Peter McWilliams Quotes
Although The Declaration of Independence is not, like The Constitution, the law of the land, it is certainly the spirit of the land.
Peter McWilliams Writer and Photographer, Ain’t Nobody’s Business If You Do, 1996
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Anti-slavery opponents had cited the equality argument of the Declaration of Independence to buttress their argument.
Defining Americanism has always been a challange. Huntington sees American national identity defined by political ideology with the only commonality of Americans are this American political ideology.
Welliver was the first of the American presidential speechwriters. President Harding was the one who used the term in public.
This hypocrisy and insincerity was seen for what it was by the Radical Republicans, Abolitionists and the newly freed slaves themselves. See {617728} and {617339}. However, this approach soon was adopted as the “party line” by intellectual Southerners of the time, and has continued to this day. The rebellion that caused the deaths of more Americans than all the rest of our wars, was not as they stated it caused by any conflict over slavery, no economic causes, no differences in labor philosophies and trade, no contention over control of new territories, but was simply an attempt to vigorously support and defend the Constitution. However, one advantage to using this story as an explanation of the bloody rebellion, was that the defeated Southerners could see their acts as somewhat nobly motivated.
From this quotation, {615902} and {615901} it is clear that the framers of the Constitution intended the treaty making powers to be shared by the President and the Senate. In practice, in modern times treaties are usually initially negotiated by diplomats under the supervision of the President and the Senate gets to concur or not in the ratification process. However, there have been a number of treaty failures including the League of Nations where the lack of coordination has resulted in a situation where the Senate had to accept or reject something which the President had negotiated and the Senate rejected the treaty.
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Peter Alexander McWilliams was an American self-help author who advocated for the legalization of marijuana.
