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  United States   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The United States may be regarded as an example of a constitutional republic or as a liberal democracy, with a government composed of and operating through a set of limited powers imposed by its design and enumerated in that design or Constitution of the United States of America.
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.
Spanish follows English as the second-most spoken language in the United States, primarily due to the influence of recent Latin American immigrants and the fact that almost a fifth of its continental territory was originally part of Mexico, and it is a primary spoken language in some areas of the Southwest.
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 USA UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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.
The United States currently enjoys a positive relationship with the United Kingdom, Australia, Japan, and Poland, among several others, in that these nations are participating as active military allies with, or logistical supporters of, the United States in all theaters.
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 United States Constitution
The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, [chosen by the Legislature thereof,] for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote.
The President shall, at stated times, receive for his services, a compensation, which shall neither be increased nor dimin- ished during the period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that period any other emolument from the United States, or any of them.
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.
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 Prime Minister of Canada   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The Prime Minister of Canada the head of the Canadian government is usually the leader of the political party with the most seats in the Canadian House of Commons.
The Canadian head state is Elizabeth II Queen of Canada who is represented by the Governor-General of Canada.
The function duties responsibilities and powers the Prime Minister of Canada were established the time the country was created as independent nation in 1867 and were modeled upon those of existing office of the Prime Minister of United Kingdom.
www.freeglossary.com /Prime_Minister_of_Canada   (1505 words)

  
 List of Canadian ambassadors to the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
List of Canadian ambassadors to the United States
This is a list of Canadian envoys to the United States of America.
The position was promoted to the rank of ambassador in 1943 while Leighton McCarthy occupied the position.
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 THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA USA
In most states, all students must attend mandatory schooling starting with kindergarten, which children normally enter at age 5, and following through 12th grade, which is normally completed at age 18 (although in some states, students are permitted to drop out upon the age of 16 with the permission of their parents/guardians).
It should be noted that the United States is one of the few industrialized countries to not provide a free university education to its citizenry.
In the 20th century, the United States became the center of the two most popular Western combat sports—boxing, which is popular as both a spectator sport and a gambling event, and professional wrestling, which is more scripted entertainment than a true sport.
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 Center for Immigration Studies
Canada in a sense has a choice between tightening up its asylum system, and more broadly its controls over access to Canada from overseas, or face significantly increased US border patrols, with all the implications for the movement of commerce and people that that would have.
Canada, the United States, Australia and New Zealand, where they have made a definite policy decision that the acceptance of immigrants is a good thing.
It was unheard of that Canada would pass legislation saying the United States was not safe, so there was a conflict and the usual Canadian way was compromise, which was not to do anything, and to pass the legislation but not enact the safe country provisions.
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 Top20UnitedStates.com - Your Top20 Guide to United States!
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).
The United States Armed forces are considered to be the most powerful military (of any sort) on Earth and their force projection capabilities are unrivaled by any other nation, or collaboration of nations.
The United States has dozens of major cities, including 11 of the 55 global cities of all types — with three alpha global cities: New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago.
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 Significant Terrorist Incidents 1961-2003: A Brief Chronology
Ambassador to Guatemala Assassinated, August 28, 1968: U.S. Ambassador to Guatemala John Gordon Mein was murdered by a rebel faction when gunmen forced his official car off the road in Guatemala City and raked the vehicle with gunfire.
Ambassador to Cyprus Assassinated, August 19, 1974: U.S. Ambassador to Cyprus Rodger P. Davies and his Greek Cypriot secretary were shot and killed by snipers during a demonstration outside the U.S. Embassy in Nicosia.
Ambassador to Afghanistan Assassinated, February 14, 1979: Four Afghans kidnapped U.S. Ambassador Adolph Dubs in Kabul and demanded the release of various "religious figures." Dubs was killed, along with four alleged terrorists, when Afghan police stormed the hotel room where he was being held.
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 Ottawa, Canada
Canada had given the Dutch royal family refuge during the war and, in 1944, a floor of an Ottawa hospital was declared part of Holland so that a princess of the exiled royal family could be born on Dutch territory.
Other homes of interest are the residences of the US and Russian ambassadors, located next to each other on Lisgar Road, and Stornaway, the home of the leader of Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition in the House of Commons, on Acacia Avenue.
The "Westminster in the Wilderness" was a bizarre study in contrasts: the stately centre block of Parliament Hill towered over the haphazardly-planned bustle of industrial Ottawa, and the circular, flying-buttressed Library of Parliament overlooked an Ottawa River that was often tightly packed with floating lumber.
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 United States - Knowmore
--> The United States has land borders with Canada and Mexico, and territorial water boundaries with Canada, Russia and the Bahamas.
Template:Anb America may refer to the nation of the United States or to the Americas — North, Central and South America.
The National Atlas (http://nationalatlas.gov/) of the United States.
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 Audit Report
By statute and Presidential Directive, the U.S. Ambassador has complete responsibility for the actions of all U.S. Executive Branch officials and organizations, including law enforcement agencies such as the FBI Legal Attaché office, in the country to which he or she has been accredited.
The following are examples of the comments made by U.S. officials we interviewed in Canada, Germany, Japan, and South Africa regarding the nature and frequency of their working relationships with the FBI Legal Attaché and their opinions on how well the Legats coordinated activities and shared information with them.
Ambassadors do not have authority over those personnel who are under the command of a U.S. area military commander.
www.usdoj.gov /oig/reports/FBI/a0418/chap5.htm   (362 words)

  
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Canada has scored two important victories in its opposition to the looming passport crackdown at the U.S. border — a Senate delay in the States and a major North American meeting due to take place in Manitoba at the end of the month.
Canada's ambassador to the United States, Michael Wilson, confirmed yesterday that he'll probably be at the Gimli meeting, as did Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty.
You may know that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Department of State have announced that they are developing a new travel document, the PASS (People Access Security Service) card, as an alternative to their earlier proposal to require a passport to cross land borders into the U.S. from Canada.
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 The Black Commentator - Freedom Rider: Don’t Bomb Canada - Issue 128
Canada is affectionately referred to as “our neighbor to the north.” Millions of American school children, and a fair number of adults, are even under the misapprehension that it is in fact one of the fifty states.
The international community is simply ignoring the United States.
Prime ministers, presidents and ambassadors will make nice and have Dubya over for dinner, but they will politely tell him to kiss off.
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 Court: Canada can OK gay marriage - World News - MSNBC.com
However, the court added that religious officials cannot be forced to perform unions against their beliefs, and the legislation to allow gay marriage must still pass with a majority of the House of Commons.
Canada would join Belgium and the Netherlands in allowing gay marriage if the government rules that it is legal nationwide.
In the United States, gay marriage is opposed by a majority of Americans, according to an Associated Press-Ipsos poll taken in November, shortly after constitutional amendments in 11 states to ban same-sex marriage were approved.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6685653   (934 words)

  
 List of United States Ambassadors to Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of ambassadors from the United States to Canada.
See also: List of Canadian ambassadors to the United States
This page was last modified 21:43, 9 November 2006.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_United_States_Ambassadors_to_Canada   (66 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Federalist Papers: Books: Alexander Hamilton,James Madison,John Jay,Clinton Rossiter,Charles R. Kesler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
So *at the time*, the fact that the Senate had 2 members from each state (and appointed by the state legislature) regardless of population was *not* a measure that was anti-democratic in purpose.
The immediate results of the Constitution are best expressed in de Tocqueville (he toured the United States and published his work in Europe within 50 years of the ratification) because its not the causes of the Constitution he is discussing, but its effects.
The constitution of the United States of America is, despite the youth of the country, the oldest one in operation today.
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 TIME.com: 10 Questions For Michael Wilson -- Page 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
To represent my country at a time when work has to be done to rebuild a relationship that has deteriorated in recent years was an important challenge, an interesting challenge.
The ambassador has to have an opportunity to influence the direction of policy related to the United States.
MW: The only one I've dealt with before is [Deputy Secretary of State] Bob Zoellick, but there are not too many degrees of separation from the people I used to deal with and the ones I'll have to deal with now.
www.time.com /time/canada/article/0,8599,1161412,00.html   (922 words)

  
 Ottawa announces 10 new ambassadors
Roxanne Dubé becomes Ambassador to the Republic of Zimbabwe, with concurrent accreditation to the Republic of Angola.
Michael Leir becomes High Commissioner to Australia, with concurrent accreditation to the Solomon Islands, and Ambassador to the Federated States of Micronesia.
A mother of three from the state of Georgia says she may take her fight to banish Harry Potter books from schools to the courts.
www.cbc.ca /world/story/2005/08/19/new_ambassadors_canada20050819.html   (1305 words)

  
 United Families International
Prominent international leaders have joined our international board, including Ambassador Nicole Elisha from Benin (the chairman for a key U.N. voting block of developing countries), as well as U.N. ambassadors and delegates from several countries (including the former U.N. ambassador from Latvia, and a former U.N. delegate from Mexico).
UFI monitored family issues throughout the world and across the United States and kept you informed through our newsletter and email distribution list.
UFI provided legal help and educational materials to individuals, organizations, and groups to defend the family against pornography, explicit sex education programs, and homosexual activism in schools and state legislatures.
www.unitedfamilies.org /successes.asp   (520 words)

  
 CrossDaily.com - Web Search
The heart of each student is also touched with the humility to serve.
Christian Student Fellowship - A ministry to college students and young adults at the University of Akron and the Akron, OH area Akron, Ohio, United States [details]
Ambassadors For Christ In Canada - We are serving students in Ontario, BC, Canada.
www.crossdaily.com /search/list.php3?cat=176   (589 words)

  
 Ambassadors/CountryList - Fedora Project Wiki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
As a standing rule, all regions/countries should have a Lead and a Co-Lead.
If you are not sure about your country region, please refer to
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