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  Free State (government) (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In South Africa the term ''free state'' was used in the title of the nineteenth century Orange Free State (''Oranje Vrystaat'' in Afrikaans) and is today used in the title of its successor, Free State province ; both entities were established as republican in form.
The Irish state was a special case because the term ''free state'' was deliberately chosen as a literal translation of the Irish word ''saorstát''.
Parliament, in the act forming the Commonwealth of England of 1649 to 1660, declared England "[is] confirmed to be a Commonwealth and free State And shall from henceforth be Governed as a Commonwealth and Free State." The Commonwealth had a republican constitution.
www.seattleluxury.com.cob-web.org:8888 /encyclopedia/entry/Free_state_(government)   (509 words)

  
 Free state (government) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The modern Republic of Ireland was known from 1922-1937 as the Irish Free State.
In South Africa the term free state was used in the title of the nineteenth century Orange Free State (Oranje Vrystaat in Afrikaans) and is today used in the title of its successor, Free State province; both entities were established as republican in form.
The Irish Free State of 1922-1937 was a form of constitutional monarchy under the British monarch.
en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Free_state_(government)   (540 words)

  
 CONSTITUTION OF THE IRISH FREE STATE (SAORSTÁT EIREANN) ACT, 1922
All powers of government and all authority, legislative, executive, and judicial, in Ireland are derived from the people of Ireland, and the same shall be exercised in the Irish Free State (Saorstát Eireann) through the organisations established by or under, and in accord with, this Constitution.
The Executive Authority of the Irish Free State (Saorstát Eireann) is hereby declared to be vested in the King, and shall be exercisable, in accordance with the law, practice and constitutional usage governing the exercise of the Executive Authority in the case of the Dominion of Canada, by the Representative of the Crown.
All revenues of the Irish Free State (Saorstát Eireann) from whatever source arising, shall, subject to such exception as may be provided by law, form one fund, and shall be appropriated for the purposes of the Irish Free State (Saorstát Eireann) in the manner and subject to the charges and liabilities imposed by law.
www.irishstatutebook.ie /ZZA1Y1922.html   (4764 words)

  
 Anti Essays : Free Essays on Texas State Government Essay
The government of the state of Texas is a difficult and complicated institution that is composed of many different levels.
To avoid this centralized power, the government is divided into stages and this is a reasonable ground for trusting the government.
If an official is going into the government with the idea of taking on the role of a “dictator”, then he or she should think twice.
www.antiessays.com /free-essays/1639.html   (1149 words)

  
 Irish Free State   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Irish Free State (Irish language : Saorstát Éireann) was (1922 - 1937) the name of the state comprising 26 of Ireland 's 32 counties which were separated from United Kingdom under the Irish Free State Agreement Anglo-Irish Treaty) signed by British and Irish Republic in London on December 6 1921.
The King in Ireland was represented by Governor-General of the Irish Free State The office replaced the previous Lord Lieutenant who had headed English and British in Ireland since the Middle Ages.
The Treaty provided for an all-Ireland thirty-two state subject to the proviso that the Northern Ireland counties which had their own under the Government of Ireland Act 1920 could formally opt out of the State which they duly did.
www.freeglossary.com /Irish_Free_State   (2018 words)

  
 Marchamont Nedham: Excellencie of a Free State (1656)
They were made capable of offices of the government, even to the dictatorship; had officers of their own, called tribunes, who were held sacred and inviolable, as protectors of the commons, and retained a power of meeting and acting with all freedom in their great assemblies.
But at length, when the state was made free indeed, and the people admitted into a share and interest in the government, as well as the great ones; then it was, and never till then, that their thoughts and power began to exceed the bounds of Italy, and aspire towards that prodigious empire.
Let this serve to manifest, that a government by a free election and consent of the people, settled in a due and orderly succession of their supreme assemblies, is more consonant to the light of nature and reason; and consequently much more excellent than any hereditary standing power whatsoever.
www.constitution.org /cmt/nedham/free-state.htm   (7312 words)

  
 Free State - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Free State is a province of South Africa.
Free State districts and local municipalities: Northern Free State (pale green), Thabo Mofutsanyane (blue), Motheo (pink), Xhariep (cyan), Lejweleputswa (yellow)
The Free State is situated on flat boundless plains in the heart of South Africa.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Free_State   (438 words)

  
 About Government   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Government has become more complicated over those years, but is still based on the important idea that people give the government its political power.
The Secretary of the State keeps the state's public records and documents and is the Commissioner of Elections.
Judges of the Probate Court are elected at state elections in the same year as the Governor and they serve for a term of four years.
www.kids.state.ct.us /government/about.htm   (2103 words)

  
 Changing State Government [ Free State Project - Liberty in Our Lifetime ]
Even the smallest of state governments presently are generally too big for a relatively small cadre of liberty-minded people to successfully influence except by voter initiatives and expensive campaigns to pass those initiatives.
Attempts at a state level, whether by initiative or by the legislature, to restrict government at a state or local level are met with fierce resistance by state and local governments.
Because of the entrenched power of local government leaders and the voters who listen to such leaders' advice, and because of the addiction of people to laws that tax and regulate their neighbors, I propose a bottom up solution to change this culture of dependence and abuse of power at the grassroots level.
www.freestateproject.org /about/essay_archive/local.php   (1350 words)

  
 Free Online Library: Aristotle: A Treatise on Government: Book V: Chapter III
By little and little, I mean by this, that very often great alterations silently take place in the form of government from people's overlooking small matters; as at Ambracia, where the census was originally small, but at last became nothing at all, as if a little and nothing at all were nearly or entirely alike.
Many persons occasion seditions in oligarchies because they think themselves ill-used in not sharing the honours of the state with their equals, as I have already mentioned; but in democracies the principal people do the same because they have not more than an equal share with others who are not equal to them.
The situation of the place will also sometimes occasion disturbances in the state when the ground is not well adapted for one city; as at Clazomene, where the people who lived in that part of the town called Chytrum quarrelled with them who lived in the island, and the Colophonians with the Notians.
aristotle.thefreelibrary.com /A-Treatise-on-Government/5-3   (393 words)

  
 TPWD: Government Canyon State Natural Area
History: Government Canyon State Natural Area is an approximately 8,622-acre area in Bexar County, just outside San Antonio.
The State Natural Area was purchased by Texas Parks and Wildlife Department in 1993, in cooperation with Edwards Aquifer Authority (formerly Edwards Underground Water District), San Antonio Water System, the Trust for Public Land and the federal government Land and Water Conservation Fund.
Government Canyon also seeks park hosts to stay for an extended period in exchange for volunteer duties.
www.tpwd.state.tx.us /spdest/findadest/parks/government_canyon   (647 words)

  
 Irish Free State (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Irish Free State (Irish: Saorstát Éireann) was (1922–1937) the name of the State comprising the 26 of Ireland's 32 counties which were separated from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland under the Irish Free State Agreement (or Anglo-Irish Treaty) signed by British and Irish Republic representatives in London on December 6, 1921.
The King in Ireland was represented by a Governor-General of the Irish Free State, The office replaced the previous Lord Lieutenant, who had headed English and British administrations in Ireland since the Middle Ages.
The Treaty provided for an all-Ireland thirty-two county state, subject to the proviso that the six Northern Ireland counties, which had their own government under the Government of Ireland Act 1920, could formally opt out of the Free State, which they duly did.
irish-free-state.iqnaut.net.cob-web.org:8888   (2148 words)

  
 The Story of the Congo Free State   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Congo Free State -- known since August, 1908, as the Belgian Congo -- is roughly one million square miles in extent.
Foreigners would be guaranteed the free exercise of their religion, and freedom of commerce, industry and navigation.
A comparison of the literature which preceded the creation of the "Congo Free State" and which followed it until its Sovereign patented his "red-rubber" slavery, with the literature which from that time onwards professed to give a veracious picture of the inhabitants of the country, forms instructive matter for reflection.
www.boondocksnet.com /editions/morel/morel09.html   (1884 words)

  
 Apply For A Free Grant, Loan, Scholarship, or Governmental Service
This money is distributed to states, which is then redistributed to help fund the business sector by providing free consultation for businesses, low interest loans for businesses, and of course free grants for large scale businesses interested in hiring new employees.
Every year the United States government and private foundations give away billions of dollars in free grants in their free give-away programs.
State governments also play a major role in the capital marketplace.
www.financialfreedomexpress.com /grant_information.htm   (3326 words)

  
 State Government Digital Information - A 50 state report | Free Government Information (FGI)
He had come to the United States in 1947 as a child from China, but in the 1950s he was separated from abusive parents, without a birth certificate, pass-port, or any other kind of documentation.
While I don't have a count handy for the number of people looking at printed government documents, the Government Printing Office reported in October 2005 that "since its inception in 1994, GPO Access retrievals have exceeded 2.3 billion.
Free Government Information (Free as in Freedom not Free as in beer!) is a website created to build consensus among various players (libraries, government agencies, nonand#45;profit organizations, researchers etc.) who have a stake in the continuing and perpetual access, preservation, and proliferation of government information.
freegovinfo.info /node/565   (1333 words)

  
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The Free State Of Patrick: Patrick County Virginia In the Civil War is available on the Book Page.
The residents of Lunenburg County, Virginia, refer to it as "The Old Free State." Lunenburg, representing the pro-Confederate viewpoint, threatened to secede from the "Old Dominion" if Virginia did not secede from the United States.
Jones County, Mississippi, represented the pro-Union viewpoint during the war calling itself the "Free State of Jones" and acting as an independent country within the home state of the President of the Confederate States of America Jefferson Davis.
www.freestateofpatrick.com   (530 words)

  
 Shannon's Administration - KS-Cyclopedia - 1912
The Law and Order party insisted that the election of state officers by the free-state men and the sending of agents to other states to solicit aid were violations of the treaty made with the governor.
They were apparently oblivious to the fact that certain Southern states had made appropriations in the interest of the pro-slavery cause, Alabama having appropriated $25,000 "to equip and transport emigrants to Kansas." Acting Gov. Woodson was inclined to support the claims of his party, and the trouble threatened to break out anew.
This letter was dated at Lawrence Jan. 21, 1856, and was signed by J. Lane, chairman of the executive committee, Kansas Territory; Charles Robinson, chairman of the committee of safety; J. Goodin, secretary of the executive committee, Kansas Territory; and George W.
skyways.lib.ks.us /genweb/archives/1912/s/shannons_administration.html   (2518 words)

  
 For State Government   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Alaska State Library is a statewide research library for Alaska State Government.
State employees needing information for their work have access to a variety of library services.
Two meeting rooms are available free of charge at the Anchorage offices of the Alaska State Library to government agencies and K-20 education, libraries and library organizations.
library.state.ak.us /is/infoserv.html   (283 words)

  
 Government Information
The State Historical Society of North Dakota is a partial Federal Depository Library, receiving approximately five percent of federal publications.
Within the State of North Dakota, the North Dakota State University Library and the Chester Fritz Library at the University of North Dakota together constitute a Regional Depository, one of 50 in the U.S. This means that every depository publication is received by at least one of the two libraries.
Photographs shown on the State Historical Society of North Dakota's web site are taken from the collections of the State Historical Society of North Dakota and may not be included in any publication, printed or online, without the written permission of the Society.
www.state.nd.us /hist/sal/govinfo.htm   (531 words)

  
 If you're not for lower taxes and less government... | Free State Blogs
They are currently the most egregious thieves of liberty in government and are the enablers of the insidious Gestapo known as the Department of Homeland Security.
It is a shame that local state Republican representatives lost their seats based upon the actions of federal Republicans and their actions, which have little direct bearing on governance of this state.
For anything in-state, I vote for those who vote Freedom and actually win, by voting with the NHLA endorsements.
www.freestateblogs.net /node/1044   (1335 words)

  
 SSC - TEKS and TAKS - TEKS - Government
In Government, the focus is on the principles and beliefs upon which the United States was founded and on the structure, functions, and powers of government at the national, state, and local levels.
Students identify the role of government in the U.S. free enterprise system and examine the strategic importance of places to the United States.
The student understands the roles played by local, state, and national governments in both the public and private sectors of the U.S. free enterprise system.
www.tea.state.tx.us /ssc/teks_and_taas/teks/teksgov.htm   (2023 words)

  
 The Free State Foundation
Its purpose is to promote, through research and educational activities, understanding of free market, limited government, and rule of law principles in Maryland and throughout the United States.
The Wall Street Journal published a letter by Randolph J. May, President of the Free State Foundation, explaining why the FCC should not require cable operators and other providers of multichannel video service, to provide separate security and navigation devices in connection with their provision of multichannel video services.
Their expertise and experience on state and federal policy matters spans the disciplines of law, economics, business strategy, and organizational management.
freestatefoundation.org   (655 words)

  
 IFP Leaders Target Free State Electorate   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Inkatha Freedom Party leadership on Saturday continued its election campaign, this time encouraging the Free State electorate to vote for the IFP in the June election.
South Africans had a right to choose a leadership which was capable of carrying the country forward along the path of full liberation and the 1999 vote should not be a vote of allegiance.
Referring to a recent Free State government statement that 5000 employees would be retrenched after the elections, Buthelezi said his party had a plan to increase employment in the country.
www.anc.org.za /elections/news/apr/en041203.html   (477 words)

  
 Federal Republic. Government. Mexico for Kids.
This means that there are two types of government in our country, each of which has its respective laws; the state governments and the Federal Government.
There are some activities in which it is necessary for the Federal Government and the state governments to work together, for example, in the areas of education and ecology.
The states are completely free and sovereign as regards their internal affairs.
www.elbalero.gob.mx /pages_kids/government/fed_rep_kids.html   (285 words)

  
 No more free state ID's
Description: She says the government wants all state employees to implement the law even if they have to stop what they are doing.
From the state Capitol, this is Fanna Haile-Selassie
[Missouri Digital News is produced by the State Government Reporting Program of the Missouri School of Journalism (home of the The Journalist's Creed) with support from the Missouri Press Association, the Missouri Broadcasters' Association, KMOX Radio in St. Louis and KSMU Radio in Springfield.
www.mdn.org /2006/STORIES/NOID1.HTM   (344 words)

  
 [ Free State Project - Liberty in Our Lifetime ]
The Free State Project is an effort to recruit 20,000 liberty-loving people to move to New Hampshire.
When you sign our Statement of Intent, you signal your commitment to move to the chosen free state, New Hampshire, within five years of obtaining 19,999 other people who commit to move.
New Hampshire was the state chosen by signed FSP participants in a vote that took place in August and September 2003.
www.freestateproject.org   (769 words)

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