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	Lalor, Cyclopaedia of Political Science, V.1, Entry 364, DEMOCRATIC - REPUBLICAN PARTY: Library of Economics and ...
		The great political error of the resolutions, the denial of the power of the federal government to define the boundaries of its powers, was the inevitable result of the particularist tendency of the time, and has been constantly modified since by the gradual nationalization of the country and its parties.
		This defeat was entirely due to political management; it must not be attributed to the free soil vote alone, or to the slavery question, which was just on the verge of becoming, but had not yet quite become, the leading question of American politics.
		The political folly of secession may be partially estimated by considering the fact that only the voluntary absence of the 22 senators and 66 representatives of the seceding states gave the republicans a majority in either house at any time until the real close of the rebellion.
	www.econlib.org /LIBRARY/YPDBooks/Lalor/llCy364.html (12411 words)

	List of British political scandals - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This is a list of British political scandals that have resulted from verified or alleged events.
		Peter Jay's appointment as British Ambassador to the U.S. by his father in law, the then Labour Prime Minister James Callaghan.
		Bernie Ecclestone was involved in a political scandal when it transpired he had given the Labour Party a million pound donation - which raised eyebrows when the Labour government changed its policy to allow Formula 1 to continue being sponsored by tobacco manufacturers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_political_scandals (1066 words)

	Kenya - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		By the 1930's, approximately 30,000 settlers lived in the area and were offered undue political powers because of their effects on the economy.
		Despite British hopes of handing power to "moderate" African rivals, it was the Kenya African National Union (KANU) of Jomo Kenyatta, that formed a government shortly before Kenya became independent on 12th December 1963.
		Politics of Kenya takes place in a framework of a presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the President of Kenya is both head of state and head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kenya (5161 words)

	The Ultimate Politics of the United Kingdom Dog Breeds Information Guide and Reference
		The Politics of the United Kingdom are based upon a unitary state and a democratic constitutional monarchy.
		In practical terms, the political head of the UK is the Prime Minister (Tony Blair since May 2, 1997), who must have the support of the House of Commons.
		Politics in Northern Ireland is particularly complex, due to the history of Northern Ireland, particularly 'The Troubles'.
	www.dogluvers.com /dog_breeds/British_government (4188 words)

	RAND \| News & Events \| Commentary \| Strategy: Political Warfare Neglected
		Political warfare does not focus exclusively on enemies who are at large or end with their capture.
		Political warfare sees the enemy not as a monolithic force, but as a dynamic population of individuals whose grievances, sense of humiliation, and desire for revenge, honor, status, meaning, or mere adventure propel them into jihad and resistance.
		Political warfare accepts no foe as having irrevocably crossed a line, but sees enemy combatants as constantly calibrating and recalibrating their commitment.
	www.rand.org /commentary/062605SDUT.html (1373 words)

	List of British political defections - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This is a list of notable defections or splits made by United Kingdom parliamentarians.
		They must have either been sitting MPs, MSPs or MEPs at the time, or in between sessions.
		1919: Cecil L'Estrange Malone - from the Liberal Party to the British Socialist Party and then the Communist Party of Great Britain
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_British_political_defections (707 words)

	Zimbabwe and the Prospects for Nonviolent Political Change: Special Reports: U.S. Institute of Peace
		Unlike mass actions held in 2002, a two-day work "stayaway" on March 18–19, 2003 called by the MDC to protest the government's human rights abuses and its failure to ensure the security of its citizens was supported with nationwide participation rates of over 70 percent.
		In Zimbabwe, this coalition is impeded by a strong demonstrated respect for the chain of command and the lack of a history of military involvement in politics.
		He blamed the British for trying to undermine his regime and accused the British high commissioner to Zimbabwe, Brian Donnelly, of financing and assisting the MDC in planning the June protest, and threatened to expel him.
	www.usip.org /pubs/specialreports/sr109.html (9519 words)

	British Orthodox Church
		With reference to the Assyrian Church, the 1930 Lambeth Conference reported "It has not been possible, owing to political and other conditions, to obtain the authoritative statement recommended in 1920 as to whether or not the present ecclesiastical authorities in the Assyrian Church adhere to the position of 1911".
		Armenians, who are recognized as a religious minority in Turkey with their own churches and schools, have long complained of bureaucratic and political pressures, which inhibited a free and full development of their community life.
		It approved the list of twenty-two bishops including four who had transferred their allegiance from the Patriarch's faction (Bava Kakshi) and also on 25 dioceses, including four new ones.
	www.britishorthodox.org /107e.php (6389 words)

	SPLCenter.org: The Year in Hate, 2002
		Defections, deportations and desperate finances are sapping the movement's lifeblood.
		After Ernst Zundel's arrest, a "snitch list" was circulated on the Internet that accused a long list of white supremacist figures — virtually every leader of note — of being agents or informers.
		The League of the South hate group, which lost members in 2001 after president Michael Hill described the Sept. 11 attacks as a fruit of multiculturalism, is now leading an effort to create a new group out of the remnants of the Southern Party (see White Nationalism).
	www.splcenter.org /intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=24&printable=1 (3186 words)

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		Karen renegades who defected to the Rangoon forces were also killed in the suicide charge.
		Karen officers said they believed many of the Burmese troops were in fact porters in army uniforms whom the Burmese army had forcibly rounded up recently from Kawkereik, Hlaingbwe and other towns in the area and forced to carry military loads and clear t he kawmoora frontline as "protective shields" and "mine sweepers".
		The officers also confirmed that about 30 Karen mutineers who defected in December from the Karen National Union to form a rival group, are now assisting the Burmese in the attacks.
	www.ibiblio.org /pub/academic/political-science/freeburma/bnn/1995/bnnkawmoora.txt (3564 words)

	History of British Trotskyism
		Ted Grant became the chief theoretician of British Trotskyism during the Second World War, and was responsible for writing all the main political documents of the tendency.
		Due to their work, the British Trotskyists emerged from the war years with a solidly proletarian organisation greatly strengthened numerically and with important points of support within the labour movement.
		As the book explains, their support for Healy and their sabotage of the British section – in which Pierre Frank also played a prominent role – resulted tragically in the break-up of the RCP in June 1949 and the destruction of a whole layer of experienced cadres.
	www.marxist.com /history-british-trotskyism-introduction.htm (3496 words)

	Attacks on the Press
		But political discourse must be tempered with appropriate respect for the mullahs' brand of political Islam.
		Those found guilty of serving the interests of a foreign power, endangering the political system or provoking confessional discord (that is, conflict between religious groups) may be sentenced to prison terms.
		Demir, a reporter for the Turkish dailies Cumhuriyet and Milliyet, as well as for the British news agency Reuters and BBC television, was abducted by the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) at a roadblock near Tunceli in eastern Turkey.
	www.cpj.org /attacks95/attlist95.middle.html (15898 words)

	Iraq: President Takes Lead To Resolve Political Crisis - RADIO FREE EUROPE / RADIO LIBERTY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Some political leaders have vowed to seek Arab League support in trying to force a new vote, and thousands of Iraqis have taken to the streets to protest perceived flaws in the election process.
		Those seeking compromise are trying to avert potential Sunni boycotts of the political process, as well as threats of violence, and appear to be pinning their hopes on efforts to bring Shi'ite and Sunni Arabs and Kurds into a new unity government.
		The defections appear to be the result of infighting and a belief by some that Maram will be unable to achieve its demands.
	www.rferl.org /featuresarticle/2005/12/64e4ca97-e671-4802-9ca7-17223f7f8453.html (1372 words)

	Quotations that Support the Separation of State and Church
		In the realm of politics and power, they were tyrannical; in the realm of theology and truth, they were perverse.
		Twelve centuries of moral and political darkness, in which Europe was involved, had nearly completed the destruction of human dignity, and every thing valuable or ornamental in the character of man. During this long and doleful night of ignorance, slavery, and superstition, Christianity reigned triumphant; its doctrines and divinity were not called in question.
		Political events eclipsed religion, as people concentrated on establishing the new nation and winning the War of 1812.
	www.infidels.org /library/modern/ed_buckner/quotations.html (18874 words)

	Sri Lanka: Significant Political News Items in 2001
		Many Tamil political parties and the Aziz Democratic Workers Congress want the government to respond to the LTTE's cease-fire call which they claim is in operation despite the Tigers breaking their own truce within 48 hours in December 26
		Political sources attach much importance to the intended visit since it takes place in the immediate aftermath of the proscription of the LTTE by the British government.
		President Kumaratunga issuing a statement on the postponement of the referendum claimed that it was done after considering the divergent views of all political parties, trade unions, religious organizations and other sections of the community.
	www.ices.lk /sl_database/political_events/political2001.shtml (9911 words)

	Top20Kenya.com - Your Top20 Guide to Kenya!
		The judiciary is headed by a High Court, consisting of a chief justice and High Court judges, and judges of Kenya's Court of Appeal (no associate judges), all appointed by the president.
		Political violence - namely the bombing of the U.S. Embassy by Al Qaeda in 1998 - damaged the tourist industry, and Kenya's Enhanced Structural Adjustment Program lapsed.
		Listed links may put this banner on their website.
	www.top20kenya.com (2027 words)

	Declassified Documents on British Guiana
		British Guiana is a small outpost of empire with a population of over half a million about half East Indian in origin and about a third of African decent.
		While there is no Communist party per se in British Guiana, a number of the leaders in the PPP have been members of, or associated with, Communist parties or their front groups in the US and the UK.
		A key factor in the proposals to get along with Jagan has been the hope that cooperation in British Guiana's development will bring the US and UK into a position of influence while at the same time Jagan and his government would be seized of their internal problems and concentrate their efforts on economic development.
	www.guyana.org /govt/declassified_documents.html (13463 words)

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		Republican and Democratic sources say the brewery's decision not to support the governor's re-election next year is highly unusual in light of its long-standing reputation as a donor which gives generously to both parties and their candidates, regardless of their views.
		But initiative opponents convinced enough signers to remove their names from the list and the group failed to meet the 20-county requirement.
		The three, pulled from an 11-member list of candidates interviewed earlier in the week by a selection committee, were interviewed individually Wednesday by the Board of Trustees.
	www.xmission.com /pub/lists/utah-firearms/archive/utah-firearms.200310 (12336 words)

	Dan Wyman Books German Judaica BIBLIOGRAPHY 1
		Their primary concerns were the large-scale defections from Judaism in the age of Emancipation and the absence of Western standards of aesthetics and decorum in the traditional manner of Jewish worship.
		Zedner was librarian of the Hebrew division of the British Museum, London from 1845 until 1869.
		Geiger "was a vigorous exponent of liberalism and Reform Judaism and an opponent of political Zionism.
	www.danwymanbooks.com /german/german.htm (13780 words)

	Remer's Political Analysis Archived by Date
		But, this effort to display his role as Commander In Chief, friend of American troops, hides none of the political reason for the war, the poltiical reason for the photo-op, or the political reason for pushing headlines about American miltary deaths off the front pages.
		He propounded a list of energy companies that went on and on that would benefit from the bill.
		A prescription drug benefit was largely pushed for by Democrats who would now be politically vulnerable to opposing the bill no matter how much of it they disagree with.
	www.poliwatch.org /archives/Analysis/2003/11 (3206 words)

	FAS Email Archives -- Missile Defense Monitor
		It surveys the types of technology likely to be available in the next 10 years, and any likely threats, but adds little to what is known from open sources.
		It was commissioned in autumn 1994 and carried out over an 18-month period by a consortium led by British Aerospace, with the help of US firms including Lockheed-Martin.
		Mr Portillo made the speech before the British Government officially announced any follow-up to the pre-feasibility study, but it would have required prime-ministerial approval.
	www.fas.org /MHonArc/BMDList_archive/msg00070.html (2561 words)

	UK Politics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Comment on the British constitution, the relationship of the citizen v the government, the powers of Parliament and the Executive, in relation to the European Union as it pursues its adgenda of further integrating the individual states into one European state.
		Toady BLiar is the British equivilant to the Yank UNpRe$ident George "Dubya" Bu$h except that BLiar was legitimately elected.
		We inform about top news in the wired space, social issues, politics, technology, finance, economics and life style and have a focus on the Chinese world of the internet in the era of information and communication technology.
	p.webring.com /hub?ring=ukpolitics (695 words)

	American Nationalist Union
		What’s happening in Washington now is that the establishment political class—and that includes the military, moderate Republican and Democratic members of Congress, the jabbering pundits and op-ed writers, and the bulk of the thinktank denizens—are coming to grips with the stark fact that the war in...
		The Republican Party, R.I.P. Under George W. Bush, today's GOP is in the vanguard of the biggest expansion of governmental power since 27 B.C., the year Octavian was crowned with laurel leaves in the Roman Senate, and the yeoman's republic on the Tiber morphed into an Empire.
		Chapters on the origins of the Templars, their popularity in Europe and their rivalry with the Knights of St. John, later to be known as the Knights of Malta.
	anu.org (4719 words)

	Criminal Organizations
		Various HAMAS elements have used both political and violent means, including terrorism, to pursue the goal of establishing an Islamic Palestinian state in place of Israel.
		It is politically aligned with the radical, pro-Taliban, political party, Jamiat-i Ulema-i Islam (JUI-F).
		The 1994 HUA kidnappings of US and British nationals in New Delhi and the July 1995 HUA/Al Faran kidnappings of Westerners in Kashmir were two of several previous HUA efforts to free Azhar.
	myweb.ecomplanet.com /COBW6035/Terror_List.htm (7960 words)

	Geopolitical Review: Iraq Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Amir Taheri on the utter political failure of the Iraqi insurgency.
		A British military officer recently stated that the Iraqi insurgency, mostly led by former Hussein Bathists, is visibly faltering.
		The Associated Press reports that the interim Iraqi government is experencing political defections among the Sunnis in protest over the Fallujah invasion: A major Sunni political party has quit the interim Iraqi government and revoked its single minister from the...
	www.geopoliticalreview.com /archives/cat_iraq.php (7992 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Politics
		Ports security legislation that most senators agree would make the country safer was stuck Tuesday in election-year politics as Republicans threatened to scrap it if Democrats forced in a wide range of provisions.
		Former BP executive declines to testify as lawmakers grill company over Alaska pipeline spill: The former head of pipeline-corrosion monitoring for BP in Alaska refused to testify under oath Thursday as outraged lawmakers grilled company officials over the causes of a massive oil spill earlier this year.
		California Secretary of State, Political Reform Division: Campaign finance information and a directory of lobbyists and their employers.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/politics/index.html (1809 words)

	The World Factbook 2004 -- Field Listing - Legislative branch
		This entry contains information on the structure (unicameral, bicameral, tricameral), formal name, number of seats, and term of office.
		unicameral Assembly or Sobranje (120 seats - 85 members are elected by popular vote, 35 members come from lists of candidates submitted by parties based on the percentage that a party gains from the overall vote; all serve four-year terms)
		unicameral National Assembly (66 seats; 62 elected by popular vote, 4 appointed by the election commission from the losing political parties to give representation to various ethnic minorities; members serve five-year terms)
	www.brainyatlas.com /fields/2101.html (11161 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Iraq Is Asked for List of Arms Scientists
		U.S. Is Pressuring Inspectors in Iraq to Aid Defections
		UK says British Energy should not sway nuclear issue
	nucnews.net /nucnews/nuclist02.htm (3350 words)

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