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- 781: Woodrow Wilson
- ... Wilson: A Medical and Psychological Biography, also notes that President Wilson "grew more suspicious, secretive, and egocentric." An occupational hazard of the presidency--or a change in personality resulting from brain damage? The U.S. Constitution has since been amended to provide for presidential disability in office, but what neurologist would be brave enough to declare a president disabled from such a history? If Woodrow Wilson's brain had suffered no ...
- 782: William Bradford
- ... as one. The Mayflower Compact endorsed the right of everyone, who signed a share in the making and administering of laws and the right of the majority to rule. It was the beginning of a constitution of pure democracy. Although William Bradford died in 1657, having been governor of the Plymouth Colony for almost the entire period since 1621, the success of the Pilgrims and his writings will live on in ...
- 783: Rocky Marciano
- ... Marchegiano, but the world would one day know him as the legendary boxer Rocky Marciano. When "bambino Rocco" was 18 months of age, he contracted pneumonia. Although the infection nearly killed him, his exceptionally strong constitution enabled him to survive without impairment. As a pre-teenager, Rocky relished his mother's Italian cooking so much he bordered on being stocky. This was underscored by his relatively short but muscular arms and ...
- 784: Pompey
- ... many. M. Aemilius Lepidus, one of the consuls of 78 BC delivered an attack which the government repelled. But the continuous pressure revealed the weakness of the senatorial position, and the citadel of the Sullan constitution had fallen. The breakdown of the Sullan system and the rise of Pompey then forced the senate back at every point. Pompey s contracted ties of friendship with a number of great landowners of the ...
- 785: Nelson Mandela - Long Walk To Freedom
- ... came into Mexico and gained much power. Haciendas helped their rise and foreign investment in many minerals and oil. But, Mexico did not approve of this and changed it. In 1917, Mexico created a new constitution, which limited foreign investment and promised land reform. This showed that Mexico did not want an overpopulation of foreigners and would not allow it. While, in oil, the foreigners controlled much of the oil, which ...
- 786: Napoleon And Caesar
- ... discovered his own military genius, Caesar was evidently fascinated and obsessed by military and imperial problems. He gave them an absolute priority over the more delicate by no less fundamental task of revising the Roman constitution. The need in the latter sphere was a solution which would introduce such elements of authoritarianism, which were necessary to check corruption and administrative weakness (Grant, Caesar 61). The story of all his battles and ...
- 787: Marcus Tullius Cicero
- ... written in 53 BCE, just before its author set out for his proconsular government in Cilicia. He was then 53. The object and spirit of the work were highly patriotic. He wished to bring the constitution back to its first principles by an impression expositive of its theory; to inflame his contemporaries with the love of virtue by portraying the character of their ancestors in its primeval purity; and while he ...
- 788: Lincoln
- ... the candidate for the Republican party. By the time he took the oath of office a new country was forming. No other president in history has ever been asked to preserve, protect, and defend the constitution and nation to the level that Lincoln was asked. Lincoln s first inaugural address was one of conciliation and peace. He was an opponent of slavery. He felt that it was his duty to save ...
- 789: Kosovo And Milosevic
- ... The complexion of the top hierarchy of Serbia can be gauged from the character of its President, who, in December 1997 got himself inaugurated as the president for the third term although barred by the constitution and having lost the local elections! Milosevic , whose ideology spawned such mass murderers as Radovan Karadzic and General Mladic in Bosnia, had deprived Kosovo of its autonomy in 1989. He maintained his power by his ...
- 790: Karl Marx 2
- ... and violence in several places. " oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary re-constitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes" (Marx, p.55). Constant opposition, or violence results in the destruction of both sides, according to Marx. Again, he says, "Constant revolutionizing ...
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