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| | Federal government of the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The government of the United States, established by the U.S. Constitution, is a federal republic of 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and many insular areas, the largest of which are Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and Guam. | | | Owing to its economic and military strength, the federal government of the United States, the world's sole remaining superpower, is generally considered the most powerful in the world. | | | The federal government consists of executive, legislative, and judicial branches. |
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| | Brazil Government Information |
| | The 1988 constitution grants broad powers to the federal government, made up of executive, legislative, and judicial branches. | | | There are 81 senators, three for each state and the Federal District, and 513 deputies. | | | Since it is common for politicians to switch parties, the proportion of congressional seats held by particular parties changes regularly. |
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| | Lalor, Cyclopaedia of Political Science, V.1, Entry 64, ANTI-FEDERAL PARTY: Library of Economics and Liberty |
| | ANTI-FEDERAL PARTY (IN At the close of the revolution there was but one party in the United States, the American whigs. | | | When the 1st congress met, the active, energetic and skillful federalist leaders secured control of almost every department of the new government, yielding to their opponents only the speakership of the house, the attorney generalship, and the state department. | | | Their former party name was no longer entirely applicable, for they were not now opposed to the federal government or to the constitution which had created it. |
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| | Progressive Consumers Fed. Credit Union v. United States |
| | Choateness of a state created lien is a matter of federal law and mirrors the standard applicable to liens asserted by the government under sections 6321 and 6322 of the Code. | | | Reestablishing the party's position, of itself, does not disturb the status of competing liens -- whether those of a private lienor or the federal government -- in terms of their effective dates of attachment for the determination of priority. | | | To the contrary, federal courts should presume applicability of state common law doctrines in determining the status of state created liens. |
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http://www.law.emory.edu/1circuit/mar96/95-1712.01a.html
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| | GPO Access Home Page |
| | The United States Government Manual provides comprehensive information on the agencies of the legislative, judicial, and executive branches. | | | The U.S. Government Printing Office disseminates official information from all three branches of the Federal Government. | | | Learn about the Federal Government from Ben Franklin. |
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| | Librarians' Internet Index: http://lii.org/search/file/federal |
| | --> "As the official handbook of the Federal Government, the United States Government Manual provides comprehensive information on the agencies of the legislative, judicial, and executive branches. | | | From the Federal Documents Task Force (FDTF) and the Government Documents Round Table (GODORT) of the American Library Association. | | | --> This searchable and browsable site provides links to Web sites and brief descriptions of major federal agencies. |
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| | Federal Government of the United States |
| | The government of the United States, established by the Constitution, is a federal republic of 50 states. | | | The legislative branch consists of the United States Congress, while the Supreme Court of the United States is the head of the judicial branch. | | | The United States Department of Justice represents the U.S. government in legal matters and courts of law, and renders legal advice and opinions upon request to the president and to the heads of the executive departments. |
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| | Australia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The head of government in each state and territory is called the | | | Government grants have aided in the establishment of numerous universities, and although some private universities have been established, the majority receive government funding. | | | The Commonwealth of Australia is a constitutional monarchy: Queen Elizabeth II is the Queen of Australia, a role distinct and separate from her position as Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. |
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| | Liberal Party of Canada |
| | It continues to be damaging to the party and serves as a threat to the Liberal's prospects of forming the government after the next federal election. | | | Herb Gray served as Leader of the Opposition from June 23 until Chrétien was re-elected to Parliament in December 1990, though he was never the leader or interim leader, of the Liberal party. | | | In April, 2005 David Kilgour, one of the party's two MPs from Alberta announced that he was leaving the party to sit as an independent member of the House of Commons due to the damaging allegations of corruption in the Liberal Party's Quebec wing based on testimony in the Gomery Commission inquiry. |
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| | United States Federal Government Revenue - |
| | United States is the federal government and its federal states and territories... | | | States government established by an Act of U.S. Congress in 1789 to manage the revenue of the United States government. | | | United States Code, which is a consolidation and codification by subject matter of the general and permanent laws of the United States... |
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| | United States Federalist Party : Federalist |
| | Alexander Hamilton was the intellectual leader of the party, whose work in the Federalist papers made clear a preference for a strong, central United States government. | | | The Federalist party was destroyed by the War of 1812. | | | However, Washington warned of the "baneful effects" of party politics (see George Washington's farewell address), and thus he never affiliated himself with any political party. |
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| | Democratic-Republican Party, (Political Parties) |
| | The Democratic-Republican Party, under Thomas Jefferson, was the successor to the Antifederalists, opponents of a strong federal government. | | | The election of 1800 resulted in the first peaceful transition of power in the United States from one political party to another. | | | It broke apart in 1824 and most of its supporters moved to the Democratic Party under the leadership of Andrew Jackson in 1828. |
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| | Progressive Federal Party |
| | The Progressive Federal Party (PFP) was the successor of the Progressive Party (PP), which was formed after a group of Liberal members of the United Party (UP), broke away to form a party that would lead a parliamentary opposition against apartheid. | | | The PP took its stand on constitutional reform, calling for an entrenched Constitution incorporating a Bill of Rights, for an independent judiciary and for a federal Constitution in which the powers of the provinces would be constitutionally protected. | | | The National Party government immediately called a general election for September of that year, in which the DP improved its position while the NP lost seats both to the DP and to the right-wing Conservative Party. |
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| | PHSchool Social Studies - Federal and State Government Update |
| | Here you will find the latest list of top elected and appointed officials in all three branches of American government. | | | Look up the names and party affiliations of your state's Governor, U.S. Senators, and U.S. House Member(s). | | | For an in-depth look at political parties, voter behavior, and the electoral process, see Magruder's American Government Unit 2. |
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| | Ian Smith |
| | He became active in politics from 1948, first with the Liberal Party, then the United Federal Party. | | | Robert Mugabe defeated Muzorewa, and Smith became Leader of the Opposition, as leader of the newly re-named Republican Front. | | | In the 1985 election, however, Smith managed to recapture 15 of the 20 parliamentary seats that were reserved for whites. |
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http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/encyclopedia/i/ia/ian_smith.html
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| | Puerto Rico Government |
| | The federal government, located in San Juan, is represented by 2 district judges and the procurator, who is named by the President of the United States. | | | Each district court has at least one district judge and can have more than a score of district judges, as well as a clerk, a United States Attorney, a United States Marshall, one or more United States Magistrates, bankruptcy judges, probation officers, court reporters, and their staffs. | | | The head of government is an elected Governor. |
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| | U.S. Department of Justice - United States Attorney's Office, TNWD |
| | The United States Attorney's Office represents the federal government in legal matters which the United States is a party. | | | Functionally, the United States Attorney's Office for the Western District of Tennessee is divided into three divisions and a branch office, and two support programs including: | | | the prosecution of criminal cases brought by the Federal government; |
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| | USDOJ: Office of the Attorney General |
| | Since the 1870 Act that established the Department of Justice as an executive department of the government of the United States, the Attorney General has guided the world's largest law office and the central agency for enforcement of federal laws. | | | The Judiciary Act of 1789 created the Office of the Attorney General which evolved over the years into the head of the Department of Justice and chief law enforcement officer of the Federal Government. | | | The Attorney General represents the United States in legal matters generally and gives advice and opinions to the President and to the heads of the executive departments of the Government when so requested. |
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| | United Kingdom (from government budget) -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | The federal government of the United States was created by the Constitution, which went into operation in 1789 when the first Congress convened and George Washington took the oath of office as president. | | | The government is called federal because it was formed by a compact (the Constitution) among 13 political units (the states). | | | Government borrowing in the United Kingdom dates to the end of the 17th century. |
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| | City |
| | In the United States, with its tradition of tripartite government, it was recognized that decisions of importance to community development were made both by the executive branch (mayor) and the legislative (council). | | | The most important was the emergence in the United States of a strong, directly elected mayor as the chief executive responsible for the administration of the city, subject to certain overriding controls by the city council. | | | The mayor-and-council form is the traditional type of city government in the United States. |
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| | Local government - |
| | Local government of the United States refers to the governments at the city, town, village, or civil township level in the United States of America. | | | As a federal country, Australia has a number of States and Territories with wide ranging powers, and a lower tier of Local Governments. | | | Above the level considered here is the European Union, the United Kingdom and whatever government offices may exist for England as a whole. |
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| | The Hijacking of the Republican Party |
| | Nothing in the Constitution of the United States delegates such power to the president. | | | The president and the neoconservatives surrounding him believe that it is the mission of the United States to redraw the map of the Middle East by force, if necessary, as part of their vision for an American empire. | | | Policies such as these enlarge the scope and power of the federal government and are not conservative at all, but tend toward increased federal control of the citizenry. |
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| | ▶ The Complete Guide to Free Government and Business Grants |
| | This web site gives you access to a database of all Federal programs available to State and local governments (including the District of Columbia); federally-recognized Indian tribal governments; Territories (and possessions) of the United States; domestic public, quasi-public, and private profit and nonprofit organizations and institutions; specialized groups; and individuals. | | | ▶ The Complete Guide to Free Government and Business Grants | | | Government Grants and Loans for Business and Personal Ventures. |
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| | Governments on the WWW: Australia |
| | Australian Embassy in Washington, United States of America | | | Australian Consulate in Denver, United States of America | | | Australian Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York |
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| | The Federal Web Locator |
| | Office of the Vice President of the United States | | | If you learn of a federal government site not listed, please mail us so we can add it to the list and spread the wealth of information about the federal government on the Web. | | | This list is maintained to bring the cyber citizen to the federal government's doorstep. |
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| | AllRefer.com - Sri Lanka - United National Party "Majority" Rule, 1948-56 Sri Lankan Information Resource |
| | The Tamil Congress, having supported the UNP, lost much of its following to the Federal Party, which continued to advocate an autonomous homeland within a Sri Lankan federation. | | | In late 1947, when the party won the country's first general election, the UNP attempted to establish an anticommunist, intercommunal parliamentary form of government. | | | In the election that was held immediately after Senanayake's death, the UNP, led by his son Dudley, and the SLFP, led by Bandaranaike, vied for Sinhalese votes, while the Tamil Congress and Federal Party competed for the Tamil vote. |
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| | ToryBlue: The REAL problem... and it isn't Harper |
| | I was at the convention and I left with the impression that progress was being made, and both sides of the merged party were coming to realize that as a united right-wing party, we have the best chances of forming government and bringing the Liberal government to its knees. | | | As the leader of our federal party, he has performed well as leader, and has proven where his priorities lie. | | | The convention held in Montreal in March proved to be uniting for the party as a whole, the first since the merger of the Canadian Alliance and the PC parties to form the Conservative Party of Canada. |
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http://toryblue.blogspot.com/2005/06/real-problem-and-it-isnt-harper.html
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