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. Mr Armfield remained in Alexandria doing the purchasing with agents in Richmond and Warrenton Virginia and Baltimore Frederick and Easton Maryland (on Maryland's Eastern Shore near Delaware) Mr Franklin handled the selling out of New Orleans and Natchez Mississippi with offices in St Francisville and Vidalia Louisiana Their partnership grew to the point that when the partnership was dissolved in 1836 and the business sold they owned six ships for the sole purpose of transporting slaves with monthly and then biweekly sailings (The ships carried agricultural products on the return trips.) One of them the Isaac Franklin was built for them. . Howe outmaneuvered Washington at the Battle of Brandywine on September 11 1777 and marched unopposed into the nation's capital at Philadelphia an October Patriot attack failed against the British at Germantown Major General Thomas Conway prompted some members of Congress (referred to as the Conway Cabal) to consider removing Washington from command because of the losses incurred at Philadelphia Washington's supporters resisted and the matter was finally dropped after much deliberation. Once exposed Conway wrote an apology to Washington resigned and returned to France. .

One of Congress's foremost non-legislative functions is the power to investigate and oversee the executive branch. Congressional oversight is usually delegated to committees and is facilitated by Congress's subpoena power. Some critics have charged that Congress has in some instances failed to do an adequate job of overseeing the other branches of government in the Plame affair critics including Representative Henry A Waxman charged that Congress was not doing an adequate job of oversight in this case. There have been concerns about congressional oversight of executive actions such as warrantless wiretapping although others respond that Congress did investigate the legality of presidential decisions. Political scientists Ornstein and Mann suggested that oversight functions do not help members of Congress win reelection Congress also has the exclusive power of removal allowing impeachment and removal of the president federal judges and other federal officers. There have been charges that presidents acting under the doctrine of the unitary executive have assumed important legislative and budgetary powers that should belong to Congress. So-called signing statements are one way in which a president can "tip the balance of power between Congress and the White House a little more in favor of the executive branch" according to one account. Past presidents including Ronald Reagan George H W Bush Bill Clinton and George W Bush have made public statements when signing congressional legislation about how they understand a bill or plan to execute it and commentators including the American Bar Association have described this practice as against the spirit of the Constitution. There have been concerns that presidential authority to cope with financial crises is eclipsing the power of Congress in 2008 George F Will called the Capitol building a "tomb for the antiquated idea that the legislative branch matters"; Principles Est 2018 702,455 16.7% 2 Military hostilities begin, 1978 70.2% 68,354 28.1% 27,366 This section does not cite any sources Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed (September 2015) (Learn how and when to remove this template message), African-American history and culture scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr wrote:; . The most famous group of deserters from the U S Army was the Saint Patrick's Battalion or (San Patricios) composed primarily of several hundred immigrant soldiers the majority Catholic Irish and German immigrants who deserted the U.S Army because of ill-treatment or sympathetic leanings to fellow Mexican Catholics and joined the Mexican army the battalion also included Canadians English French Italians Poles Scots Spaniards Swiss and Mexican people many of whom were members of the Catholic Church. . Surrender at Yorktown (1781), Throughout the first half of the 19th century abolitionism a movement to end slavery grew in strength; most abolitionist societies and supporters were in the North They worked to raise awareness about the evils of slavery and to build support for abolition, Disputed capitals 6 1850s The general solution that was adopted by the Compromise of 1850 was to transfer a considerable part of the territory claimed by Texas state to the federal government; to organize two new territories formally the Territory of New Mexico and the Territory of Utah which expressly would be allowed to locally determine whether they would become slave or free territories to add another free state to the Union (California) to adopt a severe measure to recover slaves who had escaped to a free state or free territory (the Fugitive Slave Law); and to abolish the slave trade in the District of Columbia a key provision of each of the laws respectively organizing the Territory of New Mexico and the Territory of Utah was that slavery would be decided by local option called popular sovereignty That was an important repudiation of the idea behind the failure to prohibit slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico However the admission of California as a free state meant that southerners were giving up their goal of a coast-to-coast belt of slave states.