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A little political humor for anyone still in the mood.... Tomorrow we celebrate Declaration of Independence 🇺🇲. The founding document of the United States, was approved by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, it announced the separation of 13 North American British colonies from Great Britain. Did you know the consituation was written in 1787, ratified in 1788, and in operation since 1789. The United States Constitution is the world's longest surviving written charter of government. Its first three words; "We the People" affirm that the government of the United States exists to serve its citizens. As a kid I had to memorize the preamble "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." What is something you remember to this day from your history class?

𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬-𝟑𝟔𝐭𝐡 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭-𝐋𝐲𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐧 𝐁. 𝐉𝐨𝐡𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐧 -President from 1963-1969. -After taking office, Johnson declared a “War on Poverty" and actively pushed Congress to pass legislation attacking illiteracy, unemployment and racial discrimination. -His legislative agenda created the Medicare and Medicaid programs to provide federal health insurance for elderly and poor Americans. He also made great strides in attacking racial discrimination by signing the historic Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965. -Despite Johnson’s success in promoting his domestic reform policies, his presidency was also defined by the failure of his policies toward Vietnam as he steadily escalated U.S. military involvement in the Vietnam War. -The number of American troops in Vietnam soared from 16,000 when he took office in 1963 to more than 500,000 in 1968, yet the conflict remained a bloody stalemate. Sourcehttps://loom.ly/xY-C7j4 #LyndonJohnson

💡 Factual Friday: Exploring the US Constitution 📜 The US Constitution holds crucial principles that shape our nation's governance and rights. By "brushing up" on our familiarity with this document, we can outline a few of the American citizens concerns: 🔍 Article I, Section 9 emphasizes the importance of transparency and accountability, prohibiting government officials from accepting gifts or titles without congressional consent. #Accountability #Transparency #GovernmentEthics 💰💵 🔍 Article IV, Section 4 underscores the duty of the United States to safeguard each state against invasion, ensuring the preservation of our nation's sovereignty. #NationalSecurity #StateProtection #Defense 👮♂️👮♀ 🔍 Article VI establishes the supremacy of the Constitution, laws, and treaties of the United States, binding all officials by oath to uphold its principles. #RuleOfLaw #ConstitutionalOath #LegalFramework 👨⚖️👩⚖️ Together, for our children and our children's, children, we must push for and uphold the principles enshrined in our Constitution, ensuring the continued strength and resilience of our nation. #USConstitution #LegalFoundation #AmericanValues #veterans #freedomisntfree *** Image taken from Google ***

Many of the world’s democracies are relatively young, having emerged from dictatorship to elected civilian government in the past half-century. Despite this progress, many political systems still carry the residue of their secret crimes and repressive histories. Tina Rosenberg's 1995 essay explores how new democracies address their past dictatorships and prevent the recurrence of tyranny. The choices these nations make—whether to investigate past crimes, try former leaders, or purge bureaucrats—depend on factors like the type of dictatorial regime, the crimes committed, and the nation’s political culture. Truth commissions, particularly necessary after regimes marked by widespread torture and disappearances, aim to heal victims and alter conditions that nurtured dictatorship. Their pathologies were vastly different: in “Latin America the challenge to democracy comes from military dominance of a weak civilian government, while in Eastern Europe the danger is repression by capricious government officials unchecked by law.” But despite their dissimilarities, Rosenberg wrote, all new democracies had essentially the same task: “to go as far as they can to bring past repressors to accountability without crossing the line into new injustice.” https://lnkd.in/gndKx3ed #DemocraticTransition #TruthAndReconciliation #LegacyOfDictatorship

The Emancipation Proclamation, or Proclamation 95, was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln effective January 1, 1863. It changed the legal status under federal law of more than 3.5 million enslaved African Americans in the Confederate states from slave to free. As soon as a slave escaped the control of the Confederate government, either by running away across Union lines or through the advance of federal troops, the slave was permanently free. The Union victory brought the proclamation into effect in all of the former Confederacy. The remaining slaves, those in the areas not in revolt, were freed by state action, or by the Thirteenth Amendment to the US Constitution, ratified in December 1865. The proclamation was directed to all of the areas in rebellion and all segments of the executive branch (including the Army and Navy) of the US. It proclaimed the freedom of all slaves in the ten states in rebellion. Even though it excluded areas, not in rebellion, including the border slave states of Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri, it still applied to more than 3.5 million of the 4 million slaves in the country. The Proclamation applied only to slaves in Confederate-held lands; it did not apply to those in the four slave states that were not in rebellion, nor to Tennessee and lower Louisiana, and specifically excluded those counties of Virginia soon to form the state of West Virginia. Specifically excluded were some regions already controlled by the Union army. Emancipation in those places would come after separate state actions or the December 1865 ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment, which made slavery and indentured servitude, except for those duly convicted of a crime, illegal everywhere subject to US jurisdiction. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

Many of the world’s democracies are relatively young, having emerged from dictatorship to elected civilian government in the past half-century. Despite this progress, many political systems still carry the residue of their secret crimes and repressive histories. Tina Rosenberg's 1995 essay explores how new democracies address their past dictatorships and prevent the recurrence of tyranny. The choices these nations make—whether to investigate past crimes, try former leaders, or purge bureaucrats—depend on factors like the type of dictatorial regime, the crimes committed, and the nation’s political culture. Truth commissions, particularly necessary after regimes marked by widespread torture and disappearances, aim to heal victims and alter conditions that nurtured dictatorship. Their pathologies were vastly different: in “Latin America the challenge to democracy comes from military dominance of a weak civilian government, while in Eastern Europe the danger is repression by capricious government officials unchecked by law.” But despite their dissimilarities, Rosenberg wrote, all new democracies had essentially the same task: “to go as far as they can to bring past repressors to accountability without crossing the line into new injustice.” https://lnkd.in/g3mxN6tH #DemocraticTransition #TruthAndReconciliation #LegacyOfDictatorship

A reminder of why many of us have today as an official holiday. Learn more about the legacy of Juneteenth and some of the reforms advocates are fighting for in DC ➡️https://lnkd.in/ewtvAqvY

A good book, providing a focused history on the chaotic demobilization of the Confederate armies in the spring and summer of 1865. The author, Civil War historian Caroline Janney, gives a deep legal, political, and societal exploration of the means by which the tens of thousands of Confederate soldiers went from active rebellion back to peacetime lives. In this chronological history, Janney relies heavily on primary source material. The author clearly explains the broad debate amongst government authorities in the wake of Appomattox: were the surrendered Confederates under military parole, and thus prisoners of war protected from civil legal actions, or were they now rebel civilians, subject to charges of treason. Janney shows how, contrary to myth, Grant’s favorable terms of parole with Lee were not the finalization of this debate, but instead its point of origin. The lack of a clear surrender by the Confederate’s political leadership and the absence of accepted policy from Washington meant that federal, judicial, and state officials were in a state of confusion in the many months it took the Confederate soldiery to disband to their homes. A great book for understanding how wars end. Highly recommended for any military professional engaged in the transition from war to peace.

Thanks to Steve Sedgwick..... 1 Ways Harris Democrates are hell-bent on destroying America. “1. Wipe out a 2,000 mile border. 2. Run up 35 TRILLION in debt. 3. Appease or subsidize enemies like Iran & China. 4. In a multiracial democracy, redefine identity as only one’s tribal affiliation. 5. Redefine violent crime as understandable, cry-of-heart expressions of social justice. 6. Emasculate the military by using non-meritocratic standards of race, gender & sexual orientation to determine promotion & commendation. 7. Reinvent the justice system to indict, bankrupt, convict, jail & eliminate political opponents. 8. Encourage the fusion of the bureaucratic state with electronic media to form a political force for political audit, surveillance, censorship & coercion. 9. Make war on affordable gasoline & natural gas. 10. Marry late, but preferably not at all. 11. Turn world-class universities into indoctrination centers.”