Statements Related to The cause of the US civil war was states' rights

• The United States military planned to fabricate violence apparently perpetrated by Cubans in order to create public support for attacking Cuba (1+/0- justifications)
• Senator Franken submitted an amendment to the defense appropriations bill that forbids defense contractors from forcing employees to arbitrate claims arising out of a civil rights violation or any tort related to or arising out of sexual assault or harassment, including assault and battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress, false imprisonment, or negligent hiring, supervision, or retention (1+/0- justifications)
• President Obama is winding down the war in Iraq (1+/0- justifications)
• President Obama is working thoughtfully and carefully to plan the United States' involvement in Afghanistan (1+/0- justifications)
• Over the past two decades, U.S. states have increasingly liberalized their gun restriction laws (1+/0- justifications)
• US involvement in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars is now as large as the Vietnam war (1+/0- justifications)
• The militia of the United States consists of all male citizens between the ages of 17 and 45 (and any female members of the National Guard) (1+/0- justifications)
• Federal criminal law only forbids the commission of torture outside the United States (1+/0- justifications)
• The President of the US is not liable for civil damages resulting from any official action while in office (1+/0- justifications)
• Ron Paul thinks the US Civil War was a mistake because other countries did not have civil wars to end slavery (1+/0- justifications)
• The US Civil War was a mistake because other countries did not have civil wars to end slavery (1+/3- justifications)
• The US Civil War was not fought to end slavery (3+/2- justifications)
• The US Civil War was fought to return the seceded confederate territory to the Union (0+/0- justifications)
• Southern states were allowed to maintain the status quo of slavery (0+/0- justifications)
• Only newly created states would not be allowed to have slavery (0+/0- justifications)
• The world has come close to nuclear war (2+/0- justifications)
• The cause of the US civil war was abolition of slavery (7+/1- justifications)
• The cause of the US civil war was southern opposition to economic protectionism (0+/1- justifications)
• Confederate leaders who later claimed that states' rights were the cause of the US civil war had claimed before the war that slavery was the cause (1+/0- justifications)
• Eighteen states in the U.S. have enacted barriers to either make it difficult or impossible for communities to build publicly-owned networks (1+/0- justifications)
• An oil and manufacturing company Koch Enterprises, the second largest private company in the United States, has secretly spent $50 million over ten years to support climate change denial (2+/0- justifications)
• The United States cannot lawfully impose an income tax upon citizens (1+/0- justifications)
• The slave-holding states explicitly and solely relied upon their fear of the abolition of slavery as justification for their secession (6+/0- justifications)
• The Constitution of the Confederate States of America explicitly provided that no law would be passed to deny or impair property in slaves (2+/0- justifications)
• Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens said that slavery was the chief cause of secession in his "Cornerstone Speech" given shortly before the war (1+/0- justifications)
• Slave-states feared that the abolition of slavery was nigh (0+/0- justifications)
• The cause of the US civil war was not economic (1+/0- justifications)
• If the cause of the civil war had only been about economics, whites would not have had a reason to continue racism through Jim Crow laws (0+/0- justifications)
• The cause of the US civil war was a disagreement about states' rights (1+/0- justifications)
• The cause of the civil war was a disagreement about only one state right, the right to hold people as property as slaves (0+/0- justifications)
• The constitution of the Confederate States of America included a provision that limited the Confederacy's ability to appropriate money for intrastate improvements (1+/0- justifications)
• The Constitution of the Confederate States of America explicitly provided that any state added to the Confederacy would be a slave-state (1+/0- justifications)
• In 1797, the U.S. Senate voted unanimously in favor of a treaty that explicitly described the United States as not in any sense founded upon the Christian Religion (Treaty of Peace and Friendship, Signed at Tripoli November 4, 1796) (2+/0- justifications)
• The United States' racism against minorities provides justification for other countries to criticize U.S. policies and sincerity towards democracy (1+/0- justifications)
• President Obama is capable of leading the United States military. (1+/0- justifications)
• The occupation of Afghanistan is not a multilateral operation; the United States is the only country interested in remaining there. (1+/0- justifications)
• In June 2010 the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan surpassed the Vietnam war as the longest war in U.S. history (1+/0- justifications)
• Adherants of the "sovereign citizen" theory have killed 8 law enforcement officers in the United States between Jan. 2008 and Dec. 2010 (1+/0- justifications)
• The "war on drugs" was designed to secretly target minorities (1+/0- justifications)
• The "war on drugs" was designed to target minorities, despite the fact that whites are more likely than blacks to commit drug crimes (3+/0- justifications)
• The civil war was not about tariffs (1+/0- justifications)
• Pubmed is the United States National Library of Medicine's online database for medical articles (1+/0- justifications)
• The Soviet declaration of war on Japan caused Japan to surrender during World War II (1+/0- justifications)
• The atomic bomb did not cause Japan to surrender during World War II (1+/0- justifications)
• Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the most important women’s rights attorney in American history (1+/0- justifications)
• The United States comprises 11 cultural nations (1+/0- justifications)
• Southeast asia uses bonded labor to provide plentiful cheap shrimp to the United States (1+/0- justifications)
• The "war on drugs" was a Pink person's political response to race riots (1+/0- justifications)
• The "war on drugs" began the explosion of the U.S. prison population (1+/0- justifications)
• Ambien can revive persons from vegitative coma states (1+/0- justifications)