President Obama's first inauguration was held during the depths of the Great Recession. The situation was dire; the economy had lost nearly 3.6 million jobs in 2008 and was shedding jobs at a nearly 800,000 per month rate when he took office.
Civil disobedience is the active, professed refusal of a citizen to obey certain laws, demands, orders or commands of a government. By some definitions, civil disobedience has to be nonviolent to be called 'civil'.
<span>The Great was retained because it <span>merged proposals from large states and small states about congressional
apportionment. Eventually, the main contribution was in defining the
apportionment of the senate, and thus retaining a federal character in the constitution.
It was proposed that the proportion of suffrage in the 1st. branch [house]
should depend on the respective numbers of free people. It added that for the second branch or
Senate, each State should have no more than one vote. Though this plan failed it was finally
resolved and an amended version of this plan was included. Benjamin Franklin made modifications so that
each state big or small was represented in the senate. The Three-Fifths Compromise was no longer
retained because it focused whether or not to include slaves in the total population
count and victory in the Civil War ended slavery making it null.</span></span>
I'm a fan of historian Michael Wood! One of my favorite items from him was the BBC documentary series, "In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great."
The quote you mention from Wood comes from his historical researches regarding India. (You could also look for his BBC documentary series, "The Story of India.") The "rejection of a whole way of understanding history" was the way that Wood described the actions of Asoka (or Ashoka -- you'll see both spellings). Asoka was ruler from 268 to 232 BC of lands that would later become known as India. Asoka was a great conqueror but also someone who found enlightenment through Buddhism. After conquering the Kalinga region in eastern India, rather than feeling some great rush of pride or accomplishment because of their victory, Asoka felt guilty. So he worked hard to improve the lives of the Kalinga people that he had conquered. This was what Wood was referring to when he said Asoka's attitude/approach "was a rejection of a whole way of understanding history." Conquest was not something to be celebrated triumphantly. Rather, the conquerors had an obligation to those whom they had conquered.
Sherman’s March to the sea
