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Repeal Association Repeal Association
Repeal Association, 1840–8. O'Connell's Catholic Association was suppressed when catholic emancipation was carried in 1829 but agitation for the repeal of the Union soon recommenced. For some years O'Connell preferred to work with the Whig governments but in 1840, faced with the prospect of a... Read more
repeal repeal
repeal, shorthand for the demand for the repeal of the Act of Union and the restoration of a separate Irish parliament. Before 1830 there were occasional demands, notably from elements within the guilds and corporation of Dublin, for the Union to be rescinded. O'Connell announced his commitment to... Read more
gag rules gag rules
gag rules in parliamentary procedure, rules limiting or prohibiting free debate on a particular issue. In U.S. history, the term is applied especially to procedural rules in force in the House of Representatives from 1836 to 1844. With the growth of antislavery feeling after the founding of the... Read more
Lord George Gordon Lord George Gordon
Lord George Gordon 1751-93, English agitator, whose activities resulted in the tragic Gordon riots of 1780 in London. In 1779, Gordon assumed leadership of the Protestant Association, an organization formed to secure repeal of the Catholic Relief Act of 1778 (see Catholic Emancipation ). On June... Read more
Peterloo massacre Peterloo massacre
Peterloo massacre public disturbance in St. Peter's Field, Manchester, England, Aug. 16, 1819, also called the Manchester massacre. A crowd of some 60,000 men, women, and children were peaceably gathered under the leadership of Henry Hunt to petition Parliament for the repeal of the corn laws and... Read more
Anti-Corn-Law League Anti-Corn-Law League
Anti-Corn-Law League organization formed in 1839 to work for the repeal of the English corn laws . It was an affiliation of groups in various cities and districts with headquarters at Manchester and was an outgrowth of the smaller Manchester Anti-Corn-Law Association. Richard Cobden and John ... Read more
John Birch Society John Birch Society
John Birch Society ultraconservative, anti-Communist organization in the United States. It was founded in Dec., 1958, by manufacturer Robert Welch and named after John Birch, an American intelligence officer killed by Communists in China (Aug., 1945). The most prominent of the extreme right-wing... Read more
Charles Watson-Wentworth 2d marquess of Rockingham Charles Watson-Wentworth 2d marquess of Rockingham
Charles Watson-Wentworth Rockingham, 2d marquess of , 1730-82, British statesman. In the early years of the reign of George III he became a leading opponent of the "king's friends," held several offices, and formed a coalition government in 1765. During his ministry the Stamp Act was repealed... Read more
Townshend Acts Townshend Acts
Townshend Acts 1767, originated by Charles Townshend and passed by the English Parliament shortly after the repeal of the Stamp Act . They were designed to collect revenue from the colonists in America by putting customs duties on imports of glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea. The colonials,... Read more
Josephine Butler Josephine Butler
Butler, Josephine (1828–1906). Campaigner for women. Born in Northumberland, daughter of John Grey, a political agent for the Whigs, she married George Butler, an academic and later dean of Winchester, in 1852. She first took up philanthropic work amongst poor women in Oxford and... Read more

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PETITION SEEKS REPEAL OF GAY PROTECTIONS 5,000 NAMES GATHERED TO AMEND HUMAN...
Newspaper article from: The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, WA) ...the City Council will hold a hearing to consider whether the petition is legally valid, whether the signatures should be validated...lifestyle and punish those who oppose them. "If we do not repeal it, we will put out the message that San Francisco did...
Petition seeks to repeal B'ton law setting pay for public safety official
Newspaper article from: Press of Atlantic City ...citizens' group is circulating a petition to repeal a recently approved ordinance...The document, described as a petition of protest by its authors, was...and the mayor." Also on the petition's committee are former City...
Casino foes set to play ace in hole; petition drive seeks repeal of Proposal E.
Magazine article from: Crain's Detroit Business ...Problems (MICAP) will launch a petition drive next Friday to repeal Proposal E, a 1996 ballot initiative...in the union to roll back and repeal off-reservation casino gambling...operate as the Coalition to Repeal Proposal E. They hope to raise...
JOINT COMMITTEE SEEKS END TO OREGON MARIJUANA LAW GROUP GATHERS PETITIONS TO...
Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) ...The Real Joint Ways and Means Committee'' wants voters to repeal a new state law that makes it a crime to possess small amounts...the state elections office last week. The group focused its petition efforts at last weekend's Oregon Country Fair. To qualify...
Pay raise petition effort continues; Despite expected repeal of mayor's...
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) ...is continuing the fight to see their petition against the raise validated. The group...the city clerk's rejection of their petition. Riggi said the members of his group...3, Riggi and Zollinger delivered a petition with 2,016 signatures to force a November...
MENINO SEEKS TO REPEAL 1675 LAW AGAINST NATIVE AMERICANS SYMBOLIC ACT SEEN AS...
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) ...mayor asked the Legislature to repeal the 1675 Indian Imprisonment...will tarnish our image." Its repeal, the mayor said, "will send...he had signed a home-rule petition asking to repeal the law the...For repeal, the home-rule ...
GROUP SEEKS TO REPEAL NEW CURBS ON REFERENDUMS.(Local)
Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) ...group Tuesday launched a drive to repeal a new ordinance making it twice...insult. They began circulating petitions to repeal the ordinance by referendum...t even live in the city pass petitions for signatures that they don...
GROUP SEEKS REPEAL OF SALES TAX ON CLOTHING
Newspaper article from: The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY) Repeal the sales tax on clothing...Carnahan's can sign a petition urging state elected officials to repeal the clothing tax. Copies of the petition can be made by accessing...netsync.net. Completed petitions may be returned to Operation...
Plea seeks repeal of unjust military laws.
Newspaper article from: The Nation (Karachi, Pakistan) ...A set of constitutional petitions filed in the Supreme Court on Monday seeks striking down certain provisions...Jail, Rawalpindi. In their petitions, filed through Muhammad Ikram...raised in the constitution petition relating to the armed forces...the extent ...
Rockland council passes revised taxi ordinance
Newspaper article from: Bangor Daily News (Bangor, ME) ...728 people who signed petitions opposing the fees...much already." The petition seeks to repeal the council's action...public hearing on the petition will be held by the...council will accept the petition and vote to place ...

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