1787–1789
Correspondence on a Bill of Rights
Jefferson and Madison debate Constitution’s strengths, term limits, and bill of rights.
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Jefferson and Madison debate Constitution’s strengths, term limits, and bill of rights.
Source: “Herbert Hoover analyzes 5 periods in the development of the history of the Depression,” Simeon D. Fess Papers, 1933, National Archives Catalog, https://catalog.archives.gov/id/187086. . . . Today we are
Source: Letter to President Hoover from Philo D. Burke, Liaison Officer, B. E. F.; July 29, 1932, National Archives and Records Administration, Hoover Museum Digital Archives. http://www.ecommcode.com/hoover/hooveronline/text/3.html. President Herbert Hoover,
Source: Letter from Assistant Secretary of War John McCloy to World Jewish Congress Rescue Department Head A. Leon Kubowitzki, World Jewish Congress Records, MS-361, Box D107, Folder 13, The Jacob
Source: Excerpts from Pacific War Diary, 1942–1945 by James J. Fahey (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1963). Copyright renewed 1991 by James J. Fahey. Used by permission of Houghton Mifflin Company.
Source: Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, edited by Roy Basler, Volume 6 (The Abraham Lincoln Association, 2006), 364–365. https://goo.gl/APSo23 My dear General Banks, Being a poor correspondent is the only
https://goo.gl/zyQJro From: J R Oppenheimer To: Henry Stimson, Secretary of War Date: August 17, 1945 Dear Mr. Secretary: The Interim Committee has asked us to report in some detail on
Publications of the Buffalo Historical Society, Volume VIII, ed. Frank H. Severance (Buffalo, NY: Buffalo Historical Society, 1905), 524–527. The source does not give the date of the letter from
These letters illustrate how Americans interpreted Brown’s raid through sharply different moral and constitutional frameworks
But there are doctrines espoused from which I am constrained to dissent. I allude particularly to the doctrine . . . that the States (perhaps their Governments) have, singly, a