The constitution was made so that it can be amended and changed as much as it needs to be in order to accommodate situations that the Founding Fathers couldn’t have even dreamed of. Since the constitution is able to be changed, it’s able to “bend” like a willow.
Over 150 years ago, Abraham Lincoln and Stephan A. Douglas held seven debates as they campaigned for a Senate seat in Illinois. The debates focused on the issue of slavery and its expansion into the territories. Douglas helped overturn the prohibition on slavery in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska with the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Referred to as popular sovereignty, citizens in Kansas and Nebraska, not the federal government, could determine whether slavery should be allowed to exist in these territories.
<span>In the Jacksonian party system, congressional caucuses were replaced by party conventions for nominating presidential candidates. The Jacksonians are sometimes called the second party system; it is created around 1824 by Andrew Jackson who has his first run for the presidency. The party convention was created to replace the caucus.</span>
The first native tribe Christopher Columbus encounter were called " Santa Maria de la conception ".
President Lincoln was assassinated at the Ford Theatre :)
