Chapter 1 – Nothing Lasts Forever

1Abraham Lincoln, “Message to Congress”, December 1, 1862, cited in National Park Service, “Secession Will Destroy Democracy”, http://www.nps.gov/liho/historyculture/secdemocrary.htm (accessed April 3, 2009).

2 Jessie Mangaliman, “San Francisco considers school board voting rights for non-citizens”, San Jose Mercury News June 21, 2004

http://www.immigrantrights.org/news062104.asp (accessed April 3, 2009).

3 The history of Rome that follows in taken primarily from the following sources:

Will and Ariel Durant, The Story of Civilization III: Caesar and Christ.

(New York: Simon and Schuster, 1944).

Tom Holland, Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic

(New York: Doubleday: 2003).

4 Will and Ariel Durant, The Story of Civilization III: Caesar and Christ.

(New York: Simon and Schuster, 1944), 114.

5 Samuel Sandmel, “Parallelomania”, Journal of Biblical Literature, 81, (1962) 1-13, http://www.biblicalstudies.org.uk/pdf/parallelomania_sandmel.pdf (accessed April 3, 2009).

6 FreakyPhenomena.com, “Lincoln-Kennedy Coincidences,” http://freakyphenomena.com/2008/12/19/lincoln-kennedy-coincidences/