“Plainly, the central idea of secession is the essence of anarchy.” In his First Inaugural Address, Abraham Lincoln explained why his duty as the newly-elected president required him to treat secession as an act of rebellion and not a legitimate political action. Nothing less than the survival of self-government was at stake. As the duly elected president, Lincoln believed that majority rule constrained by “constitutional checks” and informed by public opinion was “the only true sovereign of a free people.” Rule by any other principle would lead to chaos or despotism. Moreover, Lincoln thought the union of the American states was perpetual, and that it could not be “peaceably unmade by less than all the parties who make it.”
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Section 2 British Red Cross Hospital
Forges-les-Eaux
France
30 April 1915
Dear Mrs Allen,
You and your dear family have been very much in my thoughts during the past week and allow me assure you my deepest sympathy is with you in your sad loss. It has been my great privilege to nurse your dear husband whom I can never forget. He was such a brave splendid fellow and no soldier on the British battlefield could have done more for his Country than he, and no soldier could have died more bravely. All was so sudden - he walked from his work to this hospital in the evening about 9 o'clock only feeling ill in the afternoon. Two comrades assisted him along - his camp is only a very short distance away. They offered to carry him, but this he would not hear of. Immediately I saw him I saw he was ill and put him just as he was with boots on
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The monarch refused to even receive it. It had been handed to the Earl of Darmouth on September 1, 1775, by Richard Penn and Arthur Lee on behalf o the Continental Congress. John Dickinson was its author. With careful language, the document expressed the disatisfaction of colonists with the policies of the crown´s ministers and justifies taking arms as a form of self-defense. The document manifests loyalty to the crown. After learning the reaction of the king, many Americans came to realize that the opressive policies approved by Parliament were of the king´s knowledge.
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<span>Primary elections were more important that general elections in the twentieth century of Texas because Texas was a one-party state, and in a one-party state, the winner of the primary will probably win the general election.</span>
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A.
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The ancient Chinese civilization was protected from invasion and cultural diffusion because of the geographical isolation. The ancient Chinese civilization was isolated by desert from the north and west, and the Pacific Ocean to the east.
The settlements along the Huang He river were not affected by cultural diffusion because they were isolated by the Gobi desert to the north, which kept people from invading the land.
Therefore, option A is correct.
