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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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commonwealth
commonwealth form of administration signifying government by the common consent of the people. To Locke and Hobbes and other 17th-century writers the term meant an organized political community similar to what is meant in the 20th cent. by the word state. Certain states of the United States are... Read more |
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Monroe Doctrine
Monroe Doctrine principle of American foreign policy enunciated in President James Monroe's message to Congress, Dec. 2, 1823. It initially called for an end to European intervention in the Americas, but it was later extended to justify U.S. imperialism in the Western Hemisphere. Origins and... Read more |
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State courts
STATE COURTS Judicial tribunals established by each of the fifty states. Each of the fifty state court systems in the United States operates independently under the constitution and the laws of the particular state. The character and names of the courts vary from state to state, but they have... Read more |
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United States
United States officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and in area. It consists of 50 states and a federal district. The conterminous (excluding... Read more |
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New Mexico State University
New Mexico State University at Las Cruces; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered and opened 1889 as a college. It became New Mexico State Univ. of Engineering, Agriculture, and Science in 1958 and adopted its present name in 1960. The school also has two-year branches at... Read more |
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West Indies Federation
West Indies Federation former federation of 10 British West Indian territories formed in 1958. Trinidad and Tobago , Jamaica , and Barbados were the principal members, but the federation included most of the Leeward and Windward islands, then under British control. The seat of government was ... Read more |
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Commonwealth of Independent States
Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), community of independent nations established by a treaty signed at Minsk, Belarus, on Dec. 8, 1991, by the heads of state of Russia , Belarus , and Ukraine . Between Dec. 8 and Dec. 21, the three original signatories were joined by Armenia , Azerbaijan... Read more |
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Henry Allan Gleason
Henry Allan Gleason , 1882-1975, American botanist, plant geographer, and plant ecologist. His floristic studies of North American vegetation led to his "individualistic concept of the plant community," which views each species as functioning independently within the plant community, a concept... Read more |
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Maharashtra
Maharashtra , state (2001 provisional pop. 96,752,247), 118,530 sq mi (306,993 sq km), W India, on the Arabian Sea. The city of Mumbai (formerly Bombay) is the capital. The state was formed in 1960, when the old state of Bombay was split along linguistic lines into two new states, Maharashtra and... Read more |
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Army without a country, countries without an army: Europe. (Commonwealth of...
...the Soviet state. it has...the Baltic states. Its nuclear...members of the new Commonwealth of independent States rejected...Soviet, now Commonwealth) defence...argument for a Commonwealth-wide united...are also fears that, as...sat in the old ... |
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Nothing in common, no wealth. (Commonwealth of Independent States)
...Commonwealth of Independent States is...created the Commonwealth of Independent...entered the Commonwealth. Later...the Baltic states--Latvia...a united state. All attempts...The past year has demonstrated...economics. The new entity was...union of ... |
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Russia's old imperial map is still shrivelling: the Commonwealth of...
...within the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS...countries of the old Soviet Union...the past year, for several...whether the new treaty would...to "one state"; Mr Lukashenka...teetered this year on the brink...they still fear the bear... |
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Russia still in driver's seat // 1st among `equals' in new commonwealth
...history as an independent state resumed Saturday...creation of a new commonwealth. In the...members of the Commonwealth of Independent States may declare...the coming years, the degree...history. The old czarist double...come New Year's Day...rise ... |
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Republics want own arms talks Ukraine proposes negotiations with US apart...
...the United States over strategic...month-old Commonwealth of Independent States is...breakup of the commonwealth "could act...with the commonwealth is limited...by mid-year, Yemelyanov...totally in new Ukrainian...triggering fears that the... |
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COMMONWEALTH BUILDERS HAD SHARE OF CONFUSION.(Main)
...leaders of the new Commonwealth of Independent States met in Minsk...s meeting: Commonwealth leaders, including...analysis of the commonwealth's current...young, 16-year-old mother who...secretaries? *** Fears about Minsk... |
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Welcome to Moscow, Land of the $224 Brassiere
...dinner on my New York salary...week set off new fears of inflation...rise of a new Russian economic...which several years ago hired...an age-old tree stump...and the fear that environmental...control in the Commonwealth of Independent States has not ... |
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Republics put their disunity on display On summit eve, commonwealth sees...
...Commonwealth of Independent States in the Uzbek...that the commonwealth is little...week if the commonwealth had a future...its present state," he said...some sort of new union in...number of commonwealth leaders are...being held, fear that Islamic...destroying ... |
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Ukraine's Leader Won't Attend Summit; Hopes for Unity in Post-Soviet...
...Commonwealth of Independent States. Kravchuk...about the Commonwealth's future...formed the Commonwealth to foster...heads of state roughly every...improve the Commonwealth's record...represents the old thinking...agency. "We fear his departure...furious ... |
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Commonwealth or Empire? Russia, Central Asia and the Transcaucasus / The...
Commonwealth or Empire...emergence of independent states in Central...a unified state. Aware of...and that fear of the...establishing a new Soviet identity during 70 years of communist...transfer of state property...establishment of the Commonwealth of ... |