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Bull Moose Party
BULL MOOSE PARTY BULL MOOSE PARTY, the nickname given by newspapers to the Progressive Party, founded in June 1912 by progressive Republicans who bolted the GOP convention to protest the regular party's "standpatism" and the usurpation of progressive presidential electors by incumbent William... Read more |
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Legitimacy
LegitimacyTypes of legitimacyHistory and interpretations of the conceptModern discussionsBIBLIOGRAPHYLegitimacy is the foundation of such governmental power as is exercised both with a consciousness on the government’s part that it has a right to govern and with some recognition by the governed of... Read more |
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Usurpation
670. Usurpation Adonijah presumptuously assumed David’s throne before Solomon’s investiture. [O.T.: I Kings 1:5–10] Anschluss Nazi takeover of Austria (1938). [Eur. Hist.: Hitler, 590–627] Athaliah steals throne by killing all royal line. [O.T.: II Kings... Read more |
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Merodach-baladan
Merodach-baladan , fl. 722-702 BC, Chaldaean prince, who usurped (721) the Babylonian throne. Sargon of Assyria put down the allies of Merodach-baladan in Syria and Palestine and eventually drove (c.710) the usurper from Babylon. After Sargon's death, Merodach-baladan reoccupied (703-702) the... Read more |
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Basiliscus
Basiliscus , d. c.477, usurper at Constantinople (475-76). He was responsible for the failure of the expedition sent (468) against the Vandals by his brother-in-law Leo I . He usurped the throne during the reign of Zeno , but his extortions and Monophysite tendencies led to his overthrow and... Read more |
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Constantine III
Constantine III (d. 411). Usurper, proclaimed emperor by Roman troops in Britain. At the beginning of the 5th cent. ad Roman Britain was not heavily defended, Stilicho having withdrawn troops in 401–2 to help defend Italy against German invaders. This attack on Italy and the overrunning of... Read more |
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Three Kingdoms
Three Kingdoms period of Chinese history from 220 to 265, after the collapse of the Han dynasty. The period takes its name from the three states into which China was divided. Wei occupied the north. South of Wei were Shu in the west and Wu in the east. Each of the states steadily expanded,... Read more |
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Uzziah
Uzziah , in the Bible, king of Judah, son and successor of Amaziah. He rebuilt Elath, port on the Gulf of Aqaba. He was stricken with leprosy after usurping the duties of high priest. He was succeeded by Jotham. He is referred to as Ozias in the Gospel of St. Matthew.... Read more |
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Heliodorus
Heliodorus , fl. 175 BC, Syrian statesman. The treasurer of Seleucus IV (Seleucus Philopator), he murdered the king and attempted unsuccessfully to usurp the throne. According to the Book of Second Maccabees, he entered the Temple at Jerusalem but was prevented from taking the treasure by three... Read more |
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Banquo
Banquo a character in Shakespeare's Macbeth who is murdered on Macbeth's orders, and whose ghost subsequently appears at Macbeth's banqueting table, invisible to all except Macbeth himself. He embodies both a reminder of Macbeth's guilt, and the warning that his usurpation of power will ultimately... Read more |
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The art of presidential usurpation
...responsibilities to check presidential power. In December, 1998...uncontrolled and abused, presidential power is a grave threat...articles unrelated to his usurpation of legislative powers...strongly to legislative usurpations. Clinton has ... |
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IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY RECEIVES SIX AWARDS, INCLUDING FOUR RESEARCH...
...awareness of our role as vigilant citizens in preventing presidential usurpation of power and protecting the Constitution. The ISU...speaker at the multidisciplinary conference titled "The Art of Gender in Everyday Life" in April 2009. Scholar... |
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The Constitutional and Popular Law of Presidential Impeachment.
...crimes and misdemeanors is a term of art in the Constitution, and its meaning...pattern of acts that involve abuse or usurpation of power can be induced from an aggregation...Johnson, particularly those involving "usurpation of power and violation of law in the... |
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Romney tries to have it both ways ; Joan vennochi
...ObamaCare is a usurpation of personal freedom...t win the GOP presidential nomination in 2012...Romney's 2008 presidential campaign. There...for Republican presidential candidates, it...com. vennoc10.ART |
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TILTING AT LISTS: WONK TRIVIA FROM POT TO REAGAN STAMPS.(Editorial)(Review)
...long train of abuses and usurpations'' by King George III. Wisconsin...And Nixon perfected the art form with the most famous...the Hamlet of contemporary presidential politics, conveniently leaves...1948 Wisconsin Republican presidential primary ballot -- ... |
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Lucky to Have Jay Jay at This Time!
...attend the inauguration of the Presidential Task Force set up by the federal...John knows, in and out, the art of managing players. Jay...essential intervention, not a usurpation of the responsibilities and...level. His presence in the Presidential Task ... |
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Clinton's unlimited war on Constitution
...Restore Constitutional Limitations on Presidential Power? If Bill ClintoN announced tomorrow...s Kosovo occupation as an outrageous usurpation of congressional authority. At the Constitutional...sudden attacks." But the convention did art rest there. Of the 18 clauses-in ... |
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Wiretapping is an inevitable scandal [Derived headline]
...to do almost exactly what the current presidential administration has done, suspend judicial...employees necessarily have taken the art of lying to new heights. So he refused...one founding patriot regarded as state usurpation of the most basic human right, privacy... |
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Republicans as Red Sox: The 1995 government shutdown reducedthe importance of...
...Congress and a commensurate inflation of presidential power, to the detriment of the Constitution...reducing, even eliminating the federal usurpation of state and local responsibilities...surplus on "rivers, canals, roads, arts, manufacturers, education, and other... |
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Bass and man at Yale
...endowed Bass chairs; a second went to presidential adviser Henry Broude, an economics professor...consulting the professors amounted to a "usurpation of faculty prerogatives." In the Ivy...much of the energy from Yale's liberal arts experiments. By leading a back-to... |
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