Celebrity's of the week: President Edition

President Bill Clinton

President Barack Obama

The Glorious 13 and its right of Passage

The Amendments held within the constitution of the United States dictate the rights the citizens have that dwell within this country. When the original ten amendments came to be in the Bill of rights it showed everyone that the rights of the citizens of America will be protected by the government. The Amendments address all the freedoms that people share and more are still being made today. The process of ratification of an amendment is lengthy and foreboding. President Abraham Lincoln knew this for sure, given that during the Civil War he wanted to allow slaves the right to become free and join the country as citizens and equal ground as everyone. As one could assume during this time period slavery was very natural and part of society. Most places even developed prospering economies based on the slave trade and other slave markets. Once this Amendment was introduced, it caused a major problem and received a great amount of criticism from every part of society. This included the presidents very own cabinet and congress men. Many of the people did not believe African Americans to be the same as Caucasians which thus generated a deep hatred for them, especially towards the man who believed that it would be just to enable slaves to become free. When Lincoln proposed the Amendment to congress men many of them became fearful of the future and could not understand the changes that were soon to come. They were especially fearful of what the African Americans might gain after citizenship and freedom, things like voting rights and interracial marriage could occur. Some of the congressmen brought those points and other up similar to the African Americans holding government positions, becoming higher in social ranks and owning land. It took most of these men a long while to accept the joint efforts of the African American troops intermingling with Caucasian force to strike down the enemies of the United States. The congressmen that disagreed with the amendment caused Mr. Lincoln a major deal of strife within the government. Despite this Mr. Lincoln knew he only needed a majority vote to allow this amendment to pass so he began invoking his implied powers to persuade those who were unsure of what to vote for. He would offer them positions in congress which was not exactly morally incorrect for a high ranking official to offer jobs, it was more along the lines of swindling someone or along the lines of the action is looked down upon.Mr. Lincoln also twisted the truth to benefit him and to further the process of this amendment. When the Congressmen asked whether or not there were Confederates in Washington DC, Mr. Lincoln rebutted with that he did not know whether or not there are Confederates in Washington DC, despite the fact that he knew the truth of the situation and there were in fact Confederates in DC. The President truly required this to pass so much so that he aged ten years since he first took office. Part of the reason for this desire was the predictable presidential move and that was to receive more votes for the next presidential election. Another reason was that if he were to be exchanged with another president the Emancipation Proclamation would be rescinded and the amendment would be utterly diminished and may have been passed. It would have been AXED

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The Dark Knight

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Santa has been recorded to enter peoples homes without permission and leaving toys in the houses he visits. Some of these toys include toy soldiers. the 3rd talks about how it is against the law to have soldiers force their way into your house during peace time

When FDR ran for president it was not illegal to run for presidency a many times as you want but it was tradition that the president would step down after two. FDR ran for the record of four until he died in his fourth term as president. The 22nd amendment addresses this problem and limits the president to only two terms max.