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Sectionalism 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
commonwealth 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
Monroe Doctrine 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
State courts State courts
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United States United States
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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
West Indies Federation West Indies Federation
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Commonwealth of Independent States 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
Henry Allan Gleason 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
Maharashtra Maharashtra
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Army without a country, countries without an army: Europe. (Commonwealth of...
Magazine article from: The Economist (US) ...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 ...
Nothing in common, no wealth. (Commonwealth of Independent States)
Magazine article from: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists ...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 ...
Russia's old imperial map is still shrivelling: the Commonwealth of...
Magazine article from: The Economist (US) ...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...
Russia still in driver's seat // 1st among `equals' in new commonwealth
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times ...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 ...
Republics want own arms talks Ukraine proposes negotiations with US apart...
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) ...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...
COMMONWEALTH BUILDERS HAD SHARE OF CONFUSION.(Main)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) ...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...
Welcome to Moscow, Land of the $224 Brassiere
Newspaper article from: Forward ...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 ...
Republics put their disunity on display On summit eve, commonwealth sees...
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) ...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 ...
Ukraine's Leader Won't Attend Summit; Hopes for Unity in Post-Soviet...
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post ...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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Magazine article from: The Middle East Journal 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 ...

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