Author: Robert Alexander
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476627614
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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Passed by Congress in July 1787, the Northwest Ordinance laid out the basic form of government for all U.S. territory north of the Ohio River. That summer, the Constitutional Convention drafted the defining document of the American Republic as a whole. A bargain struck between Congress and the Convention outlawed slavery north of the Ohio, but gave Southern states a Congressional and Electoral College representation based on population figures that included slaves--each valued at three-fifths of a free white citizen. Because of this agreement, the western lands acquired from Great Britain after the Revolutionary War were divided into slave and free states--a compromise which, when it failed, precipitated the Civil War 74 years later. For years most historians denied that this political deal took place. Drawing on contemporary letters and documents, this detailed analysis re-examines the Ordinance and how Congress silently permitted the South's "peculiar institution" to move westward.
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1476
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1502
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Author: Massachusetts Historical Society. Library
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Category : Manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 894
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Author: John Adams
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Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 472
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Author: Alexander Hamilton
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231089302
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 710
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Although deconstruction has become a popular catchword, as an intellectual movement it has never entirely caught on within the university. For some in the academy, deconstruction, and Jacques Derrida in particular, are responsible for the demise of accountability in the study of literature. Countering these facile dismissals of Derrida and deconstruction, Herman Rapaport explores the incoherence that has plagued critical theory since the 1960s and the resulting legitimacy crisis in the humanities. Against the backdrop of a rich, informed discussion of Derrida's writings -- and how they have been misconstrued by critics and admirers alike -- The Theory Mess investigates the vicissitudes of Anglo-American criticism over the past thirty years and proposes some possibilities for reform.
Author: United States. Department of the Treasury
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Category : Manufactures
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1492
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1502
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1494
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