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3 days ago · Federalist, but our military evolved with time and most Americans cannot imagine the world without a strong national military. The Anti-Federalist concern about billeting, however, is addressed in the 3rd Amendment. · Upon the inhabitants of any state proving refractory to the will of Congress, or upon any other pretense whatsoever, Congress may
5 days ago · People expected the Articles to be revised. This gave some Federalists—or nationalists, if you will—an opportunity. . . . There was an opportunity for many nationalists, who had other problems with the states, to use the federal problem—that is, the problem of the weak Confederation—to take advantage of that to accomplish even greater ...
5 days ago · The ratification of the United States Constitution was the subject of intense debate between 1787 and 1789. One particularly controversial issue was the Three Fifths Compromise, which settled how enslaved people would be counted for purposes of representation and taxation. Delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia had agreed ...
4 days ago · Speaking as a delegate before the state's ratification convention in 1788, Amos Singletary, a farmer from Worchester County, Massachusetts, voiced some of the concerns of his constituency. Chief among these are fears that the new government's ability to levy taxes and "impost" (import) duties would harm debt-saddled farmers who barely eked an ...
1 day ago · What I question is how one goes from federalist to disappointed federalist to sovereigntist to rage-farming separatist. To my mind, when he first emerged as a PQ supporter and later as the party's leader, St-pierre Plamondon appeared to emulate the type of sovereigntist embodied by René Lévesque: open to the world and welcoming of diversity.
20 hours ago · One type of private interest group that has grown in number and influence in recent years is the political action committee or PAC. These are independent groups, organized around a single issue or set of issues, which contribute money to political campaigns for United States Congress or the presidency.
1 day ago · What I question is how one goes from federalist to disappointed federalist to sovereigntist to rage-farming separatist. ... St-Pierre Plamondon appeared to emulate the type of sovereigntist ...
