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Southern Justice is unusually text-heavy for a Nast cartoon; half of the text is a list of references to incidents visually described, half is an excerpt from Andrew Johnson's veto of the military government bill.
1884 cartoon by Bernhard Gillam in Puck magazine which ridicules James G. Blaine as the man tattooed with many indelible scandals. A parody of Phryne before the Areopagus, an 1861 painting by French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme. The Mugwumps were Republican political activists in the United States who were intensely opposed to political ...
Throughout the literature dealing with modern public law and the foundations of statecraft the central element of the concept of constitutionalism is that in political society government officials are not free to do anything they please in any manner they choose; they are bound to observe both the limitations on power and the procedures which ...
Amphitheatrum Johnsonianum – Massacre of the Innocents at New Orleans, July 30, 1866 (generally known simply as Amphitheatrum Johnsonianum) is a political cartoon by the 19th-century American artist Thomas Nast that depicts U.S. president Andrew Johnson as Emperor Nero at an ancient Roman arena, "figuratively fiddling with the...
In honor of the upcoming election on November 8th, (don't forget to cast your vote!) take a break from this election and see how those before us have expressed themselves about issues of the time ...
Keppler's 1889 cartoon depicts monopolists as dominating American politics as the "Bosses of the Senate". The Bosses of the Senate is an American political cartoon by Joseph Keppler, [1] [2] published in the January 23, 1889, issue of Puck magazine. [3] [4] The cartoon depicts the United States Senate as a body under the control of "captain of ...
Dennis Renault was The Sacramento Bee’s political cartoonist from 1971 to 1998. ... caption for a 1977 editorial cartoon by Dennis Renault during one of the state’s most significant droughts ...
"King Andrew the First" "King Andrew the First" is an American political cartoon created by an unknown artist around 1832. [1] The cartoon depicts Andrew Jackson, the 7th United States president, as a monarch holding a veto bill and trampling on the Constitution and on internal improvements of the national banks.