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| | European Movement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The Movement's stated objective is to "contribute to the establishment of a united, federal Europe founded on the respect for basic human rights, peace principles, democratic principles of liberty and solidarity and citizens' participation". | | | The European Movement is an international lobby association that coordinates the efforts of associations and private individuals desiring to work towards the construction of a united Europe. | | | The origins of the European Movement date back to July 1947, when the cause of a United Europe was being championed by notables such as Winston Churchill and Duncan Sandys in the form of the Anglo-French United European Movement. |
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| | Liberal Movement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Liberal Movement was a minor Australian political party that flourished in the 1970s. | | | Unfortunately, the hoped for nationwide support had not eventuated and by 1976, it was reported that only one third of LM members had renewed their membership that year, leading to a decision by the Liberal Movement South Australian State Convention of 1 May that year that the party would rejoin the Liberal Party. | | | The formation of the Liberal Movement (LM) emerged from the long time dissatisfaction by members of the progressive wing of the Liberal and Country League (LCL) in South Australia, who believed that the LCL had remained philosophically trapped in the late nineteenth century. |
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| | Chartism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | One of the leaders of the movement, John Frost, on trial for treason, claimed in his defence that he had toured Wales urging people not to break the law, although he was himself guilty of using language that some might interpret as being a call to arms. | | | Chartism followed earlier Radical movements which demanded a widening of the franchise, and came after the passing of the Reform Act 1832, which gave the vote to the majority of the male middle classes, but not to the "working class" which was then emerging from artisan and labouring classes. | | | The Chartists also stood in general elections, from the election of 1841 to the election of 1859, and O'Connor was elected in the general election of 1847. |
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| | Peace movement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | By early 2003, the peace movement, mostly grouped together under the banner of the Stop the War Coalition, was powerful enough to cause several of Blair's cabinet to resign, and hundreds of Labour Party MPs to vote against their government. | | | It is one of several movements that led to the formation of Green Party political associations in many democratic countries near the end of the 20th century. | | | It was usually associated with CND and in later years, with the Peace camp movement as Labour moved "more to the centre" under Prime Minister Tony Blair. |
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| | Encyclopedia: Lapua Movement |
| | Lapua Movement's acts are considered to be the last political murders in Finland to this date. | | | After a trial, the Lapua Movement was banned on November 21st, 1932. | | | The Movement's man, Pehr Evind Svinhufvud, was elected. |
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http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Lapua-Movement
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| | Feminism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The feminist movement was rooted in the progressive movement and especially in the reform movement of the 19th century. | | | Feminists are also often proponents of using gender-inclusive language, such as "humanity" instead of "mankind", or "he or she" (or other gender-neutral pronouns) in place of "he" where the gender is unknown. | | | Feminists are sometimes wary of the transgender movement because it challenges the distinctions between men and women. |
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| | British republican movement - definition of British republican movement in Encyclopedia |
| | The British republican movement is a movement in the United Kingdom which seeks to remove the British monarchy and replace it with a republic with an elected head of state. | | | Objections to the monarchy are often based on what republicans believe is the anachronistic system of choosing a head of state by birth, rather than merit or election, which republicans view as being in conflict with democracy. | | | Most, but not all republicans support a fully elected second chamber, and a written constitution, and favour removing the remaining hereditary peers in the House of Lords and all forms of hereditary privilege. |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/British_republican_movement
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| | Temperance movement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The movement's major success was in prohibiting the sale of alcoholic beverages after 6:00 in the afternoon, laws which led to the notorious “six o'clock swill.” This refers to the practice whereby customers would rush to drinking establishments after work and consume alcohol heavily and rapidly in anticipation of the 6:00 closing. | | | National Prohibition of Alcohol in the U.S. Describes the temperance movement leading to National Prohibition in the U.S. The Ku Klux Klan (KKK), Alcohol, and Prohibition | | | The strong temperance movements of the early 20th century found most of their support in women who were opposed to the domestic violence alcohol frequently caused, and the large share of low-income household income it often took. |
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| | New Georgia Encyclopedia: Temperance Movement |
| | In the 1840s and 1850s the Georgia temperance movement shared in national enthusiasms: Washingtonianism, which employed the testimonials of reformed drunkards to encourage men to pledge themselves to give up drink; and fraternal societies, such as the Sons of Temperance, which combined quasi-Masonic ritual and mutual insurance with teetotalism. | | | An organized temperance movement began in Georgia in the late 1820s and, after early difficulties, flourished through the 1930s. | | | In 1855, influenced by the example of statutory prohibition in the state of Maine, a temperance convention meeting in Atlanta nominated a Methodist minister, B. Overby, as a candidate for governor on a platform of statewide prohibition. |
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| | Mau movement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The leader of the movement, Samuelu Ripley of Leone, Tutuila, was in effect exiled from American Samoa, when he was barred by the US Navy authorities from disembarking from a ship returning to Pagopago from California, and he was never allowed to return to his homeland. | | | Olaf Frederick Nelson, one of the leaders of the new Mau movement, was a successful merchant of mixed Swedish and Samoan heritage. | | | This movement received a lot of press in the United States, both favourable and unfavourable. |
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| | East European Constitutional Review |
| | Under the communist regime, freedom of movement was monitored and curbed by means of the propiska—a required residence permit that restricted an individual’s right to choose his place of residence and to travel within the country. | | | If a citizen may not exercise his constitutional right to leave Russia and travel abroad unless he obtains a foreign passport, then, in the Court’s opinion, the issuance of a foreign passport should not depend on the citizen’s possession, or not, of an official domicile. | | | Instead, in July 1991, Parliament ratified the Law on the Constitutional Court. |
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| | Republican - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Campaigners advocating the abolition of a monarchy, for example, the Australian Republican Movement and the British republican movement. | | | Republican is a term used generally to describe a number of different organisations, principles, or political movements, and/or the persons supporting these. | | | Political parties (see Republican Party and Republican People's Party), especially the Republican Party (United States) or Republican Moderate Party and in Ireland Fianna Fáil the Republican Party or Sinn Féin (post 1917). |
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| | Civil Rights Movement |
| | However, the Southern movement ensured that the issue moved to the top of the president's agenda; the final battleground was Selma, Alabama. | | | During 1964 and 1965, the accelerated momentum of the Civil Rights Movement was fueled by the escalation of organized protest activity in the South, particularly in Mississippi and Alabama, and by the commitment of President Lyndon Johnson to enact strong civil rights legislation. | | | At the war's end, decolonization movements in Africa and Asia and the beginnings of the cold war between the United States and the Soviet Union heightened the rhetoric of freedom, democracy, and self-determination. |
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| | Irish Republican Army |
| | The Kach movement thus ran for election in 1984, winning 26,000 votes, and Kahane became a member of Knesset. | | | Both movements were disqualified by the Central Elections Committee in the 1992 elections. | | | In 1968, Rabbi Meir Kahane established the Jewish Defense League, the forerunner of the Kach movement. |
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| | [ The New Iraq ] |
| | The Constitutional Monarchy Movement (CMM) website (http://www.iraqcmm.org) states: "The CMM calls for constitutional legitimacy and a return to the situation as it was before being interrupted by the coup of 14 July 1958. | | | A nationalist movement established in 1991 and led by Secretary-General Uday Hatim Al-Urs and Deputy Secretary-General Yasin Muzhir Al-Hasimi. | | | He said the constitution should be drafted by a board of clerics, intellectuals, and the judiciary, and that a free and fair referendum should be held to ratify the constitution. |
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| | Chapter III. The Young Acton: History and Liberal Catholicism |
| | Oxford Movement; he was born to his Catholicism. | | | It was also through Döllinger that Acton became connected with the Liberal Catholic movement which had become a significant factor in the Catholicism of the continent. | | | Liberal Catholicism in Italy, led by Gioberti and Rosmini, differed from the French movement by its greater emphasis on nationalism; it sought an Italian federation under the presidency of the Pope. |
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| | East European Constitutional Review |
| | This free-floating reform movement was born under the pressure of the same circumstances that imposed massive changes on state authority. | | | This amalgam of the reform movement and state power foretold the sudden demise of the old society. | | | Indeed, the reform movement, in an act of self-destruction, orchestrates it own absorption into state and society. |
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| | South Dakota Politics and Elections College Republican movement gains clout |
| | The RNC and the College Republicans had a falling-out in the mid-1990s. | | | David Joyslin of Harrisburg is the communications director for the College Republicans. | | | WASHINGTON - When College Republicans held their last national convention two years ago, 500 people came. |
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| | Kach and Kahane Chai - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Both appealed to the Supreme Court of Israel. | | | The court upheld the disqualification of Kach, finding that its principles constituted "incitement to racism," but reversed the disqualification of the Progressive List for Peace. | | | Both parties had been elected for the first time to the Knesset. |
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| | East European Constitutional Review |
| | Under the communist regime, freedom of movement was monitored and curbed by means of the propiska—a required residence permit that restricted an individual’s right to choose his place of residence and to travel within the country. | | | Instead, in July 1991, Parliament ratified the Law on the Constitutional Court. | | | The Russian Constitution explicitly states that federal law alone, and not the laws of regional governments, may curtail citizens rights and freedoms. |
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| | Conversely, the popular movements in Georgia and Azerbaijan were created initially to deal with the threat to the territorial integrity of the republics rather than with the independence issues. | | | The protest movement was initiated by the Helsinki Union of Georgia led by a prominent dissident Zviad Gamsakhurdia. | | | However, the most striking example of the role of ecological movement in national awakening was the mass protest in autumn, 1988, in Azerbaijan against the self-willed construction of the aluminium plant by Armenia in the place of Topkhana in Nagorno- Karabakh. |
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| | Young Liberal Movement of Australia |
| | The Young Liberal representation on the senior party's Executive was expanded to two positions, while the Movement was also given a seat on the Joint Standing Committee on Federal Policy. | | | Once the Liberal Party had been officially inaugurated on 31 August 1945, attention turned to the creation of a Young Liberal Movement. | | | The Young Liberal Movement spread from Victoria to the other states, so that by the federal elections of 1946 the Young Liberal Movement was playing a pivotal role throughout Australia in securing the electoral success of the Liberal Party. |
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| | Progressive Movement |
| | Progressives also successfully lobbied for the direct election of U.S. senators by the voters enacted through the 17th Amendment to the Constitution ratified in 1913, replacing the former system by which members of the Senate were elected by each state legislature. | | | Many Progressives came from the traditional upper and middle-class establishment, and were offended by the emergence of a class of government and political professionals who threatened their own views of democratic ideals and social justice. | | | Progressives like Wisconsin Governor and Senator Robert M. La Follette sought to weaken the control of political machines, which often aligned themselves with the |
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| | EVROPSKI POKRET U SMED. PALANCI - EUROPEAN MOVEMENT IN SMED. PALANKA |
| | The president of the European Movement in Smed.Palanka and the president of the Initiative for Palanka attended the meeting of local councils of the European Movement in Serbia to discuss the preparations for the election campaign. | | | The president of the European Movement in Smed.Palanka, the president of the Initiative for Palanka and the representative of Women Network attended the meeting organised by the European Movement in Serbia – Local council Velika Plana. | | | Appearance of the president of European Movement in Smed.Palanka at radio ''Jasenica''. |
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| | June |
| | June 26, 2003 - The US Supreme Court strikes down sodomy laws and rules gays have a right to equal protection under the law. | | | June 10, 1976 - West Virginia is the 16th state to repeal its sodomy laws. | | | June 28, 2000 - US Supreme Court rules the Boy Scouts of America can discriminate against gays and bisexuals saying it is a private organization and not bound by local human rights laws.. |
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| | Women's History — Chronology of Woman |
| | With a masthead declaring it to be "A Paper Devoted to the Elevation of Woman," it is acknowledged as the first feminist newspaper of the woman's rights movement. | | | Rendered doubtful by a court decision, the law was re-enacted with but six dissenting votes. | | | 1894: 600,000 signatures are presented to the New York State Constitutional Convention in an effort to bring a woman suffrage amendment to the voters. |
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| | Ymgyrchu! - The Ballot Box - Minority Parties - WRM |
| | The Welsh Socialist Republican Movement was established in 1980. | | | The Welsh Republican Movement was set up in September 1949 as a result of a difference of opinion that occurred in the Plaid Cymru Conference of that year. | | | The movement disappeared soon afterwards, having had very little success in trying to convince other people of their republican ideals. |
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| | Flemish Block - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Annemans claimed he was provoked to say this because Marc Timperman, the Supreme Court public prosecutor, laughed at the Flemish Block lawyers during the decisive Supreme Court session the week before. | | | The Vlaams Blok appealed the court decision, but the ruling was confirmed on November 9, 2004, effectively banning the party. | | | Gerolf Annemans created instant controversy during the inauguration event of the new party by issuing veiled personal threats to the prosecutors and judges who presided over the case in the Supreme Court and courts of appeal. |
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| | Flemish movement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | This movement became known as the Flemish movement, but was more intellectual then social. | | | This party would overtake the Volksunie and today is, numerically, the main party of the Flemish movement. | | | The Flemish movement (Dutch: Vlaamse Beweging) is a popular term used to describe the political movement for greater autonomy of the Belgian region of Flanders, for protection of the Dutch language in Flanders, and for protection of the Flemish culture. |
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| | EPIC Alert 7.11 (6/14/00) |
| | EPIC is sponsored by the Fund for Constitutional Government, a non-profit organization established in 1974 to protect civil liberties and constitutional rights. | | | A decision on the government's appeal of that ruling is pending from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. | | | The criminal provisions of COPA have been enjoined by a federal judge in a constitutional challenge brought by EPIC and the ACLU. |
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