Browsing by Author "Fodor Júlia Réka"

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    "A Critical Assessment of the 2008 Republican Candidate's Health Care Platform"
    (Eötvös Loránd University Press, 2010) Fodor Júlia Réka
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    ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND THE CORWIN AMENDMENT - THE INFAMOUS ‘GHOST VERSION’ OF THE 13TH AMENDMENT
    (International Institute of Social and Economics Sciences (IISES), 2021) Fodor Júlia Réka
    Most people would find it hard to believe how far Abraham Lincoln was prepared to go in political compromise in order to save the Union from secession. It is still hardly known or discussed that while Lincoln was preparing to assume office in the early weeks of 1861 he gave his active support to a piece of legislation that would have given permanent protection to slavery in the United States of America. That piece of legislation was the first version of the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, also known as the Corwin Amendment. In fact, the last piece of legislation that out-going Democrat President James Buchanan endorsed, and the first one that the new Republican President, Abraham Lincoln endorsed was one and the same: the Corwin Amendment. This information is certainly not compatible with the picture we have of Abraham Lincoln today. How could the Great Liberator, the Emancipator of slaves have ever backed such a depraved statute? So should we cancel Abraham Lincoln and the slaveholding founding fathers as demanded by many social justice activists these days, or can we change the way we choose to remember them by including their dark sides, by striving to understand the historical context and moral framework these men lived in and held; thus revisit our national narratives?
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    Competing Narratives of Irish Independence
    (2023) Fodor Júlia Réka
    The present paper focuses on some of the most salient aspects involved in the rebranding of Irish national narratives of the 1916 Easter Rising between 1916 and 2016. In the Irish Republican nationalist tradition, the 1916 Easter Rising was a heroic stance of a few hundred brave men and women which came to be “regarded as the foundational event of the Irish Republic.”37 In the 1970s, however, the Southern establishment took to revising the national narrative. By the time the centenary came around in 2016, the Rising that had set Ireland on the course of war and eventual freedom from 750 years of British rule, was seen by many as essentially misguided, or outright wrong, unnecessary, and undemocratic. Perhaps, the most telling embodiment of the sensitive and inclusive approach of the Irish government to “all the different traditions” within North and South came in the form of the Remembrance Wall in Dublin’s Glasnevin Cemetery.