The On The Nature Of Man Is The Desire Of Rule Over Oneself And Ones Territory

This work is focused on providing an analysis of Southern and Northern perspectives from a justifying point of view, in order to form an outline of the opposing sides' motives. Both parties were strongly driven by nationalism and had very different views and values, which they were compelled to protect throughout escalating disquiet and imminent violence.

The recent study of these Northern counties, John R. Lundberg’s article, disputes the prominent narrative for why the North Texas counties voted against secession during the secession referendum. Most historians, for example, Buenger, cite the reasons for voting for or against secession stems from the growing Indian raids on the exposed frontier. Also, Houston’s failure to protect the settlers from those

This research assignment goes through the idea of Texas seceding from the United States. The introduction goes through a thorough explanation of the history of Texas and the many difficult challenges the territory had to face in becoming a state. The first idea implemented is how many times Texas has seceded and the reasons for seceding. The next follows information on why Texas would be better off seceding from the United States and why it should have stayed as a Republic. In contrast, the similar idea develops advantages and disadvantages of having Texas seceded from the Union. As a result, it then transitions into another idea, is Texas better off with staying with the United States after all. In that slide it also talks about how the Texas

For centuries many philosophers, as well as most individuals, have pondered on the question what is good and what is evil. More-so philosophers of all ages have also stumbled upon a more in depth question which is if the intuitive knowledge of man's nature is good, or if it is evil. Many have claimed to have an answer to these puzzling questions yet most of their answers were found to be incomplete and inadequate at a later date. Religion also tried to provide a solution but to my understanding only caused more of an entanglement if anything.

During the time of the Renaissance, the nature of man, in Europe, went through a rebirth. The idea that the nature of man is unique upon the person was established. The core basis of all men is not the same. Different men are comprised of various types of talents, and not every person has the exact same talents. In addition, human beings strive to live their lives a certain way, which is usually different from their neighbor.

In Genesis the word of God leads humanity in the direction of self preservation, urging them to procreate, to ”Be fruitful and multiply” (Genesis 9:1), and to minimize hostility and violence among people. As Freud asserted, “Besides the instinct to preserve living substance and join it into ever larger units, there must exist another, contrary instinct seeking to dissolve those units and bring them back to their primeval, inorganic state” (Freud 77). Genesis exemplifies the struggle between the two opposing human instincts, with God acting as a moderator between them. Forms of justice are put into place in an attempt to control these drives, one example being the proclamation that “Whoever sheds the blood of a human, by a human shall that person’s blood be shed” (Genesis 9:6). The ethics and laws that develop throughout Genesis seek to “prevent the crudest excesses of brutal violence” but are unable to control “the more cautious and refined manifestations of human aggressiveness” (Freud 70). Since they cannot be completely eradicated, the scriptures instead play into the more negative aspects of human nature, especially narcissism, and manipulate them into a force for conservation rather than annihilation.

The modern concept of the word “war”, refers to a state of armed conflict and is often the physical response to an irreconcilable dispute between two or more groups. Differentiating opinions have provoked many men to take up arms and fight their adversary. However, the motives behind taking up arms to fight, usually depended upon which side one was fighting on. As a result, the debate over the question, “Why was there a Civil War” is very complicated, but it can best be explained by considering the cultural differences between the Northern and the Southern States and examining their unwillingness to find acceptable solutions to settle their differences.

There exists one book that every scholar references during their studies on Texas secessionism, that is E. W. Winkler’s, edited book, Journal of the Secession Convention of Texas, 1861. Scholar’s mentioned within this paper references portions of this Journal when the information pertains to their subject matter of discussion. On the fiftieth anniversary of the secession of Texas the thirty-second legislature made an appropriation for the Library and Historical Commission to produce a book, containing the “Journal” that “appeared in the newspapers at the time the Convention was in secession.” Winkler’s historical book provides the day-to-day motions and resolutions conducted by convention members of the First Secession Convention that occurred between January 28 and February 4. He continues by adding the follow-on or Adjourned Session that occurred after the returns received by the committee following the February 23, 1861 secession referendum, where the citizens of Texas voted for or against secession – March 2 – 25. Winkler adds Appendixes that includes copies of address or communications made by committee members, legislatures, and the governor to the people of Texas. Also, it includes the reports of the Committee on Public Safety, the list of the delegates, and the certificates of election. Due to the extensive utilization by scholars as reference material, Winkler’s book becomes the foundation for this paper in its discussion on the secession movement in

Secession, it is the act of separating from a nation or state and becoming independent (Def. 1). When Americans hear the word secession, they have a tendency to think about the Civil War and the separation of the southern states. What was so different about Jefferson Davis’s “Farewell Address” and the thirteen American colonies’ “Declaration of Independence”? Both Americans and Confederates were handled with unlawful authority. This treatment led them to their determination of exodus. Americans and Confederates each had a justified cause to separate, based on the flawed and biased governments from which they separated.

Historians everywhere have many different ideas about why the Secession Crisis occurred. Moreover, there are many debates about whether secession about slavery at all. Yet, the Secession Crisis was a time in which many factors came into play.

On January 11, 1861, the state of Alabama seceded from the Union.  The secession movement was characterized by a continuous development from the time of the Wilmot Proviso until the final separation. As northern attacks on the institution of slavery began to mount, beginning with the controversy over the admission of Missouri as a slave state in 1819-20, proslavery extremists in Alabama and other Southern states increasingly referred to secession as their ultimate defense to protect their region’s society and economy.(“Secession”, 2011)

The call for a revised study on secession come from one of the leading historians in Walter L. Buenger’s article, “Secession Revisited: The Texas Experience.” Buenger argues there exists an extensive amount of studies on secession, but the focus of these studies centers on individual states actions, “no one has attempted to synthesize these works and write a history of secession for the entire South.” He asserts that Texas could serve as a model if someone conducted a synthesize study of secession for the entire South. Buenger supports this claim utilizing Terry Jordan study previously mentioned above study on “Upper and Lower South,” by outlining the attributes (culture, economic, and political ideologies) of those found in Texas compared to the attributes found in the Upper and Lower Southern states.

What is secession? The definition is the act of withdrawal. This can mean a country such as Germany withdrawing from the European Union, or a state or states withdrawing from the United States. This can also be broken down into a withdrawal of counties from a state or even a town from a county. This can even be broken down into an individual act of secession, an individual withdrawing from the government. Within this essay I intended to show that not only is secession legal but also that it is a natural law that is imbued to all people. I will also touch on secession within the United States as well as in the rest of the world. I will also show that the Constitution allows for the secession of the states as well.

The study of Collier & Hoeffler of 1998 will not be subject of this paper, as only four proxies were examined, namely per capital income, the natural resource endowment, populations size and the extent of ethno-linguistic fractionalisation. And also due to the fact, that is was mostly based on the economic model of a rational cost-benefit analysis: A rebellion will be conducted if the assumed benefit is greater than the cost of it (Collier& Hoeffler, 1998). This assumption is quite inaccurate, as it will be argued in the following, that the decision and motivation to engage in an armed conflict is not necessarily a rational one. Also, the study of 2007, which formulated the

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