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- 951: Gibbons Vs. Ogden, 1824
- ... danger, the Supreme Court had yet another reason to prevent the New York law from continuing any further damage. This could be reinforced by the Commerce Clause (Article I, Section VIII, Paragraph 3. U.S. Constitution), which stated that Congress was the presiding power over the Economy. Yet, this plan proposed even further difficulties. The actual Commerce Clause was relatively vague, and thus, open to the interpretation of many. The original ...
- 952: Guaranteering Civil Rights
- ... these states were supported by an 1896 Supreme Court ruling. In the case of PLessy vs. Ferguson, the Court had ruled that "seperate but equal" public facilities for blacks and whites did not violate the Constitution. This ruling set a pattern that forced Southern black Americans to live almost totally segregated from white society. A strong civil rights movement in the United States had developed by the 1950s, and ending segregation ...
- 953: Famous African Americans
- ... that blacks would no longer be employed only as servants and laborers. He proposed that schools be established to train them to become skilled craftsmen. Douglass fought for passage of the 15th Amendment to the Constitution ratified in 1870, which gave blacks the right to vote. Later he saw that Southern blacks had returned to virtual slavery under a farming system called sharecropping. He urged that the federal government grant land ...
- 954: European Enlightenment
- ... Benjamin Franklin. Enlightened oppressors such as Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II, Catherine II of Russia, and Frederick II of Prussia enforced the social and political ideals they presented. Diderot's Encyclopédie and the U.S. Constitution are representative documents of the Age of Reason. The leaders of enlightenment began to secure new freedoms. They sought to impose an ordered freedom on political and social institutions. The promoters of science and religious ...
- 955: Ending Of Apartheid In South A
- ... segregation but his first speech announced plans to legalise the ANC, PAC and SACP and also that political prisoners would be released. He said he wanted to work with political groups to form a new constitution for South Africa. Although De Klerk’s decision was a great step forward for blacks, there were many possible reasons for his drastic change in government. A journalist in Cape Town at the time wondered ...
- 956: Diverse Cultures In The Foundi
- ... to start anew. And they did. In 1619 the House of Burgesses was formed to make laws for the colonies. Virginia was the birthplace of democracy. The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut were the first written “constitution” in English, placing limits on government. John Locke was a man of great influence in the beginning, a political philosopher who proclaimed that all men have the unalienable rights to life, liberty, and property. This ...
- 957: Diversity Of Leadership In Ame
- ... and divided Continental Congress. He was a leading influence in persuading the states to participate in the Constitutional Convention, over which he presided, and he used his immense prestige to help gain ratification of the constitution of the United States. The famous tribute by General Henry Lee, “first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen,” accurately reflects the emotions that Washington’s death aroused. His ...
- 958: Civil War 9
- Many developments in social life and the constitution amounted to a revolution between 1860 and 1877. Some of the major events that took place during this time period were the secession of the southern states, Civil War, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth amendment, and ...
- 959: Canadian Confederation
- ... be repudiated, not by the colonies, but by England itself.”23 The tasks of the London Confederation became to select a name and to revise the Seventy-Two Resolutions so they would become an acceptable constitution for the new county. “Canada: became the obvious choice of names of the delegates. With little revision, the Seven-Two Resolutions became the basis of the British North America Act and became law in March ...
- 960: Capitalistic Punishment
- ... sentence has been declared. A solution may be to eradicate some of these safeguards, but in doing so, Americans would be haphazardly playing with their Constitutional right to a fair trial. Paramount to contradicting the Constitution, doing so could endanger the lives of innocent American citizens. Endangering the lives of innocent American citizens should not be publicly, or legally, sponsored. This is, however, precisely what the death penalty is doing. The ...
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