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| | Parliament of Ireland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | After the Irish Rebellion of 1641, Irish Catholics were barred from voting or attending the Parliament altogether in the Cromwellian Act of Settlement 1652. | | | Under the reign of James II of England, who was himself a Roman Catholic, Irish Catholics briefly recovered their pre-eminent position in the Irish Parliament. | | | During the Williamite war in Ireland (1688-91), they were once again a majority in Parliament and forced James to pass legislation granting legislative autonomy to the Parliament and a restitution of the lands confiscated from Catholics in the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland. |
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| | Chapter 3: POLITICAL ORGANIZATION |
| | The American Congress and state legislatures have been limited by written constitutions, even when the Presidency and the governorships were weak offices. | | | Legislatures appoint or approve the appointment of many key officials of the government and usually have powers to force the removal of appointed officials for grave causes (by the impeachment, trial, and conviction process). | | | Most upper houses are partially or wholly filled by indirect election through local legislatures (like the original American Senate), election by vocational bodies (the Irish Senate), election by regional councils (France), election by the lower house (Denmark), or appointment by the executive branch (England). |
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| | Lesser Known Historical Excerpts Relevant to the "American Civil War" |
| | During a message to the Wisconsin legislature in 1858 Republican Governor Alexander W. Randal denounced the encroachment of the Federal Government upon the reserved rights and sovereignty of the States, as typified in the enforcement of the Federal Fugitive Slave Laws. | | | He proposed that the government of the United States consist of a president and senate who were to be elected by electors, with the members of the senate serving for life, and a lower house consisting of persons elected by popular vote for a three year term. | | | The reason for the incarceration of certain members of the Maryland legislature was the fear of the administration that the state might secede and join the Confederacy. |
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http://members.tripod.com/%7ECSApartisan/essays/causes/causes.htm
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| | Digital History |
| | The state legislatures in Michigan and Nebraska debated constitutional amendments banishing parochial schools. | | | Legislatures in the South, Midwest, and West, influenced by the staunchly anti-Catholic Ku Klux Klan, sought to require daily Bible readings from the Protestant version of the Bible. | | | As recently as 1964, the Democratic presidential candidate, Lyndon B. Johnson, received 78 percent of the Irish Catholic vote. |
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http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/irish_am_solidarity.cfm
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| | History and Culture - Volume 2 - Draft Heritage Study and Environmental Assessment |
| | During his first annual message to Congress in 1829, the newly elected President Jackson advocated the removal of Indians from their lands in the southeast and endorsed the preeminence of states’ rights to either Indian or federal laws. | | | This growth in population and the threat of insurrections induced colonial legislatures to pass legal codes that restricted the movement of enslaved Africans. | | | Later that year the Georgia legislature declared the Cherokee constitution invalid and after Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act in May 1830 (Indians would "voluntarily" exchange their lands in the East for protected and forever guaranteed lands west of the Mississippi), prepared to distribute the Cherokees’ land by lottery. |
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| | LEGAL ALIENS, LOCAL CITIZENS: THE HISTORICAL, CONSTITUTIONAL AND THEORETICAL MEANINGS OF ALIEN SUFFRAGE |
| | These reasons should also persuade state legislatures to liberalize the home rule power to facilitate enactment of local noncitizen voting laws if it is not presently possible. | | | The Ordinance gave freehold aliens who had been residents for two years the right to vote for representatives to territorial legislatures, and gave wealthier resident aliens who had been residents for three years the right to serve in these bodies. | | | Republicanism presents a somewhat more complicated picture given its historic compatibility with exclusionary practices, but a progressive commitment to dialogic politics and the constitutive value of participation is arguably vindicated by defining universal suffrage without regard to nation-state citizenship. |
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http://www.sou.edu/polisci/pavlich/Raskin_Aliens.htm
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| | The Ultimate Oireachtas of the Irish Free State Dog Breeds Information Guide and Reference |
| | From 1922-1937 the Oireachtas was the legislature, or parliament, of the Irish Free State. | | | Until the final days of the Irish Free State it consisted of the King and two houses: Dáil Éireann and Seanad Éireann (also known as the 'Senate'). | | | The Free State legislature was often referred to officially as the "Oireachtas of Saorstát Eireann" (Saorstát Eireann is the Irish for Irish Free State). |
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http://www.dogluvers.com/dog_breeds/Oireachtas_of_the_Irish_Free_State
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| | Issihk.com - Ireland |
| | De Valera reentered Irish politics in the late 1920s and won the 1932 and 1933 elections for head of the Irish Free State's government. | | | Finally, in 1937, a new constitution abolished the Irish Free State, establishing Éire as a sovereign independent democratic state. Twelve years later Éire became the Republic of Ireland, independent of Britain and no longer a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. | | | In 1922 the Dáil adopted a constitution providing for a bicameral legislature, and the official government of the Irish Free State was instituted in late 1922. |
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| | Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Eastern Arkansas |
| | Lawrence Russell, recently elected to represent Pope County in the State Legislature, is the only member of the bar who is both a native of the State and a graduate of an Arkansas educational institution. | | | James Bruton was a minister of the Baptist Church, and represented Pope County in the State Legislature for three terms, being one of the leading citizens of this section during his day. | | | This concession was made under an act of Legislature passed January 5, 1853. |
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| | Irish American Post |
| | As this is the first opportunity for an Irish Government Minister to address this forum since the general election last year, I wish to extend my warmest congratulations to Deputy Brendan Smith on his appointment as Co-Chairman of this distinguished Body. | | | In the now familiar formulation of Prime Minister Blair, acts of completion were needed on all sides to fully implement all aspects of the Agreement. | | | The following is an address by Brian Cowen, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ireland, at the British-Irish Inter-Parliamentary Body in Kilkenny, Ireland, on March 24, 2003 |
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| | "Against the Red Flag" : Socialism and Irish Nationalism 1830 - 1913 |
| | T.M. Healy, later to be Governor General in the Irish Free State, appeared as counsel for the employers during a government enquiry and described the actions of the Trade Unionists as being akin to 'the Reign of Terror in Paris'. | | | Thomas Brady: The Historical Basis of Socialism in Ireland. | | | It was not English, but Irish, capitalism that presided over the poverty of Ireland, but these capitalists were the financial backers of nationalist politicians who were highly unlikely to criticise those who would ensure the stability of an independent or semi autonomous Ireland. |
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| | Institute of Island Studies |
| | A government is formed by the party winning a majority of seats in the legislature; if no party wins a majority, the party winning the greatest number of seats governs as a minority, or several parties that collectively hold a majority of the seats may govern in coalition. | | | The two houses were merged by the Legislature Act of 1893, creating a Legislative Assembly with 15 dual-member districts, each electing an assemblyman and a councillor (the latter on a property-based franchise). | | | The Commission recommended the adoption of a new electoral map, with 30 single-member districts, to remedy the serious variations in the population of constituencies which had led to the declaration that the sections of the Election Act dealing with electoral boundaries were unconstitutional. |
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| | Maryland Historical Society Library: Harper-Pennington Papers, 1701-1899, MS. 431 - Finding Aid |
| | Kennedy had served in the Maryland and national legislatures, and in 1852 was appointed Secretary of the Navy by President Filmore. | | | In 1794 Harper served briefly in the state legislature, but his political ambitions were national, and while a state legislator he won a seat in the Fourth Congress from Ninety-Six. | | | The youngest, Emily, married British diplomat John McTavish, but settled in the United States to raise her family. |
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| | Legislatures Samizdata.net |
| | The traditional roles of legislatures always were to be a sort of "board of directors" for the state, to manage its finances, etc. In colonial America, it was always common for any legislative act by a colonial assembly to contain a preamble justifying it in terms of the existing common law. | | | Parliaments, legislatures or whatever you want to call these things exist because of the need to control group structures which is something that anarchist libertarian ideals cannot contend with as they are divisively individualist by their very nature... | | | Whether one believes that law should be established by deduction from the principles of justice (i.e. |
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| | United States Constitution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States of America. | | | Article Six establishes the Constitution, and the laws and treaties of the United States made in accordance with it, to be the supreme law of the land. | | | It also provides for the office of Vice President of the United States, and specifies that the Vice President succeeds to the presidency if the President is incapacitated or resigns. |
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| | United States - encyclopedia article about United States. |
| | The separate state governments and the U.S. federal government share sovereignty, in that an "American" is a citizen both of the federal entity and of his or her state of residence. | | | • President The President of the United States (often abbreviated "POTUS") is the head of state of the United States. | | | The United States may be regarded as an example of a constitutional republic or as a liberal democracy, with a government composed of and operating through a set of limited powers imposed by its design and enumerated in that design or Constitution of the United States of America. |
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| | National Register Supplement |
| | National and state legislatures seated in today’s Independence Hall grappled with the rights and freedoms promised by the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States, but denied to those enslaved. | | | Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia, for the United States Capitol Historical Society, 1983. | | | James Forten, Robert Purvis and other Philadelphia black leaders petitioned against the bill, but their effort to retain the vote was to no avail. |
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| | Unicameralism |
| | Some of the subnational entities with unicameral legislatures include Nebraska and the Virgin Islands in the United States, Queensland in Australia, all of the provinces and territories in Canada, and all of the German Bundesländer (Bavaria having abolished its Senate in 1999). | | | Many countries with unicameral legislatures are often small and homogeneous unitary states and consider an upper house or second chamber unnecessary. | | | Virtually all city legislatures are also unicameral in the sense that the city councils are not divided into two chambers. |
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| | Historical Bases of the Right To Keep and Bear Arms |
| | Report of the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, 97th Cong., 2d Sess., The Right to Keep and Bear Arms, 45-67 (1982) | | | William Brigham, The Compact With The Charter and Laws of The Colony of New Plymouth 31 (Boston, 1836) | | | 1 William Hening, The Statutes at Large: Being a Collection of All The Laws of Virginia From The First Session of The Legislature in The Year 1619, at 127 (New York 1823) |
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| | List, The National System of Political Economy, Front Matter: Library of Economics and Liberty |
| | Von Wangenheim showed his appreciation of the work by appointing the author Professor of Practical Administration (Staatspraxis) in the University, and encouraged him to persevere in his advocacy of reform in the State administration, of local representative government, and of freedom of the press. | | | List was also a great enthusiast for the political union of kindred states, as exemplified in the case of Germany and Italy, but he thought that the political union must always precede the commercial union of the separate states (p. | | | FRIEDRICH LIST was born August 6, 1789, at Reutlingen in Würtemberg, where his father, who, though not rich, was highly respected, carried on business as a currier and held several public appointments. |
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| | All National Women's History Month Honorees |
| | She was on the National Committee of the United States Democratic Party and was a delegate to the national conventions until 1992. | | | Lockwood graduated from the National University Law School in Washington, D.C. in 1873. | | | Andrus was the founder of the National Retired Teachers Association (NRTA) in 1947 and the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) in 1958. |
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| | Politics1 - Guide to American Political Parties |
| | National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), Speaker of the House Denny Hastert and House Republican Conference. | | | National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist's Office. | | | The Natural Law Party was a New Age entity founded and run by followers of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (the founder of the TM movement -- a movement that some have labeled as a cult). |
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| | EPIC - National ID and REAL ID Act |
| | The bill is opposed by the National Governors Association, the National Conference of State Legislatures, the Council of State Governments, and the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators. | | | Summary of the law by National Conference of State Legislatures. | | | Organizations such as the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators, National Association of Evangelicals, American Library Association, Association for Computing Machinery (pdf), National Council of State Legislatures, American Immigration Lawyers Association (pdf), and National Governors Association are among those against the legislation. |
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| | Chronology on the History of Slavery 1619 to 1789 |
| | Throughout the late 17th and early 18th century, several colonial legislatures adopted similar rules which reversed the usual common law presumptions that the status of the child was determined by the father. | | | According to Dutch law, the children of manumitted (freed) slaves are bound to slavery. | | | Furthermore, slaves did not consolidate ethnic identifications on the basis of color, but it was widely understood that most blacks were slaves and no slaves were white. |
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| | Supreme Court, United States. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
| | Critics were opposed to both its results—invalidation of state statutes prohibiting abortion—and the grounds for the decision, which they believed had usurped the prerogatives of legislatures in voiding state laws and asserted an unenumerated right not laid out in the Constitution. | | | Section 1 of Article 3 of the Constitution provides for vesting the judicial power of the United States in one supreme court and in such inferior courts as Congress establishes. | | | United States (1974), a unanimous court, including three Nixon appointees, ordered President Nixon to produce tape recordings relevant to the Watergate affair, a decision that precipitated his resignation three weeks later. |
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| | Bicameralism - Psychology Central |
| | Parliament in South Africa which consists of the National Assembly and the National Council of Provinces; all of the provincial legislatures are unicameral. | | | The Federal Assembly in Switzerland, which consists of the National Council and the Council of States; all of the cantons have unicameral parliaments. | | | During the 1930s, the Legislature of the State of Nebraska was reduced from bicameral to unicameral with the 43 members that once comprised that state's Senate. |
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| | The National Center for Victims of Crime - Library/Document Viewer |
| | In 1977, the New York State Legislature enacted a law prohibiting criminals from using their notoriety for profit, commonly called the "Son of Sam" law. | | | In response to the Supreme Court's decision in Simon and Schuster, new legislation has been enacted by the State of New York and several other states. | | | As a result, legislatures have begun to amend their laws in order to make them constitutional. |
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| | 179630.txt |
| | The meeting was sponsored by the National Institute of Justice, the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, the American Bar Association, and the National Center for State Courts, in collaboration with the Federal Judicial Center and the National Academy of Sciences. | | | The National Institute of Justice is a component of the Office of Justice Programs, which also includes the Bureau of Justice Assistance, Bureau of Justice Statistics, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, and Office for Victims of Crime. | | | Shirley Abrahamson, who's Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin, is chairing that commission. |
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