Test captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 lilienth. Lincoln won the 1860 president ial election because he carried every free state except for a divided electoral vote in new jersey. So he compiled a clear majority in the Electoral College and as we all know, of course, it is electoral votes that count. He also amassed far more popular votes than any of the other three candidates. But his plurality victory gained only 40 of the nationwide popular vote. He got no electoral votes and hardly any popular votes in the south. He was not on the ball loballotn Southern States. As we have seen an articulate ideological minority of republicans did consider slavery a moral problem, but mainstream republican moderates always said slavery was beyond their reach. Lincolns victory shocked the south. Throughout the summer and fall political orators warned of catastrophe. A symbolic humiliation added to southern distress. The south contended for a supposed constitutional right the rig
Vote tonight on whether to accept harsh measures required by creditors. Prime minister Alexis Tsipras has vowed to defend the bailout, despite saying that he signed a deal he does not believe in. I overestimated the power that the people with the right on their side have, as well as the reactionary mike against the founding principles of europe which are a respect for democracy and peoples choices. What is the message sent to us by our partners . It is that there is no point for countries are in a program to hold elections, this is a very harsh message for europe. Amy president obama has continued his push to reform mass incarceration. Tuesday, he described the criminal Justice System as broken. Books the United States is home to 5 of the worlds population but 25 of the worlds prisoners. Think about that. Our incarceration rate is four times higher than chinas. We keep more people behind bars than the top 35 European Countries combined. Become more of president obamas speech after head
The u. S. Has 5 of the worlds population but 25 of its prisoners. Speaking before the naacp, president obama calls for overhauling the nations criminal Justice System saying too many people have been locked up for nonviolent offenses. This is a cause ringing people in both houses of congress together, created some unlikely bedfellows. Youve got van jones and Newt Gingrich. Youve got americans for tax reform and the aclu, the naacp and the Koch Brothers. Amy today we will be joined by two of those unlikely bed bedfellows criminal activist van jones and mark holden, general counsel of Koch Industries. Plus, we will speak to a Prison Reform activist who spent 19 years locked up. Then to a story about corporate espionage and activism. An employee of the animal theme park seaworld has been exposed for infiltrating peta, people for the ethical treatment of animals. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Congressio
Ago, you would have come up to about and just have seen jeffersons beautiful neoclassical villa. But what we wanted to do was change that. We wanted to restore the landscape. If you had come up this mountaintop in jeffersons time, the first thing you would have seen would have been enslaved people. There would knob no place on this mountaintop that slavery wouldnt be. We wanted to restore that, make that known to visitors who come ere today. We are now restoring dwellings along the main plantation street, as well as rooms attached to the house just behind us. So all of this is part of an effort to sort of shift the focus away from jefferson and talk about the dozens of other people who essentially made his life possible. , our hope you tune in cities tour heading to charlottesville, virginia, home to Thomas Jefferson and the university of virginia. You can check out all of our programs online anytime. We want to welcome dean chang, with the heritage foundation. Good morning. Thank you
Each provides the historian with a wealth of insights, at each informs my presentation tonight. Heres what im going to talk about. I focus on the faithful series of events in late 1860 and early 1861, when a president ial election triggered a grave crisis, and before long, a civil war. Let us hope that history never repeats itself. But let us remember that any durable electoral system has attributes that we dare not take for granted. It presupposes some degree of shared values. Presupposes that you accept the legitimacy of your opponents , and that you accept the verdict of the voters. That Political Parties behave responsibly. And be prepared to govern. It presupposes the Neither Party nominated and on horseback who might try not been to the entire system. End thet try to up entire system. It presupposes the bullets never replace ballots. I will organize this into four topics. Lincoln and the Republican Party. I will try to answer several key questions. What did lincoln and the republ