They would not leave the tennis court until they successfully come up with a constitution for France.
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Lincoln wanted to make sure that the new state governments in the south would comply with his policy of emancipation of slaves and be lenient towards them.
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- As soon as the Civil War came to an end, President Lincoln took up the task of the reunification of the nation.
- For the states in the south, he prepared the ten percent plan and appealed to the people of the south to take oath of allegiance to the United States, of the emancipation of slaves, and of leniency towards them.
- Lincoln assured them that once the oath is taken, he would permit each state to frame new Constitutions of their own.
Taxation without representation means that the colonists believed that they should not be taxed by a government, if they were not even allowed to hold office in said government. The colonists considered this a problem because even though the French-Indian war had put a dent in British economy, the colonists were not even allowed to decide whether the war should happen in the first place. After all it was their homeland. In addition the colonists, not being allowed to hold office, could not propose any modifications to the taxes.
The main reason why the Framers of the Constitution included the amendment process was because "A.)They wanted to provide a way to change the Constitution as the country changed," since they new that a "rigid" document would lead to disaster.
