<span> “</span>And thereupon the said lords spiritual
and temporal and commons . . . do . . . declare that the pretended power of
suspending of laws or the execution of laws by regal authority without consent
of parliament is illegal.
That levying money for
or to the use of the crown . . . without grant of parliament for longer time or
in other manner than the same is or shall be granted is illegal.
That it is the right of
the subjects to petition the king and all commitments and protections for such
petitioning are illegal.
That the raising or
keeping a standing army within the kingdom in time of peace unless it be with
consent of parliament is against law. . . .
That election of
members of parliament ought to be free. . . .”
She violated the state law on who was able to vote.
In 1854, the controversial Kansas-Nebraska Act, split two
existing political parties the Whig party and Jacksonian Democrats and led to
the creation of the Republican party. Kansas-Nebraska act overturned the Missouri
compromise and allowed settlers to decide whether slavery would be allowed in
their state. This led to the creation of the Republican party founded by anti-slavers
whose primary objective was fighting slavery.
In South Carolina, the Patriots and Loyalists were approximately 50% each. Loyalists and the Cherokee in the colony fought with the British. Patriots joined the Revolutionary forces.
