โThe powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.โ
โThe last of all oppressionsโ Thatโs how Thomas Jefferson described the military draft. Because of widespread opposition to it, the federal government didnโt actively draft men into the military until the Civil War. But, during the War of 1812, it tried – and...
Today in history, on March 7, 1850, Daniel Webster delivered a famous oratory endorsing the Compromise of 1850, known as the “Seventh of March Speech.” He lauded the settlement as an impressive stride of concession between Whig and Democrat factions within...
