Democrats and this sole incident would split the Democratic party into two sides the North and the South. The Lecompton Constitution was rejected in Congress, but it had done its damage. As a direct result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act the Republican party had been born, a purely sectional party that was against the expansion of ...
- 412: Women In World War I
- ... and the WCTU to dry up the United States". After putting their fight for suffrage on the back-burner for a while, women won the right to vote in 1920, with the ratification into the Constitution of the 19th Amendment, or at least the promise of a vote at the age of twenty-one. However, during the first decade of their newfound privilege, women were skeptical to use their right to ... participation in politics, and also served as a post for information on issues and candidates. The National Women's Party of 1913 began to urge the adoption of and Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to the Constitution during the 1920's, however, the controversy over this urgency for the amendment spilt the two women's groups and hindered indefinitely their movement for the ERA. Also, with great political influence, Jeannette Rankin was ...
- 413: The Rise of the Manchus
- ... China. Republican China The republic that Sun Yat-sen () and his associates envisioned evolved slowly. The revolutionists lacked an army, and the power of Yuan Shikai () began to outstrip that of parliament. Yuan revised the constitution at will and became dictatorial. In August 1912 a new political party was founded by Song Jiaoren ( 1882-1913), one of Sun's associates. The party, the Guomindang ( Kuomintang or KMT--the National People's ... Xizang. In November Yuan Shikai, legally president, ordered the Guomindang dissolved and its members removed from parliament. Within a few months, he suspended parliament and the provincial assemblies and forced the promulgation of a new constitution, which, in effect, made him president for life. Yuan's ambitions still were not satisfied, and, by the end of 1915, it was announced that he would reestablish the monarchy. Widespread rebellions ensued, and numerous ...
- 414: Gun Control
- ... objective of protecting American citizens= rights, to possess and operate a firearm, form being violated by gun control laws. One of the NRA=s main weapons in this crusade is the second amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America. The amendment=s translation in the eyes of the NRA and many American citizens, clearly protects the individual rights of all citizens to possess and operate firearms. This would ... guaranteed no right for individual citizens to possess weaponry, but merely allowed for the government to form and maintain an armed service (IE. United States Army, US. Navy). Because of the different translations of our constitution, gun control can be viewed by different people in different ways (Lacayo 20). Some of the many gun control bans and laws wich are under constant hellfire from the NRA are those pertaining to self ...
- 415: Invaded By Immigrants
- ... somewhere. The flow of people into Canada is not going to stop unless we pass and bill to make immigration standards tougher. Lately there has been a movement to remove discriminatory law from the Canadian constitution and it is getting so we are too politically correct. In 1996 so many Asians flooded Vancouver that a separate school system had too be set up to accommodate these students who would not learn ... bit. The plain fact is that immigration is bad for the economy. The majority of immigrants that come to Canada have no material possessions at all. Screening immigrants based on wealth is illegal by our constitution. Before the Immigrants arrived on Canada's shores there was already 11% of Canada's citizens which had no jobs. With each new arriving immigrant this figure will increase. In 1990, spent $16 billion more ...
- 416: Civil War 2
- ... Sumter and the Civil War began. The Norths primary reasons for going to war was to keep the country together. The South was fighting for state sovereignty, the right of secession and interpreting the constitution the way they wanted to, Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era, James McPherson, (p. 310). Slavery was not the reason the Civil War began. Lincoln had argued that it was unconstitutional for any ... slavery. Lincoln even mentioned that he had no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with slavery in the states where it exists, Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era, James McPherson, (p. 312). The Constitution protected and will continue to protect slavery where it existed. As was stated earlier, the North fought the war to keep the Union together, because of the fact that secession was unconstitutional. Militarily, both the ...
- 417: Finland
- ... needs. Grain production varies considerably; in general, bread grain (mainly wheat) is imported and fodder grain exported. The climate restricts grain farming to the southern and western regions of the country." Finland adopted a republican constitution in 1919; it has been amended several times, specially in the mid-1990s. Legislative power in Finland rests in the unicameral Parliament called Eduskunta, which consists of 200 members elected for four-year terms, and ... is shared by the president and the Council of State, or cabinet, at the meetings of which the president takes the chair. The president appoints the prime minister and the cabinet. "A clause in the constitution specifically stresses that government ministers are responsible to Parliament." "Suffrage is universal for those over age 18, and every citizen is regarded as eligible for election to any office. Presidential elections are indirect: the general ...
- 418: Ch.23 Study Guide
- ... Pact agreed to lower their tariffs and promote economic development. 2.Brazil In Brazil, people both dance and sing the bossa nova, samba, and lambada. 3.commonwealth This is a country that has its own constitution and elects its own governor and legislature, but are citizens of the country that owns the commonwealth and must obey that nations laws. 4.Costa Rica 5.Cuba Castros revolution in Cuba alarmed ... to its people. The Spanish American War ended in victory for the United States. Cuba did gain its independence, but the United States forced Cuba to include the Platt Amendment as part of its new constitution. Under the Platt Amendment the United States claimed the right to intervene in Cuban affairs. As a result the United States gained Puerto Rico and Philippines from Spain. 14.ultraismo The belief that art should ...
- 419: Hammurabis Code
- ... too hard on the accused. I do think they are very harsh and sometimes extreme, but I do think they are justified. I also know that I love our country, our country runs by the constitution, and the Constitution contains the same principles and ideas that first came to be when a young man named Hammurabi took his throne as King of Babylonia way back around 1790 BC. Alrighty then, all done.
- 420: The Issue of Gun Control
- ... amendment the right "to bear arms". Opponents of gun control, including the National Rifle Association, better known as the NRA, argue that the "right To bear arms" is guaranteed in the second amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America and licensing restrictions penalize law-abiding citizens while in no way preventing criminal use of handguns. It is also argued that by making it difficult for guns to be ... four times in the head and killed. In conclusion there are valid reasons for why certain people feel that gun control is unfair. People against gun control feel that it is a violation of the Constitution to control the sale and distribution and the registration of guns and gun owners. But it is necessary for there to be certain limits on the way that firearms are handled in this country because ...
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