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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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police state
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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 Republicans. The wheel has not ... |
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Republicans hope to claim the state's four electoral votes
...prominent Maine pollster who said Republicans sense the state's four electoral votes could...an extremely tight race in the state. Although earlier polling indicated...in play." FitzGerald said the state's controversial ban on bear... |
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Obama is not the leader of the United States, claims Republican Senator
Washington, Feb. 19 -- Republican Senator from South Carolina Jim Demint has said that President Barack Obama isn't the leader of the United States, nor have any of his predecessors been the country's true leaders. "This whole idea that... |
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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 that those offenders...also endorsed by the state ... |
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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 claims, they've attacked... |
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Short-cut takes bizarre twist in State Senate gridlock ; Democrats claim...
State senators were paid Tuesday...chamber, debate whether a Republican looking for a can of Coke...though, Senate Democrats and Republicans were saying Paterson was...Skelos, a Rockville Centre Republican, said of Paterson. "Last...joined with Skelos and 30 Republicans in the June 8 coup to ... |
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Marion baseball project leaps GOP hurdle; A state's attorney rejects the...
...evidence to back Illinois Republicans' claims that a $3 million state grant for a minor...Democratic donor violates state ethics laws, Williamson...Wednesday. The Illinois Republican Party had asked prosecutors...evidence to support the claim. "Mr. McKenna had...unfortunate mistake ... |
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State senator's racism claims stir uproar ; Republicans call on Democrats to...
...apologize but to brand Senate Republicans "white supremacists" and...it into public policy," State Sen. Kevin Parker told WWRL...that's what a lot of the Republicans are and, frankly -- quiet...cover in an election year and Republicans sharing a transcript of the...John DeFrancisco, a white ... |
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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 Republican stalwarts as Senate Minority...the ... |
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Republicans dominate state boards ; Law says membership supposed to be...
...most important state boards and commissions are either Republicans or people who claim no party affiliation...Democrats, 43 Republicans and 21 neither...contributed to Republican campaigns...candidate for state school superintendent...are actually Republicans, the ... |