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by Diane Rufino Nullification is the theory that says that actions of the federal government that are passed, imposed, or exercised in excess or abuse of the express authority granted in the Constitution are not enforceable. If there is no proper foundation...

Over half term week, 22 pupils from B.R.A. travelled to Washington DC, the first trip the Academy has ever done to the American capital. Over the next few days, important American political sites and culture surrounded us. Immediately we were impressed...

On this 150th anniversary of the surrender at Appomattox, Americans mark the end of the Civil War. The questions at the heart of the war, though, still occupy the nation, which has never truly gotten over that conflict. The great issues of the war were...

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In October 1955 columnist I.F. Stone asserted: “The American Negro needs a Ghandi to lead him, and we need the American Negro to lead us.”1  On August 28, 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., Americans thought they were...