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 United States   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Constitution of the United States sets out the powers of the legislative, executive and judicial branches of government and recognizes a number of rights of its citizens, including freedom of speech, the right to keep and bear arms, freedom of religion, trial by jury, and protection from cruel and unusual punishment.
The United States Armed forces are considered to be the most powerful (conventional) military on Earth and their force projection capabilities are unrivaled by any other single nation.
The United States does not have an official language at federal level; nevertheless, English is the first and/or only language of the overwhelming majority of the population and serves as the de facto official language: English is the language used for legislation, regulations, executive orders, treaties, federal court rulings, and all other official pronouncements.
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 ipedia.com: United States Congress Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Each state has equal representation in the Senate because the states are each equal members of the federal union.
The Senate, meanwhile, has certain powers especially reserved for that body, including the authority to confirm presidential appointments of high officials (generally Cabinet-level officials and their immediate subordinates) and ambassadors of the federal government to other countries, as well as the exclusive authority to ratify all treaties by a two-thirds vote.
The United States territories are not members of the federal union.
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 THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA USA
Manifest Destiny was a philosophy that encouraged westward expansion in the United States: as the population of the Eastern states grew and as a steady increase of immigrants entered the country, settlers moved steadily westward across North America.
It is bicameral, being comprised of the House of Representatives and the Senate.
The United States is often under criticism from Western governments and NGOs concerning lengthy detention without trial, forced confessions, torture, and mistreatment of prisoners as well as some restrictions on freedoms of speech and the press, as being violations of their definition of human rights.
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 The Constitution   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
No person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the age of thirty years, and been nine years a citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that State for which he shall be chosen.
No Senator or Representative shall, during the time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil office under the authority of the United States, which shall have increased during such time; and no person holding any office under the United States, shall be a member of either House during his continuance in office.
A person charged in any state with treason, felony, or other crime, who shall flee justice, and be found in another state, shall, on demand of the executive authority of the state from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the state having jurisdiction of the crime.
www.theunitedstatesconstitution.com   (4096 words)

  
 Guide for New Immigrants: Learning About the United States   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
In the United States, we have what is called “representative democracy.” This means that the people choose officials to represent their views and concerns in government.
The early colonists and settlers who came to the United States were often fleeing unfair treatment, especially religious persecution, in their home countries.
The leader of the state executive branch is called the “governor.” The people of each state vote in elections to choose their governor and their representatives to the state legislature.
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 United States Senate (Harpers.org)
Liberal political groups were attempting to rally Senate Democrats to oppose the nomination of John Ashcroft to be attorney general of the United States, though few seriously believed that members of the Democrat Party were brave or principled enough to do what it would take to defeat the right-wing Christian extremist.
Senator James M. Jeffords of Vermont defected from the Republican Party, handing control of the Senate to the Democrats, who promptly voted to confirm Theodore B. Olson as solicitor general, suggesting that the White House cabal had little to fear after all.
The Senate Intelligence Committee released a scathing report on the CIA's unfounded, unjustified, and unreasonable claims about Iraq's purported weapons of mass destruction; the report was oddly silent, however, about the Bush Administration's well-documented and apparently successful campaign to intimidate the CIA into coming up with justifications for the President's fraudulent case for the invasion.
www.harpers.org /Senate.html   (3164 words)

  
 BCPL Government InfoCenter - United States Government
A picture of the United States economy from the national to the local level is prepared every 5 years.
Gateway to United States, state, county, city, tract and block level figures from the 1990 and 2000 Census of Population and Housing, and the latest Economic Census.
Information provided by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, and the United States Department of Homeland Security about the various foreign nationals who are examined, naturalized, caught, or removed from the country.
www.bcplonline.org /centers/gov/gov_unitedstates.html   (986 words)

  
 Maryland Research Guide
Maryland also has many executive branch agencies which are not part of any of the principal departments; these are called independent agencies.
State Department of Assessments and Taxation [http://www.dat.state.md.us]: The State Department of Assessments and Taxation (SDAT) is responsible for the valuation of personal and real property for state tax purposes.
Maryland Association of Counties [http://www.mdcounties.org/] is a "nonprofit organization representing Maryland's 23 counties and Baltimore City.
www.ll.georgetown.edu /states/maryland-in-depth.cfm   (5704 words)

  
 United States Senate - dKosopedia
The United States Senate, often called the U.S. Senate or simply the Senate, is a deliberative legislative chamber of 100 senators, two from each state, elected in statewide elections for six-year terms by popular vote.
The Senate shall chuse their other Officers, and also a President pro tempore, in the Absence of the Vice President, or when he shall exercise the Office of President of the United States.
The following is a list of the Senators of the 109th United States Congress, sorted by state.
www.dkosopedia.com /index.php/United_States_Senate   (622 words)

  
 Top20UnitedStates.com - Your Top20 Guide to United States!
However, the structure of the nation was profoundly changed in 1788, when the states replaced the Articles of Confederation with the United States Constitution.
The date on which each of the original 13 states adopted the Constitution is typically regarded as the date that state "entered the Union" (became part of the United States).
As a result, the United States provides fewer government-delivered social welfare services than most industrialized nations, choosing instead to keeping its tax burden lower and relying more heavily on the free market and private charities.
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 The Constitution of the United States
The Electors shall meet in their respective States, and vote by Ballot for two Persons, of whom one at least shall not be an Inhabitant of the same State with themselves.
And they shall make a List of all the Persons voted for, and of the Number of Votes for each; which List they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the Seat of the Government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate.
But in chusing the President, the Votes shall be taken by States, the Representation from each State having one Vote; A quorum for this purpose shall consist of a Member or Members from two thirds of the States, and a Majority of all the States shall be necessary to a Choice.
www.historyplace.com /unitedstates/revolution/constitution.html   (2537 words)

  
 List of current United States Senators - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
States in red are represented by two Republicans and in blue by two Democrats (except Vermont, which has a Democrat and an Independent).
Purple states are represented by one senator from each party.
This is a complete list of current United States Senators arranged alphabetically by the state they represent, along with lists of party affiliation, and leadership.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_United_States_Senators   (194 words)

  
 Alphabetical List of United States Senators 1999
This is the complete list of United States senators following the elections of November 1998.
It includes the appointment of Senator Lincoln Chafee to replace his father, John Chafee, who died in 1999.
Alphabetical List of Members of the United States Senate 1999
www.australianpolitics.com /usa/senate/members-senate-1999.shtml   (43 words)

  
 U.S. Senate   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Read about the history of Veterans Day in the
S-1, a recently discovered financial ledger detailing nearly a century of salary and mileage payments to senators, from 1790 to 1881.
Scripophily.com is the sponsor of this website and is not part the United States Government.
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 Congressional Email Directory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
If your elected officials don't have email, send them snail mail DEMANDING that they get email NOW!
Pick your state below, or search for your favorite Congressperson:
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