Men and women are equal. Anyone over the age of 18 can vote. There is no cultural discrimination. Unlike in the past.
The creation of the European Union (EU) and of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) were efforts to "(1) attain economic benefits through regional
<span>organization"</span>
We could say that the growth of the cotton industry and the expansion of slavery into new states such as Alabama and Mississippi this ended hope's for a very gradual end to slavery so its opponents had the necessity to stop it from spreading to the new lands of the Louisiana Purchase. However, by the year of 1818 the northern states had a majority of growing immigrants in the House.
The only amendment that has been repealed is prohibition.
It was repealed because it was hugely unpopular, totally ineffective and a large factor in increasing the power of the Mafia in the USA.
It was passed in the first place because of misguided nonsense paraded by well-meaning moralistic busybodies.
<span>Sort of like the war on the (rest of) drugs .... except many of those are still illegal and they were not part of a constitutional amendment.</span>
Henry David Thoreau is best known for "Walden", a book written when he was living for 2 years in a little cottage in a deep forest, and it's about living in nautre. Thoreau also wrote "Resistance to Civil Government" which is about why people shouldn't obey an unfair law. Those two books had a great impact for many later reformers.
