Was the emancipation proclamation a positive law or natural law?

What parallelism is used in the following verse? for the lord knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish. caesura cinquain synonymous synthetic contrasting

What did thomas jefferson suggest the congress should do in response to the native american

“well,” he says, “there’s excuse for picks and letting-on, in a case like this; if it warn’t so, i wouldn’t approve of it, nor i wouldn’t stand by and see the rules broke—because right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better. it might answer for you to dig jim out with a pick, without any letting-on, because you don’t know no better; but it wouldn’t for me, because i do know better.” the meaning in this excerpt is