Technological innovations throughout history?
Women’s rights and black rights? Maybe?
In 1828, a teen aged Abraham Lincoln guided a flatboat down the Mississippi River to New Orleans. The adventure marked his first visit to a major city and exposed him to the nation's largest slave marketplace.
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The intent of separation of powers is to prevent the concentration of unchecked power by providing for "checks" and "balances" to avoid autocracy, over-reaching by one branch over another, and the attending efficiency of governing by one actor without need for negotiation and compromise with any other.
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The trial of Peter Zenger, a noted publisher in New York, worked to establish the rights of a free press.
Zenger's trial was still fresh in the minds of some of the founders when they worked to push for an Amendment to the Constitution a generation later that expressly gave the press rights.
