In England, mercantilism created a skilled industrial population and a large what "trading" industry, since the core of mercantilism was that a nation traded vibrantly with other nations.
In 1517, came the 95 Theses against Indulgences, a document showing that Luther’s practical appropriation of ‘justification by faith alone’ was far from fully formed at that point in time and that, although Luther disparaged papal indulgences as media of final forgiveness of sins, he was still placing considerable onus on the responsibility of the individual to secure remission of sins through contrition for them.
On this day in 1982, President Ronald Reagan declared illicit drugs to be a threat to U.S. national security.
Richard M. Nixon, the president who popularized the term “war on drugs,” first used the words in 1971. However, the policies that his administration implemented as part of the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970 dated to Woodrow Wilson’s presidency and the Harrison Narcotics Tax Act of 1914. This was followed by the creation of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics in 1930.
