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| | United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | A case may be appealed from a state court to a federal court only if there is a federal question (an issue arising under the U.S. Constitution, or laws/treaties of the United States). | | | The United States is a constitutional republic, meaning that its government is composed of and operates through a set of limited powers imposed by its design and enumerated in the United States Constitution. | | | The relationship between federal and state laws is quite complex; together, they form the law of the United States. |
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| | United States of Europe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The United States of Europe is a name occasionally given to one version of the possible future unification of Europe as a national and sovereign federation of states similar in formation to the United States of America. | | | The phrase "United States of Europe" usually identifies a federation. | | | The European Federation is a proposed federal state model for the United States of Europe. |
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| | United States Attorney General - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The United States Attorney General is the head of the United States Department of Justice concerned with legal affairs and is the chief law enforcement officer of the United States government. | | | The Attorney General is a member of the President's Cabinet, the only member who is not given the title Secretary. | | | The members of the Department of Justice represent the United States in legal matters generally and offer advice and opinions to the President and to the heads of the executive departments of the Government when so requested. |
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| | United Kingdom - definition of United Kingdom in Encyclopedia |
| | Also under the sovereignty of the United Kingdom, though not part of the United Kingdom itself, are the Crown dependencies of the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man and a number of overseas territories. | | | The United Kingdom is described as being traditionally a centralised, or unitary, state, with Parliament at Westminster holding responsibility for most of the UK's political power. | | | The UK was formed by a series of Acts of Union which united the formerly distinct nations of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland under a single government in London. |
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| | United Nations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | From August to October 1944, representatives of France, the Republic of China, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Soviet Union met to elaborate the plans at the Dumbarton Oaks Estate in Washington, DC. | | | The United Nations (UN) is an international organization that describes itself as a "global association of governments facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, and social equity." It was founded in 1945 by 51 states, replacing The League of Nations. | | | A Guide to Delegate Preparation: A Model United Nations Handbook, edited by Scott A. Leslie, The United Nations Association of the United States of America, 2004 edition (October 2004), softcover, 296 pages, ISBN 1880632713 |
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| | Federal government of the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The United States courts of appeals are "appellate courts" that hear appeals of cases decided by the district courts, and some direct appeals from administrative agencies. | | | A case may be appealed from a state court to a federal court only if there is a federal question (an issue arising under the U.S. Constitution, or laws/treaties of the United States). | | | The federal judiciary consists of the Supreme Court of the United States, whose justices are appointed for life by the President and confirmed by the Senate, and various "lower" or "inferior courts," among which are the United States Courts of Appeals and the United States District Courts. |
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| | United States - Free Encyclopedia |
| | The United States of America (U.S.A.), also referred to as the United States (U.S. America, or the States, is a federal republic in North America and the Pacific Ocean. | | | The United States of America consists of 50 states with limited autonomy in which federal law takes precedence over state law. | | | Many state laws are quite similar from state to state. |
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| | United States Attorney - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The U.S. Attorney's office is the chief prosecutor for the United States in criminal law cases, and represents the United States in civil law cases as both the defendant and plaintiff. | | | U.S. Attorneys are supported by the Justice Department's Executive Office for United States Attorneys. | | | The U.S. Attorney is appointed by and serves at the discretion of the President of the United States for a term of four years, with appointments subject to confirmation by the Senate. |
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| | The United Scotsmen and the Insurrection of 1798 - by Peter Berresford Ellis |
| | American President George Washington personally ordered the United States warship, the Otter, commanded by Captain Dawes, to rescue Muir from the penal colony in New South Wales. | | | The United Scotsmen and the Insurrection of 1798 | | | The last record of a United Scotsmen having been tried before the courts for the serious crime of sedition was the trial in 1802 of Thomas Wilson, a Fife weaver, and a delegate to the National Convention. |
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| | Europe United - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | A fully united, federation of all european states (known as United Europe) | | | Europe United differs from the ten pan-european parties of the european parliament in that, national parties all stand on the same policy platform at european level and are all signatories to the same charter. | | | Until that union is realised the name of what is presently called the European Union (EU) will be kept as is. |
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| | United States Attorneys |
| | Each United States Attorney is the chief federal law enforcement officer of the United States within his or her particular jurisdiction. | | | United States Attorneys conduct most of the trial work in which the United States is a party. | | | One United States Attorney is assigned to each of the judicial districts, with the exception of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands where a single United States Attorney serves in both districts. |
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| | United States citizenship - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Consequently, naturalized U.S. citizens are not eligible to become President of the United States. | | | The United States Government also insists that U.S. citizens travel into and out of the United States on a U.S. passport, regardless of dual nationality. | | | There are also special provisions for persons who are deemed to have renounced citizenship for purposes of avoiding U.S. taxation (which is, in theory, applicable up to ten years after the official loss of citizenship), which can result in loss of right to entry into the United States. |
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| | Tennessee Attorney General |
| | The attorney general is the chief legal officer of the state. | | | Officers and agencies of the state are represented by the attorney general in all civil litigation before state and federal courts. | | | The attorney general prosecutes all criminal cases in the appellate courts and exercises original prosecutorial powers in the areas of securities and state contract fraud. |
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| | Federalism (United States) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Its adherents pushed for a convention to revise the Articles, and, when this convention proposed the Constitution of the United States, they pushed for its ratification. | | | Unlike the states' rights movement of the mid-20th century which focused on civil rights, the modern federalist movement is concerned far more with expansive interpretations of the Commerce Clause, as in the areas of medical marijuana (Gonzales v. | | | Because George Washington lent his prestige to the Constitution and because of the ingenuity and organizational skills of its proponents, the Constitution was ratified by enough states to become operative on June 21, 1788. |
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| | United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | A case may be appealed from a state court to a federal court only if there is a federal question (an issue arising under the U.S. Constitution, or laws/treaties of the United States); the supreme court of each state is the final authority on the interpretation of that state's laws and constitution. | | | The United States is a constitutional republic, meaning that its government is composed of and operates through a set of limited powers imposed by its design and enumerated in the United States Constitution. | | | Health insurance in the United States is traditionally a benefit of employment, and in many cases this is mandated by law. |
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| | Encyclopedia: Society of the United Irishmen |
| | With promises of French aid the United Irishmen instigated a rising against British rule in 1798, the rebellion of 1798. | | | the Protestant Ascendancy) as well as to "dethrone all kings, and plant the tree of liberty" (the aims of the United Irishmen). | | | The opposite of what the United Irishmen were about occurred at Scullabogue in County Wexford when scores of Loyalists and their wives and children were burnt alive in reprisal for atrocities by the Crown forces (see Scullabogue Barn Massacre), although many of the attackers and about 20 of the victims were Catholic. |
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| | The Avalon Project : United Nations Charter; June 26, 1945 |
| | The original Members of the United Nations shall be the states which, having participated in the United Nations Conference on International Organization at San Francisco, or having previously signed the Declaration by United Nations of 1 January 1942, sign the present Charter and ratify it in accordance with Article 110. | | | A state which is not of the United Nations may become a party to the Statute of the International Court of Justice on to be determined in each case by the General Assembly upon the recommendation of the Security Council. | | | Each Member of the United Nations undertakes to comply with the decision of the International Court of Justice in any case to which it is a party. |
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| | Europe: Eclipsing the American Dream? |
| | The United States is one of only three industrialized nations that doesn't require paid maternity or paternity leave (even unpaid), while in most of Europe, a three-month leave with full salary is standard. | | | The United States grows more conservative (as it deals with the new realities imposed on it by the "age of terror"), while the so-called "Old World" is experimenting with a new way of doing things.one that's arguably better suited to fit into the more globalized world that's emerging in the 21st century. | | | Europe's Green Party — which is on the political fringe in the United States — is well-represented in local and national European governments. |
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| | The 1820 Rising - The 1820 Rising |
| | Mealmaker and his United Scotsmen may not have been the originators of this programme but at the very least they must be identified as remarkably astute and farsighted persons who had the capacity to set the agenda for generations to come. | | | With the punishment of Mealmaker, the activities of the United Scotsmen appear to have ceased, though ex-members and supporters would nurse their hopes in secret through the ensuing years. | | | One such sympathiser was the Glasgow lawyer, Thomas Muir, who encouraged the study of these revolutionary writings; who established contacts with reform sympathisers in Ireland - the United Irishmen - and who played a prominent role in the 1793 Convention of the Friends of the People in Edinburgh. |
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| | MSN Encarta - United Nations |
| | First, several of the world’s most powerful countries were not members, most notably, the United States. | | | Five countries received this veto power: the United States, the United Kingdom, France, the Soviet Union, and China. | | | The declaration included the first formal use of the term United Nations, a name coined by President Roosevelt. |
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| | United Nations |
| | The United States also contributed $1.1 billion in assessments to the peacekeeping budget in calendar year 2004; $72 million for the support of the international war crimes tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia; and, nearly $5 million for preparatory work relating to the UN Capital Master Plan. | | | Under special agreement with the United States, certain diplomatic privileges and immunities have been granted, but generally the laws of New York City, New York State, and the United States apply. | | | The United States is leading the effort to strengthen and reform the UN. |
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| | US foreign policy in Guatemala |
| | Arbenz continued to implement the liberal policies of Arevalo, and instituted an agrarian reform law to break up the large estates and foster individually owned small farms. | | | In addition to redistributing United Fruit land, the government also began competing with United Fruit in the production and export of bananas. | | | Important people in the ruling circles of the US, involved with United Fruit Company, used their influence to convince the US government to step in. |
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| | United States territory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Incorporated territory in essence is land that has been irrevocabably incorporated within the sovereignty of the United States and to which the full corpus of the U.S. Constitution applies. | | | United States territory is any extent of region under the jurisdiction of the federal government of the United States, including all waters (around islands or continental tracts). | | | The United States territory can include illegally occupied territory, which is a geographic area that claims sovereignty, but is being illegally or forcibly subjugated to the authority of the United States of America federal government. |
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| | WWW Virtual Library: International Affairs Resources--United Nations |
| | United States Mission to the United Nations-- Official website of the US delegation with information about the mission, press releases, fact sheets, official speeches, US policy positions on major issues, and so forth. | | | United Nations Association of the United States of America-- Dedicated to promoting U.S. participation in the United Nations system and to strengthening the U.N. system. | | | Of particular note is the United Nations Documentation Research Guide, for an overview of the various types of U.N. documents and publications. |
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| | Budapest, December 15, 2000 |
| | The United States is a federation consisting of 50 states and a federal district (District of Columbia). | | | The origins of the United States federation are in 13 British colonies, which by the time of the American Revolution created the confederation on the basis of Articles of Confederation (which were adopted by colonies between 1777 and 1781). | | | It seems that the US Federation is based on the principle of constitutional heterogeneity, as far as the states should have the republican form of the government, which it is the task of the United States to guarantee (Guarantee Clause). |
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| | What is the United Front? |
| | The United Front is a tactic to be used in the context of the relationship of a mass communist party with a mass reformist party. | | | Whilst the term may have been used by socialists as long as there have been socialists, I would argue that it has come to be defined in terms of the adoption of the United Front tactic by the early Communist International, specifically the Third and Fourth Congresses of the Comintern. | | | When people on the Left use it they may mean simply an agreement to work in common with others over a specific issue, but they usually refer to the United Front in the context of unity of a Left grouping with other forces rather than, say, the unity of Blair with Bush. |
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| | United States Constitution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The United States is a common law country, and courts follow the precedents established in prior cases. | | | The United States Constitution was partly based on ideas from the uncodified constitution of the United Kingdom, such as Article 39 from the Magna Carta of 1215 which states that: | | | Article Six establishes the Constitution, and the laws and treaties of the United States made in accordance with it, to be the supreme law of the land. |
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