This argument is especially effective during times of financial stress, as when politicians fear that state budget cuts or tax increases will be required. However, studies show that state governments’ actual fiscal conditions do not have a great influence on the popularity of the lottery, which h...
At first, many Radical Republicans had assumed that Johnson shared their broad and expansive concept of federal power and their commitment to political equality for blacks. In this, they were mistaken. Although a strong Union man, Johnson had always believed in a strict construction of the Constit...