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	New Georgia Encyclopedia: Samuel Elbert (1740-1788)
		In 1769 he wed Elizabeth Rae, the daughter of a prosperous planter and merchant; they had six children together.
		Elbert organized and was commissioned captain of a grenadier company of Savannah's First Regiment of militia in June 1772, and soon after he sailed for England to "perfect himself in the duties of military life." Upon his return he applied himself to exercising his unit in proper military drill.
		Politically, Elbert was a conservative Whig and a sympathizer to the colonial cause.
	www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?path=/GovernmentPolitics/MilitaryPresenceinGeorgia/MilitaryFigures&id=h-672 (688 words)

	Quotes on Politics
		Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
		Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.
		Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it and then misapplying the wrong remedies.
	www.angelfire.com /ma4/memajs/quotes/politics.html (927 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia â“ Free Online Encyclopedia for Reference, Research, Facts
		In 1752 he became a member of the Ohio Company (serving as treasurer until 1773), and in 1759 he was elected to the Virginia house of burgesses.
		An early opponent of British colonial policy, he drafted the nonimportation resolutions adopted (1769) by the burgesses against the British and also wrote (1774) the Fairfax Resolves, which restated the constitutional position of the colonies in relation to the crown.
		Mason served on the Virginia committee of safety, and as a member of the Virginia constitutional convention of 1776 he drafted the well-known declaration of rights, which was extensively copied by other American states, and which was drawn on by Thomas Jefferson in the first part of the Declaration of Independence.
	www.encyclopedia.com /printable.aspx?id=1E1:MasonGe (233 words)

	Princeton University Senior Theses brief display
		Carrillo, Arturo Jose (1988): The Politics of Cocaine in Columbia.
		Cosma, Marcelo Andres (1986): The Politics of Adjustment and Conditionality in Tanzania.
		Fitzsimmons, Tracy (1989): The Politics of Archaeology in Mesoamerica.
	libweb5.princeton.edu /theses/thesesvw.asp?Lname=&Fname=&Submit=Search&Title1=politics&department=&Class=&Adviser= (13035 words)

	Trumbull
		While engaged in commercial ventures, he was active in politics and eventually rose to be speaker of the Connecticut General Assembly.
		With the death of Governor William Pitkin in October 1769, Trumbull became the governor of the colony.
		Wearied by political life, Trumbull retired from public life in May 1784 and devoted the remainder of his life to the study of theology.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/t8/trumbull-i.htm (948 words)

	Famous Quotes Search Engine
		University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
		The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
		Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
	www.famous-quotations.com /asp/search.asp?keyword=Politics (158 words)

	Background Reading: Politics
		The 1769 transit of Venus is regarded by some historians as the pivotal event that thrust American scientists into the international limelight.
		It would be the first transit for which the United States would be a full participant in the many international expeditions that were set out to observe and study it.
		Here is the first page of the article by Benjamin Franklin which appeared in the prestigeous international journal 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London' in volume 59 of their 1769 edition.
	sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov /sunearthday/2004/vt_edu2004_venus_back_Pol.htm (345 words)

	Election Law @ Moritz
		Politics and Race a Messy Mix in Argument on Texas Case
		But if the Court calls for intervention on political grounds, it commits the federal judiciary to an inherently partisan activity for the indefinite future.
		There are no compelling public interest principles, much less constitutional principles, governing the politics of redistricting, other than that plans should be the outcome of free negotiation and competition.
	moritzlaw.osu.edu /electionlaw/etable06/060222-lowenstein.php (952 words)

	Papers of James Madison, University of Virginia
		Born March 16, 1751, the eldest son of the wealthiest landholder in Orange County, Virginia, James Madison was destined for a life of privilege and responsibility.
		In 1769, after several years of local schooling and private tutoring, Madison entered the College of New Jersey at Princeton, where he was introduced to the thinkers of the Scottish Enlightenment--Frances Hutcheson, David Hume, and Adam Smith, among others.
		His last public political appearance was in 1829 at the Virginia convention to draw up a new state constitution, where he spoke against the overrepresentation of the Tidewater region in the House of Delegates.
	www.virginia.edu /pjm/biography1.htm (1991 words)

	U of L - Globalization Studies
		The course of this seminal dispute over the status to be afforded the lives, the Aboriginal lands, and indigenous political institutions of the Native peoples in North America would cast a long shadow over the extension of American power to continental, hemispheric and global dimensions.
		The United States was born as a hybrid combining the religious zealotry of the Reformation and the secular rationality of the Enlightenment.
		The Covenant Chain was an extremely elaborate, intercultural diplomatic protocol that evolved over several generations between a complex of Indian nations, with the Longhouse League of Iroquoian-speaking peoples at their centre, and a complex of Anglo-American colonies, with the the fur traders and and leading colonial officials of colonial New York at their lead.
	people.uleth.ca /~hall/origins.htm (12716 words)

	The American Experience \| The Duel \| People & Events \| Thomas Jefferson
		In 1769 Jefferson was elected to Virginia's House of Burgesses.
		But a lingering stain on his reputation, as well as the terminal illness of his wife Martha caused him to withdraw from politics in 1781.
		Jefferson soon returned to the political world, however, representing Virginia in the Continental Congress of 1783.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/duel/peopleevents/pande07.html (872 words)

	American Experience \| Remember the Alamo \| The Navarro Family \| PBS
		The Navarro family was well known in Texas even before José Antonio Navarro played a key role in the Texas revolution.
		Perhaps the most famous family member, José Antonio was one of the political leaders of the Texas Revolution, a signer of the Texas declaration of independence, and the author later in his life of Apuntes Históricos (Historical Notes), a book on Texas history.
		His niece, Juana Gertrudis Navarro Alsbury, was one of the few survivors of the Mexican attack on the Alamo.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/alamo/sfeature/sf_family.html (804 words)

	Politics
		"Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order."
		Politics, on the other hand, is that small part of statesmanship that prefers to deal with a present solution based on past debts and present opportunities for future strategic positioning, instead of the common good."
		"In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country of the electorate.
	www.worldvstore.com /q_politics.htm (883 words)

	Democrat Taylor Marsh Blogs Politics, Iraq, and Culture
		But here's what she said, quote: "It is profoundly distressing that political discord [sic: discourse] has sunk to a level where abusive name-calling and the crudest of sexual language are the norm, where facts have no place in an argument.
		This unbounded, unreasoning rage is not going to help this newspaper, this country or democracy." Now, as you know, Juan, because I deal with this every day, these smear websites, this is what they do on a daily basis.
		As Atrios reminds us, there was a time when conservatives ruled the political internet.
	www.taylormarsh.com /archives_view.php?id=1769 (258 words)

	ERIC KADES \| History and Interpretation of the Great Case of Johnson v. M'Intosh \| Law and History Review, 19.1 \| The ...
		The policy, or the abstract right of granting lands in the possession of the native Indians, without their previous consent, as original lords of the soil, is a political question with which we have at present nothing to do.
		But this was an anomaly arising from peculiar local and political causes." The sovereign could always give its blessings to unapproved land purchases after the fact, and according to a recent book this practice was common in colonial Massachusetts.
		Finally, anticipation of political change may have motivated the marked increase in private purchases from the Indians in the 1770s.
	www.historycooperative.org /journals/lhr/19.1/kades.html (10806 words)

	National Park Service - Signers of the Declaration (George Walton)
		He was wounded in the British siege of Savannah late in 1778 and endured captivity for almost a year.
		In 1769 he moved to Savannah, Ga., read law under a local attorney, and 5 years later joined the bar.
		Except for creation of a committee of correspondence, to which Walton was appointed, the conferees for the most part substituted patriotic talk for action.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/declaration/bio50.htm (678 words)

	CIVITAS: Office of Campus Life, American University (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The American public is left to believe that civility is dead since our political contenders disregard such ads by not making public condemnation about how and what this presidential election should be about.
		Neither Republican nor Democratic contender cares to address this dilemma and simply relies on political rhetoric to suggest that the three E’s are not nearly as important as is the dire importance of tarnishing their opponents past.
		This is detrimental to society since the American public is led to believe these negative campaign tactics over solid information about candidates concerning their position on the three E’s.
	www.american.edu /ocl/vp/civitas/events/civitasweek2004_essaywinner.htm (299 words)

	Politics, Politicians, & Human Nature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Beyond this circle of seekers after privileges, individuals and organized minorities, he is aware of a large unorganized, indifferent mass of citizens who ask for nothing in particular and rarely complain.
		The politician comes after a while to think that the art of politics is to satisfy the seekers after favors and to molify the inchoate mass with noble sentiments and patriotic phrases."
		"A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there.
	www.proconservative.net /ProConQuotesD.shtml (355 words)

	Robert Morris
		After the stamp Act was passed in Britain, Morris took to the political circuit and continued his storied career there.
		In 1769, at the age of 35, Morris married 20-year old Mary White.
		It is an in-depth look at several letters and diary entries he wrote to the likes of George Washington and other politicians concerning the political and economic affairs of America during his time as Superintendent.
	www.pabook.libraries.psu.edu /LitMap/bios/Morris__Robert.html (1461 words)

	Dan Heller's Photos/Pictures of Cuban Politics (The Island of Cuba)
		It's difficult to characterize the politics of an entire country in small sound-bites (or word bytes, as the case may be), because there are always variations and exceptions to the rule.
		Therefore, when describing the political and economic landscape of Cuba, I feel trepidation when I imagine the feelings on of those who may feel I'm over-simplifying a complex topic.
		Although Batista was elected years earlier, his presidency had become increasingly corrupt to the point of directing political assassinations and subverting all forms of dissent.
	www.danheller.com /cuba-politico.html (2165 words)

	IceRocket Tag: politics
		Recently I was watching Stephen Colbert doing his bit over at The Colbert Report on Comedy Central when I had the opportunity to see him talk about a subject that I happen to find just as important as he did.
		topics: politics (331387 posts) - iraq (51380 posts) - war (33975 posts) - israel (29379 posts) more...
		Robert Anton Wilson, perhaps the greatest expert on conspiracy theory who ever lived, defined paranoia as, "the delusion that your enemies are competent." Apparently, when they feel like their under constant unfair attack, like everybody is piling on, the leaders of both parties are vulnerable to th...
	blogs.icerocket.com /tag/politics (606 words)

	Political Science at Brown University
		She is broadly interested in the link between race and political representation.
		She is looking to conduct research on how the intersection of identity, specifically race and gender, inform political representation.
		She was a fellow at the Center for the Study of African American Politics at the University of Rochester and has been a visiting scholar at the American Political Science Association's Centennial Center for Political Science and Public Affairs.
	www.brown.edu /Departments/Political_Science/people/facultypage.php?id=1130161746 (491 words)

	Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 2003060371
		With this in mind, Steven Englund focuses on the political, rather than the military or personal, aspects of Napoleon's notorious and celebrated life.
		Alone among recent biographers, Englund includes a chapter that analyzes the Napoleonic legend over the course of the past two centuries, down to the present-day French Republic, which has its own profound ambivalences toward this man whom it is afraid to recognize yet cannot avoid.
		Napoleon: A Political Life presents new consideration of Napoleon's adolescent and adult writings, as well as a convincing argument against the recent theory that the Emperor was poisoned at St. Helena.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/description/simon052/2003060371.html (402 words)

	Georges Cuvier (1769-1832)
		A self-appointed referee of proper science from his stronghold in the elite Académie des Sciences, Cuvier was as successful in creating his own image as a great man of science as he was in the many areas of science he studied.
		Cuvier was born on 23 August 1769, at Montbéliard, a French-speaking community in the Jura Mountains then rule by the Duke of Württemberg.
		The Politics of Evolution: Morphology, Medicine, and Reform in Radical London.
	www.victorianweb.org /science/cuvier.html (692 words)

	January 2001 Draft (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Cornbury was only trying to do his job as the Crown's representative in two colonies already adept at bringing governors around to their "live and let live" style of getting on.
		Livingston's early professional association with Alexander likely reinforced in him a personal commitment to civil libertarianism, while his family's position in colonial New York politics identified him with the popular cause of the elected Assembly, where rural landowners were over represented and perpetually at odds with the Anglican dominated Governor's Council.
		That William's branch of the Livingstons consisted of either thoroughgoing Calvinists of the Dutch Reformed or, as in his case, the Presbyterian persuasion, further fueled his antipathy to the Anglican elite of the City.
	beatl.barnard.columbia.edu /cuhis3057/ToryPrologue.htm (8295 words)

	102week4
		Notably, this is a characteristic that we share with the "Iberian" leaders of Mexico who were to arrive in San Diego in 1769.
		Note: there was no explicit plan to establish plantation economy, enslave the Indians, steal from the Indians, or any of the other more common methods of colonial exploitation of the day.
		Coordinated establishment of the missions in San Diego with the survivors of the voyage (150/300).
	www.csuchico.edu /~twaters/syllabi/SOSC_102FALL97/102week4.html (1120 words)

	Vive le Canada - The Origins of the War on Terror
		Progressive Bloggers is a group of Canadian bloggers who firmly believe that this great country needs to move forward, not backwards.
		One of the reasons the law of Aboriginal and treaty rights has remained more integral to the federalism of Canada than the federalism of the United States is that the former's imperial constitution lies deeply implanted in the culture, history and law of the fur trade.
		That fur trade was one of the few commercial activities in the colonization of the Western Hemisphere that provided a basis for economic and political collaboration between Indigenous peoples and newcomers.
	www.vivelecanada.ca /article.php/20031027125136775 (15347 words)

	Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes - The Quotations Page
		History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
		In politics, an absurdity is not a handicap.
		It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
	www.quotationspage.com /quotes/Napoleon_Bonaparte (144 words)

	This Day in History
		Entering politics in 1769, he was elected to the Commons House of Assembly.
		His politics were deeply influenced by his contempt for the wealthy and powerful “city Whigs” of Savannah.
		Determined to take control of Georgia politics, Gwinnett became speaker of the legislature, guided the Georgia Constitution of 1777 into existence and took over as governor when Archibald Bulloch died suddenly in office.
	www.historychannel.com /tdih/tdih.jsp?category=americanrevolution&month=10272957&day=10272981 (381 words)

	George Germain Papers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Germain was forced to resign in 1782 and left public life.
		Political and military correspondence of Lord George Sackville, afterwards Germain.
		The most important part of the collection is the official correspondence when Germain was secretary of state for America during the Revolutionary War.
	www.clements.umich.edu /Webguides/Arlenes/G/Germain.html (516 words)

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