The U.S. Constitution does not directly address the issue of secession; Article IV limits itself to the accession of new states and the division or fusion of existing states.16The beginning of the document contains the phrase, "in order to form a more perfect Union," which is often interpr...
While many northerners were content to let slavery exist in the southern states, they did not want slavery to continue to expand further through North America into new territories and states. The southern states felt threatened by the growing influence of the more populous northern states, fearing...
—“So, one day, I asked if everything was alright. And she confided in me that she was being sexually abused by her step-father. And I immediately told her she had to come stay with us. And she did.” —“That is one of the reasons I became a prosecutor. To protect people li...
I was in the hospital, trying to find the source of mysterious chest pains. It turned out to be a bad gallbladder, which then attacked my liver and put me in the hospital for two days while they tried to figure out what was wrong. All this was followed by surgery a month later, an...
richly-layered erudite and intricate gems in a working life in which he retired at 49 is about as likely as learning in a few years that Billy Carter, Jimmy's brother, invented the Internet, thought up Twitter, and did both theoretical and initial lab work resulting in three Nobel Prizes ...
Since these types of commissions are relatively new (most established in the 1990s or later), many older monuments exist that may not have full public support — and perhaps never did. Which brings us to the issue of removing them. In the U.S., the decision to remove a public monument ...
1. The principle of the separation of church and state comes from American Constitution. The First Amendment of the US Constitution guarantees the free exercise of religion and fords the establishment of any religious government. 2. Religion plays an important role in many aspects of Am...
“I’ve mentioned it to them, and I hope they’re thinking about it too. It is one of the available legal options set forth in the constitution.” BYPASSING POPULAR VOTE Disturbing as the prospect of bypassing the popular vote in GOP-controlled battlegrounds may be, it’s but one of sev...
Now We Know How Hitler Did It – by Thom Hartmann (hartmannreport.com) The Endangered Species Act can work, but it’s still struggling to protect animals from the threat of extinction – Vox Clearing Skies: Opening a New Path on Climate and the Future – Yale E360 ...
I’m trying to understand what it means for states to pass a law making gold and silver coins legal tender, as is allowed by the Constitution. Most of the articles I have found on this make no sense. It seems to me that the way it ought to work is that merchants may voluntarily off...