CLAIM: Alexander Hamilton supported the Ratios of Representation. INVESTIGATOR: John Needham FACT CHECK DETAILS: FACTUAL ACCURATE INVESTIGATOR’S FINDINGS: As a New York delegate to the 1787 Constitutional Convention, Alexander Hamilton saw the need for compromise on the issue of slavery in order to establish a new confederacy of States. With his … Read More »
February 1861. With seven States having left the Union, Americans believed two different political oligarchies had been rooted. Northerners saw Southerners as traitors to the Union interested only in establishing a slave republic and protecting the institution of slavery.
From late 1860 to early 1861 or ‘Secession Winter’, the question of secession and preserving the Union divided Americans…
Previous to the adoption of the Federal Constitution, each State was a separate and independent Government – a complete sovereignty within itself …
November 1860. With Abraham Lincoln, a Republican, winning the Presidency of the United States, Southerners feared an abolitionist oligarchy had overthrown the general government of the United States.
The State of Alabama resumed its powers on January 11,1861 from its agent, the general government.
CLAIM: UNILATERAL SECESSION THROUGH THE 10TH AMENDMENT IS A LEGAL MEANS FOR A STATE TO LEAVE THE UNION INVESTIGATOR: John Needham FACT CHECK DETAILS: FACTUAL ACCURATE INVESTIGATORS FINDINGS: Secession was and still is a legal option in the States today. There had to be a specific constitutional prohibition on secession … Read More »
CLAIM: “.. the laws of Congress are restricted to a certain sphere ..” Alexander Hamilton said. INVESTIGATOR: John Needham FACT CHECK DETAILS: FACTUAL ACCURATE INVESTIGATORS FINDINGS: From June to July in 1788, the State of New York met to decide to create an agent to which it would delegate some … Read More »
CLAIM: ALABAMA’S RADICAL REPUBLICANS RECOGNIZED SECESSION BY DECLARING IT ‘NULL AND VOID” IN 1865 INVESTIGATOR: John Needham FACT CHECK DETAILS: FACTUAL ACCURATE INVESTIGATORS FINDINGS: During May and June 1865, Alabama had no legally constituted government; Governor Thomas Hill Watts and other prominent leaders had been arrested by the United States … Read More »