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The state constitution drawn up by Californians at a convention in 1849 was notable for excluding?

African Americans


What is the number of civilians in the Federal Government?

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics there are 2.0 million Federal Employees, excluding the Post Office, making the U.S. government the largest employer in the U.S.


How did the poll tax literacy tests and grandfather clauses limit African American vote?

Poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses were discriminatory practices used primarily in the Southern United States to disenfranchise African American voters after the Reconstruction era. Poll taxes required individuals to pay a fee to vote, which many African Americans could not afford. Literacy tests were often unfairly administered, targeting Black voters with complex questions designed to confuse and disqualify them. Grandfather clauses allowed individuals to bypass these restrictions only if their ancestors had voted before the Civil War, effectively excluding descendants of enslaved people from voting.


What was Seward's higher law theory?

In the congressional debate of 1850 Willian H. Seward, a senator from NY and a strong antislveryite, argued that christian legislators must obey God's moral law. He appealed to excluding slvery in the territories to an even "higher law" than that of the Constitution.


In what way does the Constitution contradict in the present day?

The Constitution as originally written would have contridicted the statement "All men are created equal." The legislative branch was to be based on population, but "excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons" which was a compromise around the issue of slavery.