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The Virginia Plan gave too much power to the large states. The Virginia plan created a legislative branch based entirely on population. Each state received a number of representatives based on the population in that state. The Virginia plan would have given dominance and legislative power to the large states at the expense of the small states. The compromise was found in the model of the Iroquois Confederation. The Iroquois had two legislative bodies. One was based on population the number of long houses. The second was the council of chiefs. In the council of chiefs each tribe was equal […]

Its a longer answer than a sentence my friend… These Resolutions attempted to refuse the federal government’s Alien and Sedition Acts, claiming them unconstitutional. The states’ Resolutions tried to (in a broad sense) make the claim that states had the ability to rule if federal laws were constitutional and then refuse to follow them if deemed unconditional.

The concept of the “Plan Anaconda” was to strangle the Southern States in a tight spiral similar to the hunting strategy of the Anaconda snake. General Scott’s idea was to set a large scale siege of all the Confederate States by deploying a maritime blockade of the Virginia, Carolinas and the Florida’s harbours and coast to the East and a fluvial cordon of armed floaters on the Mississippi to the West. The criticism were principally logistics. The Union did not have a fleet capable of enforcing the naval blockade, nor did it have enough barges adequate to patrol hundreds of […]

It assumed that it would destroy both the infrastructure and morale of North Vietnam and its people. It failed on both counts. Operation Rolling Thunder was one of many examples where it was assumed that the massive use of military might, in this case bombing would lead to a quick victory. Instead it had the opposite effect. An earlier example wold be the Blitz of London and other British cities during World War 2. Despite Goering’s grandiose claims it failed to break the spirit of the British and in fact strengthened their resolve against the Nazis. Similarly through operations such […]

The Gulags, apart for their basic finality of reclusion sites and forced labour reservoirs, had an innovative (even if somehow tragical) component of re-educational purpose. The main difference between, say, a Nazi concentration Camp (lager) and a Soviet gulag was the fact that the inmates of a lager were not supposed to come out alive or come out at all while the inmates of gulags were there only for a period of time after which (theoretically) they could go back into society. In Soviet Russia an inmate of a Gulag was there to spend a certain period of time (given […]