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  1. Apr 2023
    1. he has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating it's most sacred rights of life & liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating & carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. this piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought & sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce: and that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, & murdering the people upon whom he also obtruded them; thus paying off former crimes committed against the liberties of one people, with crimes which he urges them to commit against the lives of another.

      on slavery in "rough draft"

  2. Mar 2023
    1. The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments. When sitting for that Purpose, they shall be on Oath or Affirmation. When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside: And no Person shall be convicted without the Concurrence of two thirds of the Members present.

      sole power

    1. The term appeared in Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents (1929–30) in relation to the application of the inborn aggression in man to ethnic (and other) conflicts, a process still considered by Freud, at that point, as a convenient and relatively harmless satisfaction of the inclination to aggression.[3]

      Sigmund Freud

    2. In psychoanalysis, the narcissism of small differences (German: der Narzissmus der kleinen Differenzen) is the idea that the more a relationship or community shares commonalities, the more likely the people in it are to engage in interpersonal feuds and mutual ridicule because of hypersensitivity to minor differences perceived in each other.[1] The term was coined by Sigmund Freud in 1917, based on the earlier work of English anthropologist Ernest Crawley. Crawley theorized that each individual is separated from others by a taboo of personal isolation, which is effectively a narcissism of minor differences.[2

      narcissism of minor differences

    1. Hitler’s forces invade and occupy Czechoslovakiaa nation sacrificed on the altar of the Munich Pact, which was a vain attempt to prevent Germany’s imperial aims.close dialogAdvertisementclose dialog/* effects for .bx-campaign-1557715 *//* custom css .bx-campaign-1557715 */@-ms-keyframes bx-anim-1557715-spin { from { -ms-transform: rotate(0deg); } to { -ms-transform: rotate(360deg); } } @-moz-keyframes bx-anim-1557715-spin { from { -moz-transform: rotate(0deg); } to { -moz-transform: rotate(360deg); } } @-webkit-keyframes bx-anim-1557715-spin { from { -webkit-transform: rotate(0deg); } to { -webkit-transform: rotate(360deg); } } @keyframes bx-anim-1557715-spin { from { transform: rotate(0deg); } to { transform: rotate(360deg); } } /* rendered styles .bx-campaign-1557715 */.bxc.bx-campaign-1557715.bx-active-step-1 .bx-creative> *:first-child {padding: 0;width: auto;}.bxc.bx-campaign-1557715.bx-active-step-1 .bx-creative {background-color: transparent;}.bxc.bx-campaign-1557715.bx-active-step-1 .bx-close {stroke: transparent;background-color: transparent;border-style: none;border-color: white;border-width: 1px;box-shadow: 0px 0px 0px 3px black;}.bxc.bx-campaign-1557715 .bx-group-1557715-3RBnJGC {position: absolute;top: 50%;left: 50%;transform: translate(-50%, -50%);z-index: -1;}.bxc.bx-campaign-1557715 .bx-element-1557715-wryzWV5 {width: 55px;}.bxc.bx-campaign-1557715 .bx-element-1557715-wryzWV5> *:first-child {animation-name: bx-anim-1557715-spin;animation-duration: 800ms;animation-iteration-count: infinite;animation-timing-function: linear;}.bxc.bx-campaign-1557715 .bx-group-1557715-lyDBLV9 {width: 900px;height: 600px;}.bxc.bx-campaign-1557715 .bx-group-1557715-me4p1bl {padding: 10px;}.bxc.bx-campaign-1557715 .bx-element-1557715-ZdLO37u {width: auto;}.bxc.bx-campaign-1557715 .bx-element-1557715-ZdLO37u> *:first-child {padding: 2px 4px;font-size: 10px;color: rgb(255, 255, 255);text-transform: uppercase;background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.34);}On September 30, 1938, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, French Premier Edouard Daladier, and British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich Pact, which sealed the fate of Czechoslovakia, virtually handing it over to Germany in the name of peace. Although the agreement was to give into Hitler’s hands only the Sudentenland, that part of Czechoslovakia where 3 million ethnic Germans lived, it also handed over to the Nazi war machine 66 percent of Czechoslovakia’s coal, 70 percent of its iron and steel, and 70 percent of its electrical power. Without those resources, the Czech nation was left vulnerable to complete German domination.

      Trend continued by Hitler's invasion of Czechoslovakia

    1. The League vote was unanimous with 42-1, Japan being the only country that did not vote for the proposal by the League to have Japan give Manchuria back to China. With the vote counted Yosuke Matsuoka gave a speech and him and his delegation left and stated that they would not be coming back.[7] The outright denial of the Leagues findings and later the denying of the proposed plan of action that led to the delegation leaving the League

      Japan and Manchuria

    1. Twentieth-century developments One of the consequences of World War I was the triumph of nationalism in central and eastern Europe. From the ruins of the Habsburg and Romanov empires emerged the new nation-states of Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Yugoslavia, and Romania. Those states in turn, however, were to be strained and ravaged by their own internal nationality conflicts and by nationalistic disputes over territory with their neighbours. Russian nationalism was in part suppressed after Vladimir Lenin’s victory in 1917, when the Bolsheviks took over the old empire of the tsars. But the Bolsheviks also claimed the leadership of the world communist movement, which was to become an instrument of the national policies of the Russians. During World War II, Joseph Stalin appealed to nationalism and patriotism in rallying the Russians against foreign invaders. After the war he found nationalism one of the strongest obstacles to the expansion of Soviet power in eastern Europe. National communism, as it was called, became a divisive force in the Soviet bloc. In 1948 Josip Broz Tito, the communist leader of Yugoslavia, was denounced by Moscow as a nationalist and a renegade, nationalism was a strong factor in the rebellious movements in Poland and Hungary in the fall of 1956, and subsequently its influence was also felt in Romania and Czechoslovakia and again in Poland in 1980.

      nationalist movements

    1. The terms feudalism and feudal system were generally applied to the early and central Middle Ages—the period from the 5th century, when central political authority in the Western empire disappeared, to the 12th century, when kingdoms began to emerge as effective centralized units of government.

      Feudalism

    1. Sovereign authority is exercised within borders, but also, by definition, with respect to outsiders, who may not interfere with the sovereign’s governance. The state has been the chief holder of external sovereignty since the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, after which interference in other states’ governing prerogatives became illegitimate.

      sovereign state

  3. Feb 2023
    1. Kaiser of Germany and WWIThe young kaiser dreamed of building Germany into a major naval, colonial and economic power. Determined to have his own way, he forced Chancellor Otto von Bismarck to resign in 1890, and took charge of domestic and foreign policy himself. A series of inept political moves and Kaiser Wilhelm's fear of being encircled by enemy states strained Germany's relations with Britain, France and Russia—moves that helped lead to World War I.

      diplomacy, alliance rigidity, communication, trust

  4. Jan 2023
  5. Jan 2022
    1. hen Biden made the pledge to nominate a Black woman to the high court during a debate in South Carolina in February 2020, Campbell said, "it was refreshing to hear this candidate, who needed Black women's vote, understand our power and our role in progressives being elected." Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio), chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, also remembered that moment. "I will never forget how meaningful it was to hear then-candidate Biden announce to the world that he intended to appoint a Black woman to our nation's highest c

      In South Carolina, he made a promise to pick a black female Supreme Court justice (Williams, 2021).

    1. osition - will be central to the process of selecting the nominee, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said. A small group, including White House chief of staff Ron Klain and counsel Dana Remus, will also give the president guidance, and outside advisers are likely to be brought in before the nomination to help shepherd it through the Senate. Breyer said he will continue to sit on the bench through the end of the Supreme Court term this summer. The administration's rapid action underlines Democrats' anxiety about filling his seat, fueled in large part by the party's conc

      President Biden announces that his nominee

  6. Feb 2021
    1. current president

      We need to ask ourselves, too, the hypothetical question: What if Trump wasn't president these past four years? Also, what if we didn't have a pandemic? Would we be feeling like the titular "failures" of this piece? Delbanco's statement raises my eyebrows a bit when he attributes our credulity towards "lies and incitement" to higher-ed failure.

    2. “If we needed a reminder of the fragility of our democracy, we got one,” said Andrew Delbanco, president of the Teagle Foundation, which promotes liberal arts education, and Alexander Hamilton Professor of American Studies at Columbia University. “In the long run, the only force that can save democracy is an educated citizenry -- citizens, that is, who know enough to resist the kind of lies and incitements spewed out by the current president and his enablers.”

      Delbanco, with Teagle, provides us a premise for a grant proposal here. If we want a Teagle Grant, maybe those funds should be used to explore how well the "liberal arts education" at FPU is addressing contemporary concerns and what we can do to improve? I don't see Deblanco's observations implying that our GLE is a failure. I see him asking us to be reflective in our pedagogy. Being reflective about pedagogy does not require revamping GLE.

    3. higher education must play a leadership role in confronting the day’s most pressing issues. That requires colleges and universities to serve as “anchor institutions,” demonstrating that their success is “intertwined with the economic, social, psychological, physical and educational well-being of the communities in which they are located and those they seek to serve.” At the same time, the historic mission of educating for democracy is being “challenged by attempts to reduce the value of a college education to employability” or “tuition in exchange for jobs,” Pasquerella added. “In the end, the question we are facing in the aftermath of [Wednesday’s] riots is, ‘What is college for?’”

      Are we failing to confront "the day's most pressing issues"? Isn't the LO-driven GLE program, with an emphasis on inquiry, analysis, critical thinking, information literacy, intercultural knowledge, etc. doing this? Is it failing to do this? How would we know?

    4. Failure to Educate

      Is this a "failure" in FPU's general education program? What are the data and what is the evidence that we are failing to educate? How does one know that we're failing to to address contemporary concerns?

    5. “The only protection against demagoguery is education,” Delbanco said, not “ideological indoctrination, not technical training, but humane education that helps people grasp the experience of others different from themselves.”

      Delbanco's bold distinction between "education" and "ideological indoctrination" is critical

      Reflection: Are we failing at "helping people grasp the experience of others"? How would we know? What do the data and the evidence tell us?

  7. Sep 2020
    1. T. M. Krygowski1 and H. Szatylowicz

      I can't even pronounce the authors' names. So, my chances of grasping the concepts and hypotheses here are low