As such, the slavery compromises included in the Constitution can be understood-that is, can be understood to be prudential compromises rather than a surrender of principle-only in light of the Founders' proposition that all men are created equal.
Cornyn was a Judge on Texas' 37th District Court from 1985 to 1991, until he was elected an associate justice of the Texas Supreme Court, where he served 1991 to 1997. In 1998, Cornyn was elected Attorney General of Texas, serving one term until winning a seat in the U.S. Senate in 2002.
In 1846 Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress, defeating the Rev. Peter Cartwright, the ] famous backwoods preacher, who was elected to the State Legislature fourteen years before, the first time Lincoln was a candidate and the only time he was ever defeated by popular vote.incoln had been born and reared among people who were believers in premonitions and supernatural appea... Abraham Lincoln is Elected to Congress. BEING ELECTED TO CONGRESS HAS NOT PLEASED ME AS MUCH AS I EXPECTED In 1846 Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress, defeating ...