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. 6.3 Pacific Coast campaign Constitutional Convention 1787. Main articles: Dred Scott v Sandford and Freedom suits, Members of Congress make fact-finding missions to learn about other countries and stay informed but these outings can cause controversy if the trip is deemed excessive or unconnected with the task of governing for example the Wall Street Journal reported in 2009 that lawmaker trips abroad at taxpayer expense had included spas $300-per-night extra unused rooms and shopping excursions. Lawmakers respond that "traveling with spouses compensates for being away from them a lot in Washington" and justify the trips as a way to meet officials in other nations.

8.3 Other 5.1 Sessions We reached Burrita about 5 pm many of the Louisiana volunteers were there a lawless drunken rabble They had driven away the inhabitants taken possession of their houses and were emulating each other in making beasts of themselves. ! The Congress was created by the Constitution of the United States and first met in 1789 replacing in its legislative function the Congress of the Confederation Although not legally mandated in practice since the 19th century Congress members are typically affiliated with the Republican Party or with the Democratic Party and only rarely with a third party or independents, 3 1790 to 1860 Sociologist Barry Schwartz argues that in the 1930s and 1940s the memory of Abraham Lincoln was practically sacred and provided the nation with "a moral symbol inspiring and guiding American life" During the Great Depression he argues Lincoln served "as a means for seeing the world's disappointments for making its sufferings not so much explicable as meaningful" Franklin D Roosevelt preparing America for war used the words of the Civil War president to clarify the threat posed by Germany and Japan Americans asked "What would Lincoln do?":xi 9 24 However Schwartz also finds that since World War II Lincoln's symbolic power has lost relevance and this "fading hero is symptomatic of fading confidence in national greatness" He suggested that postmodernism and multiculturalism have diluted greatness as a concept.:xi 9. Civil rights and home rule era.