The Teapot Dome Scandal was an American political scandal of the early 1920s. It involved the secret leasing of federal oil reserves at Elk Hills, California, and Teapot Dome, Wyoming, by Albert Bacon Fall—U.S. Pres. Warren G. Harding's secretary of the interior—to oil tycoons Edward L.
If you pull the lever, you're causing the death of the one person. Causing people to die seems like killing. And killing people is wrong
Idea that each individual is born without a personality: Tabula Rasa
Tabula Rasa refers to the epistemological idea that individuals are born without buit-in mental content and hence all knowledge arise from perception along with experience.
Proponents of tabula rasa disagree with the doctrine of innatism which claims that the mind is born already in possession of certain knowledge.
Tabula rasa is a Latin phrase often translated into English as "blank slate."
Congress could not force the states to meet military quotas
Congress could not force states to respect treaties. Many states entered into treaties independent of congress