Word: abolitionism
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Italy was finally united in 1870 under the House of Savoy. The unity was perhaps inevitable, but without Garibaldi the Risorgimento would have lacked a popular hero. He was a good commander of men; Abraham Lincoln even offered him an army corps with the Union forces. (Garibaldi turned him down...
The figures reflect a paradox in the U.S. attitude toward capital punishment. Last year four states virtually abolished the death sentence (New York, Iowa, Vermont, West Virginia), bringing the total of abolition states to 13. But while the rest of the country is still reluctant to discard the death sentence...
He termed the abolition of the excise tax questionable, and said that we must be prepared to say "that nylon stockings third cars and second fur coats were not quite as important as better schools and better housing."
Julian was elected from the 136th Legislative district, a predominantly Negro area in Atlanta. Although it touches on the campus of Atlanta University and includes some of the middle-class residential neighborhood surrounding the school, the bulk of the 136th is a slum, known locally as Vine City. Visiting door...
In urging the abolition of the Electoral College, Freund, who is Carl M. Loeb University Professor, called presidential elections "a clear case for the one-man, one-vote principle."