28
May
In 1789, following the ratification of the Constitution, Congress expanded its fight to end slavery by passing the Northwest Ordinance. That law establishing how territories could become States in the new United States forbade slavery in any of the federal territories then held; and for this reason, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Michigan, and [...]
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21
May
Morris objected to counting slaves because he did not want to reward slave holders and increase their power. Another ardent anti slavery delegate at the Constitutional Convention, Luther Martin, similarly explained: No principle can justify taking slaves into computation in apportioning calculating the number of representatives a State should have in the government; it involves [...]
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14
May
David Barton tells us that virtue. . . . Finally, . . . in the elegant and expressive language are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report, if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, shall be with you, to [...]
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7
May
David Barton shows us that fifty-five Founding Fathers served at the Convention which produced the Constitution, and thirty-nine of them eventually signed that document. And, as in the painting of the signers of the Declaration, many of their faces and names are unfamiliar today. Let’s rediscover something about some of those in the picture. Begin [...]
