In the next few pages of this report I will inform you of the history, political significance, and current applications of this core democratic value. The 14th amendment of the United States Constitution was initially based on the Civil Rights Act of 1866. ... Federal examiners could supervise elections in states with a history of discrimination. ... In conclusion of this report about the history of inequality in the United States and how it progressed to equality. ... Today, there are still issues on whether certain policies hold up to what the constitution states....

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It the most memeriable war in American history, 3 million fought - 600,000 died. ... This theory held that the Constitution had created not a perpetual union but a compact between independent states that retained their sovereignty. ... The Constitution had stated that "the union shall be perpetual." ... Republics had a history of splitting into smaller parts and descending into anarchy. ... Their Constitution was nearly identical to the Constitution of the United States, although it affirmed state sovereignty, guaranteed slavery, and limited the president to a single six-year term. ...

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Wars are considered to be ultimate events on history that mold, affect, and create the formula to be followed in a government. ... In order regain control of their state government they drafted the constitution of 1876. ... The constitution is believed to be an overreaction to the constitution of Republican control. ...

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Early in the year 1787, the framers of the constitution convened in Philadelphia to discuss the problems of governing the new nation. ... Was a Democratic-Republican from the state of New York and was an opponent of slavery who, in response to the Missouri application, sought to impose conditions that would rid slavery from Missouri for the remainder of history. ... The debate on behalf of the South was focused on two questions: "One of right, the other of expediency.On one hand, it was contended that Congress had no right to prescribe to any State the details of its government, any furt...

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School Desegregation Racial discrimination has been highly evident throughout the course of US history. ... In recent history, blacks were kept separate from the Caucasians in every faucet of society, predominately in educational facilities. ... The trial stated that the segregation of the schools was unconstitutional since it violated the fourteenth amendment of the constitution. ...

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Racial discrimination has been highly evident throughout the course of US history. ... In recent history, blacks were kept separate from the Caucasians in every faucet of society, predominately in educational facilities. ... The trial stated that the segregation of the schools was unconstitutional since it violated the fourteenth amendment of the constitution. ...

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The period in American history which we now refer to Reconstruction began in 1863 when Abraham Lincoln first outlined his Reconstruction program, but its inevitable end and lack of success had been predetermined more than two centuries before, with the arrival of the first Europeans and their slaves in North America. ... The only way that southern slaveholders maintained their status as such throughout the course of American history was through the societal indoctrination of certain religious, economic and moral principles which, the slaveholders argued, justified slavery. ... The most po...

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The Fourteenth Amendment was perhaps one of the most important amendments in our constitution. ... The era of reconstruction saw the largest struggle between Congress and the chief executive in the nation's history. ... Finally, it reconstructed a nation, brought together a Union, and embodied constitution and all of its unalienable rights. ...

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This book came at a very volatile time in history, both the northerner and southern states need a a small reason to explode on one another. ... The south also felt that the north was violating the rights of the southern states, they said that the constitution guaranteed the south the right to hold slaves as they saw fit. ...

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He used his role as president to uphold the Constitution, but also to preserve, protect, and defend it during a war which, he in essence started. As well as being credited with winning the most important war in America's history, he is also considered to have abolished the institution of slavery and set in motion the Civil Rights movement. ... No president in history had ever exerted so much executive authority and some criticise that a "constitutional dictatorship" is not far from an expedient dictatorship concerned only with maintaining political power. ... His Gettysburg Address delive...

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The struggle between state and federal government is a large part of American history. The individual states have often tried to prevent a strong central government; even before our forefathers could build the framework of our constitution. ...

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This provided colored men and women many more constitutional rights with the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the Constitution (Lichtenstein, Strasser, Rosenzweig - p.4). ... Finally, it has been proven that when dealing with a certain time in history, it is clear that the society, economy, politics and culture be the main focus of study....

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African Americans have been fighting for their rights for decades. The African American civil rights movement changed everything. This social movement looked to outlaw discrimination towards black Americans and obtain their right to vote. The movement did not turn to violence to get what they wanted, instead they demanded political and economic self-sufficiency. The movement was filled with major campaigns of civil resistance. ...

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Constitution states "all men are created equal," but where did black men fit in this ideology? ... There always seems to be a disjointed view when it comes to viewing history:  we feel sad for the destruction of the Mayan and Aztec culture, yet are completely blind to how we did the same to countless indigenous groups across the "uncharted" terrains. ...

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Ward believes "the Emancipation Proclamation stands as a monumental landmark in the advancement of liberty1" In contrast US history writes, "the search for equal rights was far from over with the passage of the 14th Amendment2" as the Supreme Court did nothing to ensure that the 14th Amendment, which stated that no "State [should] deprive any person of life, liberty, or property,3" was made a meaningful reality. ... Rather, he once told a black audience that there "must be a position of superior and inferior.4" James A Rawley clarifies this stating that ...

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