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Lincoln on Government

Presidency of the United States of America on March 4, 1861, seven southern slave states had already succeeded from the Union form...

The Controversy of Slavery

Slavery was a component of world history practically since the beginning of mankinds reign on earth....

John C. Calhoun and His Views on Slavery

On February 6, 1837 John C. Calhoun published an article titled "Slavery a Positive Good". The title of the article alone encapsu...

Federalist and Antifederalist

accessible through the Library of Congress, identifies these documents as eighty-five essays that were published between 1787 and ...

Huckleberry Finn and Social Consciousness

This essay argues that Huck's moral maturation resulted from his relationship with Jim, a runaway slave, and it is this bond that ...

Slavery and Reform in West Africa by Trevor Getz

This book review is on Trevor Getz's Slavery and Reform in West Africa: Toward Emancipation in Nineteenth-century Senegal and the ...

Michigan Educational Assessment Program

The Michigan Educational Assessment Program is the assessment program for several subject areas in certain grade levels. This is t...

Prince Among Slaves by Terry Alford

This book review is on Terry Alford's text Prince Among Slaves. which relates the biography of Ibrahima, an African prince who was...

The Election Division of the Secretary of State

In a paper of four pages, the author considers the nature of the Elections Division of the Secretary of State of the State of Main...

The Sometimes Contradictory Ideology of Thomas Jefferson

This paper assesses Jefferson's contributions and how they corresponded with his views on slavery and indigenous rights. There ar...

African American Subjugation and Slavery

This research paper offers an overview of the fundamental causes that motivated the implementation of slavery in the American colo...

Individual Rights v. States Rights

This research paper investigates literature that examines the inherent tension between the rights of individuals and states rights...

BP and the Gulf of Mexico

at which time the oil had been spilling for 50 days. He said that the federal government had taken aggressive actions but admitted...

State Owned Enterprises (SOE's) and their Role in International Business

will be regulating themselves. It may also be argued that the existing systems for analysing and assessing the competitive environ...

The History of Arizona

information on using this paper properly July, 2010 Introduction Many people know something about the state of Arizona. That i...

The Historical Path to the US Constitution 1215 to 1787

has played a part in shaping numerous other documents relating to constitutional law. One of the documents that the Magna...

Does Australia Need Constitutional Reform?

was a referendum that asked whether or not the electorate wanted to retain the Queen as the head of state, remaining a constitutio...

Constitutional Amendments Affect on African Americans

No constitution is perfect, but the beauty of it is that it is always changing as the countrys needs change. Instead of scrapping ...

Education and Frederick Douglass

instruct me further, telling her, among other things, that it was unlawful, as well as unsafe, to teach a slave to read. To use hi...

Revolutionary Thought and the Shaping of the US Constitution

The American Revolution occurred because of a long series of British wrongs. In essence, the colonists had four major...

James Madison Human Nature and Political Factions

Our founding fathers conception of human nature varied somewhat. Some believed that humans were inherently...

19th Century American History

slavery, a trend which leads towards the development of Sectionalism in the Southern states. 1830s: Southern states begin to seek ...

Life of a Factory Worker Compared with Life of a Slave

students of history shudder to read the horrible human rights abuses that were inflicted upon slaves in the antebellum South. Howe...

Slavery A Precipitating Factor in the Civil War

While it certainly wasnt the only reason, slavery...

Historic Events/U.S. Constitution

regards to the location chosen to establish the Plymouth colony (Mayflower, 2011). The precise influence of the Mayflower Compact ...

The Branches of Government and Principles of the Constitution

government that has endured and survived countless conflicts and obstacles. The effectiveness of the checks and balances pl...

The Death Penalty and the Catholic Church

the church flip flops but it seems to skirt the issue. The Church does not order deaths, but the church often looks the other way....

Solutions for California Prison Overcrowding

The War Against Drugs has had a number of effects in this country. One of the more apparent of those effects...

Rights under the 6th Amendment

In a paper of five pages, the author provides the seven different rights under the Sixth Amendment to the Constitution, including ...