A political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them Three-Fifths Compromise Agreement that each slave counted as three-fifths of a person in determining representation in the House for representation and taxation purposes (negated by the...
Politics Method of maintaining, managing, and gaining control of government (who gets what, when, and how) sacraments Sacred rituals of the Roman Catholic Church Liturgy (n.) a religious service or rite; the form of a ritual or other act of public worship sees the official seats, or center...
The crisis, which began as a dispute over federal tariff laws, became intertwined with the politics of slavery and sectionalism. Led by John C. Calhoun, a majority of South Carolina slaveholders claimed thata state had the right to nullify or veto federal laws and secede from the Union....