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- 691: The Emancipation Proclamation
- ... states deemed in rebellion at that time. On January 1, 1863 he issued the Emancipation proclamation, conferring liberty on about 3,120,000 slaves. With the enactment of the 13th ammendment to the U.S. Constitution in effect in 1865, slavery was completely abolished. The results of the Emancipation Proclamation were far-reahcing. From then on, sympathy with the Confederacy was identified with support of slavery. As further result of the ...
- 692: King's "A Letter From Birmingham City Jail": An Analysis
- ... an extended metaphor to appeal to the crowd even more, he states that : In a sense [they] have come [their] nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the . . . Constitution and Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty ...
- 693: Watergate Scandal
- ... in office; Nixon was then immune from federal prosecution. The Watergate scandal severely shook the faith of the Ameican people in the presidency and turned out to be a supreme test for the U.S. Constitution. Throughout the ordeal, however, the constitutional system of checks and balances worked to prevent abuses, as the Founding Fathers had intended. Watergate showed that in a nation of laws no one is above the law ...
- 694: The Civil War and Its Ending of Slavery
- ... to the Union as a slave state, a proposal that outraged Northerners. Adding to their anger, the U.S. Supreme Court, on March 7, 1857, ruled in the Dred Scott case that the U.S. Constitution gave Congress no authority to prohibit slavery in the territories. Two years later, on October 16, 1859, John Brown, an uncompromising opponent of slavery, raided the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virgini , in an attempt ...
- 695: Reconstruction in the South
- ... of slaves.” Only Tennessee ratified the 14th amendment and was allowed to rejoin the Union by Radicals. The remaining ten Confederate states were occupied by United States troops. Southern states had to write a new constitution guaranteeing political rights to blacks. The 15th Amendment said: “Neither federal nor state governments can deny any citizen the right to vote because of his race or color, or because he was once in bondage ...
- 696: The Civil War
- ... Carolina, on December 20, 1860. Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, and Louisiana followed in January, 1861. Texas then also separated on February 1st. Three days later on February 4th, 1861, delegates from these states drafted a constitution for the confederacy. Jefferson Davis, was proclaimed president on February 18th. This was before Abraham Lincoln himself even became officially proclaimed President. The war began in 1861, when confederates open fired on Ft. Sumter, gaining ...
- 697: The Three Great Compromises
- ... that Congress would control trade (fairly) and the South would trade slaves for 20 more years. The three great compromises in our the history of the United States were critical to the success of the Constitution. The 3/5 Compromise, the Connecticut Compromise, and the Commerce & Slave Trade Compromise demonstrated that the Founding Fathers could reach a middle ground. These were much needed compromises, but were they effective for long term ...
- 698: Jay's Treaty
- ... Jay's Treaty was refused by Washington because the concurrence of the two Houses was not required to give validity to a treaty and "because of the necessity of maintaining the boundaries fixed by the Constitution." 4 Again, the people are lucky to have a persistent leader who deserves credit for saving our country. The prominent individual who deserves all the credit in nurturing our country from its young and early ...
- 699: Genetic Cloning
- ... can pay. The illusion of purifying human genomes ought to be forgotten along with Hitler’s ‘pure race’ of Nazi purists [N.B.]. It is distinctly human to be diverse and that by engineering our constitution we become not unlike pro-genocidal purists asserting dominance. Bibliography- Blake, W. (1991) ‘The marriage of heaven and hell’, in The enlightened mind- an anthology of Sacred Prose, ed. S. Mitchell. New York: Harper-Collins ...
- 700: Genetic Faltering
- ... life in the real world. They may not be equipped for the stress of human life. The next issues are over the rights, and what rights the creators have. “While the 13th amendment to the Constitution, which abolished slavery can be interpreted as supporting all life, and denying who or what ever made them the right to control them” (Goldberg). According to the 13th amendment the creature should have the rights ...
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