Another example is the gun control debate. ... Almost every major first world country has pretty strict gun control laws, and they do not have the issues we have with gun violence. ... In order to reduce the likelihood that our future and freedoms are not threatened from within, there are a couple of steps of action that could be taken. ... Two, we could all partake more actively in the political process. ...

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The intent was to change political control in the South from upper class to farmers and artisans (Reconstruction). ... Because Andrew Johnson opposed military reconstruction, the Congress feared that Johnson would interfere too much with the reconstruction process, which was the legislative job, not the executive. ... The whites regained control of Southern government, but the nation had shifted from the pre-war South to the industrial economy of the North. ... These were first steps toward equality and would eventually lead to the civil rights movement later in history....

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President Johnson's second proclamation prescribes the steps by which southern states could reestablish state government. ... The three acts established military control over the former Confederate States by dividing them into five military districts, established who could run for office and who could vote, and how to regulate the ratification of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments and the Constitution. ... The companies that were suppose to complete the process did not and the states paid for roads and railroads that they did not get. ...

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