the issues at stake were that women were being treated unequally
Try Communist Totalitarianism; we're merely under a 'dictatorship' at present.
The only thing at stake is equal rights for same-sex couples.
At the trial in Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, the main issue at stake was whether Anne and her family would be deported to a concentration camp or not. The trial determined their fate and ultimately led to their capture and imprisonment. Additionally, the trial highlighted the larger issues of discrimination, persecution, and human rights violations during the Holocaust.
That's a horrible question! Who would want to stake a vampire? Someone has issues...
king Louis vI
When the country was formed, most things were left to individual states. The federal government's purpose was national security, and upholding the law of the land. In the mid 19th century, the northern states were largely industrial while southern states were largely agrarian. The southern states had painted themselves into a corner, that is that their entire economy was based on slave labor. Calls for abolition from the north scared the pants off southerners as they visualized the economic destruction of the southern states. They then decided that under the U.S. Constitution, Amendment 10, that individual states had the right to decide the issue for themselves. The federal government did not agree. States in the south, beginning with South Carolina broke away from the U.S. claiming that states' rights superseded federal jurisdiction. Thus began the Civil War. It was a war not so much over slavery, but states' rights. The result was a fundamental redefining of the USA and federal power.
Define the Problem
There is much debate over whether it was a cross shaped like a 'T or t' or was it a stake in the ground. If a 'T or t' cross, Jesus is placed along the long beam in the middle. If a stake 'l' that is the only place to be place.
The only people directly affected by the legalization of same-sex marriage are gays and lesbians who wish to marry, or who may wish to marry at some time in the future. The stand to gain human rights. They stand to lose human rights. There are also more than 1,000 benefits of legal marriage at stake.
Conflict perspective
Losing eleven states, and the cotton revenues.