That would be a direct democracy. All adult male citizens attending the assembly could vote on the issues proposed at the time.
South Carolina was the state that attempted to nullify a federal law
African Americans, carpetbaggers and scalawags comprised the Republican Party's largest Southern constituency during Reconstruction. The Scalawags were the white Southerners who backed the Reconstruction policies and were usually Union loyalists during the Civil War. Carpetbaggers were the Northerners who moved to the South during the Reconstruction era mostly for economic and political gains.
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The traditional or orthodox interpretation attributes responsibility for the Cold War to the Soviet Union. Writing primarily from the viewpoint of the 1950s and 1960s, historians cited Soviet ideology and aggression as the primary factors responsible for igniting the conflict. American leaders, faced with communist aggression in Europe and Asia, had no choice but to stand firm against Soviet belligerence.
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