It is the right of a people to freely define ways in which to use land, resources and manpower for their common good. Above all, sovereignty is the right of people to exist without external exploitation or interference.” (2) However, many of these rights of sovereignty were discarded by legislation passed by the U.S. Congress. One of the first such acts was the Indian Trade and Intercourse Act of 1790. This act effectively extended federal criminal jurisdiction into Indian territory (Kickingbird et al. 18).
He argued that social development studies showed changes in their social behaviors and their interactions once in their new environment. Thus, he concluded that the new society was uniquely America. He has a very valid argument, but I believe he could have maintained the strength of his argument while also including the fact that the American people coming from British roots, the Puritans, the Royalist elites, the North Midlanders of England and the North British and Irish were still unique as a sub-culture melded together by the choice for religious and economic freedom. The pursuit to own land and accumulate wealth, and not be under the rule of the crown was first and foremost in the early colonists minds. Fisher rests his entire point of view based on the roots of the four British folkways that separated the settlers in America.
Racial Fault Lines According to Tomas Almaguer‘s book Racial Fault Lines, he introduces his main concept studying in depth the historical and social formation of race, arguing that in California in its early formation race was primary, thought never ignoring class, language, gender, and religion, he argues that there are required for any understanding of California’s history. What stands out most clearly from this comparative history is that European Americans at every class level sought to create, maintain, or extend their privileged access to racial entitlements in California. The sinister consequences of this bald proclamation are painfully captured in these chapters that document the treatment of the Mexican, Indian, and Chinese immigrant’s experiences in white supremacist California. One ethnic group with a unique experience with the European Americans was the Mexicans who were here before the U.S. annexation of California. Mexicans were given land grants and were to be offered citizenship as well as other rights as “free white persons” (Almaguer 54) in California under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo of 1849.
To recognize the historical fact that the United Sates has been an overwhelmingly English speaking nation since it was created and that its constitution and foundational documents are in English. 5. To recognize that while the people of the United States value and respect diversity, they want to preserve English as their common language and therefore immigrants have the responsibility to learn English. 6. To conform to the majority of the states (31) that already have made English their official language.
Smith uses this repetition for emphasis on most every facet of her argument. In her concluding paragraph Smith says “As an American, I condemn a Republican Fascist just as much as I condemn a Democrat Communist. I condemn a Democrat Fascist just as much as I condemn a Republican Communist. They are equally dangerous to you and me and to our country. As an American, I want to see our nation recapture the strength and unity it once had…” The repetition of the phrase “I condemn…” puts emphasis on the fact that she too is against the ideas of Communism and Fascism, but reminds the audience that she sees a different approach to getting rid of them.
In the period after the Civil War, former slaves were made promises of equality and citizenship by the federal government. Historian Eric Foner analyzes the fate of those promises in Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction. The drastic changes in American society are pointed up by three amendments to the Constitution: the 13th abolished slavery; the 14th guaranteed birthright citizenship and equal rights for all Americans; and the 15th barred states from discriminating on the basis of race in voting rights. Foner writes, "The unresolved legacy of Reconstruction remains a part of our lives. In movements for social justice that have built on the legal and political accomplishments of Reconstruction, and in the racial tensions
A Selected Annotated Bibliography on Illegal Immigration Carens, Joseph H. Immigrants and the Right to Stay. Ma, USA. MIT Press 2010 The authors of this book attempts to discuss how people from all over the world who enter into America should be granted amnesty along with other penalties for entering the USA illegally if they have been in America for a long period of time. Some circumstances such as arriving as young children or marrying a citizen or a permanent resident should strengthen their case for becoming legal. The most important issue for this author is the passage of time.
Statements like these clearly indicate that the United States already views the land as its own, and negates all claims that Native tribes might have had to the land. The settler’s law has now become their law, whether they like it or not. Another document, “Land and Law as Agents in Educating Indians” by U.S. Board of Indian Commissioners member Merrill Gates, further reflects not only the aforementioned view of the Indians land but also goes into greater detail about the prevailing attitudes towards Native Americans at the time. A telling passage in from the section “What is an Indian” states: “Daniel Webster applies to the Indians an old legal definition…he calls them ‘perpetual inhabitants with diminutive rights.’ On the whole, the term which has found most favor with those who consider the matter is ‘wards of the
Declaration of independence Zoheb Lakha (2423613) GOVT 2301-7003 (MWF) Outline of the Declaration of Independence I. Introduction When a certain country decides to break away from the mother country, and form their own government, it is right that they declare the reasons which compel them to separate II. Body -All men are created equal - Endowed with certain unalienable rights: - Life – Liberty – Pursuit of Happiness - Governments are created to ensure these rights. - Whenever it gets out of hand though, the people have the rights to alter or abolish it. - And form another government - When lots of abuses occur it is the people’s right/duty to throw off such a government.
government made it a uniform procedure of immigration. The Naturalization Act required to be a citizen of the United Staes on must be “free white persons” and of “good moral character” and own land for atlest 2 years. Although that was the first step of being able to regulate who was allowed citizenship to the United States it not regulate who was allowed to immigrate to the States. The federal government put forth the Alien and Sedition acts of 1798 which was the first to give the power to the president the ability to deport who the president felt was a threat to national security. 1819 was the year the steerage act was brought about which required continual reporting of immigration to the United States by demanding that the passenger manifests of ships arriving be handed to the local collector of customs as well as a coppy sent to the secretary of state and then reported to