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Just two days ago. We celebrated the 234th anniversary of deciding of the us constitution. The framers intended the constitution to be a fundamental framework of law. They did not want the constitution to be changed in response to transient winds. However, they also recognized that American Society and conditions would change over time in ways. They could not predict in 1787. George mason said amendments. Therefore will be necessary and it will be better to provide for them in an easy regular and constitutional way. Then to trust to chance and violence. Article 5 of the constitution lays out the amendment process and sent 1787 more than 10,000 proposed amendments have been introduced to congress. Only 33 amendments have gained enough votes to be submitted to the states for ratification and just 27 have been ratified. So is it too difficult to amend our constitution . During todays program our speakers will address some of the ma ....
N. Org. Just two days ago. We celebrated the 234th anniversary of deciding of the us constitution. The framers intended the constitution to be a fundamental framework of law. They did not want the constitution to be changed in response to transient winds. However, they also recognized that American Society and conditions would change over time in ways. They could not predict in 1787. George mason said amendments. Therefore will be necessary and it will be better to provide for them in an easy regular and constitutional way. Then to trust to chance and violence. Article 5 of the constitution lays out the amendment process and sent 1787 more than 10,000 proposed amendments have been introduced to congress. Only 33 amendments have gained enough votes to be submitted to the states for ratification and just 27 have been ratified. So is it too difficult to amend our constitution . During todays program our speakers will address some o ....
Small groups, families, large communities especially in the small swamp all over the south. In sheer numbers you know what to me is unique in that place in the resistance story is that they were unique in many ways. And even less underground. Also they added a special kind of a freedom. They raised their food and nobody else was. When they created a mentality to life in the white hegemony. When somebody would run away to the south which was two cities or when people would run away to the north to canada or for free blacks they all lived under the control segregated and discriminated against and there were things that they were not allowed to do. If only the maroons were and they created that alternative to life and the slavery south and in the free north. And what i conceive of that is also the fact that you know these ideals of voluntary separation, this is something that exists within the Africanamerican Community and ....
But this kind of that is one of the things that is also very interesting. The fact that the maroons, one thing that many of them dead was to. We see maroons trading for example the that they gather. Some made baskets and they. That to free blacks as well as white people. One of the things that they. , that they. For word guns and ammunition. We are going to turn soon to open the floor to questions from the audience but i wanted to allow sylviane to do a little reading for the book so what he do that . One of the things that i think needs to be mentioned is is you know a maroon was not for everyone. It was difficult. It was a hard life. People had have to be very creative and selfconfident. They had to have extraordinary qualities to be able to survive in the wild and in some lived very well and some of them became folk heroes. You read the interviews and you see people who say they didnt have to work. They 1800better than we did. There were a lot of successes that they had. There are w ....