1825–1860
What to the Slave Is the 4th of July?
Explains Douglass’s Fourth of July critique, exposing slavery’s contradiction with American ideals and fueling abolitionist moral urgency.
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Explains Douglass’s Fourth of July critique, exposing slavery’s contradiction with American ideals and fueling abolitionist moral urgency.
Drawing inspiration from the Bible, specifically Proverbs 25:11, Lincoln reflects that the Union and the Constitution are a “picture of silver” framed around the principle of liberty to all, or an “apple of gold,” from the Declaration of Independence.
Mr. Chief Justice Taney delivered the opinion of the court. . . . The question is simply this: can a Negro whose ancestors were imported into this country and sold
IN THE course of the foregoing review of the Constitution, I have taken notice of, and endeavored to answer most of the objections which have appeared against it. There however
Frost: You called a meeting on June the fifth, 1970, about the Huston plan and eventually approved it in July. It got your okay on July the fourteenth, didn’t it?
Monday, May 28 . . . Mr. Wythe[1] from the Committee for preparing rules, made a report, which employed the deliberations of this day. Mr. King[2] objected to one of
Jefferson and Madison debate Constitution’s strengths, term limits, and bill of rights.
Hamilton rejected existing plans, prioritizing strong national government, stable long terms, and branch power balance to ensure effective republican governance.
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
Should the nullifiers succeed in their views of separation, and the Union be in consequence dissolved, the following will be an appropriate epitaph. HERE, To the ineffable joy of Despots,