Whittington
Keith E. Whittington
Associate Professor of Politics
Director of the Undergraduate Program
Corwin Hall
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544
www.princeton.edu/~kewhitt
That would be Andrew Jackson in response to Worcester v. Georgia, and it is generally
regarded as apocryphal (though somewhat consistent with other things that he did say,
predicting that such a decision would be unenforceable). He did write in a letter,
the decision of the supreme court has
There
are similar sounding things (though not those exact quotes) reported in the
People for the American Way's brief against Brown's confirmation, which cites
unpublished speeches she gave to various organizations and which were on file
with the Senate Judiciary Committee. The PAW report
Marshall was a supporter of colonization, including raising money from
the federal government and other sources to purchase the freedom of slaves and
facilitate their immigration to Africa. He was one of the organizers of
the American Society for Colonizing the Free People of Color in 1816
This
seems somewhat unfair to Marshall. According to Jean Smith's biography,
Marshall, who was not a planter (and thus had little direct stake in the slave
economy), owned only a few domestic servants during his lifetime and provided
for the manumission of his primary slave in his will
The end of Mormon polygamy was announced via an 1890 Manifesto by Wilford
Woodruff, then president of LDS. A copy can be found on an anti-Mormon
website at http://www.polygamyinfo.com/manfesto.htm. A more elaborate
discussion of the Manifesto and its follow-up can be found at
ich sense
was the term being used?
Why would history written after the Civil War be written as 'whiggish' in
either sense, come to think of it? Who was doing the writing?
Bob Sheridan
SFLS
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rights and other issues; Thomas very distinctly did not, and Biden
clearly wasn't very satisfied at the time and thought Thomas at best had a
very cramped notion of constitutional privacy rights. I think the real test
on this question would have to come in a different case.
Keith Whittington
Keith E
Despite Chase's thundering, I notice that the Citizen Handbook on the Texas State
Senate page explains that Texas remained a state until 1861 when it seceded from the
Union . . [and] was readmitted to the United States in 1870.
On the division question, apparently the Reconstruction federal
The new Texas statute includes a parental option to excuse a student from
reciting either pledge.
keith whittington
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