Two Major Political Parties in the United States
Words: 1355 Pages: 5 1554The right to vote–who can vote and how–has been central to the American experiment. In the midst of the Civil War, when the continuation of slavery was at stake and, with it, the existence of the United States, Abraham Lincoln began his historic Gettysburg Address with the words, “[F]our score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” He ended […]