A Circumstantial Statement To Show The Origin And Progress Of The Movement For The Organization Of The Whig Party In The State Of California
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The Dred Scott Case
Author | : Roger Brooke Taney |
Publisher | : Legare Street Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2022-10-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781017251265 |
The Washington University Libraries presents an online exhibit of documents regarding the Dred Scott case. American slave Dred Scott (1795?-1858) and his wife Harriet filed suit for their freedom in the Saint Louis Circuit Court in 1846. The U.S. Supreme Court decided in 1857 that the Scotts must remain slaves.
Records, Computers, and the Rights of Citizens
Author | : United States. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Secretary's Advisory Committee on Automated Personal Data Systems |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Business records |
ISBN | : |
The Anti-Masonic Party in the United States
Author | : William Preston Vaughn |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2014-07-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 081315040X |
Here, for the first time in more than eighty years, is a detailed study of political Antimasonry on the national, state, and local levels, based on a survey of existing sources. The Antimasonic party, whose avowed goal was the destruction of the Masonic Lodge and other secret societies, was the first influential third party in the United States and introduced the device of the national presidential nominating convention in 1831. Vaughn focuses on the celebrated "Morgan Affair" of 1826, the alleged murder of a former Mason who exposed the fraternity's secrets. Thurlow Weed quickly transformed the crusading spirit aroused by this incident into an anti-Jackson party in New York. From New York, the party soon spread through the Northeast. To achieve success, the Antimasons in most states had to form alliances with the major parties, thus becoming the "flexible minority." After William Wirt's defeat by Andrew Jackson in the election of 1832, the party waned. Where it had been strong, Antimasonry became a reform-minded, anti-Clay faction of the new Whig party and helped to secure the presidential nominations of William Henry Harrison in 1836 and 1840. Vaughn concludes that although in many ways the Antimasonic Crusade was finally beneficial to the Masons, it was not until the 1850s that the fraternity regained its strength and influence.
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
Author | : Frederick Douglass |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 628 |
Release | : 1882 |
Genre | : Abolitionists |
ISBN | : |
Frederick Douglass recounts early years of abuse, his dramatic escape to the North and eventual freedom, abolitionist campaigns, and his crusade for full civil rights for former slaves. It is also the only of Douglass's autobiographies to discuss his life during and after the Civil War, including his encounters with American presidents such as Lincoln, Grant, and Garfield.
The Political Economy of Democracy and Tyranny
Author | : Norman Schofield |
Publisher | : De Gruyter Oldenbourg |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : |
One theme that has emerged from the recent literature on political economy concerns the transition to democracy: why would dominant elites give up oligarchic power? This book addresses the fundamental question of democratic stability and the collapse of tyranny by considering a formal model of democracy and tyranny. The formal model is used to study elections in developed polities such as the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Canada, and Israel, as well as complex developing polities such as Turkey. The key idea is that activist groups may offer resources to political candidates if they in turn adjust their polities in favor of the interest group. In polities that use a "first past the post" electoral system, such as the US, the bargaining between interest groups and candidates creates a tendency for activist groups to coalesce; in polities such as Israel and the Netherlands, where the electoral system is very proportional, there may be little tendency for activist coalescence. A further feature of the model is that candidates, or political leaders, like Barack Obama, with high intrinsic charisma, or valence, will be attracted to the electoral center, while less charismatic leaders will move to the electoral periphery. This aspect of the model is used to compare the position taking and exercise of power of authoritarian leaders in Portugal, Argentina and the Soviet Union. The final chapter of the book suggests that the chaos that may be induced by climate change and rapid population growth can only be addressed by concerted action directed by a charismatic leader of the Atlantic democracies.
Frederick Douglass: the Colored Orator
Author | : Frederic May Holland |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 1891 |
Genre | : Abolitionists |
ISBN | : |
History of Hancock County, Indiana
Author | : John H. Binford |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 588 |
Release | : 1882 |
Genre | : Greenfield (Ind.) |
ISBN | : |
Political Trials in Theory and History
Author | : Jens Meierhenrich |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 451 |
Release | : 2017-02-27 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1108107656 |
From the trial of Socrates to the post-9/11 military commissions, trials have always been useful instruments of politics. Yet there is still much that we do not understand about them. Why do governments use trials to pursue political objectives, and when? What differentiates political trials from ordinary ones? Contrary to conventional wisdom, not all political trials are show trials or contrive to set up scapegoats. This volume offers a novel account of political trials that is empirically rigorous and theoretically sophisticated, linking state-of-the-art research on telling cases to a broad argument about political trials as a socio-legal phenomenon. All the contributors analyse the logic of the political in the courtroom. From archival research to participant observation, and from linguistic anthropology to game theory, the volume offers a genuinely interdisciplinary set of approaches that substantially advance existing knowledge about what political trials are, how they work, and why they matter.