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Mr Maher

To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 24 October 1787 - 1 views

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5th Grade Unit 4 - The New Nation US I Unit 3 Constitution and New Nation primary documents myth canon

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  • The mutability of the laws of the States is found to be a serious evil. The injustice of them has been so frequent and so flagrant as to alarm the most stedfast friends of Republicanism. I am persuaded I do not err in saying that the evils issuing from these sources21 contributed more to that uneasiness which produced the Convention, and prepared the public mind for a general reform, than those which accrued to our national character and interest from the inadequacy of the Confederation to its immediate objects.
  • Those who contend for a simple Democracy, or a pure republic, actuated by the sense of the majority, and operating within narrow limits, assume or suppose a case which is altogether fictitious.
  • Even in its coolest state, it has been much oftener a motive to oppression than a restraint from it.
  • Mr Maher on 19 Nov 18
     
    This is James Madison telling Thomas Jefferson, and history teachers in the 21st century what went on in the Constitutional Convention. Notice his statement that it was the fear of popularly elected state legislatures that had more to do with the calling of a Constitutional Convention than the failures of the Articles of Confederation. US History Instructional materials teach the opposite
David Hilton

The Articles of Confederation - The U.S. Constitution Online - USConstitution.net - 1 views

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  • David Hilton on 24 Jul 09
     
    Copies of the Articles of Confederation in the United States Constitution. I don't really know what they are but they seem important.
Ed Webb

Virginia 4th-grade textbook criticized over claims on black Confederate soldiers - 2 views

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  • Masoff defended her work. "As controversial as it is, I stand by what I write," she said. "I am a fairly respected writer."
  • When Masoff began work on the textbook, she said she consulted a variety of sources -- history books, experts and the Internet. But when it came to one of the Civil War's most controversial themes -- the role of African Americans in the Confederacy -- she relied primarily on an Internet search. The book's publisher, Five Ponds Press, based in Weston, Conn., sent a Post reporter three of the links Masoff found on the Internet. Each referred to work by Sons of the Confederate Veterans or others who contend that the fight over slavery was not the main cause of the Civil War.
  • . Five Ponds Press has published 14 books that are used in the Virginia public school system, all of them written by Masoff. Masoff also wrote "Oh Yuck! The Encyclopedia of Everything Nasty" and "Oh Yikes! History's Grossest Moments."
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