of the case turned into the issues of property rights and human rights. However, when the case went to the Supreme Court in January 1841, former President John Quincy Adams argued for the slaves case to regain their freedom. Although the Declaration of Independence states that all men are created equal in the country, Adam’s speech reveals Americans as a people are divided because the North and South disagree about the humanity of slavery. Furthermore the South was being pro-slavery, slaves were
and “Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions” by Elizabeth Cady Stanton are well-known speeches that have undoubtedly shaped America into what it is today or in some cases, what America should be today. Although one could say that these particular speeches have changed America in one way or the other, it is important to analyze whether or not these speeches and how America is today meets the criteria and the promises of the Founding Fathers’ American ideals. Throughout this paper, an analysis of
things before the light fell on them. Most new discoveries are suddenly seeing things that were always there hiding in plain sight. The Common Law was a frontal assault on the governing legal philosophy of the time. It was modern law’s declaration of independence. “Here is the text,” wrote Cardozo years later, “to be unfolded. All that is to come will be development and commentary.” Indeed, Professor