His unwavering dedication to those who serve our nation with their lives earns the trust and devotion of the armed services. His career began early at william mary. Not many known that he drove the Williamsburg James City School Bus when he was a student and he was assistant troop leader for our local boy scouts and that senator norman was one of his boy scouts as we discovered last night. After graduating from william mary in 1965, he joined the cia as an Intelligence Officer and was the first career officer to scale the agencys ranks to become its director. He served with president s of texas a m university from 20022006. When president bush called him back to washington to serve as secretary of defense. As secretary, he led our armed forces at a time when the country was in the midst of two wars and a global fight against terrorism. In 2009 he accepted president obamas request that he continue to lead in the cabinet, becoming the first secretary of defense to serve under president s
The virginia plan for example, the compromise presented at the Constitutional Convention thought the balance of large and small states and bicameral legislature. Another critical compromise is the agreement to tolerate slavery even though it would be prohibited in 1808. Without the compromise the Southern States would never have agreed to ratify the constitution and there would have been you know no United States of america. A great wrong was embedded in our find a shuttle document and the seeds of civil war were stone. The founders, even many of the slaveholders among them acknowledged slavery was an abomination antithetical to the declaration of independence many of them signed. Most hoped it would disappear for economic reasons, but for 80 years americans would live with the start contradictions between the existence of slavery within its borders and the first principle of the declaration that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights. Th
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