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| | Great Officer of State - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The Lord Justice General was originally an important noble, though in the 19th century, the office was combined with that of Lord President of the Court of Session. | | | The Lord Chancellor has the greatest range of functions: he is the Keeper of the Great Seal, the Speaker of the House of Lords, the most senior judge in England and Wales, and a cabinet minister responsible for the Lord Chancellor's Department (now the Department for Constitutional Affairs). | | | The Lord Advocate is at the head of the law offices of Scotland; all prosecutors act in his name. |
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| | Lord Keeper of the Great Seal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | This office gradually developed into a permanent appointment, and the lord keeper acquired the right of discharging all the duties connected with the great seal. | | | The Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England, and later of Great Britain, was formerly an officer of the English Crown charged with physical custody of the Great Seal of England. | | | This evolved into one of the Great Offices of State. |
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| | This facility of divorce was a great stigma on the Roman laws, and the degradation of woman was the principal consequence. | | | Under the emperors there was no constitution, since they combined in their own persons all the great offices of state, and controlled the senate, the army, the tribunals of the law, the distant provinces, the city itself, and regulated taxes and imposed burdens as they pleased. | | | Under his régime the citizen belonged to the State rather than to his family, and all the ends of the State were warlike rather than peaceful,--not looking to the settlement of quarrels on principles of equity, or a development of industrial interests, which are the great aims of modern legislation. |
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| | POLAND - LoveToKnow Article on POLAND |
| | As palatine of Cracow he held one of the highest and most lucrative dignities in the state, and was equally famous for his valour, piety and liberality. | | | Fortunately for the integrity of the Polish state the premature death of Alexander in 1506 brought upon the throne his capable brother Sigismund, the fifth son of Casimir IV., whose long reign of forty-two years was salutary, and would have been altogether recuperative, had his statesmanship only been loyally supported by his subjects. | | | The union of Lublin, which led to the polonization of Lithuania, was the immediate occasion of a considerable exodus to the lowlands of the Dnieper of those serfs who desired to escape from the taxes of the Polish government and the tyranny of the Polish landlords. |
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| | Lord Keeper of the Great Seal |
| | The Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of and later of Great Britain was an officer of the English Crown charged physical custody of the Great Seal of This evolved into one of the Great Offices of State. | | | This office gradually developed into a permanent and the lord keeper acquired the right discharging all the duties connected with the seal. | | | it became not unusual to place the custody of the great seal in the of a vice-chancellor or keeper ; this too was the practice followed a temporary vacancy in the chancellorship. |
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http://www.freeglossary.com/Lord_keeper_of_the_great_seal
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| | The Observer Politics Jim Callaghan: four offices of state, one beloved wife |
| | Nonetheless, he rose steadily through the party in opposition: by 1963, his reputation was sufficient for him to challenge (unsuccessfully) for the leadership when Hugh Gaistkell died, and by 1964 he was ushered into the first of the four great offices of state as Chancellor. | | | Elected in the great post-war Labour landslide, he was to represent the seat for the next 42 years. | | | By then, he had already abandoned his first steady job in a local income tax office for a post with the Inland Revenue Staff Federation, his first foray into the union movement that was to provide the backbone of his political beliefs. |
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| | The Project Gutenberg eBook of Beacon Lights of History, Volume XII, by John Lord |
| | His acceptance of the office of Secretary of State was probably a blunder, as his appointment was (though unjustly) thought by many to be in fulfilment of a bargain, and it did not advance his popularity. | | | With great ideas of personal dignity, he was unconventional in all his habits, and detested useless ceremonies and the etiquette of courts. | | | His term of office, however, was brief, and as his health was poor, for he was never vigorous, in November of the same year he gladly returned to Nashville, and about this time built his well-known residence, the "Hermitage." As a farmer he was unusually successful, making agriculture lucrative even with slave-labor. |
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| | View of The Civilization of The Incas |
| | This circumstance occasioned great embarrassment to the government in the administration of the different provinces, with whose idioms they were unacquainted. | | | He was appointed by the monarch, and held his office for life; and he, in turn, appointed to all the subordinate stations of his own order. | | | The great law of human progress was not for him. |
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| | The Wealth of Nations |
| | In the disorderly times which gave birth to those barbarous institutions, the great proprietor was sufficiently employed in defending his own territories, or in extending his jurisdiction and authority over those of his neighbours. | | | The introduction of the feudal law, so far from extending, may be regarded as an attempt to moderate the authority of the great allodial lords. | | | They necessarily became the judges in peace, and the leaders in war, of all who dwelt upon their estates. |
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| | GREAT OFFICERS OF STATE - LoveToKnow Article on GREAT OFFICERS OF STATE |
| | On the subject of the great offices of state generally, see Stubbs, Constitutional History, ch. | | | These and the more important foreign great offices of state are all dealt with under their proper headings, and other information will be found in the articles CABINET, MINISTRY, PRIVY CouNcIL, TREASURY, and HOUSEHOLD, ROYAL. | | | The four offices of the high steward, the great chamberlain, the high constable, and the earl marshal stand on a different footing, and can be regarded at the present day as little else than survivals from an earlier condition of society. |
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| | Minnesota North Star : Home |
| | The Minnesota China Partnership is a broad-based, statewide initiative to strengthen Minnesota's longstanding relationship with China. | | | New report documents burden of cancer in Minnesota November 15, 2005 | | | Copyright 2000 North Star, Minnesota State Government Online |
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| | Definition of Category:Great Officers of State |
| | Great Offices of state include: Lord High Steward, Lord High Chancellor, Lord High Treasurer, Lord President of the Council, Lord Great Chamberlain, Lord Privy Seal, Lord High Constable, Earl Marshal and Lord High Admiral. | | | This category includes articles on the holders of the various Great Offices of State in the United Kingdom or in any of its constituent nations. | | | The holders of the majority of these offices do not have any political power. |
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| | US Department of State – Home Page |
| | This site is managed by the Bureau of Public Affairs, U.S. Department of State. | | | The Department of State and the Department of Education are celebrating and promoting international education and exchange through their joint initiative, International Education Week (IEW). | | | The United States has committed $180 million to Pakistan for earthquake assistance, including $100 million for humanitarian relief and reconstruction, and $80 million obligated by the Defense Department to support its relief operations. |
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| | England, True state of England |
| | Of the great offices of state, and the several other officers employ'd in the civil and military government of this kingdom. | | | Together with the particular duty, business and salary of each officer; done in a more exact and correct manner than any performance of this kind, for several years past. |
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| | Bureau of Land Management National Web Page |
| | Information for states whose web sites remain unavailable (Nevada, Oregon/Washington and Eastern States) is posted on the BLM's national home page. | | | Additionally, BLM staff in our offline State Offices are available to help address your information needs: | | | BLM State Office web sites are again available for Arizona, Alaska, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming. |
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