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legislative apportionment
legislative apportionment subdivision of a political body (e.g., a state or province) for the purpose of electing legislative representatives. In the United States, the Constitution requires that Congressional representatives be elected on the basis of population. State legislatures, not bound by... Read more |
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Constitution of the United States
Constitution of the United States document embodying the fundamental principles upon which the American republic is conducted. Drawn up at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787, the Constitution was signed on Sept. 17, 1787, and ratified by the required number of states (nine) by... Read more |
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Sectionalism
SECTIONALISM SECTIONALISM is identification with a geographic section of the United States and the cultural, social, economic, and political interests of that section. During the Revolutionary era, Americans already perceived that the thirteen colonies could be classed into three sectional... Read more |
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James Henry Lane
James Henry Lane 1814-66, American politician, called the "liberator of Kansas." He was probably born in Lawrenceburg, Ind., where he practiced law. Lane commanded an Indiana regiment in the Mexican War and was lieutenant governor (1849-53) and Congressman (1853-55). Having voted for the... Read more |
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Confederacy
Confederacy name commonly given to the Confederate States of America (1861-65), the government established by the Southern states of the United States after their secession from the Union. (For the events leading up to secession and for the military operations of the Confederacy in the... Read more |
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Oliver Ellsworth
Oliver Ellsworth 1745-1807, American political leader, third Chief Justice of the United States (1796-1800), b. Windsor, Conn. A Hartford lawyer, he was (1778-83) a member of the Continental Congress during the American Revolution. His great service was at the U.S. Constitutional Convention ,... Read more |
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Constitutional Convention
Constitutional Convention in U.S. history, the 1787 meeting in which the Constitution of the United States was drawn up. The Road to the Convention The government adopted by the Thirteen Colonies in America (see Confederation, Articles of , and Continental Congress ) soon showed serious... Read more |
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Tenth Amendment
Tenth Amendment Ratified in 1791 as part of the Bill of Rights, the Tenth Amendment specifies that “the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” Of all the amendments... Read more |
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police power
police power in law, right of a government to make laws necessary for the health, morals, and welfare of the populace. The term has greatest currency in the United States, where it has been defined by the Supreme Court as the power of the states to enact laws of that type even where, under ordinary... Read more |
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Ratification
RATIFICATION The confirmation or adoption of an act that has already been performed. A principal can, for example, ratify something that has been done on his or her behalf by another individual who assumed the authority to act in the capacity of an agent. In addition, proposed amendments to the... Read more |
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Advocates - On both sides, they chat up lawmakers, check lists for...
...historic vote on a constitutional amendment to ban...jumbled office near the State House, Isaacson...television crew lit up her face. "That...are going to grow up in. ... Little...needed a soy protein shake. The 52-year...votes." She pulled up a chair to a table... |
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Governor has secret weapon Schwarzenegger may call constitutional convention...
...decades -- a constitutional convention...promise to shake things up and put power...which permits a constitutional convention...whether to call a constitutional revision convention...those to the state lottery, would...constitutional revision ... |
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Illinois can vote for con-con in November
...promises by state legislators...Quinn said. State Sen. James...elections for state office in Illinois...constitutional convention is really an...hold their own constitutional conventions. Those constitutions...you want to shake up the power brokers... |
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Life, liberty and the right to a do-over; Md. to vote in fall on...
...right to tear up and rewrite your...is one of 14 states with a constitutional requirement designed...probably have to shake things up. The question that Free State voters will face...whether to seat a constitutional convention next year in... |
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3 states face constitutional redo
...his home state don't want to shake up things too...to call a constitutional convention...of three states proposing a constitutional convention...override a state Supreme Court...pushing for a convention to address...process say constitutional ... |
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Hawaii has battle over constitutional redo
...his home state don't want to shake up things too...to call a constitutional convention...of three states proposing a constitutional convention...override a state Supreme Court...pushing for a convention to address...process say constitutional ... |
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N.C. Democrats Try To Shake Off Pre-Convention Blues
...hoping to keep their state blue for him in...hold its national convention in Charlotte this...The passage of a constitutional amendment banning...from his brother up in D.C.NEWMAN...Amendment One is the constitutional ban on gay marriage...elect Democrats up and down the ticket... |
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Sides ramp up the pressure; Legislators squarely in the middle.(News)
...citizens would "shake up" the Massachusetts...lawmakers rejected a constitutional amendment defining...folks in this state who have not been...said after the Constitutional Convention voted 103 to 94...been able to come up with language... |
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Weld proposes reforms for state government.(Main)
...spending, denying state contracts to political...such need of a shake-up that, if elected, he would propose a Constitutional Convention on his first day...that would limit state spending. He also said governors and state legislators should... |
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HAVING A SAY IN STATE GOVERNMENTWHEN VOTERS GO TO THE POLLS NEXT MONTH,...
...New York State Constitution...there be a convention to revise...five state constitutional conventions, three of...been nine constitutional conventions altogether...holding a convention was defeated...We should shake the system up every once... |
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