General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace...come to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" -- Ronald Reagan, 1987
President Reagan was calling for the end of the
1.Nuclear arms race
2.Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
3.division of Berlin, Germany
4.Warsaw Pact

montesquieu took the view that the roman republic had powers separated so that no one could usurp complete power. in the british constitutional system, montesquieu discerned a separation of powers among the monarch, parliament, and the courts of law.

in the 1800s, chinese workers migrated to the united states, first to work in the gold mines, but also to take agricultural jobs, and factory work, especially in the garment industry. chinese immigrants were particularly instrumental in building railroads in the american west, and as chinese laborers grew successful in the united states, a number of them became entrepreneurs in their own right. as the numbers of chinese laborers increased, so did the strength of anti-chinese sentiment among other workers in the american economy. this finally resulted in legislation that aimed to limit future immigration of chinese workers to the united states, and threatened to sour diplomatic relations between the united states and china.

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