The purpose was to select the party's nominee for president.
As it now operates: Each State is allocated a number of Electors equal to the number of its U.S. Senators (always 2) plus the number of its U.S. Representatives (which may change each decade according to the size of each State's population as determined in the Census).
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The Umayyad Emirate, the Abbasid Caliphate, and the Ottoman Empire all practiced Islam.
The Byzantine empire's state religion was Orthodoxy meanwhile its sisters empire, the Western Roman Empire, followed Catholicism (based on the year).
The Confiscation Acts themselves did not do much but laid the legal and social groundwork for the Emancipation Proclamation which would come in the following year.
Lincoln was able to capitalize on the reaction to the Confiscation Act to feel comfortable enough to push forward the Emancipation Proclamation, which applied to all slaves in rebel held territory.
