The people endowed Abraham with a sense of humor, and physical power, which gave him a good impression. ... "As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. ... In the year 1858 Lincoln gave his most distinguished speech "House Divided" speech whish indicated several points, but what mostly important is stopping the importance of slaves from Africa, and holding slaves in free states automatically sets them free. ... Lincoln was so worried if a war broke up he and the north will be held accountable for creating a big mistake, Lincoln warned the south that he would use power to reunite ...

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These debts were enormous and under the Articles of Confederation the national government could not collect taxes, this power granted to the states. ... Therefore, members of Congress began asking that this power be granted to them. ... Also when the new constitution was passed it gave Congress more power and they were able to put tariffs on imported goods from foreign countries. ... People that held power under the Articles of Confederation, such as state officials, were not likely willing to give up this power and were therefore against the ratification of a document that would put restr...

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That piece of legislation was called the Monroe Doctrine, which established the United States as the sole police power for the Western Hemisphere and called for an end to European interference in American affairs. ... Many such empresarios also brought along their slaves and intended to grow cotton. ... Upon his inauguration, Walker made slavery legal in Nicaragua and began encouraging Southerners to move to his new country with their slaves. ... Driven from power, Walker returned to the United States, where he would finally be tried and found guilty of neutrality law violations. ... When...

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The constitution gave our government a limited, an enumerated and a delegated right to act, dispensing power between three balanced branches. ... We saw it in everything from the suspected "conspiracy" that killed a president to the mercenary politics that waged political wars We saw it in the in the 1970s as big government regulated our economy into a recession of unemployment and inflation. ... Government, over the span of our sententious history has taken on more and more of one thing: power. Lord Acton summed it up best when he stated, "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate