Why "Three/Fifths"? - Republican Party
A major point of contention was in devising a method that would result in fair representation of each state. The larger states wanted representation based on population, while the small states fought to have each state represented in equal ... [... more]
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Mississippi Seats Vacant for a Decade
In 1870, the state of Mississippi was rejoining the union. Its two senate seats had been empty for nine years. Hiram R. Revels was elected to fill the seat left vacant by Jefferson Davis, who had left the United States senate to serve as ... [... more]
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Two Actors Brought Down the Curtain on Communism - ...
An American actor who became a president and a Polish actor who became a pope are now recognized as the two world leaders most responsible for bringing down the USSR as a communist superpower and thus the demise of communism in Eastern Europe. ... [... more]
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Watching the Obama Inauguration - Republican Party
As an American, I felt a certain kind of nationalistic pride course through my spine watching the installation of the first black American as the president of the United States. As a member of an ethnic minority I never thought I would see the ... [... more]
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Republican Party and African Americans - Republican Party
Hiram R. Revels from Mississippi became the first African American to occupy a seat in the United State Senate on February 25, 1870,. He served only a partial term, but Blanche K. Bruce, elected March 5, 1875, served a full term. Both men were ... [... more]
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Reactions to "Cultural Icon Guevara"
Suppose you had had the misfortune of living under a brutal dictatorship, you had been imprisoned, you had seen your relatives murdered, and you had been tortured while imprisoned. But you were one of the lucky ones and somehow managed to escape ... [... more]
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The West Wing of the White House - Republican Party
From the official Web site of the White House, the following is a brief history of the West Wing: Also from the White House Web site, the following brief history, plus this page offers a video tour of the facility. Interesting fact: It was ... [... more]
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Teddy Roosevelt and Women's Suffrage - Republican Party
In some U. S. western states in 1912, women were allowed to vote. But no state east of the Mississippi River granted suffrage to women. The Republican candidate William Howard Taft and the Democrat candidate Woodrow Wilson did not support the ... [... more]
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Sixty-Percent Human - Republican Party
The delegates to the Constitutional Convention met in Philadelphia from May 25 to September 17, 1787. Their original reason for meeting was to revise the Articles of Confederation, which had proved too weak to address the issues that faced the ... [... more]
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Clare Boothe Luce - Renaissance Woman - Republican Party
Ann Clare Boothe was born April 10, 1903, in New York City to dancer Anna Snyder and businessman William Franklin Boothe, who never married. The family lived in Chicago and Memphis. Her father left the family when Clare was nine years old, and ... [... more]
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President Bush on Pope John Paul II - Republican Party
It has been three years since Pope John Paul II passed from this earth. President Bush's three descriptive adjectives, "humble, wise, and fearless," proffer the best description of this devout soul. In a statement on the death of Pope John Paul [... more]
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