| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from First Inaugural Address by Abraham Lincoln: by national or State authority? The Constitution does not expressly say.
May Congress prohibit slavery in the Territories? The Constitution does not
expressly say. MUST Congress protect slavery in the Territories?
The Constitution does not expressly say.
From questions of this class spring all our constitutional controversies,
and we divide upon them into majorities and minorities. If the minority
will not acquiesce, the majority must, or the government must cease.
There is no other alternative; for continuing the government is
acquiescence on one side or the other.
If a minority in such case will secede rather than acquiesce,
they make a precedent which in turn will divide and ruin them;
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from U. S. Project Trinity Report by Carl Maag and Steve Rohrer: At 0540 hours, the chief monitor departed from the Base Camp with a
military policeman to monitor the entire length of Broadway. They
first checked the roadblock at Pennsylvania Avenue and Broadway. Next
they drove to the roadblock at Vatican Road and Broadway. Upon the
chief monitor's arrival, the west shelter monitor traveled about nine
kilometers west on Vatican Road to monitor Guard Post 1 so that the
military police could reoccupy the post. The monitoring excursion to
Guard Post 1 continued until the chief monitor had returned from Guard
Post 2, located 17 kilometers northwest of the Vatican Road roadblock
on Broadway (1; 18).
The chief monitor arrived at Guard Post 2 at about 0550 hours and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Bucky O'Connor by William MacLeod Raine: edge. One of them was in his hand poised for a throw at the
instant Bucky mounted the chair and looked over the densely
packed mass of heads in front of him.
The ranger's keen glance swept to the wall and took in the
target. A slim lad of about fifteen stood against it with his
arms outstretched. Above and below each hand and on either side
of the swelling throat knives quivered in the frame wall. There
was a flash of steel, and the seventh knife sank into the wood so
close to the crisp curls that a lock hung by a hair, almost
completely severed by the blade. The boy choked back a scream,
his big brown eyes dilating with terror.
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