<span>Despite his personal opposition to slavery, when President Abraham Lincoln took office in 1861 he insisted that his constitutional duty was to keep the nation together, not to abolish slavery. He conducted the first year of the war with the goal of reuniting the Union, but wartime events, including heavy military losses and the many slaves who escaped behind Union battle lines, forced him to contend with the issue of slavery. He issued a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862 and the final version on January 1, 1863, fundamentally changing the meaning of the war.</span>
Regarding the Magna Carta, this statement is false:
A.) THE DOCUMENT REQUIRED TRIAL BY A JURY OF ONE'S PEERS.
The Magna Carta, meaning "The Great Charter, was officially named Magna Carta Libertatum. It was a document issued by King John of England. It is very controversial because it states that everybody is subjected to the law. Nobody is exempted. Even the royals are subject to the law.
The Anti-Federalists insisted that a Bill of Rights be added to the Constitution because they believed that this document would give far too much power to the federal government--making it tyrannical. Therefore they wanted to ensure that the most fundamental human liberties would be protected by adding these amendments.
