In order to attract new industries, 15 states or more are issuing tax free bonds to build government owned plants which are leased to private enterprise.

Lincoln stated Douglas's popular sovereignty theory was a threat to the nation's morality and that Douglas represented a conspiracy to extend slavery to free states.

Turnout was 82. 2 percent, with Lincoln winning the free Northern states, as well as California and Oregon.

Although Lincoln believed it was not within Congress's power to free the slaves within the states, he approved the bill in deference to the legislature.

In it, he stated that " as a fit and necessary military measure, on January 1, 1863, all persons held as slaves in the Confederate states will thenceforward, and forever, be free.

The Emancipation Proclamation, issued on September 22, 1862, and put into effect on January 1, 1863, declared free the slaves in 10 states not then under Union control, with exemptions specified for areas already under Union control in two states.

The Declaration announced the states ' entry into the international system ; the model treaty was designed to establish amity and commerce with other states ; and the Articles of Confederation, which established “ a firm league ” among the thirteen free and independent states, constituted an international agreement to set up central institutions for the conduct of vital domestic and foreign affairs.

During this same period, slave-holding border states had more free African-Americans and European immigrants than the lower South, which increased Southern fears that slavery was threatened with rapid extinction in this area.

* Depravity is total: Arminius states " In this state, the free will of man towards the true good is not only wounded, infirm, bent, and weakened ; but it is also imprisoned, destroyed, and lost.

According to the Fraser Institute, Alberta has very high levels of economic freedom and rates Alberta as the most free economy in Canada, and second most free economy amongst U. S. states and Canadian provinces.

Unlike the communist parties in most other East European states, the BCP ( changing its name to Bulgarian Socialist Party ) retained majority power after the transition in Bulgaria by winning the first free national elections in June 1990.

To consider but one example, the First Amendment to the United States Constitution states " Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof "— but interpretation ( that is, determining the fine boundaries, and resolving the tension between the " establishment " and " free exercise " clauses ) of each of the important terms was delegated by Article III of the Constitution to the judicial branch, so that the current legal boundaries of the Constitutional text can only be determined by consulting the common law.

As a result, Europe is a continent free of the death penalty in practice, all states but Russia, which has entered a moratorium, having ratified the Sixth Protocol to the European Convention on Human Rights, with the sole exception of Belarus, which is not a member of the Council of Europe.

Dr. Gartzke, of Columbia University states, " Scholars like Montesquieu, Adam Smith, Richard Cobden, Norman Angell, and Richard Rosecrance have long speculated that free markets have the potential to free states from the looming prospect of recurrent warfare.

In his autobiography, Freedom In Exile, he states that if Tibet is not free, he " will reincarnate elsewhere.

The German Confederation or German Union ( Deutscher Bund ) was a loose confederation of thirty-five monarchical states and four republican ( but hardly democratic ) free cities, with a Federal Assembly in Frankfurt.

The Debian Project is governed by the Debian Constitution and the Social Contract which set out the governance structure of the project and explicitly states that the goal of the project is the development of a free operating system.

He created a new political group that sought to preserve the old status quo while accepting the basics of laissez-faire and free trade.

Keen to modernise his country and free it from foreign domination, Amanullah, sought to shore up his powerbase.

By elevating the director, and not the screenwriter, to the same importance as novelists, composers, or painters, it sought to free the cinema from its popular conception as a bastard art, somewhere between theater and literature.

Fascism sought to accommodate Italian conservatives by making major alterations to its political agenda ;– abandoning its previous populism, republicanism, and anticlericalism, adopting policies in support of free enterprise, and accepting the Roman Catholic Church and the monarchy as institutions in Italy.

The Council sought to: ( a ) bring an end to the practice of the conferring of ecclesiastical benefices by people who were laymen ; ( b ) free the election of bishops and abbots from secular influence ; ( c ) clarify the separation of spiritual and temporal affairs ; ( d ) re-establish the principle that spiritual authority resides solely in the Church ; ( e ) abolish the claim of the emperors to influence papal elections.

Their use of the word " gay " represented a new unapologetic defiance — as an antonym for " straight " (' respectable sexual behaviour '), it encompassed a range of non-normative sexualities and gender expressions, such as transgender street prostitutes, and sought ultimately to free the bisexual potential in everyone, rendering obsolete the categories of homosexual and heterosexual.

Of a strictly religious, although not narrow, disposition, he sought at any cost to keep his subjects from falling away from the Church, but his methods of attaining his object were not always free from reproach.

In 1777, Simcoe sought to form a Loyalist regiment of free blacks from Boston, but instead was offered the command of the Queen's Rangers, a well-trained light infantry unit comprising 11 companies of 30 men, 1 grenadier and 1 hussar, and the rest light infantry.

Mies sought to create free and open spaces, enclosed within a structural order with minimal presence.

M. Hammond, A. H. Mack, and W. Moskalew have noted in their introduction to the text of the Miles Gloriosus that Plautus was, “ free from convention ... that he sought to reproduce the easy tone of daily speech rather than the formal regularity of oratory or poetry.

A gathering of over 2, 100 members of the PC ( USA ) representing over 500 churches gathered in Orlando to form a denomination that sought to be free from ongoing decline, conflict, and increasingly liberal theology.

Some go “ native ’ and integrated with the militias of independent “ free cities ", others turned into gangs of marauding bandits and some small groups of surviving soldiers sought to find their way home.

The coalition was committed to free trade ( as opposed to the high tariffs the Conservatives sought ), free collective bargaining for trades unions ( which Conservatives opposed ), an active social policy that was forging the welfare state, and constitutional reform to reduce the power of the House of Lords.

Hippies sought to free themselves from societal restrictions, choose their own way, and find new meaning in life.

The Diggers took their name from the original English Diggers ( 1649 – 50 ) led by Gerrard Winstanley, and they sought to create a mini-society free of money and capitalism.

The Whole Earth Catalog sought to balance the international free market by allowing direct purchasing of goods produced primarily in America and Canada, but also in Latin America and South America.

MILF soldiers offered to help free the Irish priest father Michael Sinott, who was kidnapped in the Philippines on October 14, 2009 and sought permission to deploy about 100 of its soldiers in the area where Sinnott is believed to be held.

The ruble went into free fall as Russians sought frantically to buy dollars.

Because the minor league team that last held Jim Thorpe's contract had disbanded in 1910, he found himself in the rare position of being a sought after free agent at the major league level during the era of the reserve clause, and thus had a choice of baseball teams for which to play.

Since World War II, successive Norwegian governments have sought to broaden and extend public benefits to its citizens, in the form of sickness and disability benefits, minimum guaranteed pensions, heavily subsidized or free universal health care, unemployment insurance, and so on.

Napoleon sought to advance his belief in free trade, cheap credit, and the need to develop infrastructure as ways of ensuring progress and prosperity through government policy.

The Second Triumvirate ( 1812 – 1814 ) and José Gervasio Artigas ( who controlled the Liga Federal during the 1815 – 1820 period ) sought to restore the initial protectionist policy, but the Supreme Director restored free trade once more.

The Gaullist government, however, was criticized for its heavy-handedness: while elections were free, the state had a monopoly on radio and TV broadcasting and sought to have its point of view on events imposed ( this monopoly was not absolute, however, since there were radio stations transmitting from nearby countries specifically for the benefit of the French ).

The energy lobby, oil industry advocates and free market think tanks have often been accused of overtly or covertly supporting efforts to undermine or discredit the scientific consensus on global warming.

In Ireland, the right to free speech is guaranteed under the Constitution ( Article 40. 6. 1. i ), however, this is only an implied right provided that liberty of expression " shall not be used to undermine public order or morality or the authority of the State ".

" Friedman encapsulated his philosophy in a lecture at Universidad Católica de Chile, saying: " free markets would undermine political centralization and political control.

This developed into the idea of rational expectations, which showed that all government interference useless and disruptive because the free market would predict and undermine the government's proposed action.

Commenting on his statement about the “ Miracle ”, Friedman says that “ the emphasis of that talk was that free markets would undermine political centralization and political control .” Friedman stated that “ The real miracle in Chile was not that those economic reforms worked so well, but because that ’ s what Adam Smith said they would do.

Chin added " It is ironic that a media company, which should be protecting the First Amendment ( guaranteeing free speech ), is seeking to undermine it.

Hale ’ s basic goal was to attack the prevailing vision of the market economy as a system of free and voluntary exchange, and thereby to undermine the claim that the law should simply reflect the results arrived at in a neutral market.

The Tories argued that free trade would undermine Canadian sovereignty and lead to a slow annexation of Canada by the U. S.

When Chen Xiang came of age, he split the mountain with an axe to free his mother, but not before facing people who repeatedly tried to undermine his mission, most notably his own uncle Erlang.

Additionally, they believed this would destroy the free market economy, as women taking men ’ s jobs would undermine the ideology of the family wage system.

He further claims that " debunkers like Boyer ... have their own unconscious motivations ( to undermine religious faith, after all, is to set oneself free of its many inconvenient strictures ).

Brendan O ' Neill argues that the extreme idolization of the Dalai Lama by his followers only serves to undermine democracy in a future free Tibet.

I conclude that even if an episode of agent causation is among the causal antecedents of every voluntary human action, these episodes do nothing to undermine the prima facie impossibility of an undetermined free act.

The players maintained that any form of compensation would undermine the value of free agency.

Sociologist Franz Oppenheimer, for instance, attacked the state as an entity that uses force to acquire wealth and secure market-distorting privileges for elites, with the implication that a market free of such privileges would undermine elite power.