1. Discrimination
With his own funds and the funds of other merchant leaders Governor Bowdoin fielded an army under the command of General Lincoln to put down the rebellion.13 During Shays" second advance on Springfield in which he planned to storm the arsenal he and his men were met by General Shepard and the militia. General Lincoln and his army were still on the way from Boston. ... Shays" men retreated in disarray, pursued by Lincoln's governmental soldiers.14 Most of the men that were captured were pardoned right away. ... For example, during the time of the Civil War what strong unifying force wou...
The 1867 opinion of the court was very much against Abraham Lincoln's decision. ... Abraham Lincoln actually suspended habeas corpus in places and authorizing military trials without Congress's consent, but he later did go to them for approval only to be denied by the Supreme Court. ...
As we begin the twenty-first century, I find that there is a fine line that is growing thinner between a United States citizen's individual rights and safety for the general public order. As the years pass, there are fewer individual rights that are guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution and th...
In 1839, two Portugese slave hunters acquired fifty-three slaves in Havana, Cuba. Jose Ruiz purchased 49 slaves, and his friend, Pedro Montes acquired 4 Africans. Ruiz hired a man named Ramon Ferrer to take them in his schooner, the Amistad, to a Cuban coastal town, Puerto Principe. Aboard the s...
"I believe the First Amendment, as it is presently written, permits the American people to do what they need to." (Clinton, Bill) -President Clinton The battle for religious freedom in public schools has recently been a major topic. Some fight for religious rights to be furthered, arguing that t...