Their decision was based on the desire to have a strong federal government with limited power for the provincial government. This was partially based on what the delegates had seen happen with the United States" government and the British system of government, which were the two extremes in terms of federal versus provincial levels of control. ... Control of the post office, transportation system, and communication between provinces went to the federal government. The criminal law system and military defense also made the list of powers for the federal government. The federal level had the mos...

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Dorothy Tillman introduced a resolution in the Chicago City Council asking that African Americans be compensated by the federal government for the four hundred years their ancestors spent as slaves. ... I believe that the descendants of former slaves should not receive reparations from the federal government. ... Additionally brought up in the Chicago newsletter is that if the federal government began compensating descendants of former slaves for the injustice done to their ancestors, what's to stop nearly all nationalities of people who have had injustices done to their ancestors from p...

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In retaliation, the federal government issued a series of tariffs that would promote the selling and trading of American goods rather than European products. ... Calhoun's exposition proclaimed that state governments had a divine right to nullify laws created by the federal government if the government had overstepped the limits of its jurisdiction. ... South Carolina's statesmen believed that the federal government should not be allowed to design tariffs or laws to protect American industries from foreign companies. ... The Nullification theory was set forth in order to assure mor...

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The Republicans, under Jefferson and Madison, believed that individual rights are imperative to the success of the union rather than a strong federal government. ... The topic of assumption of state debts by the federal government illustrates the broader argument of federalism versus republicanism, and has continued as an American economic disagreement many years after the American Revolution. ... Alexander Hamilton, a passionate Federalist, proposed to Congress in January 1790 that the federal government assume all of the state debts, therefore allowing the money to be paid back more efficien...

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They differed in opinions on how much power the federal government should have, and how the Constitution should be interpreted, that caused such hostility and aggression between the two regions. ... The Democratic-Republicans felt this way because they feared, that if given too much power was given to the the federal government, the would begin to resemble a monarchy. ... The Democratic-Republicans believed that the Federalists frequently overstepped their power, and imposed laws on them that were done directly for the federal government's benefit. ... Out of this series of 4 controversia...

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The Federal Government had the idea of making blacks free, but the southerners had no intention of truly freeing any blacks. ... When the southern support of the Federal Government faltered, the true south appeared and white supremacy was unleashed. ... This was to be the beginning of many other so-called Federal Government programs to be nothing more than lie. ... In 1867, the Federal Government imposed military law in the south to protect black rights. ... The Federal Government did not have the manpower to enforce its own laws. ...

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The end result of the war, securing the Union, verified that the U.S. would remain a large country with a foundational federal government to regulate all of the states" laws and economies. ... Although this raid put down, by the federal government, it led to stronger fierceness between Slave-holders in the South and anti-slavery groups in the North. ... Southern states held a political view where they felt the state governments should hold more power than the federal government. ... The main reasons for the South's secession from the Union were simply that they wanted to be recognized ...

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He cites three reasons for the failure of Reconstruction: opposition from Southern whites, confused priorities, and the federal government's unwillingness to maintain the long-term pressure necessary to accomplish Radical Republican goals. ... Finally, the federal government was unprepared to take on the massive commitment of long-term supervision, combined with continuing military force, which would have been needed to preserve these rights. ... All this proves that the federal government had no idea what they were getting into in terms of the elongated governmental supervision of Americ...

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The Confederacy was formed because the Southern states felt that their rights were being trampled upon by the federal government and they decided to break away from the Union. ... The federal government was opposed to this, and raised an army against the Southern states. ...

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It "gave the federal government responsibility for guaranteeing equal rights under the law to all Americans" (AP&P 460). In Section two of the amendment, it warned that if any state was denying voting rights to black men, the federal government would then reduce the congressional representation. ... The Fourteenth Amendment was monumental in aiding blacks and giving them equal rights, it also helped with the reconstruction of the government to the southern states. ... Section three of the amendment denied any federal office to those who had taken an oath before the war and then supported ...

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Facing a crisis, the federal government vainly attempted to achieve a balance between the regions. ... Two opposing governments and settlers" feuds over land claims escalated into violence. ... Douglas admitted that if the public opinion did not support the federal government, then the will of the people would eventually reign. ... Thus, the south in a sense became isolated, set in sharp opposition to the federal government and all of the other regions of the country. ... The government was not fulfilling its obligations to protect the interests of its people; thus, the people must usurp the a...

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Facing a crisis, the federal government vainly attempted to achieve a balance between the regions. ... Two opposing governments and settlers" feuds over land claims escalated into violence. ... Douglas admitted that if the public opinion did not support the federal government, then the will of the people would eventually reign. ... Thus, the south in a sense became isolated, set in sharp opposition to the federal government and all of the other regions of the country. ... The government was not fulfilling its obligations to protect the interests of its people; thus, the people must usurp the a...

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Facing a crisis, the federal government vainly attempted to achieve a balance between the regions. ... Two opposing governments and settlers" feuds over land claims escalated into violence. ... Douglas admitted that if the public opinion did not support the federal government, then the will of the people would eventually reign. ... Thus, the south in a sense became isolated, set in sharp opposition to the federal government and all of the other regions of the country. ... The government was not fulfilling its obligations to protect the interests of its people; thus, the people must usurp the a...

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The central government had decided that they needed a stronger government. The structure of the new government included only one branch, which was congress. ... In this government for a law to be passed seven states had to be present and agree on it. ... The Confederation had neither an executive nor a judicial branch; there was no administrative head of the government and no federal courts. ... Due to the extreme weaknesses of this document, the Constitutional Convention of 1787 proposed a new constitution establishing a much stronger national government. ...

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The political issue which divided the north and south were: Who strong should the central government be? The South wanted a weak central government and more control in the states North wanted a strong central government which could help regulate trade and promote inducstry. ... Slavery was abolished; however, the balance of power between the states and the Federal government remained a problem that had to be solved in the United State's Reconstruction period. ...

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This cause and effect situation changes a states government structure and function. ... Among these several changes was the structure and function of the government. ... Also one of the most important changes was the fourteen amendment granting African Americans suffrage and made al persons born or naturalized in the United States citizens of the nation and provided federal protection for their rights. ... These government officials had their salaries significantly increased. ... In order regain control of their state government they drafted the constitution of 1876. ...

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The government had no way to raise money and no way to raise or collect taxes. ... The delegates had to decide; how big the government should be, what type of government, what powers it should be given, and what powers it should not have. ... The 10th Amendment was also added and it stated, "[ ] the powers not delegated to the United States Federal Government by the constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the State respectively or to the people (Barker 22)". Or simply stated, all the powers not given to the federal government were given to the states and the people...

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Both moderate and Radical Republicans alike criticized Johnson for his ideas concerning freed people's rights and his strong fear of excessive legislative power in the federal government. ... It declared that "no legal government" existed in the South and divided the region into five military districts. ... Republicans, even many Radicals, were fearful of the federal government infringing on individual liberty by confiscating land. ... (Reconstruction: The Radical Republican Governments in the South). The rights of these people were often only secured with the use of federal troops sent i...

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Organizations sprouted such as the Ku Klux Klan, whose acts of violence kept African Americans and white Republicans from voting, and gradually the radical Republican governments were overthrown. ... Under this compromise, the Republicans had to stop using the federal troops in the South as a political tool. Secondly, the federal government would have to enlarge the aid for the South for physical reconstruction. Next, they offered guaranteed federal jobs. ... The Federal government did not provide the complete aid that was promised and the South kept up the tradition of devolving the African-...

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Another reason why the civil war started was because it was mainly states versus federal rights. Since the time of the Revolution, two camps emerged: those arguing for greater states' rights and those arguing that the federal government needed to have more control. The first organized government in the US after the American Revolution was under the Articles of Confederation. The thirteen states formed a loose confederation with a very weak federal government. ... The federal government denied states this right. ...

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This Amendment gave civil rights and citizenship to freed slaves, reduced the representation of states which forbade blacks to vote, and disqualified Confederate rebels from holding state and federal offices; furthermore, it guaranteed the federal debt. ... Under the Military Administration, all Southern states had Republican-friendly governments establish. ... By 1877 all the Northern troops left and the State Governments returned to full power. ... The KKK was formed in 1866, to terrorize free blacks and protest northern governments. ... As years passed the Southern Governments eventually ...

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He eventually decided to flee south, but on May 10, 1865, federal troops captured him at Irwinville, Georgia. ... In 1868, the federal government dropped the case against him. For the rest of his life he tried some unsuccessful businesses and he wrote a book, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government in 1881. ...

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Political officials, state, local and federal government officials, commissions, and other parts of the American bureaucracy were features. ... It also provides an appendix of federal data and an appendix of federal data and an appendix of notes to back up his information. Walton's book discusses the effects on civil rights progress of the institutionalization of enforcement agencies in the federal government. ... He sees the American government as a complex machine that has a high degree of maintenance from its citizens. ... I found it hard to find parallels between his thoughts and...

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This gave the federal government the power to trade the land west of the Mississippi, which was Oklahoma, for the Indian land in the south-eastern areas. ... He also said that banks gave too much power to the federal government and took too much away from the states and individuals like the farmers, mechanics, and laborers. ... South Carolina refused to pay this tariff, now called the 'Tariff of Abominations', because it went against the principles set by the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions that states can declare federal laws to be unconstitutional. ... The federal government trie...

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Johnson viewed the Bureau as a "meddlesome federal interloper" and had it killed off. ... Congress also passed the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, authorizing the federal government to protect the rights of all citizens. ... In a final humiliating gesture, Congress passed the Tenure of Office Act, which stripped the president of the power to remove federal officials without the Senate's approval. ... He then let them form their own systems of state government, which themselves established among other things the baleful black codes. ...

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