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  The Ultimate United States Constitution - American History Information Guide and Reference
The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States of America and is the oldest codified written national constitution still in force.
The U.S. Constitution styles itself the "supreme law of the land." Courts have interpreted this phrase to mean that when laws (including state constitutions) that have been passed by state legislatures, or by the (national) U.S. Congress, are found to conflict with the federal constitution, these laws are null and have no effect.
Article Six establishes the Constitution, and the laws and treaties of the United States made in accordance with it, to be the supreme law of the land.
www.historymania.com /american_history/United_States_Constitution   (4435 words)

  
  United States Constitution   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States of America and is the oldest codified written national constitution still in force.
The U.S. Constitution styles itself the "supreme law of the land." Courts have interpreted this phrase to mean that when laws (including state constitutions) that have been passed by state legislatures, or by the (national) U.S. Congress, are found to conflict with the federal constitution, these laws are null and have no effect.
Article Six establishes the Constitution, and the laws and treaties of the United States made in accordance with it, to be the supreme law of the land.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/U/United-States-Constitution.htm   (4840 words)

  
 United States Constitution information - Search.com
synonyms: United States Constitution, Constitution of the United States
It also provides for the office of Vice President of the United States, and specifies that the Vice President succeeds to the presidency if the President is incapacitated, dies, or resigns, although whether this succession was on an acting or permanent basis was unclear until the passage of the 25th Amendment.
Of the 35 states ratifying it, four later rescinded their ratifications prior to the extended ratification period which commenced March 23, 1979 and a fifth—while not going so far as to actually rescind its earlier ratification—adopted a resolution stipulating that its approval would not extend beyond March 22, 1979.
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 The Constitution of the United States of America   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
United States, 488 U.S. 361, 390-91 (1989), the Court, approving the placement of the Sentencing Commission in the judicial branch, denied that executive powers were diminished because of the historic judicial responsibility to determine what sentence to impose on a convicted offender.
United States, 488 U.S. Formerly the term of four years during which the President ``shall hold office'' was reckoned from March 4 of the alternate odd years beginning with 1789.
United States, 290 U.S. In the face of the proposition that electors are state officers, the Court has upheld the power of Congress to act to protect the integrity of the process by which they are chosen.\83\ But in Ray v.
www.gpoaccess.gov /constitution/html/art2.html   (10435 words)

  
 List of signatories of the United States Constitution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is a list of the signatories of the United States Constitution, first in the order in which their names appear on the document itself, and second in alphabetical order.
Led by George Washington, the United States Constitution was signed by these 39 delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on September 17, 1787.
In addition to the signatories, a secretary by the name of William Jackson signed the document, not as a delegate, but in attestation of the document's signing.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_signers_of_the_United_States_Constitution   (238 words)

  
 United States - 12.285 - merits   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The Petitioner also claims that the failure of the United States to preempt the pattern of legislative arbitrariness within the individual states of the U.S. in respect of the application of the death penalty to juvenile offenders has resulted in the arbitrary deprivation of life and inequality before the law.
United States, which was the subject of a decision by this Commission in 1987, the United States recognized that a jus cogens norm prohibiting the execution of juvenile existed, but that insufficient international consensus existed as to the age of majority, a position with which the Commission ultimately concurred.
France considers that this United States reservation is not valid, inasmuch as it is incompatible with the object and purpose of the Convention.
www.cidh.org /annualrep/2002eng/USA.12285.htm   (9353 words)

  
 The United States Constitution - The U.S. Constitution Online - USConstitution.net
Adjournment) shall be presented to the President of the United States; and before the Same shall take Effect, shall be approved by him, or being disapproved by him, shall be repassed by two thirds of the Senate and House of Representatives, according to the Rules and Limitations prescribed in the Case of a Bill.
Imposts, laid by any State on Imports or Exports, shall be for the Use of the Treasury of the United States; and all such Laws shall be subject to the Revision and Controul of the Congress.
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.
www.usconstitution.net /const.html   (5143 words)

  
 Multilateral treaties deposited with the Secretary-General- TREATY I-IV--1.asp   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The Government of the Republic of Croatia further objects to the reservation made by the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in respect of Article IX of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, and considers it to be incompatible with the object and purpose of the Convention.
The Government of the Hellenic Republic cannot accept the first reservation entered by the United States of America upon ratifying the Agreement on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, for it considers such a reservation to be in compatible with the Convention.
In the view of the Government of the State of Israel, such declaration, which is explicitly of a political character, is incompatible with the purpose and objectives of this Convention and cannot in any way affect whatever obligations are binding upon Bahrain under general International Law or under particular Conventions.
www.unhchr.ch /html/menu3/b/treaty1gen.htm   (5531 words)

  
 List of signatories of the United States Constitution information - Search.com
This is a list of the signatories of the United States Constitution, first in the order in which their names appear on the document itself, and second in alphabetical order.
Led by George Washington, the United States Constitution was signed by these 39 delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on September 17, 1787.
In addition to the signatories, a secretary by the name of William Jackson signed the document, not as a delegate, but in attestation of the document's signing.
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 List of signatories of the United States Cons... - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 IARUWeb:
This Convention shall be open for signature by all States which are members of the United Nations or of the International Telecommunication Union at the Intergovernmental Conference on Emergency Telecommunications in Tampere on 18 June 1998, and thereafter at the headquarters of the United Nations, New York, from 22 June 1998 to 21 June 2003.
A State may express its consent to be bound by this Convention: a) by signature (definitive signature); b) by signature subject to ratification, acceptance or approval followed by deposit of an instrument of ratification, acceptance or approval; or c) by deposit of an instrument of accession.
For each State which signs definitively or deposits an instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession, after the requirement set out in paragraph 3 of this Article has been fulfilled, this Convention shall enter into force thirty (30) days after the date of the definitive signature or consent to be bound.".
www.iaru.org /emergency/tc-list.html   (460 words)

  
 NARA | The National Archives Experience
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 judicial Power of the United States shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.
A Person charged in any State with Treason, Felony, or other Crime, who shall flee from 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.archives.gov /national-archives-experience/charters/constitution_transcript.html   (2595 words)

  
 PWHCE - Coalition of the Willing List, Map and Troop Numbers
This includes Croatia and Slovenia (signatories to the Vilnius Statement, but not listed as part of the Coalition) and Norway and Sweden, which advocated a war to unseat Saddam Hussein until it became clear the UN would not support such a war, at which point they espoused offical positions of opposition to the war.
For example, Australia is listed as having 800 troops in Iraq, although November figures listed 850, and during March 2003 there were 2000 Australian troops in theatre, including warships, jet fighters and the Special Air Service, one of the world's finest special forces regiments.
The list of countries in the Coalition of the Willing is particularly interesting because of the patterns it doesn't produce, and the under-reported patterns it does.
pwhce.org /willing.html   (3132 words)

  
 Iraq Web Links: Library and Links: Jeannette Rankin Library Program: U.S. Institute of Peace
IRIN, a unit of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), provides a clearinghouse of the latest information for humanitarian and international communities on the crisis in Iraq.
ReliefWeb, a project of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), "is the global hub for time-critical humanitarian information on Complex Emergencies and Natural Disasters." The country listing includes the latest news updates, links to the complex emergency information, as well as key documents and maps.
This report, produced by the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, is available in PDF from the committee's web site, 23.M for the full report (PDF) and 1.9 M for the conclusions (PDF), excerpted from the full report.
www.usip.org /library/regions/iraq.html   (3531 words)

  
 Index Page - The U.S. Constitution Online - USConstitution.net
On October 2, 1967, Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as the first fl Supreme Court Justice.
Current Events and The Constitution : Archives 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999
Lists: Congress : Presidents : Presidential elections : Electoral Votes : States : Nations
www.usconstitution.net   (271 words)

  
 GuruNet — Content Map   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
List of ships of the line of the United States Navy
List of shows that are widely considered to have jumped the shark
List of signatories of the Declaration of Sentiments
www.gurunet.com /cm-dsid-2222-letter-1L-first-26001   (100 words)

  
 Labour Friends of Iraq: The murder of Hadi Saleh — why are you silent? An open letter to the leaders of the Stop the ...
Signatories include the following and the list is still open.
The key exception to this united front of solidarity has been the begrudging utterances from you at the Stop the War (StWC) Coalition.
We have not been targeted, but the teachers’ unions have already lost members who were targeted and killed, so did the engineers and the doctors’ association, too.
www.labourfriendsofiraq.org.uk /archives/000150.html   (2557 words)

  
 United States
FURTHER RESOLVED that the Alaska State Legislature implores the United States Congress to correct provisions in the USA PATRIOT Act and other measures that infringe on civil liberties, and opposes any pending and future federal legislation to the extent that it infringes on Americans' civil rights and liberties.
But at the state level the politics are a loss – in the areas I keep track of (crime, environment, education) the policies reflect that state’s odd geographic, economic and wealth divisions.
We have seen that just this year in the truly silly debates over the teaching of evolution; the state superintendent of education (!) proposed that the term evolution be removed from the school curriculum and the phrase “biological change over time” be substituted in its place.
www.stanford.edu /group/wais/USA/usa_unitedstates040204.htm   (3940 words)

  
 Patriot Petitions
The 14th Amendment's relevant clause reads "All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof." Children born to those who have entered the U.S. illegally are not "subject to the jurisdiction thereof."
A citizen petition to urge the United States Senate to reject the 1997 United Nations Kyoto Protocols Treaty purporting to address global warming by constraining economic growth in the United States while allowing unmitigated growth in 129 other nations, included two of the largest world economies in China and India.
In response, more than 165,000 signatories of the above-referenced petition for indictment have made his war record the centerpiece of their campaign to disqualify Kerry from public office.
patriotpetitions.us   (1521 words)

  
 Government & Politics - Make Free Online Petitions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
I firmly believe that the United States government, as well as the government of Israel, had something to do with the attacks.
Abolish the death penalty in the United States
This petition calls for the immediate ejection of all illegal immigrants from the United States.
www.petitionspot.com /listpetitions/politcs/9   (1012 words)

  
 U.S. Constitution - Table of Contents - The U.S. Constitution Online - USConstitution.net
This page presents the Constitution as a series of web pages, one for each section of the Constitution and one for each amendment.
Other pages present the Constitution in one large page with HTML enhancement, in
Use the table of contents below to find the section of the Constitution you are interested in.
www.usconstitution.net /xconst.html   (294 words)

  
 Political Science Resources/United States Politics
Presidential and state candidates are usually chosen by primaries, caucuses or state conventions
Presidential by county: 1920+, presidential primary by state: 1916-24, 1972+; Congressional district by district: 1832+; gubernatorial by county: 1970+
Listing of pork barrel appropriations for by subject and state
www.lib.umich.edu /govdocs/psusp.html   (3935 words)

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