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Hace 2 días · Besides being a masterful politician and unrivaled lawyer, Thaddeus Stevens was an enthusiastic promoter of railroads, pushing for two early railroads in Pennsylvania and then laying the legislative groundwork in the 1860s for the Transcontinental Railroad. Stevens's first railroad venture was the Gettysburg Extension of the Pennsylvania Main Line, nicknamed the Tapeworm Railroad because its…
Hace 5 días · In March 1865, Representative Thaddeus Stevens of Pennsylvania proposed that all planter lands in the former Confederacy be confiscated and redistributed to ex-slaves and poor whites in forty-acre tracks.
Hace 5 días · 28 subscribers. Subscribed. 0. No views 1 minute ago. Walton & Company has generously donated its plasma table to Thaddeus Stevens School of Technology, providing an invaluable resource for the...
Hace 5 días · Senator Jacob M. Howard (R-MI, 1805–1871) introduced the provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment on behalf of the committee in a speech on the Senate floor on May 23, 1866. Senator Howard discussed at length the first clause of the first provision of the amendment—“No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges ...
Hace 5 días · The Slaughterhouse Cases became the controlling case for defining national citizenship under the 14 th amendment to the United States Constitution, though later courts would provide a broader definition under different constitutional provisions. —Scott Yenor. Source: The Slaughterhouse Cases, 83 U.S. 36 (1872).
Hace 5 días · The people of the state of South Carolina, in Convention assembled, on the 26th day of April, a.d. 1852, declared that the frequent violations of the Constitution of the United States by the federal government, and its encroachments upon the reserved rights of the states, fully justified this state in then withdrawing from the federal Union; but in deference to the opinions and wishes of the ...
Hace 1 día · Thaddeus Stevens "suffered too from the rumor that he was actually the bastard son of Count Talleyrand, who was said to have visited New England in the year before Stevens' birth.... Actually Talleyrand did not visit New England till 1794, when Stevens was already two years old."
