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Nation-State
Nation-State A VIEW FROM ABOVE: THE MODERN SOVEREIGN STATE A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE: THE NATION-BUILDING-STATE A VIEW FROM BELOW: THE SINGLE-NATION-STATE BIBLIOGRAPHY The term nation-state is frequently used but less often carefully defined or theorized, and conceptual confusion is... Read more |
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United States. Department of State
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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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State Lotteries
44. State Lotteries State lotteries have become nearly ubiquitous as state government activity. Forty states permit lotteries. In virtually all states with lotteries, the stated purpose is to raise revenue. However, there is wide diversity in how the money raised is distributed. Most states (about... Read more |
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Republicanism
REPUBLICANISM REPUBLICANISM. Broadly defined, republicanism means a preference for nonmonarchical government and a strong dislike of hereditary monarchy. Narrowly defined, and in its early modern context, it means self-government by a community of citizens in a city-state. Republicanism is a... Read more |
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Sandra Day OConnor
Sandra Day O'Connor 1930-, U.S. lawyer and associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1981-2006), b. El Paso, Tex. Graduating from Stanford law school (1952), she returned to practice in her home state of Arizona. There she was a state assistant attorney general (1965-69) and a Republican state... Read more |
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Altered states of consciousness
A LTEREDS TATESOFC ONSCIOUSNESS A n altered state of consciousness is a brain state wherein one loses the sense of identity with one's body or with one's normal sense perceptions. A person may enter an altered state of consciousness through... Read more |
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Princely States
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States of the Church
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State governments
State governments. The...of the nation, states and cities have performed...governance. The states, like the national government, claim their authority based...hierarchy of local, state, and national...Constitution recognized the ... |
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Austin v. United States
...Austin v. United States, 509 U.S. 602...forfeiture is a civil claim essentially brought...with conservative Republican representative...pleaded guilty in state court to one count...thereafter the United States government filed...Dakota and ... |
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Dennis v. United States
Dennis v. United States, 341 U.S. 494 (1951...government in the United States, to set up an organization...government in the United States. Although the Smith...communism and freedom, and Republicans responded by castigating...sympathy for civil liberties ... |
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Republicanism
...Augustinian Christianity, republican ideas assume different...theme of the classical republican tradition, autonomous...themselves simultaneously as republicans, liberals, and Christians...Federalist Papers offered a republican justification for ... |
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McCarthy, Joseph
...1908–1957), Republican senator from Wisconsin...political supporters. The state supreme court also censured...political family, in the Republican senatorial primary...looking grim, he told a Republican gathering in Wheeling...Department.” The ... |
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Federal Government, Executive Branch
...for the president's claim to popular support...founding the Democratic Republican party he established...Federalist Party; Republican Party; Republicanism...s oldest continuous republican chief executive office...President of the United ... |
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Patriotism
...nearly all Americans claim to be patriotic citizens...American patriots as republicans and enemies of monarchy...period. Democratic‐Republicans called their opponents...former Confederate states, secret paramilitary...supremacy from “black ... |
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Slaughterhouse Cases
...common practice for states to incorporate privately...Louisiana. That state was governed by Republicans, elected primarily...of the Louisiana Republican party were “carpetbaggers...another example of Republican corruption, even...both ... |
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Cohen v. Cowles Media Co.
...campaign adviser to the Republican candidate, leaked damaging...to establish a fraud claim and reversed the punitive...reconsider whether Cohen's claim could be upheld under...press from Cohen's claim. Justices Harry Blackmun...without a compelling ... |
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McLean, John
...Free Soilers, and Republicans (see Extrajudicial...Cases). He favored state banking, dissented...1837). Another states' rights opinion was...relations with Jackson. States' rights commercial issues...Wardens (1852). His claim for exclusive ... |
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India
...though it adopted a republican constitution. The Princely States within the boundaries...Eventually the Princely States were integrated or set up as separate states. The French voluntarily...The semi-autonomous state of Sikkim was ... |
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Haiti
...century and Spain recognized the French claims to the area in 1697 in the Treaty of...north, while the south and west became republican. The country was re-united in 1820 as an...appealed to the ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES (OAS) for help. International aid...increased ... |
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Greece
...at territorial extension to claim historic Greek provinces...administrative efficiency, plunged the state into large international debt. At the...restored 1920–4, and republican government, reintroduced 1924...through rapidly expanding the state to embrace ... |
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Morocco
...coups in the early 1970s and intermittent republican opposition. Hassan II was succeeded by...Mauritania; but the latter renounced its claims in 1979 in favour of a nationalist group...retaining the hereditary monarch as head of state. A programme of privatization was ... |
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Sinn Féin
...Irish Unionists, and used this success to claim a mandate for an independent Ireland. The...treaty wing fighting against the Irish Free State during the Civil War (1922–3). The...following the split within the Irish Republican Army (IRA). As the IRA's political... |
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REP. KUZMAN NOT CONVINCED BY REPUBLICANS' CLAIMS OF AN 'HONESTLY' BALANCED...
...the following statement: State Rep. Bob Kuzman (D-Crown...Mitch Daniels and other Republican lawmakers about the biennial...House Democrats and Senate Republicans, and it has apparently happened now under a Republican governor and a Legislature controlled by ... |
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Lack of time makes passage of bank bill unlikely this year, Sen. D'Amato...
...the Currency to open facilities across state lines that would not offer one of those functions. Both bills also seek to prevent states from creating a haven for banks that want...offer previously taboo products out-of-state. South Dakota and other states ... |
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DEMOCRATS TAKE OVER GOVERNORSHIPS CLAIM REPUBLICAN SEATS IN FIVE STATES,...
...Democrats and 16 by Republicans. Democrats lost eight...Democrats and five by Republicans. Democrat Ann Richards...but steady lead over Republican Clayton Williams in...to try to help the state's first Hispanic...was on the big three states ... |
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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: CLAIMS DON'T MATCH RECORD REPUBLICAN STATE SENATORS...
...article notes that state Senator Pete Bragdon...offenders. Republican state Representative Gene...Concord Monitor: Claims Don't Match Record...John Stephen, the Republican candidate for governor...all prisoners" and states ... |
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RIPON'S CLAIM TO REPUBLICAN FAME IS CHALLENGED.(Local/State)
...contradicting the traditional claim by Ripon, Wis. The report...for Abraham Lincoln at the Republican National Convention of 1860...to change its entry on the Republican Party. Todd, a Phillips...Encyclopedia Britannica said the Republican Party was started ... |
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WISCONSIN DEMOCRATIC PARTY: STATE ETHICS BOARD DEBUNKS REPUBLICANS' PARTISAN...
...release: Today, the State Ethics Board found communications...had with members of the State Elections Board prior...interest funds that violate state law - illegal money Green...Congressman Green and Republicans have frantically tried...ve alleged partisan ... |
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Democrats claim edge as vote nears; Republicans play defense in state,...
...Republican governors in several states, New York, Ohio and Massachusetts among them. Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger...California, the most populous state. Six years after President...gubernatorial races. Voters in 37 states settle the ... |
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KEMP IN 'BATTLE' WITH STATE GOP CLAIMS HE CAN BROADEN BASE OF REPUBLICAN...
...warring with New York state's Republican establishment, but...list of 700 New York Republicans supporters and nine...registered New York Republicans conducted two weeks...said. "Some in the Republican establishment are...campaign is to prove ... |
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GOP STAKES CLAIM ON TEXAS GRAMM PREDICTS `GREAT YEAR' FOR REPUBLICANS, WHO...
...be a great year for Republicans.'' Gramm, a conservative...the U.S. Senate. Republicans have a good chance...Texas has become a Republican state,'' he said. Gramm...failed bid for the 1996 Republican presidential nomination...to 50 Democrats ... |
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Deutch challenges Republicans claims that budget cuts left U.S. with 'hollow'...
...with reporters to challenge Republican claims that Clinton administration...this country.'' North's claim, and a Democratic counterattack...analysts (and even some Republicans) suggest he may have overstated...spending cuts, as have such ... |
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