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- 771: George Washington
- ... He expected the same enthusiasm from every one in his administration. On September 24, 1789, Washington passed The Judiciary Act, which set up a federal court system. Its basic features were provided for by the Constitution. Since the president is considered the chief enforcer of federal laws, it is his duty to prosecute cases before the federal courts. In this work his agent is the attorney general. The Judiciary Act of ...
- 772: Gandhi
- ... but a lot of the Indian nationalists were still much too sceptical to be so easily persuaded.(Alexander 126) On March 15, 1946, Prime Minister Attlee said "India must choose what will be her future constitution. I hope that the Indian people may elect to remain within the British Commonwealth.... But if she does so elect it must be by her own free will.... If, on the other hand, she elects ...
- 773: Fidal Castro
- ... cold war. He was continually friendly and helpful to American business interest. But he failed to bring democracy to Cuba or secure the broad popular support that might have legitimized his rape of the 1940 Constitution. As the people of Cuba grew increasingly dissatisfied with his gangster style politics, the tiny rebellions that had sprouted began to grow. Meanwhile the U.S. government was aware of and shared the distaste for ...
- 774: Calvin Coolidge
- ... presidency. Praying by candlelight, Coolidge descended the stairs to the plain living room of his father's house, lighted only by two kerosene lamps. Upon an old wooden business desk, a copy of the US Constitution was found and Coolidge took the oath of office, as his father administered him as the next president of the United States on the family Bible. In his six years as president of the United ...
- 775: Antonin Scalia
- ... which the Declaration of Independence proclaims all Men
are endowed by their Creator. And in my view that right is also among the other rights retained by the people which the Ninth Amendment says the Constitutions enumeration of rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage."** Bibliography * Quoted from an Internet source, which I will show you some other time. The address is too long to type into here ...
- 776: Andrew Jackson
- ... were a larger risk and the bank didn't see it in it's interest to make such a gamble with it's money. And in his mind the bank was in violation on the Constitution. Even though the bank's charter wasn't due to expire until 1836, Jackson's political enemies pushed a bill through congress granting the banks re-charter, Jackson vetoed the bill. The "Bank" issue was ...
- 777: Andrew Jackson
- ... the Cherokees were one of the most feared southern tribes. They resisted the governments efforts to remove them from Georgia, to lands west of the Missouri River by petitioning the government. They had established a constitution in 1827 that would make them a republic that was part of Georgia, but it was refused because it was ruled in Cherokee Nation v. Georgia that they were not a state or foreign nation ...
- 778: Alexander Hamilton
- ... conventional delegates, and his two fellow delegates from New York were Anti-Federalists who were able to outvote him on every measure. For this reason, Hamilton then turned his energies to securing the ratification of Constitution in New York. For this Hamilton requested the help of John Jay and James Madison in writing the essays that were published under the tittle of The Federalist. 8.What has this person done for ...
- 779: William Tecumseh Sherman
- ... Rouge, Louisiana and became Louisiana State University (LSU). Talk of the secession from the Union was rampant. On January 18, 1861, Sherman resigned his position stating that he preferred to maintain his allegiance to the Constitution as long as a fragment of it survived. On the 25th of February, Sherman left Louisiana and returned to Ohio. He remained in Lancaster for a month and then moved his family to St. Louis ...
- 780: Walt Whitman 3
- ... self-hood. His rise to civic virtue improved his true spiritual self to become a democrat. This idea of democracy was that all men were created equal and have equal rights as stated in the constitution of the Untied States, but this democracy was tainted with spiritual democracy that the human being had immerse possibilities and a measureless wealth for spiritual power. Mysticism is an experience that has a spiritual meaning ...
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