Sentences with phrase «not abolitionism»

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(Compton explains that because slavery was abolished through formal amendments, abolitionism did not have the same impact on constitutional interpretation as did anti-lottery and anti-liquor campaigns.)

The main stance of the Catholic Church, for example, was not so much proslavery as anti-abolitionism, because the church associated abolitionism with extreme individualism.»

Since January of this year, nuclear abolitionism — or at least the call for the intentional pursuit of the goal of a world without nuclear weapons — not only received honorable mention in President Obama's inaugural address, but was the centerpiece of two speeches (5 April in Prague; 24 September at the United Nations) and a joint statement with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (1 April in London).