In Article I, Section 8, the Constitution lists the expressed powers. There is 27 total. Here are two examples of the expressed powers of Congress:
-The power to tax and spend for the defence and general welfare of the U.S.
-Promote the sciences and the arts through granting patents and copyrights for inventions and discoveries
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On this day in 1793, young inventor Eli Whitney had his U.S. patent for the cotton gin approved, an invention that would definitely have an impact on social and economic conditions that led to the Civil War.
How much of an impact the gin (which is short for “engine”) had on the retention of slavery in the South is still being debated. To be sure, the value of cotton as a cash crop grew astronomically in the decades following Whitney’s patent went into effect. By some estimates, the United States supplied three-quarters of the global cotton supply by the start of the Civil War.
Link: See The Approved Patent
Much of that cotton made its way to Northern manufacturers to be made into clothing and other products. But slavery, in addition to the cotton gin, was a key component of the cotton business. Whitney got the idea for the gin while working as a tutor near the estate of Catherine Greene in Savannah. Greene, the widow of General Nathaneal Greene,also may have suggested some of the concepts behind the gin to Whitney, according to one 19th century author.
The gin separated the sticky seeds from the fibers in short-staple cotton, which was easy to grow in the Deep South but difficult to process. The gin improved the separation of the seeds and fibers by a factor of 50, but the cotton still needed to be picked by hand. The demand for cotton roughly doubled each decade following Whitney’s invention. So cotton became a very profitable crop that also demanded a growing slave-labor force to harvest it.
During the constitutional debates of 1787, an end to the importation of slaves by the year 1808 was one of the compromises agreed to in Philadelphia. Some Founders may have believed that slavery would fade away in the United States because of social reasons or the unprofitability of slave-produced crops before the gin was invented.
In 1807, Congress passed an act to make the slave-importation ban official. During the first cotton boom, the slave population in the South swelled to 4 million people, leaving slave owners with an ample population to maintain a workforce as the children of slaves were born into slavery. By 1820, the nation was divided into Northern and Southern regions based on the legality of slavery in states and territories.
Whitney never really profited from the invention that had a direct role in maintaining slavery as an institution. Although the Constitution’s Article 1, Section 8, gave Congress the power to create patent laws, the rules were difficult to enforce due to loopholes, and other planters started to build their own cotton gins. His patent was finally validated in 1807 after Whitney tried to collect damages in lawsuits for years. (Whitney later invented a process for interchangeable manufacturing parts for guns, which was very profitable.)
One question that has been debated was the fate of slavery, independent of Whitney’s invention, and in particular, the idea that the cotton gin suddenly made slavery profitable. Alfred H. Conrad and John R. Meyer in their classic 1958 study about the issue argued that slavery depended on its economic survival for the spread of the institution to the Southwest in the 1860s.
Recently, professor Paul Finkleman argued in the Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities that the common perception of slavery as a dying institution before the cotton gin’s invention is misguided. “Slaves were a profitable investment before the cotton gin and an even more profitable investment after its invention,” he wrote in 2013.
Regardless, the cotton gin was one of the significant inventions that changed American history in broad, generational ways.
Answer: House of Representatives
Must be at least 25 years old.
Must have been a citizen for 7 years.
The US constitution spelt out that no person shall be a representative who shall not have attained to the age of twenty five years and been seven years a citizen of the United state and who shall not , when elected, be an inhabitant of that state in which he shall be chosen.
Senators
Must be at least 30 years of age
Must have been a citizen for 9 years or longer.
The United state constitution sets three qualifications for service in the US senate. Which are Age, US citizenship, and residency in the state a senator represent at time of election.
The Feminine Mystique was a book written during the women's liberation movement by Betty Friedan. In this book, Friedan discusses the dissatisfaction and frustration of American women around the country who were college educated but were still only seen as a housewife. Friedan felt that the pressure to conform to societal norms was crushing the will/spirit of women in the US. In this book, she encourages women to seek out fulfillment and worry about their own happiness instead of trying to fit into societal norms as to how a woman should behave.
