The major source of conflict between President John Adams and Vice President Thomas Jefferson was that Thomas Jefferson opposed the Alien and Sedition Acts passed by the Federalist Congress, because towards the elections of 1796 the candidate that won the elections was the Federalist John Adams, and the Democratic-
This question is actually harder to answer than it may appear. Some states have scrapped their old constitutions and written new ones. I've only included the ones that have stuck with their original constitutions. Here are those.
Alabama 905
California 511
Louisiana 300
Texas 495
People in the south used slaves because their economy was focussed on things like cash crops (tobacco, cotton, etc.) These crops required a lot of work so farmers and plantation owners could not do it by themselves. So by using enslave persons they could harvest more crops, sell more, make more money, and in return boost the southern economy.
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The main reason congress tends, in practice, not to use this authority is that congress rarely wants to. Congressional Democrats didn’t block the “surge” in Iraq, congressional Republicans didn’t block the air war in Kosovo, etc. And for congress, it’s quite convenient to be able to duck these issues. Handling Libya this way means that those members of congress who want to go on cable and complain about the president’s conduct are free to do so, but those who don’t want to talk about Libya can say nothing or stay vague. Nobody’s forced to take a vote that may look bad in retrospect, and nobody in congress needs to take responsibility for the success or failure of the mission. If things work out well in Libya, John McCain will say he presciently urged the White House to act. If things work out poorly in Libya, McCain will say he consistently criticized the White House’s fecklessness. Nobody needs to face a binary
