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	2010 Commonwealth Games: Britain keen to help Delhi
		Britain has shown its keenness to help Delhi in organising the 2010 Commonwealth Games.
		Addressing a UK Trade and Investment Seminar on Commonwealth Games 2010 here Wednesday, Britain's Sports Minister Richard Caborn said he believed 'with a strong personal conviction' that his country is firmly committed to supporting sport in India.
		Without a doubt, the 2010 Commonwealth Games will have a big part to play in achieving that goal,' he said.
	www.indiaenews.com /sports/20061116/28863.htm (408 words)

	Chinese Immigration to Britain in the Post-WWII Period
		Britain was on the winning side, but the cost of the war did not leave any space for enjoying her victory.
		Britain had to find a practical solution that would help solve its labour shortage and consequent financial crisis, and it hd to do so to preserve the prestige of the country as the centre of an empire, though in rapid decline.
		Britain in 1971 was very different from the Britain of 1948 that was trying to keep up appearances as the centre of an empire while suffering from the harsh conditions created by the aftermath of the Second World War.
	www.postcolonialweb.org /uk/mo/sakilli10.html (4579 words)

	Britain
		Androgeus of Britain Androgeus was a legendary Duke of Britons.
		Britain and Ireland The islands of Europe, and the term " Britain and Ireland " is sometimes used, somewhat loosely and...
		Britain's Road to Socialism Britain's Road to Socialism is the programme of the reformist party, and that their current...
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/britain.html (1742 words)

	Massachusetts Constitution
		And the people of this commonwealth have also a right to, and do, invest their legislature with authority to enjoin upon all the subjects an attendance upon the instructions of the public teachers aforesaid, at stated times and seasons, if there be any on whose instructions they can conscientiously and conveniently attend.
		No bill or resolve of the senate or house of representatives shall become a law, and have force as such, until it shall have been laid before the governor for his revisal; and if he, upon such revision, approve thereof, he shall signify his approbation by signing the same.
		The records of the commonwealth shall be kept in the office of the secretary, who may appoint his deputies, for whose conduct he shall be accountable, and he shall attend the governor and council, the senate and house of representatives, in person, or by his deputies, as they shall respectively require.
	www.mass.gov /legis/const.htm (6311 words)

	CongressLink - A Resource for Teachers Providing Information About the U.S. Congress
		Sometimes a bill is "killed" early in its journey through the House or Senate when it is referred to a committee which is unfavorable to its provisions, or when it is referred to several committees at the same time, which is called a joint referral.
		Bills that are complex and cross the jurisdictional lines of several committees are often referred to several committees at the same time.
		An omnibus bill is one that includes many things, often a budget bill, where separate appropriations bills are rolled into one large package to push for a political agenda that might not be as successful if the bill was broken into smaller pieces, each requiring a separate vote.
	www.congresslink.org /print_teaching_glossary.htm (15812 words)

	English and British Empire, Possessions c.1497-1800 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Britain created provinces of East and West Florida when she acquired the territory from Spain in 1763; the Treaty of Paris restored Florida to Spain in 1783.
		Britain apparently held the island from 1762 to 1763, from 1781 to 1783, in 1794, and from 1796 onwards.
		Newfoundland is Britain's oldest colony and essentially the first settlement of "the British Empire." English settlers colonized it from 1497 on, and it was formally recognized as a British-owned territory by the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713.
	cbsr26.ucr.edu /britem.html (2016 words)

	CNN - Commonwealth leaders uphold Pakistan's suspension - November 12, 1999
		British Prime Minister Tony Blair said after the opening session of the four-day Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Durban that there could be no compromise on the demand for a return to civilian rule in Pakistan, a Commonwealth country.
		"The Commonwealth can and should embrace these changes and extend their benefits to all, not only because they are the future, but because the Commonwealth already embodies so many of the characteristics of this 21st-century world," she said.
		The modern Commonwealth is sometimes described as "a group of friends" linked by their ties to the former British Empire.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/africa/9911/12/africa.commonwealth.02 (770 words)

	United Kingdom
		England, in the southeast part of the British Isles, is separated from Scotland on the north by the granite Cheviot Hills; from them the Pennine chain of uplands extends south through the center of England, reaching its highest point in the Lake District in the northwest.
		After the death in 1658 of Oliver Cromwell, the lord protector, the Puritan Commonwealth fell to pieces and Charles II was placed on the throne in 1660.
		Britain became the staunchest ally of the U.S. after the Sept. 11 attacks.
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0108078.html (2704 words)

	Great Britain: History
		The Reform Bill of 1867, sponsored by Disraeli and the Conservatives for political reasons, enfranchised the urban working classes and was followed shortly (under Gladstone and the Liberals) by enactment of the secret ballot and the first steps toward a national education system.
		Britain had undertaken to help Greece and Turkey resist Communist subversion, but the financial burden proved too great, and the task was assumed (1947) by the United States.
		A bill passed by both houses of Parliament in 1999 stripped most hereditary peers of their right to sit and vote in the House of Lords; the shape of the reconstituted upper chamber is to be studied by a commission.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/world/A0858458.html (5891 words)

	West Indians in Britian
		That year, the Commonwealth Immigrants Bill was enacted to restrict the entrance of colonial citizens with passports to those who also had employment vouchers; a clause permitted deportation if they were convicted of a crime within five years of their entrance.
		By the mid 50s the supply of immigrants arriving from the Commonwealth to Britain on their own was outstripped by the demand for labour, and Britain was forced to actively recruit non-European laborers to fill the slots instead of passively accepting the inflow.
		Britain had been at full employment for a decade, and when people started losing their jobs, prejudice and expressions of racism became more blatant.
	shs.westport.k12.ct.us /chia/Caribbean/handouts/Exile/wi_in_britian.htm (4939 words)

	Encyclopedia: British republican movement
		First England (including Wales) was declared to be the Commonwealth of England and then Scotland and Ireland were brought under the British republic.
		The Commonwealth was the republican government which ruled first England and then the whole of Britain, Ireland, the colonies and other Crown possessions during the periods from 1649 (the monarch Charles I being beheaded on January 30 and An Act declaring England to be a Commonwealth being passed by the...
		A Commonwealth Realm is any one of the 16 sovereign states that recognize Queen Elizabeth II as their Queen and head of state.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/British-republican-movement (1618 words)

	United Kingdom - Atlapedia Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It is separated from the continent by the Strait of Dover and the English Channel, and from the Irish Republic by the Irish Sea and the St. Georges Channel.
		In 1962 the Parliament tightened control of the Commonwealth Immigration Act to restrict the number of immigrants from the Caribbean and Indian subcontinent.
		In Jan. 1972 Britain's EU membership was approved and in April, Prime Minister Heath imposed direct British rule on Ulster (Northern Ireland) after the IRA bombed and killed seven soldiers.
	www.atlapedia.com /online/countries/unitedki.htm (2683 words)

	Zimbabwe delays media bill, clashes with Britain
		The delay came as former colonial power Britain said Zimbabwe should be suspended from the 54-nation Commonwealth and accused President Robert Mugabe of preparing to rig presidential polls on March 9-10 to extend his 22-year rule.
		Critics say the bill, which has been amended following domestic complaints and international condemnation, is part of Mugabe's drive to silence opposition ahead of the poll where he will face the biggest test to his leadership since steering the country to independence in 1980.
		A copy of the amended bill made available to journalists on Tuesday showed the government had made minor changes but media analysts said the spirit of the legislation remained intact.
	www.namibian.com.na /2002/January/africa/023CD986BD.html (733 words)

	The Queen's family is an outdated, expensive, useless mess
		The Commonwealth has decided that a group of three leaders--Australian Prime Minister John Howard, South African President Thabo Mbeki, and Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo--will jointly decide the course of action to take against Zimbabwe when the observers' report comes in.
		And since it's the member states that direct the Commonwealth, it really cannot be said to have any existence independent of the ability of governments to agree on joint positions.
		As former US President Bill Clinton pointed out during a speech in Vancouver last November, "Democracies by and large don't go to war with each other, don't sponsor terrorist acts against each other, and are more likely to be reliable partners, protect the environment, and abide by the law.
	www.rachelmarsden.com /columns/zimbabwe.htm (1332 words)

	For me, Britain died today \| Samizdata.net
		I do not expect a truly repressive state to be implemented for many years yet (hopefully), but the infrastructure of tyranny is now well and truly in place, all of which came to pass with a soundtrack of a faint bleating sound of an indifferent public in the background.
		I shall try to be out of Britain and have my primary residence in the USA by 2007 at the latest to avoid being forced to submit to this intolerable imposition...
		I came to Britain to get away from nanny-statism that pervades Maine (no smoking in bars, high taxes, over-regulation, political correct thuggery etc) and it saddens me to see that the UK is becoming just as bad.
	www.samizdata.net /blog/archives/007071.html (11685 words)

	The Commonwealth Club of California \| Archive \| Bill Clinton
		The things we have lived through in the past year and a half have nearly nothing to do with what most of us have done in the last few years, in government or as private citizens.
		The bill also requires every state to set up an automatic withholding program for child-support enforcement.
		Forty percent of the taxes you pay for welfare would not have to be paid if people who can pay their child support would do it.
	www.commonwealthclub.org /archive/democrats/90-06clinton-speech.html (2133 words)

	Britannia: Monarchs of Britain
		Tories in the House of Lords were at odds with Liberals in the Commons pushing for social reforms.
		The first World War broke out in 1914, during which George and May made several visits to the front; on one such visit, George's horse rolled on top of him, breaking his pelvis - George remained in pain for the rest of his life from the injury.
		Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa demanded the right of self-governance after the war, resulting in the creation of the British Commonwealth of Nations by the Statute of Westminster in 1931.
	www.britannia.com /history/monarchs/mon60.html (532 words)

	BRIA(17:2) The Wobblies, Unions, Workers Strike, Lubbites, General Ludd, Industrial Revolution, Globalization, Workers ...
		In 1907, Big Bill Haywood was put on trial for the bombing murder of a former Idaho governor.
		Big Bill Haywood and most other Wobblies believed the war was a capitalist plot to increase their profits.
		Big Bill Haywood and the others were sentenced to prison terms ranging from five to 20 years plus heavy fines.
	www.crf-usa.org /bria/bria17_2.htm (6103 words)

	Eject! Eject! Eject!: DUDE, WHERE'S MY BOOK?
		Bill, Greg isn't being kind - he's being "right," at least where he says to leave the essays.
		Please Bill, for love of all that's holy, hire an editor, coerce your neighbors, put a monkey on retainer, something, anything but edit those essays yourself.
		Please, Bill, don't delink Celebrity and War: Celebrity was the very first essay of yours that I read, and since I gave up reading the papers and watching the imbeciles on TV telling me what didn't happen, you, Charles and Allahpundit are really all I have!
	www.ejectejecteject.com /archives/000098.html (5320 words)

	A written constitution for Britain
		All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with amendments as on other Bills.
		To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for executing all powers vested by this Constitution in the government of the Commonwealth, or in any department or officer thereof.
		The right to raise and maintain military or armed forces and to declare or wage war, except in immediate response to invasion or attack upon the territory or people of the Commonwealth of Britain, is vested exclusively in Parliament.
	www.centreforcitizenship.org /writ5.html (403 words)

	EPIC Archive - Free Speech
		Although adopted as part of the Bill of Rights in 1791, most First Amendment doctrine is a result of twenty-century litigation.
		Proposed new Internet censorship laws are included in a Bill tabled in the Parliament on November 7, 2001.
		The Bill would criminalise making available content unsuitable for children online, even if the content is only made available to adults.
	www.epic.org /free_speech (5051 words)

	Constitutional reform
		Read our written constitution for a new Commonwealth of Britain in which Parliament and the executive are secondary to the people.
		Although many Britons pride themselves on their democracy, the truth is that some law-makers, because they were born into the aristocracy, inherited their seats in the legislature from their parents.
		Although most of Britain's old empire is now free there are still some "overseas territories" which would rather not break the tie.
	www.centreforcitizenship.org /cons.html (471 words)

	outlookindia.com \| wired
		The Commonwealth is likely to lift the four-year suspension of Pakistan in April following a push by that country's President Pervez Musharaff to return the country to democratic rule, the organization's secretary-general said today.
		Don McKinnon said that the 52-member Commonwealth of Britain and its former colonies was not influenced by the strong backing that Musharraf enjoys from the United States, which conferred the status of ``major non-NATO ally'' on Pakistan yesterday amid a major offensive against suspected al-Qaida guerrillas.
		The suspension was renewed at the Commonwealth summit in Abuja, Nigeria, in December 2003.
	www.outlookindia.com /pti_news.asp?id=208861 (549 words)

	TomPaine.com - Losing The American Revolution
		Bill Moyers was press secretary to President Lyndon Johnson, correspondent for CBS News and host of numerous PBS Television series, most recently, NOW With Bill Moyers.
		By the end of the decade, when our final film in the series aired, they were paying little attention to politics; they simply didn't think their concerns would ever be addressed by our governing elites.
		He got the Senate to pass a bill - unanimously - that would extend the protection of our laws to the U.S. territory of the Northern Marianas.
	www.tompaine.com /articles/20050606/losing_the_american_revolution.php (4661 words)

	United Kingdom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It is a Commonwealth Realm, and a member of the European Union and NATO.
		Great Britain, or just Britain, is the geographical name of the largest of the British Isles (often also including its smaller neighbouring islands, though never Ireland).
		Despite Britain's wide ranging capabilities, recent defence policy has a stated assumption that any large operation would be undertaken as part of a coalition.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/U/United-Kingdom.htm (4005 words)

	Patriot II Draft Legislation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		As discussed in relation to section 122 of the bill above, amendments designed to authorize courts having jurisdiction over an offense to issue search warrants for the disclosure of e-mails outside of their districts have inadvertently clouded the pre-existing authority of the courts to issue such orders and warrants for execution within their own districts.
		This section of the bill would provide further authority for sharing of consumer credit information, visa-related information, and educational records information with state and local law enforcement, thereby enacting the remainder of the information sharing proposals that have been proposed legislatively and endorsed by the Administration and the Department of Justice.
		Thus, the court is barred from imposing the maximum reimprisonment term--even if the maximum term is fully warranted by the nature of the offender's violation of release conditions and resulting danger to the public--if the court wants to preserve the option of providing further supervision for the offender once the term of reimprisonment is over.
	www.dailyrotten.com /source-docs/patriot2draft.html (15836 words)

	Midwest Pundits
		Iran’s chargé d’affaires in London was called to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to be told of Britain’s outrage.
		That his comments were made on the same day as the attack on Israeli civilians at Hadera only reinforces the lesson that incitement to violence, and the terrorism it breeds, were “despicable and unacceptable acts”, they said.
		Britain, France and Germany have been responsible for handling the EU’s relations with Iran in international forums, and have been notably careful in their diplomatic language, particularly in reference to the prospect of any military action against Iran.
	www.midwestpundits.com /index.php (4774 words)

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