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Iran History - Part 1 - American Minute with Bill Federer

Iran History - Part 1 - American Minute with Bill Federer

In part one of this history of Iran, we will learn about ancient Persia, King Cyrus, the Sasanian Empire, the Abbasid Islamic Golden Age, the Mongol Invasion and Tamerlane.

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Scandals in U.S. History - American Minute with Bill Federer

Scandals in U.S. History - American Minute with Bill Federer

LISTEN (text to speech) Download as PDF ... Below is a list of some political scandals.   1866 GUNS TO MEXICAN GANGS   After the Civil War, the United States secretly supplied "decommissioned" guns to Mexican gangs to cause domestic violence and insurrection in order to oust French-backed Maximillian the First.   This was in line with the Monroe Doctrine, that no European country should have a political presence in the Western Hemisphere. With American support, Benito Juárez was able to capture Maximillian and he was shot, June 19, 1867.   1868 JOHNSON REFUSED BLACK VOTING   President Andrew Johnson...

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Politics of Creating Crisis - Do The Ends Justify Means? - American Minute with Bill Federer

Scandals Ancient & Modern: "Ends" do not justify "Means"! - American Minute with Bill Federer

Politics of Creating Crisis -  Do The Ends Justify Means? - American Minute with Bill Federer

The conviction that one's political agenda is so good that it justifies bending the laws to implement it has produced innumerable scandals throughout history.

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Madison, Punishing Disturbers of Religious Worship, and Protecting Freedom of Conscience - American Minute with Bill Federer

Freedom of Conscience & Religion: Patrick Henry George Mason Thomas Jefferson & James Madison - American Minute with Bill Federer

Madison, Punishing Disturbers of Religious Worship, and Protecting Freedom of Conscience - American Minute with Bill Federer

Madison introduced a Bill in the Virginia Legislature, October 31, 1785, for Punishing Disturbers of Religious Worship, which passed in 1789: "If any person shall of purpose, maliciously, or contemptuously, disquiet or disturb any congregation assembled in any church ...  he may be put under restraint ... and upon conviction ... shall be further punished by imprisonment."

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French Revolution's "liberté, égalité, fraternité" became Reign of Terror - American Minute with Bill Federer

Bastille Day égalité fraternité" French Revolution's "liberté Reign of Terror

French Revolution's "liberté, égalité, fraternité" became Reign of Terror  - American Minute with Bill Federer

Author Don Feder wrote in the article "Observations and Fulminations-The French Revolution and Jacobins in Our Streets (July 13, 2018): "The Reign of Terror wasn’t an episode of the French Revolution, it was the Revolution. In 'Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution,' historian Simon Schama writes, 'The terror … was not just an unfortunate side effect … it was the Revolution’s source of collective energy ... From the very beginning, violence was the motor of the revolution.'"

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