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	James Q. Wilson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		James Q. Wilson (born May 27, 1931) is the Ronald Reagan professor of public policy at Pepperdine University in California, and a professor emeritus at UCLA.
		Wilson is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.
		Wilson is also a member of the President's Council on Bioethics.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Q._Wilson (234 words)

	James Wilson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		James Wilson was so knowledgeable on the subject of government that he was generally regarded as the most erudite of all the learned Founding Fathers.
		James Wilson appears on the $10,000 Series EE Savings Bond issued by the United States Government.
		Wilson's most lasting impact on the country came as member of the Committee of Detail, which produced the first draft of the United States Constitution in 1787.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Wilson (809 words)

	The American Revolution (Ethan Allen)
		James Wilson's powers of oration, the passion of his delivery and the logic he employed in debate, were commented on favorably by many members of the Congress.
		Wilson attended a provincial meeting, as a representative of Carlisle, and was elected a member of the local Committee of Correspondence.
		Wilson made himself obnoxious to the democracy by denying the right of the town council to regulate the price of food, opposing the more liberal provisions of the constitution and he legally defended Loyalists and their sympathizers.
	www.theamericanrevolution.org /ipeople/jwilson.asp (1025 words)

	James Wilson - Biography
		James Wilson was born in Scotland, near St. Andrews, on September 14, 1742.
		James Wilson married Rachel Bird of Reading on November 5, 1771, and the couple had six children before her death in 1786.
		Their son died in infancy, and Wilson came under increasing mental pressure as debt collectors began to pursue him and efforts were made to impeach him from the bench.
	deila.dickinson.edu /theirownwords/author/WilsonJ.htm (732 words)

	Colonial Hall: Biography of James Wilson, Page 1
		James Wilson was a native of Scotland, where he was born about the year 1742.
		Wilson, who was a member of the provincial convention of Pennsylvania, was proposed as a delegate to the congress of 1774, in conjunction with his former instructor, Mr.
		Wilson was unanimously elected a member of congress, and in that body took his seat on the 10th of May, 1775.
	www.colonialhall.com /wilson/wilson.php (513 words)

	Ernest James Wilson III
		In 2000, Dr. Wilson was nominated by President Clinton and confirmed by the U.S. Senate to sit on the Board of Directors of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and re-appointed by President George W.
		Ernest J. Wilson III holds a joint appointment as Professor in the Department of Government and Politics and in the Department of African-American Studies.
		Dr. Wilson is the recipient of numerous research fellowships and awards including a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellowship, postdoctoral fellowships at the J.F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and was named one of Outstanding Young Men of America.
	www.bsos.umd.edu /gvpt/wilson (550 words)

	James Wilson The Scottish Radical Martyr
		James Wilson was doubtful of the story he was being told by 'the man from Glasgow' (who was actually a government spy attempting to dupe the Strathaven Radicals into a premature march and then profit by betraying them!) Wilson in his wisdom delegated a man to go to the Cathkin Braes to see for himself.
		James Wilson found Guilty before the Court of the High Commission was sentenced to be executed as a traitor on the 30th of August.
		Thirty-two witnesses were examined in exculpation in the case of James Wilson.
	members.tripod.com /dcwilson (4797 words)

	James Q. Wilson
		Wilson suggests that the net result may be as little as one or two cops per department, which in reality is not a major increase of police presence in any given neighborhood.
		What Wilson defined as a particular "thought process and criminal decision making" is referred today as rational choice approach to crime causation Wilson strongly argues that individuals make clear, rational decisions after evaluating all their possibilities and do that which will bring them the most pleasure and the least pain (Sykes, 1978).
		Wilson continues to serve on national committees for crime prevention and control which indicates his high level of political acceptance for his ideology and policy recommendations.
	www.criminology.fsu.edu /crimtheory/wilson/paper.html (2284 words)

	James Wilson
		Wilson was also a member of the Constitutional Convention where he served on the Committee of Detail, which was responsible for writing the draft of the Constitution.
		Wilson was caught up in the credit cycle and remained in constant fear of jail stemming from his mountain of bad debts.
		Wilson was a strong advocate of popular sovereignty and a strong national government.
	www.oyez.org /oyez/resource/legal_entity/4/biography (270 words)

	James Wilson
		Wilson was know as "Tama Jim" to distinguish him from Iowa Senator James Wilson, no relation.
		Wilson was born August 16, 1835 in Ayrshire, Scotland, near the farm rented by Robert Burns 50 years earlier.
		Wilson began building the hugh complex that houses the U.S.D.A. The classic colonnades stand as his memorial.
	www.electricscotland.com /history/other/james_wilson.htm (510 words)

	Oprah Winfrey - James Wilson
		James Wilson was born in Scotland in 1741.
		James Madison noted that James Wilson was "inclined to stoutness." John Adams had this tendency also, as have I in certain years.
		Wilson's service as a bank officer is reflected in Oprah's business acumen and the fiscal control of her vast financial empire.
	johnadams.net /cases/samples/Winfrey-Wilson (1984 words)

	wilson.htm
		James Wilson was probably the leading constitutional lawyer among the Founding Fathers.
		Wilson's career in the Continental Congress was interrupted the next year by a controversy surrounding the Pennsylvania constitution of 1776.
		Wilson opposed the popular new plan of government on the grounds that its unicameral legislature and its lack of a system of checks and balances would lead to mob rule rather than to ordered government.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/books/RevWar/ss/wilson.htm (1141 words)

	James Wilson -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		James Wilson was born in Carskerdy, Scotland, and studied at Scottish universities before immigrating to America in 1765.
		Wilson, who considered himself a black nationalist, thought that African Americans had “the most dramatic story of all mankind to tell.” He took it upon...
		Wilson published ‘Considerations on the Nature and Extent of the Legislative Authority of the...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9077130 (749 words)

	Pepperdine University - School of Public Policy - Dr. James Q. Wilson
		James Q. Wilson has enjoyed a long storied career in the public policy arena.
		He was the James Collins Professor of Management and Public Policy at UCLA from 1985 until 1997.
		Wilson has served on a number of national commissions concerned with public policy.
	publicpolicy.pepperdine.edu /academics/faculty/wilson (361 words)

	JE Wilson Advisors:: Integrated Economic Solutions, Fee-Only Financial Planner
		Wilson has appeared on national television programs, including CNBC, and has written and been quoted in over 100 articles in financial periodicals, including Business Week, The Wall Street Journal, Kiplinger's, The New York Times, Worth, and The Washington Post.
		Wilson is past president of the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors (NAPFA), which is the primary professional association for FEE-ONLY financial advisors.
		Wilson serves on the Boards of Family Honor, Inc., The Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter and Cardinal Newman School.
	www.jewilson.com /jewilson.htm (270 words)

	Division of Medical Genetics - Research James Wilson, MD PhD
		James M. Wilson, M.D., Ph.D. Dr. Wilson is interested in the study of inherited diseases and the development of effective therapies.
		Wilson's group uses animal models to evaluate the regenerative capacity of these organs as well as the existence of stem cells.
		In characterizing cystic fibrosis, Dr. Wilson's laboratory helped identify a defect in the innate immune system of the lung which contributes to the chronic airway respiratory infections characteristic of this disease.
	www.uphs.upenn.edu /penngen/research/wilson.html (441 words)

	Speech of James Wilson
		Wilson, who had been a delegate to the Federal Convention, was asked to speak to the gathering to explain the proposed Constitution and answer some of the criticisms that had been made of it.
		The Pennsylvania State Legislature was in session when the new Constitution was proposed, so the ratification campaign proceeded immediately, and a large public meeting held October 6, 1787, in the State House (Independence Hall) yard to nominate delegates to the next Pennsylvania Legislature became a forum for debate on ratification.
		His speech was printed in the Pennsylvania Packet on October 10, 1787, and it was soon reprinted throughout the states, receiving more coverage than the more detailed arguments made in The Federalist.
	www.constitution.org /afp/jwilson0.htm (1883 words)

	James Wilson (British Composer) by David C. F. Wright:
		James Walter Wilson was born at 356 Essex Road, Islington, London on 27 September 1922.
		Wilson's music has an English quality in associations with mediaeval and Renaissance melodies and harmonies, and there are quotations from Handel and Mozart, music that Blixen and Denys listened to at the African farm.
		Wilson once told me that he 'used to be a reasonably good pianist; has played percussion in public and also attempted the clarinet and violin'.
	www.musicweb-international.com /wilsonj (4312 words)

	James Wilson
		James Wilson is the author of numerous plays, articles, and radio and television documentaries, including the award-winning BBC broadcast, Savagery and the American Indian.
		James Wilson lives in Bristol, England, and is working on his second novel, set during the American Revolution.
		James Wilson’s first book, The Earth Shall Weep, established him as a groundbreaking historian and evocative storyteller.
	www.randomhouse.ca /mysterybooks/jameswilson.html (312 words)

	Essay on James Wilson And Bureaucracy
		Wilson's main theme throughout this book is that the reason American agencies are operated the way they are is, because of the way we as a society have designed them to be run.
		Wilson argues that bureaucrats are people who are behaving in response to the incentives, laws, rules and organizational structures that make up our public agencies.
		Wilson lists three constraints that are common characteristics of public agencies.
	www.dedicatedwriters.com /paper/James_Wilson_And_Bureaucracy-12699.html (185 words)

	Doctor James Wilson
		James L. Wilson D.C., N.D., Ph.D. has helped hundreds of people with Adrenal Fatigue regain their health and vitality during his 24 years of private practice.
		A scientist as well as a physician, Dr. Wilson holds 3 doctorate degrees and 2 master's degrees, all from different disciplines.
		For the past 10 years he has lectured extensively to physicians and is acknowledged as an expert on endocrine imbalances and their impact on health, including the effects of stress on adrenal function.
	www.adrenalfatigue.org /drwilson.php (151 words)

	The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Wilson, J.
		Wilson, James (1835-1920) — of Tama County, Iowa.
		Wilson, James — of Detroit, Wayne County, Mich. Republican.
		Wilson County, N.C. Mayor of Wilson, N.C. Still living as of 1954.
	politicalgraveyard.com /bio/wilson5.html (1125 words)

	Why the Constitution Isn’t the Bible by James Wilson
		The James Leroy Wilson of 1989 as a college freshman, is in substantial agreement with myself today as to the legally proper and Constitutional powers of the federal government.
		James Leroy Wilson [send him mail] lives and works in Chicago and is a columnist for the Partial Observer.
		If myself, at the age of 18, was allowed to be transported to today and be a candidate for President, it’d be tempting to vote for him.
	www.lewrockwell.com /wilson-jl/wilson-james11.html (1660 words)

	DOUGLASS : James Wilson, "State House Yard Speech on the Constitution," 6 October 1787
		According to historian Bernard Bailyn, "Wilson's speech proved to be the single most influential and most frequently cited document in the entire ratification debate." The Debate on the Constitution (New York : Library of America, 1993), pt.
		Widely reprinted, Wilson's address was important not only to Pennsylvania's debate over the Constitution, but to other states as well.
		It will be proper however, before I enter into the refutation of the charges that are alleged, to mark the leading discrimination between the State constitutions and the constitution of the United States.
	douglassarchives.org /wils_b06.htm (1837 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: HENDERSON, JAMES WILSON
		James Wilson Henderson, governor, was born in Sumner County, Tennessee, on August 15, 1817.
		At the age of nineteen he left college near Georgetown, Kentucky, to travel to Texas, expecting to participate in the struggle for independence.
		In 1842 he interrupted his practice to enlist as a private on the Somervell expedition.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/HH/fhe15.html (412 words)

	Bookreporter.com - THE DARK CLUE by James Wilson
		Whether it is literary bravery or intellectual arrogance, James Wilson's debut novel tackles a mighty subject.
		The novel has its superb moments and James Wilson is, without a doubt, an intelligent, perceptive and poetic writer.
		Wilson's decision to use the journals and letters of both characters makes it difficult to remember from whose point of view the story is being told.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews/087113831X.asp (586 words)

	Custom Writing on James Wilson 2
		JAMES WILSON (1742-1798) James Wilson, although he was not famous, was a very important member of society.
		He was the Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, a member of the Continental Congress, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and the first professor of law at Philadelphia College.
		His conviction of the need for a national government that would command respect inspired his motion to mend the problem of poor representation that plagued Congress.
	www.vipessays.com /termpaper/James_Wilson_2-12698.html (217 words)

	Our beloved BJ
		BJ Wilson, Procol Harum's drummer - (in the Constellation of Ophiuchus, the Serpent Bearer, whose co-ordinates are RA 18h22m45.89s Decl.
		BJ Wilson made the drums express both the unpredictability and inevitability of fate.
		A Barrie Wilson scrapbook, kindly sent to 'BtP' by BJ's brother, Richard
	www.procolharum.com /procolbj.htm (437 words)

	Gold Rush Players: James Wilson Marshall
		James Wilson Marshall died in Kelsey in 1885, penniless.
		Taken back to Coloma, he was buried on an acre of his vineyard land, on a hill overlooking the town and the South Fork of the American River.
		In 1890 the state erected a monument over his grave, atop of which stands a bronze statue of Marshall, pointing to the spot where he made the discovery that electrified the world.
	www.malakoff.com /grpmarsh.htm (862 words)

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