An important Roman contribution to American government is the idea of a "republic" or the creation of a representative democracy. In the Roman Republic, representatives were elected by the people to govern on their behalf in the Senate, similar principles were used in structuring the American system of government.
During the 1850s the decline and demise of the whig party allowed the birth and development of the REPUBLICAN PARTY, which grew in power in the northern states. The whig party was politically active in 1850s, the party fell due to internal tension related to the expansion of slavery to the territories of the United States. The whig party was succeeded by the Republican Party.
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Wars cost too much.
That’s really not a surprise. The surprise is how much more they cost than we’ve been told.
It might help to think of the nation’s post-9/11 wars in Afghanistan and Iraq like a pair of icebergs. The Pentagon tells us how much we’ve each paid for the wars. But that only tells us how much of those icebergs we can see above the waves. While it includes totals for war fighting, it doesn’t track the Pentagon’s bigger war budget, interest paid on money we’ve borrowed to fight the wars, veterans’ care, and other ancillary costs. There’s a whole lot more hidden beneath the waves. The real issue isn’t whether the cost of war is high; the issue is why the U.S. government keeps under-estimating it, and why U.S. citizens and taxpayers keep tolerating it.
The Great Schism was an event that divided Christianity into Western Catholic Churches and Eastern Christian Churches.
