Sentences with phrase «of slavery question»

Several months later the Compromise of 1850 passed the Congress and President Millard Fillmore proclaimed it a «permanent settlement» of the extension of slavery question.

In 1834 the student body met for eighteen nights in a revival atmosphere to discuss the pros and cons of the slavery question.

Not exact matches

Without answering a question you maintain that since slavery was a common practice back then, that god was only setting rules for the people of the time.

C) Instead of asking stupid questions, would you like to actually converse on a topic, maybe also rationalize slavery as Chad and Chcoked are currently attempting to do?

In this way of thinking, the Framers had not resolved but had only postponed the question of slavery, and Lincoln's sense that the time had come to move, however cautiously, toward a resolution had about it a force of obligation that he did not hesitate to call sacred.

He himself proceeds in this kind of historical framing of intellectual and social questions, such as the influences of Greek thought or the practice of slavery.

One can imagine other ways in which the question of slavery in America might have been settled once and for all.

It reminds us that our most pressing constitutional questions (on slavery and secession) were settled out of court; that it took more than a wiser judge to reverse our most villainous chief justice (Roger Taney); and that our Constitution's most consequential interpreter wasn't a robed philosopher - king but a self - taught lawyer from Kentucky by way of Illinois.

The historian may still question the soundness of southern leadership, but he will remember that men whose opportunity in the Modern World was one of producing its raw cotton did not deliberately choose to do so on plantations with Negro slavery.

It prescinds, however, from the substance of the moral questions involved» the rightness or wrongness of slavery or legalized abortion and euthanasia as a matter of public policy.

So to say that the hierarchal structures presented in these passages are divinely instituted and inherently holy, raises some troubling questions about God's view of slavery.

For like the practice of slavery, and like the Jim Crow laws of the not - so - distant past, the abortion issue raises the most fundamental questions of justice — questions that can not be avoided, and that can not be be resolved by judicial fiat.

In response to the cruelties of New World slavery, which popes initially endorsed, some a few 16th - century Dominicans started questioning the morality of slavery.

Justice Scalia is hoping that one day we will be as removed from the abortion controversy as we are today removed from past controversies over slavery and the internment of Japanese «Americans, and that this distance will be the consequence of having clearly and definitively rejected the injustice in question.

Indeed, we may search the pages of the literary prophets in vain to find a single instance in which the question of human slavery in the abstract is discussed.

Jesus never explicitly questioned or discussed the institution of slavery.

So far as slaves were concerned, nowhere in the Bible is the institution of slavery, as such, attacked or even questioned.

If the norm of the new humanity in Jesus Christ obliges us to question the Apostle's opinions about the proper status of women and the institution of human slavery, so also that norm obliges us to scrutinize each of his moral judgments regarding its Christian faithfulness for our time — including his perception of homosexuality.

Such a vision of life has implications for questions of war and peace, infanticide and abortion, slavery and the rights of women, justice and privilege, orgyism and gladiatorial amusements.

Sandford (whose name was actually Sanford), acting on behalf of his sister who was Dred Scott's owner, injected into the litigation the question whether any black person, free or slave, could be a citizen of the United States, and he directly challenged the constitutionality of the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which forbade slavery in the Louisiana Territory north of latitude 36 ° 30».

Whichever scholar has the better argument, they agree that the decision focused the debate over slavery and introduced into the already heady brew of issues involved in that debate the question of the scope of judicial power under the Constitution.

By the time of the General Conference of 1844, held in New York, opinion in the North had coalesced against the gag of silence placed on the slavery question.

In January of 1817 a large group of famous men met in Washington to discuss ways and means of dealing with the slavery question.

The moderates and Southerners combined before the triennial convention of 1841 to keep the slavery question off the floor and to replace a Northern abolitionist board member with a Southern proslavery man.

This is not only an empirical question about what policies a political system full of actors able to slow or veto policies favoured by democratic majorities is likely to favour, or whether such a system will in fact make slavery less likely or more.

As Niagara Falls celebrates the opening of a new center celebrating its role in the Underground railroad movement, some of those behind the project say they were given a little extra incentive thanks to newspaper stories questioning the legitimacy of Niagara Falls» connection to the slavery freedom trail.

Questions - Foreign Office Ten minute rule motion - eradication of slavery (UK company supply chains) Debate - transport and the economy Debate - preparations for the Rio Plus summit Adjournment debate - supermarkets and public land in Scotland

To assist you in the analysis of your current modern slavery policy and process, answer these five key questions on modern slavery:

A film about the passage of a change to a legal document generates less intrigue, even if the revision in question outlawed slavery and came alongside the end of the longest and deadliest war fought on American soil.

The lesson covers topical issues and ask questions that really focus the students on the moral consequences of slavery.

Smith finds that students bring many questions on the topic of slavery: Why are people racist?

Ricketts» time in the fashion industry opened her eyes to unexpected ethical questions, particularly around the issue of modern day slavery, and how the demand for more goods at lower prices perpetuated such labor practices.

Whether it was because of questions about my hair or curious glances during lessons about slavery, I had learned the rest of the world was white and I was not.

Because of the founders» refusal to press for abolition, the slavery question was bequeathed to Abraham Lincoln to solve — and the Civil War illustrated just how divisive the issue was.

The 10 - month struggle in the U.S. Congress in 1850 to resolve questions about the status of the new territories gained in the Mexican War and the future of slavery in present - day New Mexico and Utah could have turned out differently.

In congressional debates in 1790 about the possible abolition of slavery, Georgia representative James Jackson attacked the abolitionist Quakers as «outright lunatics» [p. 97] and went on to say, «If it were a crime, as some assert but which I deny, the British nation is answerable for it, and not the present inhabitants, who now hold that species of property in question» [p. 98].

In this tale, the wrongs of human slavery spread across continents and people groups, perpetuated even by neighboring African villages and colonists who question the rightness of the practice.

While My African Mind looks at the colonial gaze and mental slavery, its sequel of sorts, My European Mind, humorously asks the serious question — «Why not rebrand Europe?»

The political thread in her work raises questions about the African Diaspora's movements and it's relation to feminism, sexuality, racism and the history of slavery.

A majority of his works is based on the question of race and slavery, and that is one of the darkest periods in the human history, whose consequences are evident up to this very day.

At the same time, this video presents and contrasts the testimony of Mamadou Kerala, a member of the Pan African Federation of Catalonia, who makes a reflection on the slavery - related past of those characters linked to the history of Catalonia, with some of the participants of the Catalan Way (September 11th 2014), who are being questioned by the artist regarding the possibility of removing the monument of Christopher Columbus from Barcelona's public space.

We are indeed grappling with contemporary questions provoked by the poltergeists of our past: how do we as nations spurred by an economy of slavery account for that major feature of our development?

For my own part, I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery;... Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason towards my country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the Majesty of Heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings.»

Or are questions of condoning slavery versus accepting the responsibility of being free no longer morally relevant?

Accepting that slavery is not really a counter-terrorism issue, the question that remains to be asked is do we really want to rip up human rights laws if that means that yours and my rights to not be killed or subjected to torture, is limited because we wish to restrict the rights of the «other»: the person who looks a little different, sounds a bit different, or thinks a bit different.

While the question process can first appear to be quite simple, the expert system tool shows a high degree of autonomy and will steer a client through certain bespoke branches of questions until it has got all the answers it needs to provide the client with a provisional statement in relation to the Modern Slavery Act, which the British Government made law in part to prevent companies exploiting forced labour, often via foreign suppliers.