Exam 2 Course Reserve Readings Flashcards
1
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Thoughts on Government
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John Adams
-happiness of society is the end of government
2
Q
First Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln
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- reassuring the southern states
- Constitution binds the union together and it cannot legally be broken up
- Minorities do not have the power to leave whenever they aren’t listened to
3
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Second Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln
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- War would end only when we had paid the price for the sin of slavery (Providential justice)
- cause of the war was slavery