When Prussia was hit by famine in 1744, King Frederick the Great, a potato enthusiast, had to order the peasantry to eat the tubers. In England, 18th-century farmers denounced S. tuberosum as an advance scout for hated Roman Catholicism. “No Potatoes, No Popery!” was an election slogan in 1765. France was especially slow to adopt the spud. Into the fray stepped Antoine-Augustin Parmentier, the potato’s Johnny Appleseed.
There were many reasons. For starters, it involved getting rid of a large number of Native Americans, and while some supported this, others opposed it as they were peaceful. Another thing was that this meant the introduction of new states and it deepened the division based on whether the states should be slave states or non-slave states. Also they involved war with Mexico and some wanted this and some didn't.
AT LEAST FIVE JUDGES must agree to an opinion for the supreme court to issue a decision.
Supreme court justices handles a lot of legal cases regularly. The supreme court decision makers is usually made up of one chief justice and eight other members. For each of the case brought to the supreme court, the judges have to agree about what their decision on the case is going to be. For a decision to be valid, at least five judges must agree to the decision.
<span> the </span>Cold War<span> had begun. African Americans united and organized, and a triumph of the </span>Civil Rights Movement<span> ended </span>Jim Crow<span> segregation in the South.</span><span>Further laws were passed that made discrimination illegal and provided federal oversight to guarantee voting rights.</span>
The McCulloch v. Maryland is the case that went to the Supreme Court because the state of Maryland wanted to tax the National Bank established by the Congress. The court ruled that under the Article I, Section 8, the "Necessary and Proper" clause that the state could not tax the institution of the the federal government. This is an landmark case and its effect was that this supported the federal government over the state governments.
