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| | Presidential system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | A presidential system, or a congressional system, is a system of government of a republic where the executive branch is elected separately from the legislative. | | | Presidential system presidents may also be given a great deal of constitutional authority in the exercise of the office of Commander in Chief, a constitutional title given to most presidents. | | | Though a president in a presidential system does not have to choose a government answerable to the legislature, the legislature may have the right to scrutinise his or her appointments to high governmental office, with the right, on some occasions, to block an appointment. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_system
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| | Presidential system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | A presidential system, or a congressional system, is a system of government of a republic where the executive branch is elected separately from the legislative. | | | Though a president in a presidential system does not have to choose a government answerable to the legislature, the legislature may have the right to scrutinise his or her appointments to high governmental office, with the right, on some occasions, to block an appointment. | | | Presidential system presidents may also be given a great deal of constitutional authority in the exercise of the office of Commander in Chief, a constitutional title given to most presidents. |
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| | Lousiana Nonpartisan Primary System |
| | Leading blanket primary advocate Tom Campbell, a former Republican congressman from California, testified in 1999 in favor of Rep. Mel Watt's State's Choice of Voting Systems Act (a bill to allow states to use full representation systems in congressional elections), based largely on his positive experience with cumulative voting in Illinois. | | | In 1992, the 4th congressional district primary resulted in two Democrats reaching the runoff election (without Republican or third party candidate appearing on the November ballot), while the 6th congressional district resulted in two Republicans reaching the runoff election (without Democrats or third party candidates on the November ballot). | | | As a general rule, since only the top two finishers in the opening primary have had any chance to advance to a runoff election, it proved to be very difficult for minor party candidates to appear on Louisiana's November election ballot for federal and state elections. |
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http://www.fairvote.org/irv/louisiana.htm
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| | The Opposition in a Parliamentary System (BP47e) |
| | (26) In parliamentary systems there is a fundamental constitutional principle of responsible government at stake. | | | By the British North America Act of 1867 Canada inherited a constitution "similar in principle to that of the United Kingdom." Responsible cabinet government and the doctrine of the supremacy of Parliament were thereby entrenched in the Canadian political system. | | | Our electoral system frequently results in sharp regional imbalances in the parties’ caucus representation, in a high electoral casualty rate for caucus dissidents and independents, and in the exclusion of a growing number of minor or so-called "fringe" parties from parliamentary life. |
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http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/library/PRBpubs/bp47-e.htm
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| | Presidential system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | A presidential system, or a congressional system, is a system of government of a republic where the executive branch is elected separately from the legislative. | | | Presidential system presidents may also be given a great deal of constitutional authority in the exercise of the office of Commander in Chief, a constitutional title given to most presidents. | | | Though a president in a presidential system does not have to choose a government answerable to the legislature, the legislature may have the right to scrutinise his or her appointments to high governmental office, with the right, on some occasions, to block an appointment. |
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| | Congressional District Dataset |
| | Why Congressional Reforms Fail: Reelection and the House Committee System. | | | For counties that were divided into several congressional districts (primarily those comprising large cities), or partitioned into districts that contained part of more than one county, I employed a system of data aggregation that utilized the Census’s Congressional District Atlas for 1960 | | | Data from the 1960-1990 censuses were aggregated by congressional district in the Congressional Data Books and associated data files. |
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http://socsci.colorado.edu/~esadler/districtdatawebsite/CongressionalDistrictDatasetwebpage.htm
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| | Alice Doesn't Vote Here Anymore |
| | Under the current electoral system, choosing not to vote is a rational decision by people who do not identify with either of the two parties, or who live in congressional districts or states in which one party has an overwhelming majority. | | | Most electoral reforms, such as the extension of suffrage to women and blacks, were adopted by progressive states before they were enacted by congressional statute or constitutional amendment. | | | When the system is rigged against you, a boycott makes perfect sense (international comparisons demonstrate, to nobody's surprise, that voter turnout is far lower in democracies with plurality voting than in multiparty democracies using proportional representation). |
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http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/1998/03/lind.html
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| | United States Political System |
| | United States Federal Court System and Decisions (courtesy of Library of Congress). | | | ThisNation helps users stay current with a daily political briefing with hypertext links to major media outlets; a Capitol Watch that not only provides contact information for congress people and senators but follows important issues, legislation, and the 2000 congressional campaign; a search engine for 5,000 political Websites; and much more. | | | The U.S. Supreme Court: Background information on the U.S. Supreme Court, decisions are posted on the same day that they are released. |
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http://www.usembassy.be/usa/usapolitical.htm
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| | America's Debate -> Parliamentary System |
| | Without these sticking points, though, I think the UK parliamentary system would be somewhat better in both functionality and accountablity than the US Congressional republican system, for the reasons you cite. | | | I don't think that either first-past the post parliaments or the US congressional system adequately represent current public opinion, especially minority opinion. | | | I also grew up under a parliamentary system, in New Zealand, but the things that seem to make the most difference are (a) a small, unicameral legislature and (B) multi-party proportional elections. |
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http://www.americasdebate.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=1652
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| | American President |
| | Henry Clay, leader of the congressional opposition to Jackson and stalwart of the American System, joined in odd alliance with John C. Calhoun, who had resigned his lame-duck vice-presidency for a seat in the Senate. | | | As a senator in 1824, Jackson had backed the System's twin pillars of a protective tariff to foster domestic industry and federal subsidies for transportation projects (known as "internal improvements"). | | | Creating the "spoils system" of partisan manipulation of the patronage was not his conscious intention. |
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http://www.americanpresident.org/history/andrewjackson/biography/DomesticAffairs.common.shtml
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| | Virginia Joint Reapportionment Committee |
| | Staff reported that the 1990s redistricting computer system is being maintained for use in drawing congressional plans and that up-to-date local precinct lines are being incorporated in the redistricting system to the extent possible. | | | The Court announced its decision in the Georgia congressional district case on June 19. | | | The Court, by a 5-4 majority, affirmed a federal district court's redistricting plan for Georgia that reduced the number of majority black districts from three to one (of that state's 11 congressional districts). |
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http://dls.state.va.us/pubs/legisrec/1997/reappor1.htm
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| | THE CHRONICLE RECOMMENDS: PROP. 77 / A fairer way to draw lines |
| | In November 2004, 153 legislative and congressional seats were on the ballot. | | | Rest assured, your elected "representatives" in Sacramento are not about to change a system that allows them to select their pool of voters, especially with one party in firm control of the state Senate and Assembly. | | | In recent months, we have expressed numerous concerns with Proposition 77, which would hand control of legislative and congressional redistricting to a panel of three retired judges. |
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/10/12/EDGQIF6HBC1.DTL
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| | Oklahoma Government State Capital Oklahoma City Governor Brad Henry Oklahoma State Motto |
| | The people, that are elected to represent the state's citizens in the United States Congress, are referred to as the congressional delegation. | | | The Oklahoma Court System is made up of the Supreme Court, the Court of Criminal Appeals, the Court of Civil Appeals, and 77 District Courts. | | | Alaska is divided into boroughs and census districts and Louisiana is divided into parishes where governing responsibilities are similar to counties. |
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http://www.netstate.com/states/government/ok_government.htm
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| | Under bill, illegals wouldn't count toward political clout |
| | Recent studies and immigration policy experts said the congressional apportionment process is skewed in favor of states with the most illegal immigrants. | | | It was James Madison's original amendment regarding congressional raises. | | | "She's right to be concerned," said Camarota, one of the authors of the 2003 report on the impact of illegal and legal immigration on congressional appointments. |
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http://www.freep.com/news/mich/amend14e_20050614.htm
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| | Apportionment - Network Live |
| | process, house of representatives Understanding the Census Bureaus role in the congressional apportionment process. | | | The General Assembly, drawing from this plan, enacts the apportionment system for the... | | | Apportionment Paradoxes  The Alabama Paradox An increase in the total number of seats to be apportioned causes a state to lose a seat. |
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http://apportionment.networklive.org
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| | New Georgia Encyclopedia: John Lewis (b. 1940) |
| | A project of the Georgia Humanities Council, in partnership with the Office of the Governor, the University of Georgia Press, and the University System of Georgia/GALILEO. | | | He has represented the Fifth Congressional District of Georgia in the U.S. House of Representatives since 1987. | | | Copyright 2004-2006 by the Georgia Humanities Council and the University of Georgia Press. |
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http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2742
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| | mckinney-cynthia |
| | Georgia's 11th Congressional District is clearly one in which a black Democrat will win. | | | She is particularly interested in changing Georgia's tax laws so as to allow for a portion of state gasoline tax revenues to be used to build a commuter rail system linking Georgia's major urban areas by high-speed trains. | | | The breakdown of the district by total population is as follows: South Dekalb County 35% Richmond County 15% Chatham County 14% Hancock Hub 10% In the 1990 Andrew Young/Zell Miller Democratic Primary Runoff, Young scored an overwhelming victory in District 11 with 58% of the vote. |
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http://www.mith2.umd.edu/WomensStudies/GovernmentPolitics/WomeninCongress/Biographies/House/mckinney-cynthia
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| | U.S. Senate: Committees Home |
| | Learn about the history of the Senate committee system, and how it has evolved since the Senate created its first permanent committees in 1816. | | | Informal congressional groups and organizations of Members with shared interests in specific issues or philosophies have been part of the American policymaking process since colonial times. | | | In the Senate there is one officially recognized caucus -- the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control established by law in 1985. |
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| | The Opposition in a Parliamentary System (BP47e) |
| | (26) In parliamentary systems there is a fundamental constitutional principle of responsible government at stake. | | | By the British North America Act of 1867 Canada inherited a constitution "similar in principle to that of the United Kingdom." Responsible cabinet government and the doctrine of the supremacy of Parliament were thereby entrenched in the Canadian political system. | | | Our electoral system frequently results in sharp regional imbalances in the parties’ caucus representation, in a high electoral casualty rate for caucus dissidents and independents, and in the exclusion of a growing number of minor or so-called "fringe" parties from parliamentary life. |
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http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/library/PRBpubs/bp47-e.htm
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| | Canada's Government web page |
| | The president can veto, or forbid congressional laws, but congress can override his veto by a two-thirds vote. | | | Canada borrowed their system of government from the British. | | | Canada was a part of Great Britain until 1867 and did not sever its ties completely until 1982. |
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http://www.mrdowling.com/709-Canadagvt.html
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| | Canada's Government web page |
| | The president can veto, or forbid congressional laws, but congress can override his veto by a two-thirds vote. | | | Canada borrowed their system of government from the British. | | | Americas legislative body is the congress, but our head of government is President Bill Clinton. |
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| | 1816-1860: The Second American Party System and the Tariff |
| | In an electoral sweep, the Whigs gained a congressional majority and won the presidency (their candidate, William Henry Harrison, died soon after the election, with Virginias John Tyler replacing him). | | | The party platform endorsed revenue tariffs designed to generate significant funds, part of which were to be distributed to the states to pay for internal improvements (roads and canals), another component of the American System. | | | As the nations economic and political systems began to mature and diversify, however, the consensus on the tariffs role gradually broke down. |
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http://www.tax.org/museum/1816-1860.htm
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| | GSFC |
| | He is Chancellor Emeritus of the University System of Georgia and President Emeritus of Clayton College and State University. | | | Jerles received a B.S.A. in agriculture from the University of Georgia and a J.D. from the Mercer University School of Law. He is a member of the State Bar of Georgia. | | | He earned his JD from Georgia State University, College of Law, and is a member of the State Bar of Georgia. |
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http://www.gsfc.org/main/publishing/templates/aboutus_template.cfm?doc_id=412
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| | Fourth Lecture 2/10/00 |
| | NRCC/DCCC - Congressional elections (all 435 seats to the House of Representatives every election cycle) | | | Electoral College - Winner take all in 48 states favors major party candidates. | | | They are composed of the Senators and Representatives they serve. |
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http://astro.temple.edu/~rkolodny/fourthlecture.htm
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| | AlterNet: The Vanishing Congressional Black Caucus |
| | The Congressional Black Caucus is in a political fight for its life. | | | The Caucus is squeezed hard by a politically resurgent Bush who has repeatedly refused to meet with the Caucus and has yielded not one inch to its traditional demands for greater funding for social, education and HIV/AIDS treatment programs, drug law reform, and the elimination of disastrous racial disparities in the criminal justice system. | | | This cost blacks seats on several important policy making committees, and eliminated committee staff jobs, many of which were held by blacks. |
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http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/14148
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| | Minnesota State Colleges & Universities: Legislative Information |
| | Based on the recommendations of the council, the congressional delegations, and joint education committees, final appointments to the Board of Regents will be made by the Legislature when they meet in Joint Convention, usually sometime in February. | | | The Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system is an Equal Opportunity employer and educator. | | | Witnesses: Doug Berg, Fiscal Analyst, Minnesota House of Representatives and Kathy Novak, House Research, Minnesota House of Representatives |
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http://www.mnscu.edu/about/legislative/legislativeupdates/2005/sch123104.html
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| | District Shapes and Interest Representation |
| | Thus, if the plaintiffs oppose race-based districts like the 12th congressional district, and yet also do not want to return to traditional districts that submerge the vote of blacks in white majorities, then the only other viable option for them is to support the adoption of a PR system. | | | Especially in large congressional districts, that may be the only way to capture enough minority votes to create a majority in the district. | | | Hunt case against the North Carolina districts portray compact districts as being "race-neutral" or "color-blind." In contrast, the 12th congressional district is portrayed as race-based and designed to further certain political interests. |
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http://www.fairvote.org/reports/1995/chp5/amy.html
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| | Congressional Subway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Congressional Subway in Washington, D.C. consists of two underground electric subway systems that connect the U.S. Capitol building to the House and Senate office buildings. | | | The systems are open to members, their visitors, and individuals employed in the Capitol, House, and Senate office buildings, free of charge. | | | The second system is similar to the one found on the House side; it connects the Russell Senate Office Building and the Capitol. |
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| | News & Events - University of Wisconsin System |
| | Copyright 1996-, University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents | | | Following congressional approval last week, President Bush signed the defense spending bill into law Wednesday (Oct. 23). | | | Lyall and Carpenter thanked the Wisconsin congressional delegation for its support and added that U.S. Sen. Herb Kohl, D-Wis., and U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin, D-Madison, were particularly instrumental in securing the Co-Lab funding. |
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http://www.wisconsin.edu/news/2002/r021023.htm
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