A long telegram was sent by George Kennan to the Department of State. In the telegram, he detailed his views on the Soviet Union and the US policy toward the communist state. He started it off by stating that the Soviet could not foresee a "permanent peaceful coexistence" with the West.
The North had a LOT more people than the South, having up to 22 million people where the South had about 9 million.
Feudalism worked easy because it was a system that worked from top to bottom. At the top you had the King which provided money for the Nobility that provided troops and protection for the king. Then the Nobility would bestow the land to his knights that would give the land to the peasants and they owned the land and farmer on it. The knights would provide military service for food that they farmed.
<span>The letter of the law versus the spirit of the law is an idiomatic antithesis. When one obeys the letter of the law but not the spirit, one is obeying the literal interpretation of the words (the "letter") of the law, but not necessarily the intent of those who wrote the law.</span>
