"in haiti, the dictators are gone, democracy has a new day, the flow of desperate refugees to our shores has subsided." -- president clinton, 1996 state of the union address

why was this statement significant to the american public at the time?

a. americans thought the government had not done enough to encourage democracy and end oppressive governments.

b. the number of refugees the haitian government encouraged to leave after the earthquake alarmed many southern americans.

c. americans demanded an end to all foreign intervention of the u. s. military unless there was a direct threat to national interests.

d. the u. s. military had intervened in haiti to remove a brutal regime and the small nation start to implement democracy.

two months after his defeat of napoleon bonaparte's colonial forces, jean-jacques dessalines proclaims the independence of saint-domingue, renaming it haiti after its original arawak name. in 1791, a slave revolt erupted on the french colony, and toussaint-louverture, a former slave, took control of the rebels.

`stare decisis is a legal doctrine that obligates courts to follow historical cases when making a ruling on a similar current or future case. stare decisis ensures that cases with identical facts be approached in the same way, unless overruled by the same court or a higher court such as the us supreme court. simply put, it binds courts to follow legal precedents set by previous decisions.

stare decisis is a latin term meaning "to stand by that which is decided".