The Constitution was designed exactly for these times as the frame workers of the United States saw that their document governing the land needed to be easily amendable. The Civil War had just ended when the Senate and the House of Representatives of the United States decided that Article XIII Section 1 should be apart of the Constitution. ... Slavery had been outlawed in the United States and it's Constitution. ... According to Encyclopedia Britannica the 14th Amendment stated, "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citize...

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The 13th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America B. The 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America C. The 15th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America IV. ... The 13th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America was ratified on December 6, 1865. ... The 14th Amendment, section 1 states: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction therof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. ...

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They are called the' territories of the United States,' and what are the ' United States' but the States united? Sir, these territories are the property of the States united; held jointly for their common use." ... The Northern view was also based upon the very constitution itself which said that Congress has the power to "make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory... belonging to the United States." ... Dred Scott's lawyers filed a Writ of Error to the United States Supreme Court. ... The decision, which Justice Taney presented, had three main poi...

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When the United States was founded, it was founded on a very famous principle, that "all men are created equal." ... Perhaps the greatest irony is the fact that the southern states now wanted to be free, and separate from the northern states. ... It was truly a test of the heart of the United States as to whether or not it could overcome such a trying time. ... Lincoln increased the size of the army without congressional authorization, when the Constitution states that only Congress has the power to raise and support armies. He withdrew $2,000,000 for military purposes without authorization...

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All of this was basically a different interpretation of the United States Constitution on both sides. ... Basically the North favored a loose interpretation of the United States Constitution. ... This compromise was legislative measures that regulated the extension of slavery in the United States for three decades. ... This compromise also said that the territory east of California given to the United States by Mexico was divided into the territories of New Mexico and Utah, and they were opened to settlement by both slaveholders and antislavery settlers. ... Some of the...

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Many Southerners felt that if slavery were to be abolished in the United States, the Southern culture would disappear with it, because Southern culture by 1860 was completely immersed in a slave society. ... The Confederate Constitution of 1861 begins by stating "each State acting on it's own sovereign and independent character (wishes to) secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity." ... A States right was a major topic, even at the drafting of the US Constitution in 1787. ... Union came into existence, the question whether a member state co...

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Slavery was sheltered by the Constitution, which prevented him from making hasty actions in regarding to slavery. ... Lincoln acknowledged that "neither Congress nor a Territorial legislature can exclude slavery from any United States Territory,"" but he was a strong believer in limiting the spread of slavery. ... He began to think "of the United States as a biracial society" which would make whites living with blacks tough. ... With the question of egalitarianism, it brought up the question of colonization of African Americans out of the United States. ... Lincoln was pro colonization, th...

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Clark states the position of Mr. ... Scott appealed his case to the United States Supreme court. ... He continues, "The question is simply this: Can a negro, whose ancestors where imported into this country, and sold as slaves, become a member of the political community formed and brought into existence by the Constitution of the United States, and as such become entitled to all the rights, privileges, and immunities, guaranteed by that instrument to the citizen?" ... Ultimately the Justices decided that, "...upon full and careful consideration of the subject, the court is of opinion, that, up...

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The Impeachment and Trial of Andrew Johnson by Michael Les Benedict is a non fiction novel about the impeachment of the United States 7th president Andrew Johnson in 1868. ... But under the Constitution Congress had to charge him with "high crimes and misdemeanors". ... (Benedict 126") Though what I did not like about the book was it expected you to be pretty familiar with the Constitution. ... Article III, Section 2 empowered the president to pardon men for all offenses against the United States except in cases of impeachment." ... "I would be willing to delay indefinitely....

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The North favored a loose interpretation of the United States Constitution. ... Now the balance of 11 Free states and 11 Slave states was in trouble. ... Some of the most famous abolitionists were William Lloyd Garrison of Boston, Wendell Phillips, who in 1836 gave up his law practice because he could not support the United States Constitution. ... On February 4 delegates from all these states met in Montgomery, Alabama where they drafted a constitution for the Confederate States of America. ... James Buchanan believed the Constitution did not allow the North to take any action against the Sou...

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The North favored a loose interpretation of the United States Constitution. ... Now the balance of 11 Free states and 11 Slave states was in trouble. ... Some of the most famous abolitionists were William Lloyd Garrison of Boston, Wendell Phillips, who in 1836 gave up his law practice because he could not support the United States Constitution. ... On February 4 delegates from all these states met in Montgomery, Alabama where they drafted a constitution for the Confederate States of America. ... James Buchanan believed the Constitution did not allow the North to take any action against the Sou...

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It was not that Lincoln wanted slavery preserved, he said he is naturally anti-slavery, however as president, he was bound by the Constitution, which protected the institution of slavery in the states. ... The three-fifths clause of the Constitution allowed five slaves to account for three persons for purposes of determining the number of congressional seats in each state which seemed, in Lincoln's opinion, unfair to the states to the North. In his famous speech at Peoria, Illinois, he states: "But in ascertaining the number of the people, for this purpose five slaves are counted as ...

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Civil War - The Beginning In the mid 1800's, the United States had grown dramatically. ... The Civil War was a time when the country became a true test of character for the United States. ... Kentucky's Declaration Kentucky, Delaware, Maryland and Missouri held very few slaves and were not initially an important factor to the United States legislators, or to the south, as slave owning states were concerned. ... Kentuckians had ties to both the president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln and the Confederate States of America president, Jefferson Davis, each of which had Kentu...

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The Civil War had settled the issue of slavery and the question of states" rights, but several problems remained. ... he offered pardon to "any adherents of the Confederacy who would take the oath to support "the Constitution of the United States, and the union of the States."" ... If a majority of voters swore allegiance to the Union then loyal people would be responsible to draw up a new state constitution. ... Eventually all rebelling states successfully reconstructed under the presidential plan . ... Congress passed laws regulating the Reconstruction of the former Confederate states. ...

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Not long after, the United States banned it in 1808.   ... On January 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation declaring that "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."" ... The Proclamation was only applicable to such to states that had seceded from the Union. On the other hand, in the loyal Border States slavery was still at full blast. ... Constitution, ratified March 30, 1870, provided that all male citizens were entitled to vote. ...

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The black codes passed by the legislators of Southern states also suppressed blacks. ... Johnson's Jacksonian convictions for a truly united nation led him to insist on the speedy restoration of Southern governments based on the prewar white electorate. ... None of the states enfranchised even literate blacks. ... They divided the South into five military districts, enfranchised blacks, and required southern states to draw up constitutions safeguarding such suffrage. ... The new state constitutions were improved from their predecessors. ...

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The "great Emancipator" the tenacious the humble the human Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth president to the United States of America one of the most distinguished presidents that saved the country and gave new birth to freedom. ... "All men where created equal" from the Constitution was Abraham's useful and Convincing weapon that he used to debate with. ... Abraham was not convinced yet that he is eligible for presidency but he ran for that election in 1860 and he won the election by the popular vote in November and defeated his opponents Douglas, Bell and Breckinridge, and he became the...

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.# He believed that the Negro votes which were cast in violation of the Ohio constitution prohibited him from Congress. ... During the secession crisis, he advocated coercing the seceding states back into the Union. ... Both Lincoln and Garfield were unencumbered by military theory, and both were able to view their war with fresh common-sense practicality.# Ben Wade was one of the most radical politicians in the United States. ... John Sherman played an important role in Ohio politics and shaped the finances of the United States during this time. ... The legislation attempted to curb the gro...

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It played an important role in the anti-slavery movement from the smallest towns of the United States all the way to the shores of Europe. ... Lincoln declared the work as "a necessary measure of war- and used his power as "Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States- (Emancipation Proclamation). ... First of all, it only applied to states that had seceded from the Union, not to the border states. ... Many states, including Maryland, Tennessee, and Louisiana, amended their state constitutions to abolish slavery. ... But I understand that Lincoln had to convey it as a war...

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In the 1800's there existed the Free states and those states that were classified as slavery states. ... Other states from the north formed what they termed as union states. ... The confederate states formed by the southern states ignored to conference. ... Rights of the States The U.S is composed of different states and these states have their own rights. ... The constitution which was their unifying factor did not mean much to them but just another agreement between the states of the U.S (James & Michael, 210). ...

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So proslavery advocates arose in these states and tried to persuade Kansas and Nebraska to approve slavery. ... As the newly elected president of the United States has it, "My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery." Without any hesitation, President Abraham Lincoln immediately gives his assertion in the crisis that afflicted the United States. ... Twenty-three states, with a population of 22 million, remain in the Union. ... The constitution held the supreme law of the land and was to be enforced. ...

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Helping runaways was illegal even in the free states. The American Constitution had declared in 1787 that any slave who escaped to a free state had to be returned to the owner. ... Harriet continued her personal campaign, by working as a conductor and by making public speeches, until slavery was abolished throughout the United States. ... Once these stories came out about how these people were being enslaved- the campaign to abolish slavery completely was growing stronger and stronger in the northern states. ... After the slaves in the United States were freed, slavery b...

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Abraham Lincoln is a perfect example of leadership and legacy with his greatly successful job of ruling the United States of America and without him slavery may still be around today in some parts of the United States and the Confederacy likely a separate country, broken away from the US. ... Shortly after his term in the US House of Representatives he proposed an amendment to the constitution to abolish slavery which did not get passed but showed how much Abraham was against slavery. ... In 1860, Abraham Lincoln won in the race for President against three Decorative representatives and becam...

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The moderate and Radical Republicans instead united against the president to override his veto and enact the Civil Rights Act of 1866. ... This amendment, passed in June 1866, declared that "all persons born or naturalized in the United States" were "citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside" and were guaranteed "equal protection" and "due process" under the law. ... The law was very strict regarding readmittance of states into the Union. It required states to first call new constitutional conventions in which all male citizens were eligible to vote. The conventions th...

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The thesis statement is that Lincoln sought to preserve the American union and its system of self-government by reclaiming the ideals of the Declaration of Independence and to recover the Spirit of '76 to the American mind which states that "all men are created equal". ... He believed that federal constitution was being reinterpreted to establish a race-based, not a natural-rights-based, system of government that would extend slavery into every territory and state of the American union. In addition, the Founders planned to cut off its supply and restrict its expansion, which in ...

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