This paper focuses upon three contemporary issues: 1. According to the Constitution, who has the power to make war? 2. According to the Constitution, what is the nature of the Senate's role in confirming presidential nominees to the federal courts? 3. How should one attempt to understand or interpret the Consitution?
The frontier in American history, in fact and in fiction, was everywhere the site of excesses, violence, and license. Cumberland County from its first settlements through the post revolutionary years was no exception.