Word: slaving
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...government." Despite these heavy wounds, both strict construction and original intent have been summoned up again and again by judicial advocates who have found them useful. Chief Justice Roger Taney, a sometime slaveholder, invoked both when, in 1857, he handed down the decision denying the freedom sought by the slave Dred Scott. Neither slaves nor their descendants, said Taney, were "intended to be included, under the word 'citizens' in the Constitution, and can therefore claim none of the rights and privileges." Nor could they ever be included, since no court or Congress or President could "exercise any authority beyond...
...Humanity, a Georgia-based outfit that builds homes for the poor. Carter has done previous Habitat stints in New York City, but this was the first such outing for Colson, now a born- again Christian and founder-head of Prison Fellowship Ministries. He finds the ex-President a "slave driver" who is "very similar to Richard Nixon in that respect, although for a different cause. This one doesn't end us up in jail -- just at hard labor...
...helpin' Jim get free, but that weren't it. Truth is, Jim helped me git free, 'cause if he hadn't made me realize that it was better to do something wrong that felt right, no matter how many educated people said it was wrong, like helpin' a runaway slave, then I wouldn't never have known what it means to be free...
Stockman's career pattern was simple: find a "rabbi" (mentor in B-school lingo), become his slave until a better mentor comes along, become his slave, etc. The concept of a personal life, or fun, does not seem to part of Stockman's mental vocabulary; only the ceaseless immersion in whichever intellectual orthodoxies seemed most prudent at the time...
...flamboyant but minor villain in Thomas Hughes' 19th century novel Tom Brown's School Days, moved to center stage in George MacDonald Fraser's comic-historical novels of imperial adventure. Previous volumes placed Flashman, now a mature, hard-drinking rogue, in and around the Crimean War, the African slave trade and the American gold rush. With great panache he became involved with figures ranging from Bismarck and Abraham Lincoln to Queen Victoria and Lola Montez...