Sentences with phrase «confederacy which»

There's no right to bear arms in the Articles of Confederacy which would be the founding document, written in 1777 and ratified in 1781.

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When Sam Houston advised Texans not to join the Confederacy, which was a losing cause, Texans threw him out of office.

He didn't have to explain the 1794 Treaty of Canandaigua, in which the United States pledged not to disturb the Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy or their lands.

The Seneca Nation of Indians are the largest of six Native American nations in New York State which comprised the Iroquois Confederacy or Six Nations, a democratic government that pre-dates the United States Constitution.

The film begins in January 1865, three months before the Confederacy's surrender, which was shortly followed by his assassination.

Given that he knows the Confederacy is about to fall, much of the film follows Lincoln as he navigates murky political waters to ensure the amendment is ratified before the end of the war, which would ensure that it applies to all states once the Union is again united.

That didn't stop the Confederacy from telling Coulson all about it though, which in turn made General Talbot desperate to use his new power over gravity to team up with the Avengers and protect the world.

It is far from being that simple, though, as he explains in an extended monologue to his Cabinet the warped legal logic that brought about the Emancipation Proclamation — a declaration that only works by admitting that the Confederacy is a legitimate nation and that slaves are property, both of which are the exact opposite of Lincoln's beliefs.

This bundle contains 42 PAGES of ready - to - use American civil war worksheets that are perfect for students to learn about this devastating war widely known in the United States as simply the Civil War, which was a civil war fought from 1861 to 1865 to determine the survival of the Union or independence for the Confederacy

He and his crew of marine experts and NUMA volunteers have discovered more than 60 historically significant underwater wreck sites including the first submarine to sink a ship in battle, the Confederacy's Hunley, and its victim, the Union «sHousatonic; the U-20, the U-boat that sank the Lusitania; the Cumberland, which was sunk by the famous ironclad, Merrimack; the renowned Confederate raider Florida; the Navy airship, Akron, the Republic of Texas Navy warship, Zavala, found under a parking lot in Galveston, and the Carpathia, which sank almost six years to - the - day after plucking Titanic's survivors from the sea.

In disputing that point, Vinjamuri points to John Kennedy Toole's «A Confederacy of Dunces» which was rejected by every publisher except Robert Gottleib of Simon & Schuster (who also discovered Joseph Heller's «Catch 22»).

«What the feds need to do if they're going to advance a self - government agenda is to formulate legislation that allows them to constitute other bodies [and] pass legislation to substantiate collectives,» or confederacies of indigenous peoples, with which the Crown can negotiate.

This, however, not to mention that the instances may rarely occur when a State may have an opportunity of suing in the American Courts a foreign state, seems to lose sight of the policy which, no doubt, suggested this provision, viz., that no State in the Union should, by withholding justice, have it in its power to embroil the whole Confederacy in disputes of another nature.