Union soldiers were fighting for the freedom of slaves and reuniting the states. Confederate soldiers fought for protecting the confederacy. Yes, it did change over the war.
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Explanation:Often credited as a founder of modern “liberal” thought, Locke pioneered the ideas of natural law, social contract, religious toleration, and the right to revolution that proved essential to both the American Revolution and the U.S. Constitution that followed.
Locke favored a representative government such as the English Parliament, which had a hereditary House of Lords and an elected House of Commons. But he wanted representatives to be only men of property and business.The purpose of government, Locke wrote, is to secure and protect the God-given inalienable natural rights of the people. For their part, the people must obey the laws of their rulers. Thus, a sort of contract exists between the rulers and the ruled.
Ezra Stiles (1727-1795) discusses that the Resolutions of Parliament instead of intimidating only add Fuel to the Flame, invigorate & strength the Resolutions of the Americans. He perceived the Parlament as the collective wisdom of the continent. He only placed God above the Parlament as an institution.
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A.
Explanation:
In reality, I bet all the answers are at least partly correct.
But the reason (or excuse) that people often gave was that the voters (no black people of course!) of each state should decide if they wanted to allow slavery.
They called it 'Popular Sovereignty' and it was a twisted argument that we could use a democratic process (voting) to decide that a certain class of people would get no democracy at all, or even be recognized as having ANY rights, like the right to not be owned and murdered.
Answer:
Parliament
Explanation:
it was a bicameral legislation that granted taxes and discussed politics, and passed laws
