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| | Confederation, Articles of - Columbia Encyclopedia article about Confederation, Articles of |
 | | In the Articles of Confederation submitted by the committee to the Second Continental Congress on July 12, 1776, three points provoked much argument—the apportionment of taxes according to population, the granting of one vote to each state, and the right of the federal government to dispose of public lands in the West. | | | Indignation against England's colonial policy reached fever pitch in the colonies after the passage (1774) of the Intolerable Acts, and the Sons of Liberty and the committees of correspondence promoted the idea of an intercolonial assembly similar to the one held (1765) at the time of the Stamp Act. | | | Confederation, Articles of, in U.S. history, ratified in 1781 and superseded by the Constitution of the United States in 1789. |
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| | Regional government in England |
| | Regional Government in England is one of a series of reports being published by the Constitution Unit during 1996. | | | indirectly elected Regional Chambers (a confederation of local authorities); | | | Current proposals for regional government in England are a response to: growing dissatisfaction with highly centralised government; a decline in the autonomy of local government and a perceived failure to address regional economic development and strategic planning needs. |
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| | A Legislative and Historical Overview of the Senate of Canada |
| | Another Father of Confederation, Sir Hector Langevin, stated that "in Lower Canada we have become tired of the system". | | | They formed part of a set of resolutions adopted by the Fathers of Confederation which were eventually forwarded to the Imperial Parliament for their legislative enactment to unite the British North American colonies. | | | It may well be that it was thought that these words were enough to place the House of Commons of the Confederated Canada of 1867, in the same position as the House of Commons in England with respect to financial matters and to subject the Upper House to the same disabilities. |
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| | Appendix C: Part 2 - Timeline of Events, 1688 - 1800 |
| | New York State refuses to ratify the 1783 taxation amendments to the Articles of Confederation. | | | England and Prussia (Frederick the Great) are allied against France, Russia, and Austria. | | | England and Scotland unify under the Act (Treaty) of Union. |
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| | The Rulers of Poland |
| | Thus, in 1792, at Russia's instigation a handful of magnates betrayed the Commonwealth and formed the Confederation of Targowica against the new Constitution and then "asked" for help. | | | Between 1768-1772, an anti-Russian uprising became known as the "Confederation of Bar". | | | The Constitution was hailed in the United States, England and France, but was seen as a threat to the absolute rulers of Prussia, Austria and, especially, Russia. |
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| | Chattan Confederation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Clan Chattan or the Chattan Confederation is a confederation of a number of Scottish clans who joined for mutual defence or blood bonds and is closely linked with Clan MacKintosh. | | | During the War of Independence with England, the clan sided with Robert I of Scotland, most likely due to the fact that MacKintosh's enemy, John Comyn had declared for Edward Balliol. | | | Angus's wife, Anne, of Farquharson, successfully rallied the Chattan Confederation to the Jacobite cause. |
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| | The Global Encyclopedia : Hotels : Travel |
| | The original political structure was a confederation in 1777, ratified in 1781 as the Articles of Confederation. | | | During the 19th century, many new states were added to the original thirteen as the nation expanded across the North American continent and acquired a number of overseas possessions. | | | Following the European colonization of the Americas, the United States became the world's first modern democracy after its break with Great Britain, with a Declaration of Independence in 1776. |
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| | With the collapse of the Confederacy he fled to the West Indies and then to England (1866), where he made a brilliant new career as a British barrister, especially in appeal cases. | | | He was blamed for the Confederate army's lack of equipment, but Jefferson Davis promoted him to secretary of state (1862--5). | | | 1818 May 28, P.G.T. Beauregard, Confederate general, was born. |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Catholicity in Canada |
| | Canada belonged to England until 1632, when the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye restored it to France. | | | This was the home of Catherine Tegakwitha, the "Lily of Canada", who died at the age of twenty-three in the odour of sanctity. | | | To this governor Canada is indebted for her religious liberty, plainly granted in an act of 1851 issued by the King of Great Britain and published in the Canadian press, 1 June 1852. |
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| | List of monasteries dissolved by Henry VIII of England | | | Past Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States | | | List of Judicial Committees of the Privy Council & House of Lords cases; |
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| | In the first vote on confederation, New Brunswick was the only province to reject the idea, but Albert County voted strongly in favour of it. | | | After the vote, representatives from the four provinces went to England to negotiate with the British government to create the British North America Act (BNA Act). | | | Then, in 1864, William Henry's role as a Father of Confederation began with his attendance at the Charlottetown conference. |
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| | CIA - The World Factbook -- United Kingdom |
| | conventional long form: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; note - Great Britain includes England, Scotland, and Wales | | | House of Lords (highest court of appeal; several Lords of Appeal in Ordinary are appointed by the monarch for life); Supreme Courts of England, Wales, and Northern Ireland (comprising the Courts of Appeal, the High Courts of Justice, and the Crown Courts); Scotland's Court of Session and Court of the Justiciary | | | England - 47 boroughs, 36 counties, 29 London boroughs, 12 cities and boroughs, 10 districts, 12 cities, 3 royal boroughs |
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| | Footnotes; Lalor, Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Volume I: Library of Economics and Liberty |
| | Each of the fourteen provinces, or states, of the confederation has a revenue of its own which is derived by the imposition of local taxes. | | | Buenos Ayres, the most important state of the confederation, requires annually above £1,000,000 to meet the expenses of its government, law courts, chambers, militia, country schools, and other public institutions. | | | The liabilities of all the states are internal, with the exception of Buenos Ayres, which contracted a foreign loan of £1,034,700 in June, 1870, in England. |
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| | Hotel Listings & Destination Guide for North America - Canada - Ontario - Toronto |
| | Mackenzie fled across the border and two of the other ringleaders were executed, but the British parliament, mindful of their earlier experiences in New England, moved to liberalize Upper Canada's administration instead of taking reprisals. | | | The first capital of Upper Canada was Niagara-on-the-Lake, but this was too near the American border for comfort and the province's new lieutenant-governor, John Graves Simcoe, moved his administration to the relative safety of Toronto in 1793, calling the new settlement York. | | | That said, these same Protestants were enthusiastic about public education, just like the Methodist-leaning middle classes, who also spearheaded social reform movements, principally Suffrage and Temperance. |
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| | MyClan.com : Clan Shaw of Tordarroch : Clan History |
| | The feud with the Comyns led the confederation to support Robert the Bruce; they fought at Bannockburn in 1314 and took part in the Scottish invasions of England in 1318 and 1319. | | | From this union emerged the large tribal confederation to be known as the Clan Chattan and the first chief of Clan Shaw, John, Angus and Eva’s second son. | | | Shaw ‘Bucktooth’ was appointed to lead Clan Chattan to the appointed battleground at the North Inch of Perth in September 1396. |
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| | BBC NEWS UK England CBI says no to regional devolution |
| | The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has attacked plans for elected regional assemblies in England. | | | Deputy prime minister John Prescott is leading the government's quest to implement the 1997 Labour Party manifesto pledge to extend devolution across England. | | | The row between business and Whitehall is set to continue with the CBI staging a fringe meeting on regional assemblies at the upcoming Labour Party conference. |
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| | Socialist Party - Ireland |
| | - For a socialist confederation of European states established on a free and voluntary basis. | | | - For a socialist Ireland as part of a free and voluntary socialist federation of England and Wales, Scotland and Ireland. | | | - For the building of a mass political party capable of uniting the working class in the struggle for socialism in Ireland. |
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| | New England - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch |
| | The name New England dates to the earliest days of European settlement: in 1616 Captain John Smith described the area in a pamphlet "New England." The name was officially sanctioned in 1620 by the grant of King James I to the Plymouth Council for New England. | | | The confederation was designed largely to coordinate mutual defense against the Dutch in the New Netherland colony to the south and the French in New France to the north, as well as to enforce the return of runaway slaves. | | | New England is also the setting for most of the gothic horror stories of H.P. Lovecraft, mostly because he lived his life in Providence, Rhode Island. |
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| | New England - encyclopedia article about New England. |
| | New England led the rest of the country in abolishing the death penalty for crimes like robbery and burglary in the 19th century. | | | The confederation was designed largely to coordinate mutual defense against the Dutch in the New Netherland colony to the south and the French in New France to the north, as well as to enforce the return of runaway slaves. | | | New England is also the setting for most of the gothic horror stories of H.P. Lovecraft, most probably because he lived his life in Providence, Rhode Island. |
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| | New England - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch |
| | The name New England dates to the earliest days of European settlement: in 1616 Captain John Smith described the area in a pamphlet "New England." The name was officially sanctioned in 1620 by the grant of King James I to the Plymouth Council for New England. | | | The confederation was designed largely to coordinate mutual defense against the Dutch in the New Netherland colony to the south and the French in New France to the north, as well as to enforce the return of runaway slaves. | | | New England is also the setting for most of the gothic horror stories of H.P. Lovecraft, mostly because he lived his life in Providence, Rhode Island. |
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| | New England - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch |
| | The name New England dates to the earliest days of European settlement: in 1616 Captain John Smith described the area in a pamphlet "New England." The name was officially sanctioned in 1620 by the grant of King James I to the Plymouth Council for New England. | | | The confederation was designed largely to coordinate mutual defense against the Dutch in the New Netherland colony to the south and the French in New France to the north, as well as to enforce the return of runaway slaves. | | | New England is also the setting for most of the gothic horror stories of H.P. Lovecraft, mostly because he lived his life in Providence, Rhode Island. |
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| | New England - encyclopedia article about New England. |
| | New England led the rest of the country in abolishing the death penalty for crimes like robbery and burglary in the 19th century. | | | New Hampshire and Connecticut are the only New England states with capital punishment, although New Hampshire currently has no person on death row and has not had an execution since 1939. | | | The confederation was designed largely to coordinate mutual defense against the Dutch in the New Netherland colony to the south and the French in New France to the north, as well as to enforce the return of runaway slaves. |
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| | The name New England dates to the earliest days of European settlement: in 1616 Captain John Smith described the area in a pamphlet "New England." The name was officially sanctioned in 1620 by the grant of King James I to the Plymouth Council for New England. | | | The confederation was designed largely to coordinate mutual defense against the Dutch in the New Netherland colony to the south and the French in New France to the north, as well as to enforce the return of runaway slaves. | | | In the 2000 presidential election, Democratic candidate Al Gore carried all of the New England states except for New Hampshire, and in 2004, John Kerry, a native New Englander himself, carried all six New England states for the Democrats. |
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| | The name New England dates to the earliest days of European settlement: in 1616 Captain John Smith described the area in a pamphlet "New England." The name was officially sanctioned in 1620 by the grant of King James I to the Plymouth Council for New England. | | | The confederation was designed largely to coordinate mutual defense against the Dutch in the New Netherland colony to the south and the French in New France to the north, as well as to enforce the return of runaway slaves. | | | In the 2000 presidential election, Democratic candidate Al Gore carried all of the New England states except for New Hampshire, and in 2004, John Kerry, a native New Englander himself, carried all six New England states for the Democrats. |
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| | In 1686, King James II, concerned about the increasingly independent ways of the colonies, in particular their open flouting of the Navigation Acts, decreed the Dominion of New England, an administrative union comprising all the New England colonies. | | | The name New England dates to the earliest days of European settlement: in 1616 Captain John Smith described the area in a pamphlet "New England." The name was officially sanctioned in 1620 by the grant of King James I to the Plymouth Council for New England. | | | The confederation disintegrated in the 1650s when the powerful Massachusetts Bay Colony refused to follow decisions of the confederation council regarding the conflict with the Dutch. |
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| | John Mercer Johnson -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article |
| | After the confederation in 1867, Johnson was elected to the new House of Commons of the federal Parliament. | | | Johnson was educated at a (A secondary school emphasizing Latin and Greek in preparation for college) grammar school in (The northernmost county of England; has many Roman remains (including Hadrian's Wall)) Northumberland before he studied (The collection of rules imposed by authority) law. | | | At the conference of (The provincial capital and largest city of Prince Edward Island) Charlottetown and the two later conferences discussing the confederation, Johnson vigorously asserted the fact that the provincial governments should not hold any power above the course of the county or zone. |
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| | New England -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | An alliance of four Puritan colonies, the New England Confederation was formed in Boston in 1643 as the United Colonies of New England by representatives from the colonies of Massachusetts, Plymouth, Connecticut, and New Haven. | | | Known as the Little Bible of New England, it was first compiled and published in Boston, Mass., between 1686 and 1690 by British printer Benjamin Harris. | | | New England was soon settled by English Puritans whose aversion to idleness and luxury served admirably the need of fledgling communities… |
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| | New England Confederation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The United Colonies of New England, commonly known as the New England Confederation, was a political and military alliance of the British colonies of Massachusetts, Plymouth, Connecticut, and New Haven. | | | The New England Confederation was highly successful in terms of bonding the colonies together, and provided a basis from the further collaboration of Colonies in times such as the American Revolution. | | | The confederation disintegrated in the 1650s after Massachusetts refused to join the war against the Netherlands during the First Anglo-Dutch War. |
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| | What the New England Confederation, A Coalition for New England's Future, means by it is summed up in The Portland Resolution, promulgated by the NEC,CNEF's general membership on May 1, 1999. | | | Ideally, however, New England would have a legislature with clear, regular legal authority over the matters set out in The Portland Resolution, and this certainly would require some sort of constitutional rewrite, not only by the whole Union but by each of the New England states. | | | For New England, it's "six of one, a half dozen of the other." Our voice still would be drowned out by bigger regions and by the special interests that dominate Congress. |
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| | The United Colonies of New England, commonly known as the New England Confederation, was a political and military alliance of the British colonies of Massachusetts, Plymouth, Connecticut, and New Haven. | | | The New England Confederation was highly successful in terms of bonding the colonies together, and provided a basis from the further collaboration of Colonies in times such as the American Revolution. | | | The confederation disintegrated in the 1650s after Massachusetts refused to join the war against the Netherlands during the First Anglo-Dutch War. |
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