Robert E Lee and Gen Ulysses S. Grant met in the Wilmer McLean home at Appomattox Virginia at 1:00 PM to finalize the terms of surrender for the Confederate Army which effectively ended the US Civil War.
During the Vietnam War, many young men in the United States were being drafted into the military to fight in the war. The minimum age for men to join the armed forces was 18 years old, but the voting age was 21.
And so, a debate that was started after World War II, intensified during the Vietnam War as more young men were being forced to fight in a war they didn't agree with, yet denied the right to vote to make change in their country.
Today, the 26th Amendment prohibits the state and/or federal government to deny the right to vote in elections due to age, for anyone over 18. All citizens over 18 can vote in federal and state elections without the fear of being barred from the poll booths.
identification with one's own nation and support for its interests, especially to the exclusion or detriment of the interests of other nations.
Yes it is true that an economic freedom can possibly be a personal freedom
Northwest Ordinance. The Northwest Ordinance (formally An Ordinance for the Government of the Territory of the United States, North-West of the River Ohio, and also known as the The Ordinance of 1787) was an act of the Congress of the Confederation of the United States (the Confederation Congress), passed July 13, 1787
