The concept of democracy that is best illustrated by the following saying would be that "<span>Democracies respect personal liberties and freedoms," since this is saying that it is not the right of one man to impede the rights of another. </span>
The territorial expansion of the US and the question of whether or not slavery would be allowed in the new territories was perhaps the single greatest factor leading up to the war, since before expansion, slavery was mostly confined to the South.
Law I guess I really don't understand
New Netherland did not win over Holland through force. From the year 1664 to 1673, Nieuw Amsterdam was in New York, however, in that year it ended up plainly Dutch yet again, this time under the name Nieuw Oranje, `New Orange.' The Anglo-Dutch war was finished by the Treaty of Westminster of 1674.
