Arts & Humanities: History: “Question: Examples of information systems used in decision making?” plus 5 more |
- Question: Examples of information systems used in decision making?
- Question: America takes Hawaii?
- Question: Who went to Disney World for the Bicentennial in 1976?
- Question: Did the USA and Germany really attempt to make flying saucers as a war weapon?
- Question: How did the patriot act protect the bill of rights.?
- Question: How did Lincoln get men in the north to join the army?
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| Question: Did the USA and Germany really attempt to make flying saucers as a war weapon? Posted: 24 Sep 2015 05:34 AM PDT Ive read about them but I dont know whats been confirmed certainly the Germans had some serious developmental work going on in a number of areas |
| Question: How did the patriot act protect the bill of rights.? Posted: 24 Sep 2015 05:01 AM PDT Tom Ridge, JD, former Homeland Security Secretary, in his July 15, 2004 speech "Prepared Remarks at the Allegheny County Emergency Operations Center" said: "So let me state it plainly: The tools of the Patriot Act are vital to our ability to prevent terrorist attacks. It is not a zero sum game. Like the Department of Homeland Security and so many federal agencies, the authorities of the Patriot Act exist to protect the very liberties that our Founders established in the Constitution. By protecting our freedoms, our civil liberties are enhanced, not diminished." July 15, 2004 - Tom Ridge, JD James Jay Carafano, PhD, Senior Research Fellow, and Paul Rosenzweig, JD, former Senior Legal Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, wrote in the 2005 Winning the Long War: Lessons from the Cold War for Defeating Terrorism and Preserving Freedom: "To date, as the Department of Justice Inspector General has reported, there has not been one single instance of abuse of the powers granted in the [U.S. PATRIOT Act]. Safeguarding the civil liberties of American citizens is vitally important, as important during war as during periods of peace. Yet so, too, is preserving our security. The Patriot Act preserves both. Hysterical criticisms that the act was unnecessary and is a threat to a healthy civil society have proven unfounded, and calls for repeal or significant revision are misguided." 2005 - Paul Rosenzweig, JD |
| Question: How did Lincoln get men in the north to join the army? Posted: 24 Sep 2015 04:22 AM PDT Last issue first, Lincoln did not close "a lot of newspapers". The press remained free in the North during the Civil War. News restrictions were actually much worse in the South, with the Confederate government harassing and even imprisoning many editors who published anti-Confederate editorials. On how the Union got men, you're correct that conscription only accounted for a small part of those who served. But your characterization of the Confederacy as being more willing to fight is a bit off base. In fact, the Confederacy instituted a draft before the Union did and they had significant problems with draft evasion and desertion throughout the war, especially as it wore on. When the war initially broke out, Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers and people were so eager to sign up that they actually turned people away. Early on they had little trouble meeting their enlistment quotas although this changed as the war dragged on and as the size of the army ballooned. Initially the volunteers had only been signed up for short terms of service because people thought the war would be over quickly. Later recruits were required to serve longer tours, which, of course, acts as a disincentive to volunteer. But even so, most of the recruits remained volunteers, with only a minority being draftees. The Union draft was mostly meant as a prod to states to try and encourage their recruitment efforts. If a state met its recruitment goals there would be no draft there. The Union did offer incentives to enlistees, particularly as the war went on and their need for manpower became more acute. This is little different from today, when the US military uses various incentives to try and get people to enlist. Among the most common was a signing bonus, where the recruit would be paid a lump sum of cash up front as well as their wages. But, just as today, very few soldiers were motivated purely by mercenary motives. Even ones where enlistment bonuses and such tipped the balance were generally motivated by ideological reasons to enlist, or at least consider it. Again, this is no different from today. Most American servicemembers will cite reasons such as patriotism and wanting to protect and serve their country as reasons for enlisting. The same was true back then. People wanted to protect their country from the greatest threat it had faced since the Revolution. Remember that secession was treason. Northerners looked on Southern secessionists as traitors who were trying to destroy the country. Relations between the two sections had been poisoned over the 1850s and Northerners had been primed to see Southern "Slavocrats" as duplicitous and violent extremists who would do anything to get their way, even rip the country apart. America had a providential vision of itself as a "city on a hill". Remember that this is a time when democracy was very limited in the world. Even Europe was mostly made up of dictatorships, empires, and limited representative governments. The Americas had democracies, but fragile ones which were prone to coups and strong men. The US saw itself as the one functioning democracy in the world, a beacon of freedom to the rest of the world. If they were to allow secessionists to destroy the country, to rip it apart, then that would show that the American 'experiment' in self government had been a failure. It would show that all the skeptics were right and that men could not govern themselves. Many men signed up to fight and die for those ideals. |
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