built the Great Pyramids
developed advanced irrigation
expanded the empire’s territory
improved trade and transportation
No taxation without representation is at the heart of American identity since it was a call for independence and the need for Americans to manage their own affairs. It is also at the root of American democracy since it entails the election of the nation’s representatives to Congress
Douglass drew on the custom of natural law in his argument
against slavery. The past of Western equality and political belief places a strong
importance on fairness and social development, which Douglass contended must
have successively prejudiced the general ideas of America’s founding documents.
According to Douglass, slavery also opposed the formation story of the
Christian Bible, which states God “hath made of one blood all lands of men for
to live on all the face of the earth.” According to Douglass, the Bible’s assertion
of worldwide brotherhood, produced it to become a natural law that would have
affected the framers' conscripting of the Constitution.
<span>The outcome of the Battle of Britain was important because it was Germany's attempt to either bomb Britain into submission, or completely destroy its Air Force in order to conduct an amphibious assault on British shores.</span>
