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	House of Representatives of Liberia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the bicameral Liberian Legislature.
		Citizens of Liberia who have attained the age of 25 years are eligible to contest elections and become members of the House of Representatives.
		The 64 House seats are distributed among Liberia's fifteen counties based on its total number of registered voters.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/House_of_Representatives_of_Liberia (254 words)

	Liberia. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Liberia fronts on the Atlantic Ocean for some 350 mi (560 km) on the southwest and is bordered on the northwest by Sierra Leone, on the north by Guinea, and on the east by Côte d’Ivoire.
		Liberia’s main trading partners are the United States and the countries of the European Union.
		Liberia was founded in 1821, when officials of the American Colonization Society were granted possession of Cape Mesurado by local De chiefs for the settlement of freed American slaves.
	www.bartleby.com /65/li/Liberia.html (1898 words)

	Liberia (12/05)
		Liberia was traditionally noted for its hospitality and academic institutions, iron mining and rubber industry booms, and cultural skills and arts and craft works.
		Liberia is still trying to recover from the ravages of war; six years after the war, pipe-borne water and electricity were still unavailable, and schools, hospitals, roads, and infrastructure remained derelict.
		Liberia is a founding member of the United Nations and its specialized agencies and is a member of the African Union (AU), the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), the African Development Bank (ADB), the Mano River Union (MRU), and the Non-Aligned Movement.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/6618.htm (3462 words)

	Essay on Liberia consolidated by Henry Robert Burke (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In addition, Liberia faced political threats, chiefly from Britain, because it was neither a sovereign power nor a bona fide colony of any sovereign nation.
		Liberia's president lived in a handsome stone mansion that resembled a southern plantation house.
		The Burkes's letters describing their lives in Liberia show that they relied on the Lees to convey messages to and from relatives still in Virginia, and the letters also reflect affection for their former masters.
	www.bjmjr.com /burke/liberia_report.htm (2022 words)

	1984 Liberian Constitution
		Article29 The legislative power of the Republic shall be vested in the Legislature of Liberia which shall consist of two separate houses: A Senate and a House of Representatives, both of which must pass on all legislation.
		The Legislature shall prescribe the procedure for impeachment proceedings which shall be in conformity with the requirements of due process of law.
		Article 44 Contempt of the Legislature shall consist of actions which obstruct the legislative functions or which obstruct or impede members or officers of the Legislature in the discharge of their legislative duties and may be punished by the House concerned by reasonable sanctions after a hearing consistent with due process of law.
	www.onliberia.org /con_1984_3.htm (2841 words)

	1847 Constitution of Liberia
		Liberia is not the offspring of grasping ambition, nor the tool of avaricious speculation.
		He shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed: he shall inform the Legislature from time to time, of the condition of the Republic, and recommend any public measures for their adoption, which he may think expedient.
		The Legislature shall pass a standing law organizing and regulating the Civil Service of the Republic, which law shall declare what offices may be controlled by the provisions of said law.
	onliberia.org /con_1847.htm (4423 words)

	Constitution of The Republic of Liberia
		The legislative power of the Republic shall be vested in the Legislature of Liberia which shall consist of two separate houses: A Senate and a House of Representatives, both of which must pass on all legislation.
		Contempt of the Legislature shall consist of actions which obstruct the legislative functions or which obstruct or impede members or officers of the Legislature in the discharge of their legislative duties and may be punished by the House concerned by reasonable sanctions after a hearing consistent with due process of law.
		The Legislature shall, no later than one year after the coming into force of this Constitution, prescribe the guidelines and determine the procedure under which the President, by reason of illness, shall be declared incapable of carrying out the functions of his office.
	www.if.cx /conlib.html (7093 words)

	[07 Oct 1997]: PRESS BRIEFING BY SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR LIBERIA
		Liberia presently contained too many unemployed people and too many idle former combatants who needed to be reintegrated into society.
		Although it had recognized the election results and had taken up its seats in the Liberia legislature, ULIMO K was "not really fully reconciled to the massive defeat which was inflicted on them" electorally.
		Liberia's borders with both Côte d'Ivoire and Sierra Leone were "porous" and long, and difficult to seal off.
	www.un.org /News/briefings/docs/1997/19971007.liberia.html (1098 words)

	LiberianForum.Com ~ Liberian Information Online
		During the Tubman and Tolbert era, despite improvements in educational facilities, increases in their number, and expanded school enrollment, the Liberian educational system at the time of the 1980 coup was marked by significant inadequacies in the quantity and quality of schools, teachers, and educational materials.
		Liberia College was incorporated by an Act of the Legislature of Liberia in December, 1851.
		Consequently, in 1951, the Legislature of the Republic chartered the University of Liberia.
	www.liberianforum.com /sch.htm (896 words)

	Liberia
		In the upper corner of the flag next to the staff is a square, blue canton covering the first five stripes, and in the centre of blue is a white star.
		The proportions were fixed at 10:19 by a Flag Law (amending a previous Code of Law of an unknown date and) approved by the National Legislature on 11 April 1961, together with details of the design and the shades of red and blue.
		Liberia may be the only country in the world to have gained independence because of its national flag.
	flagspot.net /flags/lr.html (1032 words)

	TLC-Africa - Internet Magazine
		Edwin J. Roye was the fifth president of Liberia and chief justice, and speaker of the House, before becoming president in 1871.
		Ensure that Liberia becomes gun free, so that there will be no intimidation, extortion, and harassment through the barrel of the gun, so that come October 2005 people can vote their consciences and have a government of the people.
		Charles Ghankay Taylor (born January 28, 1948) was resident of Liberia from 1997 to 2003.
	www.tlcafrica.com /presidents2.htm (1685 words)

	Liberia from 1912 to 1930 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Daniel Edward Howard was the President of Liberia from 1912 to 1920 and had to deal with wars on all fronts - internally and externally.
		Since the war had caused the financial situation of Liberia to be in such bad condition, President King and a commission embarked upon a journey to the United States to get assistance in paying of her debts and straightening her financial affairs.
		In 1921, the Liberian legislature approved a provision prohibiting the export of labor to the Island of Fernando Po.
	personal.denison.edu /~waite/liberia/history/ww1.htm (556 words)

	Liberia
		Liberia is a centralized republic, dominated by a strong presidency.
		Liberia, with a population of approximately 3,164,000, is a very poor country with a market-based economy that has yet to recover from the ravages of the civil war.
		The Government generally respects academic freedom at the University of Liberia; however, in March at the Monrovia campus, police and ATU officers forcibly dispersed what the Government stated was an unauthorized demonstration in support of four detained journalists (see Section 1.d.).
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2001/af/8388.htm (11102 words)

	Amnesty International Report 2002 - Africa - LIBERIA
		Civilians throughout Liberia were subjected to human rights violations committed by the Liberian security forces with nearly absolute impunity.
		The main detention centres were at the Gbatala military base and at the Liberia Petroleum Mining Company in Bong County, throughout Monrovia in police cells and at the presidential Executive Mansion.
		There was massive displacement of tens of thousands of civilians within Liberia and over the borders to Guinea and Sierra Leone to escape the fighting and human rights abuses.
	web.amnesty.org /web/ar2002.nsf/afr/liberia!Open (1934 words)

	petroleumworld (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Liberia was a bloody riddle on a rocky shore.
		And many of the foreign observers who pay attention to Liberia are unwilling to be quoted on the record, for fear of seeming to meddle in the election.
		Pick an indicator, and Liberia is struggling: According to U.N. figures, the life expectancy is 41.4 years, the unemployment rate is the world's worst at 85 percent, the adult literacy rate is 57.5 percent, and the per capita GDP is just $1,000 -- this in a country of substantial natural wealth.
	www.petroleumworld.com /Lag060605.htm (8672 words)

	Selling Liberian Embassy Properties: Part of theGood Governance in Liberia Depends on the Balance of Power in Government
		Good governance in Liberia will succeed if Liberians recognize the importance of the balance of power between the executive, legislative and judiciary branches of government and redistribute their “competencies” across the branches of government accordingly.
		It takes a legislature that performs its oversight responsibilities without fear or favor and a judiciary branch of government that interprets the constitution and the law of the land fearlessly.
		Liberians could have the Holy Father, Pope John Paul, II at the executive mansion but if the legislature is swarmed with people who have difficulties understanding their legislative responsibilities then Liberia is likely to end up with a weak legislature and consequently a powerful presidency that dominates all aspects of life in Liberia.
	www.theperspective.org /2004/nov/goodgovernance.html (706 words)

	Liberia: Time to take human rights seriously - placing human rights on the national agenda - Amnesty International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The proportional representation system was adopted as a mechanism of ensuring the representation in the legislature of the diverse groups and factions in the country.
		Liberia’s history is replete with several instances of how state officials, and later faction leaders, failed to take necessary action to prevent individual violations.
		Amnesty International calls upon the government and the legislature of Liberia to set in motion a process in accordance with the Constitution towards amending the section on the emergency powers of the president in order to make it consistent with international human rights law and standards.
	www.web.amnesty.org /ai.nsf/index/AFR340051997 (6267 words)

	Press Statement by John W. Blaney III To Liberian Press March 20,
		The Contact Group recognizes that Liberia's interrelated problems need to be addressed comprehensively, a point made repeatedly by the ICGL earlier and at this session.
		However, our view is that achieving a cease-fire in Liberia necessitates direct negotiations between the two parties to the conflict; that is, the Liberian Government and LURD, with just a few facilitators involved, such as Inter-Religious Council of Liberia with, of course, the Government of Mali chairing these negotiations.
		Liberia needs peace and a cease-fire now, not a peace postponed until all other problems can be resolved.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/news/2003/03/wwwhsp0320.htm (3221 words)

	Human Rights Watch: Publications: Africa : Liberia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		On July 19, 1997, Liberia's seven year war was finally ended through a U.N.-sanctioned election that swept former faction leader Charles Taylor and his party into power with 75 percent of the vote and a corresponding 75 percent majority in the legislature, giving him seventy of the ninety legislative seats.
		Liberia acceded to the Mine Ban Treaty on 23 December 1999.
		On July 19, 1997, Liberia's seven-year war was finally ended through an election that swept former faction leader Charles Taylor and his party, the National Patriotic Party (NPP), into power with 75 percent of the vote.
	www.hrw.org /hrw/pubweb/Webcat-62.htm (2217 words)

	An address to the colored people of Pennsylvania / [Edward S. Morris].: a machine-readable transcription.
		Liberia, thus situated, is doing more to prevent the enslavement of the colored race than any other power upon earth; for it is the greatest obstacle—the very breakwater, which must effectually check the progress of the slave trade.
		The coast of Liberia is guarded at the Republic's own expense, and the laws of Liberia are operative in the interior—by making the traffic in human flesh a capital crime, so that all who are convicted of the offence, suffer the extreme penalty of the criminal code.
		The Government of Liberia is similar in form to that of the United States, all the officers, including the President himself, being men of color—by whom the affairs of the Republic are administered in the most able and judicious manner.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /rbc/rbaapc/19710/19710.sgm (7634 words)

	Rubberstamp Legislature to Surrender Liberia's Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Liberian Legislature, known more as a rubberstamp rather than a deliberative body, is being asked by President Taylor to pass an act that will not only adversely affect the economy, but cause serious damage to the country's environmental fabric.
		In section 3 of the act, it stipulates that: "The President of the Republic of Liberia is hereby granted the sole power to execute, negotiate and conclude all Commercial contracts or agreements with any Foreign or Domestic Investor for the exploitation of any of the Strategic Commodities of the Republic of Liberia.
		Such breathtaking powers being granted surrenders an important constitutional role of this important branch of government, which is not only to enact laws, but to provide legislative oversight as well.
	www.theperspective.org /rubberstamp.html (467 words)

	Magic City Morning Star: The Liberian Connection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In 1847, the legislature of Liberia declared itself an independent state, with Governor Roberts elected as the first President of Liberia.
		Liberia offered very low cost fees for ship registration, treaties against dual taxation and the advantage of sailing a ship under a, “flag of convenience.” Ships from many countries of the world sought Liberian registry.
		Liberia is a piece of the United States, situated in Africa.
	magic-city-news.com /cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/1/121 (1280 words)

	LIBERIA
		Other refugees expressed a strong reluctance to return to Liberia now that Charles Taylor has been elected, either because they and their families were outspoken opponents or victims of Taylor faction fighters, or because they belong to the Krahn or Mandingo ethnic groups, which were targeted by Taylor's faction during the war.
		However, neither the LRRRC nor anyone in the transitional government appeared to be in possession of a copy of the 1991 law, not to mention the fact that the 1993 law might have superseded the previous act since they both speak to the same issue.
		In July 1991, the legislature of the Liberia National Transitional Government passed "An Act to Establish a National Commission on Repatriation and Resettlement" in order to assign a government body responsibility for the repatriation and resettlement of internally and externally displaced Liberians.
	www.hrw.org /reports/1997/liberia/Liberia-03.htm (5285 words)

	Why Liberia turns to its American 'big brother'
		Created in 1847 as a haven for freed American slaves, Liberia is the closest thing in Africa to a former US colony.
		The founding former slaves, who made up less than 5 percent of Liberia's population, wore American clothes, spoke English, and even installed themselves as masters in a system of slavery like the one they had fled.
		During the 20th century, Liberia played a role in America's World War II effort, with African rubber sailing to American factories from Liberian ports.
	www.globalsecurity.org /org/news/2003/030801-liberia-america01.htm (1430 words)

	Colonization: The African-American Mosaic (Library of Congress Exhibition)
		In 1913 and at its dissolution in 1964, the society donated its records to the Library of Congress.
		The material contains a wealth of information about the foundation of the society, its role in establishing Liberia, efforts to manage and defend the colony, fund-raising, recruitment of settlers, and the way in which fl settlers built and led the new nation.
		In this treaty of May 1825, King Peter and other native kings agreed to sell land in return for 500 bars of tobacco, three barrels of rum, five casks of powder, five umbrellas, ten iron posts, and ten pairs of shoes, among other items.
	www.loc.gov /exhibits/african/afam002.html (1446 words)

	Legislature of Liberia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Legislature of Liberia is bicameral, consisting of a Senate (upper house) and House of Representatives (lower house), same as the Congress of the United States.
		Since late 2003, a unicameral National Transitional Legislative Assembly (NTLA) has functioned in place of the Legislature, although elections have recently taken place and the elected members will take office shortly.
		This page was last modified 23:03, 20 November 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Legislature_of_Liberia (91 words)

	American Colonization Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Since the establishment of the colony, the ACS employed white agents to govern the colony.
		In 1847, the legislature of Liberia declared itself an independent state, with J.J. Roberts elected as its first President.
		The society in Liberia developed into three segments: The settlers with European-African lineage; freed slaves from slave ships and the West Indies; and indigenous native people.
	personal.denison.edu /~waite/liberia/history/acs.htm (516 words)

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