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What does manummission means?
Manumission is a legal term for freeing one's slaves. In many southern states manumission was forbidden by law, or only permissible by will, meaning the slave owner could only free his slaves at his death by so specifying in his will. But, slaves were expensive and valuable, and often worth more than the land they worked, so, few large slave owners were willing to diminish the inheritance of their children by freeing a large portion of their net worth upon their death.
Boston lawyer who proposed the stamp act congress?
James Otis, Jr. was the Boston lawyer who proposed the Stamp Act Congress. It was also known as the First Congress of the American Colonies.
Who where the proponents and the oppositionists in the Republic Act 1425?
Republic Act 1425, or the Rizal Law, was proposed by Senator Claro M. Recto. It was strongly opposed by the Roman Catholic Church in the Philippines.
In 1767 Charles Townshend proposed a series of taxes known as the Townshend Acts. These taxes were different from the Stamp Act because they were?
External Taxes :D
When was the 14th Amendment passed?
The Fourteenth Amendment was proposed by Congress in 1866 and ratified by the states in 1868.The 14th Amendment was passed after the Civil Rights Act of 1866, which was used to enforce equality.
