Because like a puzzle, culture is comprised of many pieces like food, music, language, traditions and habits. Clothing is just one of the pieces of the puzzle that is Culture. Also, like a puzzle, you can't fully understand the full picture of culture with only one piece.
The Fugitive Slave Act was enacted by the US Congress in 1850 and become one of the most controversial components of the Compromise of 1850. The Compromise was a set of bills enacted as a form of agreement between slave and free states, after many years of political confrontations between the two blocs.
The Fugitive Slave Act was issued to ensure the return of slaves that had scaped to free states, to their owners, and the cooperation of officials from Northern free states in these procedures. Also, tougher penalties were established for those who tried to circumvent the regulations contained in the act.
The us had just gotten away from a monarchy and most colonists didn’t want a ruler that even resembled a monarch
A government of law and not of men. Distinguished from the rule of man where, for example, in a monarchy, tyrannical or theocratic form of government, governance and rules of conduct is set and altered at the discretion of a single person, or a select group of persons.
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