Privileges include all of the legal benefits of living in the United States, such as the freedom to sell land, draft a will, or obtain a Divorce. Immunities are the protections afforded by law that prevent the government or other people from hindering another's enjoyment of his or her life...
The Syrian government announces that it will speed up its plans to hold a referendum on a new draft constitution, scheduling the referendum for February 26. The draft constitution, praised by Syrian officials for incorporating democratic reforms, is dismissed by the opposition and much of the inter...
A Civil War draft dodger (Barry Brown) heads west and mixes in with a group of petty criminals along the way. Their leader is the morally dubious con man Jake Rumsey, played by Jeff Bridges in one of his earlier film roles. This effort makes uppart of the “acid Western” subgenrethat...
This war presented many pacifists, especially in the North, with an agonizing dilemma. An outline is given of provision made for conscientious objectors on both the Confederate and Unionist sides. The accounts cover: dilemmas over draft-age sons (1862); William Lloyd Garrison and his son's ...
One was born about 1820 and would have been well into middle age when he trudged off to battle. On the other hand, his nephew Daniel Artis, Sylvania’s son, was born about 1843, and was in his prime when the Civil War erupted. What does the file tell us? It’s a slim one, as...
Mr. Eads also contributed to the Union Civil War effort. As James M. McPherson wrote, Eads contracted in August 1861 to construct seven shallow-draft gunboats for river work. When completed before the end of the year, these craft looked like no other vessel in existence. They were flat-bo...
“Separate the church and the state” reads a sign favoring political secularism A demonstrator holding a sign calling for the separation of church and state during a demonstration on May 7, 2022, at Federal Plaza in Chicago to protest the draft U.S. Supreme Court decision, leaked on May 2...
Notes 1. Freedom House considers Singapore to be "partly free" in 2016, while the Economist Intelli- gence Unit's Democracy Index ranked it 74 out of 167 countries and classify it as a "flawed democracy." See 'Democracy in an Age of Anxiety', The Economist Intel...
Jefferson County Draft Regimental Histories Medal of Honor PA MOH Recipients Camp Parole, Annapolis, MD Survivors of Salisbury Prison Camp Pennsylvanians who died at the Salisbury Prison Camp Prisoners of War Troops Captured at Reams Station, August 25, 1864 Death Statistics National and Other Cemeteri...
While the ironclads were the war’s greatest contribution to naval architecture, their lesser-known cousins, the shallow-draft tinclads, timberclads and cottonclads, performed vital service for both sides. These ships fought on an enormous maritime front, including the Gulf of Mexico and 700 ...