Answer: George Mason, Patrick Henry
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Some Southerners rejected Sherman’s plan to give land to former slaves because some southerners felt that confiscating property violated the constitution
Explanation
The confiscation strategy by Sherman was aiming to acquire land to facilitate the settlement of African-Americans received critics from some of the southerners who explained it as unconstitutional. The argument was that the constitution by then did not allow people to practice confiscation of private property.
They wanted to create laws that didn't directly interfere with the laws that had been put forth by the government. Therefore they created laws that required 'humanly' things of people that the blacks wouldn't have had the chance to do. As an example, if you were to apply for a job your grandfather had to have also been employed. For more whites, this wasn't an issue. But for blacks, their grandparents may not have been in America, and if they were, they were most likely slaves.
The Jacobins killed people in an attempt to purge the public in France. They believed many people were a threat to the nation.
This is actually pretty common and the reason "why" is due to the idea of hysteria.
Hysteria clouds judgement.
There are so many examples of hysteria clouding societies judgement in society.
The Holocaust being one example of how a whole nation was convinced Jews were evil and need to be purged.
Another example happened in America after World War II, when many people feared there were communist spies everywhere in the United States
