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Topic: Delaware Constitution of 1897


  
  CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Delaware
Delaware is an agricultural state, its soil is fertile and a large portion of it in a high state of cultivation.
Constitutional conventions were held in 1791 and 1831, and the present Constitution was adopted at a convention in 1897.
Delaware having no institution for the instruction of the deaf and dumb or the blind, the State bears the expense of having a certain number of them cared for and instructed in proper institutions in other States.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/04692a.htm   (3815 words)

  
 Short History of the Delaware Chancery Court   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Thus, primitive equity was used in colonial Delaware as a means of royal power to reflect natural justice as seen by the Governor and as a means to control both at the appeal level and at the local level the erratic swings of the jury.
Article II, Section 17 of the Delaware Constitution of 1831 required the concurrence of two-thirds of both houses of the legislature for corporate charters "with a reserved right of revocation by the legislature." Acts of incorporation other than those for public improvement were not to last longer than twenty years unless reenacted by the legislature.
Delaware's Constitution provides that not more than a bare majority of all constitutional court judges may be of same political party.
corporate-law.widener.edu /shorthis.htm   (16739 words)

  
 PENNSYLVANIA, UNIVERSITY OF - Online Information article about PENNSYLVANIA, UNIVERSITY OF
Delaware, 1609-1682 (Phila- delphia, 185o), an elaborate account of the See also:
Stone, Pennsylvania and the Federal Constitution, 1787-1788 (Philadelphia, 1888), is a useful See also:
Morphology (1887,sqq.) ; and Transactions and Proceedings of the Botanical Society of lfennsylvania (1897 sqq.).
encyclopedia.jrank.org /PAS_PER/PENNSYLVANIA_UNIVERSITY_OF.html   (2580 words)

  
 The Modern Corporation Sole - Reprinted from Dickinson Law Review
The constitutions of Virginia and West Virginia specify that no charter of incorporation can be granted to any church or religious denomination.
{104} An article in the Kansas constitution, which required title to property of religious corporations to be vested in elected trustees, was repealed in 1974.
It is possible, however, to structure a one-person corporation in such a way that it closely resembles a corporation sole in operation.
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 Timeline 1811-1820
1812 Aug 19, The USS Constitution, also known as Old Ironsides, got its name when it defeated the British warship Guerriere off Nova Scotia in a slugfest of broadsides, when cannonballs were said to have bounced off her sides.
The USS Constitution won more than 30 battles against the Barbary pirates off Africa’s coast in the War of 1812.
He was appointed naturalist with the Russian scientific and trapping voyage of Kotzebue and developed an intimate relationship with the ship’s surgeon, Dr. Johann Frederich Eschscholtz, for whom he named the San Francisco poppy, Eschscholzia californica.
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 History Books for Teachers and Students at Embracing The Child
American Document: The Constitution (National Geographic 2005) [the reader sits in on the Constitutional Convention, where arguments about how to balance power between large and small states and how to count slaves as part of the population are among the key issues.
They will learn about the Virginia Plan, the New Jersey Plan, the Connecticut Plan, and the Three-fifths Compromise, and meet some of the Federalists and Anti-Federalists who argued the Constitution's pros and cons until it was finally ratified and became the law of the land.
[1897 explorer Robert Peary took six Eskimos from their homes to be "presented" to the American Museum of Natural History in NYC to be living, breathing museum exhibits.
www.embracingthechild.org /history.html   (4773 words)

  
 Our Virtual Heritage :: Promoting family histories and values
We, the people of Georgia, relying upon protection and guidance of Almighty God, do ordain and establish this Constitution..
Every individual has a natural and unalienable right to worship God according to the dictates of his own conscience.
After reviewing acknowledgments of God from all 50 state constitutions, o­ne is faced with the prospect that maybe, just maybe, the ACLU and the out-of-control federal courts are wrong!
www.ourvirtualheritage.com   (4235 words)

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