Weapons played a big part in creating the difficult and unusual circumstances of trench warfare which the British Army encountered during the First World War (1914-18). The destructive power of modern artillery and machine guns forced soldiers to seek cover on the battlefield and dig in for protection.
Jefferson Davis (1808-1889) was a Mexican War hero, U.S. senator from Mississippi, U.S. secretary of war and president of the Confederate States of America for the duration of the American Civil War (1861-1865).
<span>The central idea of the Bill of Rights is that the individual has certain rights that cannot be taken away or trampled by the government. Originating as the British Bill of Rights into what we now know as the first ten amendments of the United States Constitution, there is a central theme. That theme is that the individual should always have rights that are preserved and not to be taken away.</span>
"(4) The Senate approves a president’s nominee to <span>the Supreme Court" would be an example of checks and balances because it's too different bodies of government. </span>
