People like the 8th president of the United states, Martin Van Bueren, it was to his convenience that he would allow slavery to be tolerated, for even U.S Secretary of State John Forsyth was threatening him that setting these Africans free, may mean civil war and ruin his chances for re-election. ... Wherein the judge that was handpicked by John Forsyth himself showed us the difference between both. ... But, in the words of John Covey(Morgan Freeman) there is no greater power than change?... In the end, President John Quincy Adams challenged everyone by saying if the result of this is civil ...

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John Smith was another explorer sent by the Queen of England to travel to America in search of all the riches he could find. ... He met a man named John C. ... This essay greatly influenced many leaders of the American civil rights movement, such as Martin Luther King Jr. ... In 1870 John Muir was on an expedition in California's Sierra Nevada. ...

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In order to decipher what it means to be an American you have to look at the past and what has brought this freedom upon us. George Washington once said "The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitution of government." Up until 1776 when the War en...

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Most of these checks and balances were put into place after previous misuse of surveillance powers by these agencies, including the revelation in 1974 that the FBI and foreign intelligence agencies had spied on over 10,000 U.S. citizens, including Martin Luther King Jr. ... Robert Horvitz and John E. ...

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