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Lincoln Exhibit ~ 150th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation
William Jessup University is hosting a major traveling museum exhibit called Lincoln, the Constitution and the Civil War. A man with a biblical name served our nation during a very difficult time and helped begin a new path for people of African ancestry in America, yet his authentic legacy remains cloaked in mystery. William Jessup University, at a major gateway to Gold Rush California, has provided an opportunity for regional educational opportunity through the National Constitution Center. People of African ancestry and the entire Sacramento regional community has a unique opportunity to view documents salient to the ongoing journey towards freedom, this 150th Anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. If we make strong effort toward highlighting this amazing opportuniity our community will be well served.
William Jessup University is a learning community that honors God and pursues wisdom. We are stewards of the creation and respect the dignity and worth of all people. The world and the people of the world need the effective participation of thoughtful individuals as God redeems nature and societal structures as well as individuals. We care about spiritual development, genuine humility in service to others and the development of leadership to mobilize groups to achieve community objectives.
William Jessup University's Paul Nystrom Library in Rocklin will host a traveling museum exhibit on President Abraham Lincoln called "Lincoln, the Constitution, and the Civil War." In collaboration with the History and Public Policy Departments, the traveling museum exhibit is funded by National Endowment for the Humanities, designed by National Constitution Center and administered by American Library Association.
As the only location in the Sacramento region to host the exhibit, outreach and educational opportunity for students throughout the California Central Valley should be a prioity. As our 2012 -2013 school year begins a special effort, especially for people of African ancestry, to view this exhibit is essential.
The exhibit is free and open to the public!!!
The exhibit will be available for viewing from August 16th – September 24th during normal operating hours in the WJU Library.
Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War
Overview of Exhibition Themes
1.
The Civil War as a Constitutional Crisis: In 1861 the issue of slavery precipitated a national crisis framed largely in terms of constitutional issues. The framers of the Constitution had left unanswered some basic questions about the nature of the federal Union they had created: Was the United States truly one nation, or was it a confederacy of sovereign and separate states? How could a country founded on the belief that “all men are created equal” tolerate slavery? In a national crisis, would civil liberties be secure? By 1860, these unresolved questions had become ticking time bombs, ready to explode. Abraham Lincoln’s election as the nation’s first anti-slavery president brought the nation to the brink of war. Lincoln used the tools the Constitution gave him to confront three intertwined issues of the Civil War—the secession of Southern states, slavery and wartime civil liberties.
2.
Secession: By the time Lincoln took the constitutional oath of office as president, seven states had already seceded from the Union. Four more soon followed. Southern secessionists believed that they had the right to withdraw their states’ ratification of the Constitution and dissolve their connection to the Union. Northerners, however, rejected this idea of “state sovereignty.” They believed that when the Constitution was ratified, a united people had established an indivisible nation. Lincoln believed that state secession was unconstitutional and undemocratic. At Lincoln’s inauguration, he promised that the government would not attack the South if the Union was not attacked. But he also warned that had taken a solemn oath to “preserve, protect and defend” the Constitution. What Southerners heard that day were not words of moderation but a declaration of war.
3.
Slavery: Lincoln is widely acknowledged as one of America’s greatest presidents, but he was a controversial figure in his day and his historical reputation is contested today. Lincoln believed that slavery was immoral, but he shared many of the racial prejudices of his day. His policy preferences about slavery and abolition evolved over time. For much of his political career he favored gradual, compensated abolition of slavery and the colonization of freed slaves in South America or Africa. In the crucible of the Civil War, he came to believe that for the nation to survive, slavery had to end. The signing of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 and the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865 served to abolish slavery in the United States.
4.
Civil Liberties: Lincoln claimed extraordinary powers in order to control the chaos of dissent during the Civil War. He suspended the writ of habeas corpus—the provision in the Constitution that protects citizens against arbitrary arrests. By 1863, thousands of civilians had been detained, mostly suspected draft dodgers and deserters and Confederate sympathizers in the Border States and the South. For these actions, Lincoln was denounced as a tyrant by his political foes. He struggled throughout the war to find the appropriate balance between national security and individual rights.
5.
Legacy: Lincoln’s fight to save the Union transformed the nation and the Constitution. Lincoln’s presidency left a legacy of ideals for our nation to live up to—equality, freedom and democracy. The powerful words of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address sought to transmit these ideals into future generations. The exhibition ends by asking visitors whether we as a nation have been faithful to this legacy.
William Jessup University's Paul Nystrom Library in Rocklin will host a traveling museum exhibit on President Abraham Lincoln called "Lincoln, the Constitution, and the Civil War." In collaboration with the History and Public Policy Departments, the traveling museum exhibit is funded by National Endowment for the Humanities, designed by National Constitution Center and administered by American Library Association.
As the only location in the Sacramento region to host the exhibit, outreach and educational opportunity for students throughout the California Central Valley should be a prioity. As our 2012 -2013 school year begins a special effort, especially for people of African ancestry, to view this exhibit is essential.
The exhibit is free and open to the public!!!
The exhibit will be available for viewing from August 16th – September 24th during normal operating hours in the WJU Library.
Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War
Overview of Exhibition Themes
1.
The Civil War as a Constitutional Crisis: In 1861 the issue of slavery precipitated a national crisis framed largely in terms of constitutional issues. The framers of the Constitution had left unanswered some basic questions about the nature of the federal Union they had created: Was the United States truly one nation, or was it a confederacy of sovereign and separate states? How could a country founded on the belief that “all men are created equal” tolerate slavery? In a national crisis, would civil liberties be secure? By 1860, these unresolved questions had become ticking time bombs, ready to explode. Abraham Lincoln’s election as the nation’s first anti-slavery president brought the nation to the brink of war. Lincoln used the tools the Constitution gave him to confront three intertwined issues of the Civil War—the secession of Southern states, slavery and wartime civil liberties.
2.
Secession: By the time Lincoln took the constitutional oath of office as president, seven states had already seceded from the Union. Four more soon followed. Southern secessionists believed that they had the right to withdraw their states’ ratification of the Constitution and dissolve their connection to the Union. Northerners, however, rejected this idea of “state sovereignty.” They believed that when the Constitution was ratified, a united people had established an indivisible nation. Lincoln believed that state secession was unconstitutional and undemocratic. At Lincoln’s inauguration, he promised that the government would not attack the South if the Union was not attacked. But he also warned that had taken a solemn oath to “preserve, protect and defend” the Constitution. What Southerners heard that day were not words of moderation but a declaration of war.
3.
Slavery: Lincoln is widely acknowledged as one of America’s greatest presidents, but he was a controversial figure in his day and his historical reputation is contested today. Lincoln believed that slavery was immoral, but he shared many of the racial prejudices of his day. His policy preferences about slavery and abolition evolved over time. For much of his political career he favored gradual, compensated abolition of slavery and the colonization of freed slaves in South America or Africa. In the crucible of the Civil War, he came to believe that for the nation to survive, slavery had to end. The signing of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 and the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865 served to abolish slavery in the United States.
4.
Civil Liberties: Lincoln claimed extraordinary powers in order to control the chaos of dissent during the Civil War. He suspended the writ of habeas corpus—the provision in the Constitution that protects citizens against arbitrary arrests. By 1863, thousands of civilians had been detained, mostly suspected draft dodgers and deserters and Confederate sympathizers in the Border States and the South. For these actions, Lincoln was denounced as a tyrant by his political foes. He struggled throughout the war to find the appropriate balance between national security and individual rights.
5.
Legacy: Lincoln’s fight to save the Union transformed the nation and the Constitution. Lincoln’s presidency left a legacy of ideals for our nation to live up to—equality, freedom and democracy. The powerful words of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address sought to transmit these ideals into future generations. The exhibition ends by asking visitors whether we as a nation have been faithful to this legacy.
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With the former slaveholder Booth's assasination of Lincoln, Lincoln's intended policy of Implementing govt. for, by, and of the peoples was subverted. His policies of Reconstruction, and Reparations (Such as 'forty acres and a mule' was abondoned in the Southern United States. In light of his assasination the Slaveholders rigged the Presidential election, and appointed Heyes as President although Heyes recieved far less votes that the Reconstruction opponent. The Supreme Court, and unelected body in the U.S.A. appointed Heyes and forwarded the Jim Crow laws, making sure that the Lincoln policies were never implemented in their full. This list is their deaccomplishments.
1, ending the policy of occupation by the union army from the South.
2, ending the 'reconstruction programes' of Lincoln.
3, putting the Souther male elites back into power and blocking democracy for the working poor, and the blacks.
4, Stopping progress on the man, woman question, which by making it not possible for women to be elected equally, (Gender Parity) After all the women were not even considered as worthy of genuine democracy as doubling democracy, and thusly making harmony and balance of the specie the goal of government. Women are the 'better half' of the specie, and are people. Government for, by, and of the people cannot be fully implewomented untill they are elected equally 50-50 as nature requires for balance and harmony.
5, Supporting electoral colleges put in by the British Empire to garantee non-election of the working poor regardless of the color of their skin.
The progressive electing (opposite to the de-electing of the Southenerrs) was to be some of the content of the second term of Lincoln's policy but was deliberately scuttled by the former slaveholders as a class in society.
For women this meant the Male Domination of democracy was to persist, and the misery of class antagonism thusly garanteed. Thus centuries more of Wars of aggression and the impoverishment of the environment was put in place as maxing private profits, mostly for males.
However Liberation was set finally in and after the second world war as the goal of liberation as away from 'militarizatism', and that means scrapping the war machines and their manufactury, thusly allowing the freeing of the peoples, and electing of the women as equals.
Both Lincoln, and Marx while in corresponence were adamant that a free working class and a progressive society were needed to make sure that a true liberation and unity of the peoples would attain.
Wokrers of the world, unite!! End pollution wars , not endless wars for more and more pollution. Cause the peoples law making to be elected by the people as the Workers Commonwealth needs two points of governance to give full legitimate practice. 1, a majority--woman's compliment assures that by electing one man and one women per constituency at all levels, and 2) a correct program, such as governance for, by , and of the people so that ownership and control by the people can take place.
That has long since been denighed with Lincoln's death, and continued with Bush, who was the second appointed President from a non-elected 'Supreme Court' with out the 'Workers Commonwealth', who for elected governance requires a correct program and a majority. He had neither. Notice that both times Elite Aristocracy Males from the Southern Aristocracy were wrongly elected, yet forced obeyance of the majority by militarization of society.
In the comming elections to end depression and pollution, the U.S.A. needs to end its foreign policy of aggressive war, and adopt a foreign policy of Workers of the World, unite!!
To reconstruct America towards a non-pollution solution, such as Retooling the Industrial Revolution with tidal, wind, and solar power which transforms to electricity and is more power than can be used by society. No more blackouts. This policy would nearly end the burn-out of oxygen in the atmosphere by fossil fuels by around 97%, and would allow mother nature to take out the carbon for cell-building, and put plus de clean oxygen again. This non-pollution solution is given freely in nature's green revolution.
The present society is in a fail-safe mode (38% of the oxygen already burned-out), which means it is cascading CO2--carbon dioxide into the atmosphere faster than the trees can replace oxygen. That is it folks. Just leaving the present society in place would asphyxiate all oxygen air breathing animals. That is not a governance that would serve the American or the world's people with a living web-of-life, and is the present biggest threat of terrorism on the planet. Kinder laws are in nature, and provides work for all and forever more.
Lincoln, Marx, and Engels world really like that. Workers of the world, Unite!! Turn failure into success, isn't that what the world revolution is all about. You, yet have a world to win!!
1, ending the policy of occupation by the union army from the South.
2, ending the 'reconstruction programes' of Lincoln.
3, putting the Souther male elites back into power and blocking democracy for the working poor, and the blacks.
4, Stopping progress on the man, woman question, which by making it not possible for women to be elected equally, (Gender Parity) After all the women were not even considered as worthy of genuine democracy as doubling democracy, and thusly making harmony and balance of the specie the goal of government. Women are the 'better half' of the specie, and are people. Government for, by, and of the people cannot be fully implewomented untill they are elected equally 50-50 as nature requires for balance and harmony.
5, Supporting electoral colleges put in by the British Empire to garantee non-election of the working poor regardless of the color of their skin.
The progressive electing (opposite to the de-electing of the Southenerrs) was to be some of the content of the second term of Lincoln's policy but was deliberately scuttled by the former slaveholders as a class in society.
For women this meant the Male Domination of democracy was to persist, and the misery of class antagonism thusly garanteed. Thus centuries more of Wars of aggression and the impoverishment of the environment was put in place as maxing private profits, mostly for males.
However Liberation was set finally in and after the second world war as the goal of liberation as away from 'militarizatism', and that means scrapping the war machines and their manufactury, thusly allowing the freeing of the peoples, and electing of the women as equals.
Both Lincoln, and Marx while in corresponence were adamant that a free working class and a progressive society were needed to make sure that a true liberation and unity of the peoples would attain.
Wokrers of the world, unite!! End pollution wars , not endless wars for more and more pollution. Cause the peoples law making to be elected by the people as the Workers Commonwealth needs two points of governance to give full legitimate practice. 1, a majority--woman's compliment assures that by electing one man and one women per constituency at all levels, and 2) a correct program, such as governance for, by , and of the people so that ownership and control by the people can take place.
That has long since been denighed with Lincoln's death, and continued with Bush, who was the second appointed President from a non-elected 'Supreme Court' with out the 'Workers Commonwealth', who for elected governance requires a correct program and a majority. He had neither. Notice that both times Elite Aristocracy Males from the Southern Aristocracy were wrongly elected, yet forced obeyance of the majority by militarization of society.
In the comming elections to end depression and pollution, the U.S.A. needs to end its foreign policy of aggressive war, and adopt a foreign policy of Workers of the World, unite!!
To reconstruct America towards a non-pollution solution, such as Retooling the Industrial Revolution with tidal, wind, and solar power which transforms to electricity and is more power than can be used by society. No more blackouts. This policy would nearly end the burn-out of oxygen in the atmosphere by fossil fuels by around 97%, and would allow mother nature to take out the carbon for cell-building, and put plus de clean oxygen again. This non-pollution solution is given freely in nature's green revolution.
The present society is in a fail-safe mode (38% of the oxygen already burned-out), which means it is cascading CO2--carbon dioxide into the atmosphere faster than the trees can replace oxygen. That is it folks. Just leaving the present society in place would asphyxiate all oxygen air breathing animals. That is not a governance that would serve the American or the world's people with a living web-of-life, and is the present biggest threat of terrorism on the planet. Kinder laws are in nature, and provides work for all and forever more.
Lincoln, Marx, and Engels world really like that. Workers of the world, Unite!! Turn failure into success, isn't that what the world revolution is all about. You, yet have a world to win!!
From Lincoln forward the republicans were the party that pushed for African-Americans to be treated as equals. The democrats instituted Jim Crow Laws, formed the KKK and fought against equality all the way up through 1964 when the civil rights act was finally passed despite a democratic filibuster. Yet today history has been rewritten to blame the Republicans for the racism of the democrats.
I agree with Brewer, but also believe that the big two parties have morphed into a de facto if not de jure 'One Big Private Property Party' with two names. Very much to the discrimination of the 99%.
The OBP is now a party of the monopolies, and the one percent are now owners and controllers of the corportions and Banks, police, courts, military and prisons. All of which takes from the producing workers, who recieve less and less each year as the monopoly Capitalists take away all the social safety networks such as single payer medicare, social security, pensions and by privatizing all the publically owned means of production, they shift the monies to the top ten percent, and leave the vast majority wanting and needing the means of life.
Now down and dirty they are polluting the planet beyond mother natures ability to sustain life. Such a failed system needs to be overthrown, and replaced with a system that does serve the needs of the peoples, plants, and animals. Workers of the world, unite!! You yet have a world to win!!
The OBP is now a party of the monopolies, and the one percent are now owners and controllers of the corportions and Banks, police, courts, military and prisons. All of which takes from the producing workers, who recieve less and less each year as the monopoly Capitalists take away all the social safety networks such as single payer medicare, social security, pensions and by privatizing all the publically owned means of production, they shift the monies to the top ten percent, and leave the vast majority wanting and needing the means of life.
Now down and dirty they are polluting the planet beyond mother natures ability to sustain life. Such a failed system needs to be overthrown, and replaced with a system that does serve the needs of the peoples, plants, and animals. Workers of the world, unite!! You yet have a world to win!!
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