The Declaration of Independence is the document that says that citizens have the right to alter or abolish a government that violates natural rights. This document, written by Thomas Jefferson, includes this as one of the many rights citizens have. This document is seen as one of the most important in American history, as this officially breaks up the relationship between Great Britain and the American colonists. The colonists will be victorious in their pursuit of independence by winning the American Revolution.
Marbury v. Madison is important because it established the power of judicial review for the U.S. Supreme Court and lower federal courts with respect to the Constitution and eventually for parallel state courts with respect to state constitutions.
Napoleon Bonaparte became a Governor in Florida during 1905-1909. He implemented child labor laws to protect the children, compulsory education between 6-16 years old and let them attend classes and also stopped gun running to Cuba.
As a war leader, Lincoln employed the style that had served him as a politician—a description of himself, incidentally, that he was not ashamed to accept. He preferred to react to problems and to the circumstances that others had created rather than to originate policies and lay out long-range designs.
With the election of Abraham Lincoln (the first Republican president) in 1860, the Party's success in guiding the Union to victory in the American Civil War, and the Party's role in the abolition of slavery, the Republican Party largely dominated the national political scene until 1932.
