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For some reason, that did not occur to me. I suppose the legal argument is that the special election is to choose Pierce's successor, rather than to elect a new president (who otherwise would be entitled to a constitutionally-mandated 4 year term)?

http://amendment25.com/1792.html And I was more commenting on the way you posted a completely random scenario without contributing to or playing off of the discussion in this thread.

I wish I could recall a reliable source, but I thought I remembered reading that by the time of the Sassanid Dynasty, Zoroastrianism no longer had a mass following. The Sassanids helped to revive it somewhat through state sponsorship (including rebuilding decrepit shrines?) but that only...

I don't think you understand how this works.

The question: If the Articles of Confederation had not been superseded by a centralized federal government, and instead the US colonies continued on their separate trajectories, how might the native Americans fared?

On the subject of Kansas, after doing some research, I think it likely that the original bill organizing the Nebraska territory without mentioning slavery (and thus not challenging the Missouri Compromise) would have passed then senate in the spring of 1853. I think that Pierce's death and the...

Welcome to the forum, John! Excellent post, thanks for adding line breaks. A note on Aksum. Ethiopia is somewhat better off in this timeline simply because the maintenance of the Rome/Persia militarized border means the Red Sea trade route continues to be the major east/west trade artery...

Anyone want to comment on the postponement of the Special election to 1854, or does that sound reasonable to everyone? And thoughts on Atchison's presidency? How does this effect Kansas?

You fully missed the point. The plethora of young black men who have been, and who continue to be murdered by white cops point to a structural imbalance which persists to this day. The success of one black man does not erase that imbalance.

Anyway... I'll quote this, since it may have suffered from bottom-of-the-page syndrome.

Just going to bump this.

The act does contain a contradiction which violates the principle of the separation of powers, though. I can see the case being dismissed for the reason you provide, but I have to think there would be some attempt by some part of the government to solve the issue. Maybe the theorized Succession...

He died OTL on April 18. Minus two weeks gives April 4. Of course you can put his death whenever you want, that was just for arguments sake. I'm really not sure how the Taney Court would react. I'd like to see someone else try to flesh out the details of the lawsuit. That way we might be able...

Could you make a thread in Chat explaining this? As someone who was raised a Christian, I am absolutely befuddled as to what you mean by this. However, I do not want this thread to be derailed.

From what I can tell, Mikestone's response the previous time you asked this question is correct. Let's go back to QuidProQuid's timeline. The bold could use some confirmation, as others in this thread have indicated that King did not leave for Cuba until February. Regardless, the basic...

While you're right that the POD does not necessitate changing much from OTL, it does allow the author a freedom to take history in different directions. For example, the inter-Arab wars after Mohammed's death might last longer, delaying the eventually migration out of the peninsula by years...

This is true. My point is more that his teachings had circulated widely by 628. Though there was no unified Caliph and there were still plenty of Arab pagans, the records I've read indicate that there were an equal number of "false prophets" like Musaylimah active at this time, who were all...

Thanks for the response. I understand my question has no easy answer and you've highlighted just how much tension there is between the two measures of "improvement" we're discussing. I hate it, but I feel the best possible outcome may be one that is top down, rather than bottom up. By this I...

If Pedro Paulet's claim to have invented the first liquid-propelled rocket in 1895 was a) true and b) widely disseminated, the time line could perhaps be significantly earlier. Not the full three decades that implies, of course, as major advances in computers and materials are still necessary...

By 628, the year posited for Muhammad's assassination, it is too late to butterfly away Islam. Likely, a substantially altered version of the OTL faith would have gained supremacy in Arabia. I could see Musaylimah seizing the opportunity to declare himself Mohammed's successor, thereby...