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	Scheme
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		Mississippi Scheme The Mississippi Scheme was the Mississippi River drainage basin.
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	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/scheme.html (579 words)

	Mississippi Scheme. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		In 1717 the French merchant Antoine Crozat transferred his monopoly of commercial privileges in Louisiana to Law, who, with the sanction of the French regent, Philippe II, duc d’Orléans, organized the Compagnie d’Occident.
		The consolidated company, renamed the Compagnie des Indes (but commonly known as the Mississippi Company), was given, among other privileges, the right of farming the taxes.
		Although a failure in its financial aspects, the Mississippi Scheme was responsible for the largest influx of settlers into Louisiana up to that time.
	www.bartleby.com /65/mi/MissipSchm.html (358 words)

	United States v. Fordice, 112 S. Ct. 2727, 120 L. Ed. 2d 575 (1992).
		Mississippi launched its public university system in 1848 by establishing the University of Mississippi, an institution dedicated to the higher education exclusively of white persons.
		Mississippi State University, Mississippi University for Women, University of Southern Mississippi, and Delta State University each admitted at least one fl student during these years, but the student composition of these institutions was still almost completely white.
		They complained that Mississippi had maintained the racially segregative effects of its prior dual system of post-secondary education in violation of the Fifth, Ninth, Thirteenth, and Fourteenth Amendment s, 42 U.S.C. and 1983, and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000d.
	supct.law.cornell.edu /supct/html/90-1205.ZO.html (6285 words)

	LAW - LoveToKnow Article on LAW
		The returns from the public revenue were sure; those from the Mississippi scheme were not.
		He did not see that trade and commerce are best left to private enterprise, and that such a scheme wofild simply result in the profits of speculators and favorites.
		Law, he tells us, was still the same in character, perpetually planning and scheming, and, though in poverty, revolving vast projects to restore himself to power, and France to commercial prosperity.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /L/LA/LAW.htm (3050 words)

	law.com - Decision
		In addition, Mississippi's assistant secretary of state for securities testified that, at the time that the board approved the consulting contract with CSG, 900 firms were registered in Mississippi to perform the services in question.
		In addition to containing all the elements of the charged offense, a constitutionally sufficient indictment "fairly informs" the defendant of the charge that he or she faces and is precise enough to preclude the risk that the defendant may be prosecuted for the same offense in the future.
		Caldwell's contention that Mississippi is not a victim of his offenses appears to be based on the assumption that his actions as CEO and chairman of the board of Magnolia Venture could have directly and proximately harmed only Magnolia Venture, which according to Caldwell is a private, and not a state, entity.
	www.law.com /jsp/decisionstate.jsp?id=1029171626710 (7102 words)

	Mississippi Company - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Its initial goal was to trade and do buiness with the French colonies in North America, which included much of the Mississippi River drainage basin, and the French colony of Louisiana.
		Law exaggerated the wealth of Louisiana with an effective marketing scheme, which led to wild speculation on the shares of the company in 1719.
		Shares rose from 500 to 15,000 livres, but by summer of 1720, there was a sudden decline in confidence, and the price was back to 500 livres in 1721.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mississippi_Scheme (809 words)

	Mississippi Scheme (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Mississippi Scheme was the French mirror of England 's South Sea Bubble.
		In brief, a private firm was given a monopoly on France's trade with its colonies in the New World, which at the time included much of the Mississippi River drainage basin.
		The Mississppi scheme was devised by Scotsman John Law.
	www.encyclopedia-1.com /m/mi/mississippi_scheme.html (87 words)

	The South Sea Bubble and Law's Mississippi Scheme - Print Version
		The Mississippi Company would pay the government 1.5 billion livres; in turn, the government would repay its creditors who would then invest the money they received in the shares of the company, which Law offered to them at less than their value.
		The scheme worked perfectly well for a while, as each time the company announced some new venture, additional shares would be issued at higher and higher prices, which attracted a larger and larger number of speculators to participate in the mania.
		John Law's Mississippi Scheme, despite its eventual failure, is an important event in economic history since it represented an attempt to introduce paper money on a large scale.
	www.gold-eagle.com /editorials_04/faber102004pv.html (4392 words)

	The Great Swindle
		The Great Swindle, Virginia Cowell's excellent account of the events that surrounded the South Sea Bubble and the Mississippi Scheme was published in 1960, but her analysis is as sharp today as it was forty years ago.
		The "bubble" model always involves a "displacement", which leads to extraordinary profit opportunities, overtrading, over-borrowings, speculative excesses, and swindles and catchpenny schemes, followed by a crisis during which fraud on a massive scale comes to light, then by the closing act during which the outraged public calls for the culprits to be taken to account.
		Whether, at that point, current central bankers and government officials will conspire to expropriate investors' gold possessions, as Law did, remains to be seen, but we shouldn't forget that in 1933, in the midst of the Depression, the US government declared the possession of gold by individuals to be illegal.
	www.achamchen.com /the_great_swindle.htm (730 words)

	AllRefer.com - Mississippi Scheme (U.S. History) - Encyclopedia
		Mississippi Scheme, plan formulated by John Law for the colonization and commercial exploitation of the Mississippi valley and other French colonial areas.
		In 1717 the French merchant Antoine Crozat transferred his monopoly of commercial privileges in Louisiana to Law, who, with the sanction of the French regent, Philippe II, duc d'OrlEans, organized the Compagnie d'Occident.
		A few speculators sold their shares in time to make huge profits, but most were ruined when the "Mississippi Bubble" burst in Oct., 1720.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/M/MissipSchm.html (407 words)

	George B. McClellan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		McClellan resigned his commission January 16, 1857, and got into the railroad business, becoming chief engineer of the Illinois Central and then eventually division president of the Ohio and Mississippi.
		In 1872, he was named the president of the Atlantic and Great Western Railroad, and became involved in the South Improvement Company rate-rebate scheme of John D. Rockefeller Jr.
		Also in 1872, McClellan was among the many investors who were deceived by Philip Arnold in a famous diamond and gemstone hoax.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_McClellan (1291 words)

	Mississippi
		Mississippi, University of - Mississippi, University of, main campus at Oxford; state supported; coeducational; chartered 1844,...
		Mississippi Scheme - Mississippi Scheme, plan formulated by John Law for the colonization and commercial exploitation of...
		Mississippi, river, Canada - Mississippi, river, c.100 mi (160 km) long, rising E of the Kawartha Lakes, S Ont., Canada, and...
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0108232.html (389 words)

	Vanderbilt Commodores, NCAA Division I Mens Basketball, Mississippi State Bulldogs - CBS SportsLine.com
		Mississippi State is even older, its top six players juniors or seniors -- very little is going to happen on the court that they haven't seen before.
		Mississippi State gets scoring from Bowers (16.6 points) and nearly three steals per game from the Bowers-Ervin tandem, though they could stand to improve their roughly 1.5-to-1 assist-turnover ratio.
		As for Heath, he speaks of Mississippi State but might as well be referring to both of the SEC's final undefeated teams.
	www.sportsline.com /collegebasketball/story/6992376 (713 words)

	Mackay, Charles, Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Front Matter and Chapter 1: ...
		The man fell heavily to the ground, and, while the count was employed in rifling his portfolio of bonds in the Mississippi and Indian schemes to the amount of one hundred thousand crowns, Mille, the Piedmontese, stabbed the unfortunate broker again and again, to make sure of his death.
		The value of shares in the Louisiana, or Mississippi stock, had fallen very rapidly, and few indeed were found to believe the tales that had once been told of the immense wealth of that region.
		Lest the car should not roll fast enough, the agents of these companies, known by their long fox-tails and their cunning looks, turn round the spokes of the wheels, upon which are marked the names of the several stocks, and their value, sometimes high and sometimes low, according to the turns of the wheel.
	www.econlib.org /library/Mackay/macEx1.html (15783 words)

	Memoirs of Popular Delusions Vol. 1 - The Mississippi Scheme (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The personal character and career of one man are so intimately connected with the great scheme of the years 1719 and 1720, that a history of the Mississippi madness can have no fitter introduction than a sketch of the life of its great author, John Law.
		On the 5th of May, 1716, a royal edict was published, by which Law was authorised, in conjunction with his brother, to establish a bank, under the name of Law and Company, the notes of which should be received in payment of the taxes.
		The country was supposed to abound in the precious metals, and the company, supported by the profits of their exclusive commerce, were to be the sole farmers of the taxes, and sole coiners of money.
	www.worldwideschool.com /library/books/relg/socialeccltheology/MemoirsofPopularDelusionsV1/chap2.html (4699 words)

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		At the commencement of the year 1719 an edict was published, granting to the Mississippi Company the exclusive privilege of trading to the East Indies, China, and the South Seas, and to all the possessions of the French East India Company, established by Colbert.
		The Rue de Quincampoix was the grand resort of the jobbers, and it being a narrow, inconvenient street, accidents continually occurred in it, from the tremendous pressure of the crowd.
		He rebuilt the royal residence of Chantilly in a style of unwonted magnificence, and, being passionately fond of horses, he erected a range of stables, which were long renowned throughout Europe, and imported a hundred and fifty of the finest racers from England, to improve the breed in France.
	socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca /~econ/ugcm/3ll3/law/mississi (14756 words)

	MSN Encarta - Louisiana
		The Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet, which extends for 108 km (67 mi) from New Orleans to the Gulf, enables oceangoing ships to bypass the lowermost reaches of the Mississippi River delta.
		Above New Orleans a channel 13.7 m (45 ft) deep is maintained in the Mississippi River as far upstream as Baton Rouge.
		Baton Rouge is a major inland port on the Mississippi.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761560280_6/Louisiana.html (774 words)

	Mississippi Bubble -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The scheme was engineered by John Law, a Scottish adventurer, economic theorist, and financial wizard who was a friend of the regent, the Duke d'Orléans.
		The scheme was engineered by John Law, a Scottish adventurer, economic theorist, and...
		Scottish monetary reformer and originator of the &#147;Mississippi scheme”; for the development of French territories in America.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9052986 (691 words)

	The Robbins Law Firm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		KIMBERLY A. HALE is a victim of Defendants’ scheme.
		She is a resident of the State of a Mississippi.
		She resides at 1801 L Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. NORMA SANTIAGO is a victim of Defendants’ scheme.
	www.jcrobbins.com /ACSComplaint.html (5987 words)

	Learning from past investment manias \| Dr. Marc Faber
		Initially, the Mississippi Company was not profitable, because only very few French people wanted to immigrate to America and by 1719 the shares of the Mississippi Company had declined to 300 livres, down from the issue price of 500 livres.
		The Mississippi Company would pay the French government 1.5 billion livres, in return the government would repay its creditors who would then invest the money they received in the shares of the Company, which were offered to them at less than their value, as John Law argued.
		The scheme worked perfectly well for a while, as each time the Company announced some new venture additional shares were issued at higher and higher prices, which attracted a larger and larger number of speculators to participate in the mania.
	www.ameinfo.com /16533.html (1595 words)

	Jackson metro & state news - The Clarion-Ledger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Nance was sentenced Friday to the maximum 10 years in prison for his role in a scheme to defraud 41 investors out of $10.2 million.
		Nance agreed to put up $10 million for the scheme by getting unsuspecting business clients to invest their money.
		The so-called "Ponzi" scheme worked by taking money from later investors and using it to pay earlier investors.
	www.clarionledger.com /news/0402/21/m01.html (435 words)

	John Law and the Mississippi Bubble (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The weak spot in Law's scheme was his willingness to issue more bank notes to fund purchases of shares in the company.
		The dramatic increase in the NASDAQ stock index, primarily technology stocks, in 1999-2000 and its subsequent collapse in 2000-2004 is sometimes presented as a recent example of a bubble.
		At the Paris Conference in 1763, all of Louisiana east of the Mississippi River, except the Isle of Orleans, went to England.
	mshistory.k12.ms.us /features/feature22/law2.html (1856 words)

	Woman pleads guilty in Ponzi scheme - The Clarion-Ledger
		A Georgia woman pleaded guilty Friday to charges of money laundering and forfeiture in federal court in Hattiesburg for her role in a Ponzi scheme.
		The "Ponzi" scheme works by taking money from later investors and using it to pay earlier investors.
		Hamric, who also is licensed to practice in Mississippi, was arrested Thursday along with securities dealer Victor Nance and his wife, Valerie Nance of Jackson.
	orig.clarionledger.com /news/0306/07/m02.html (297 words)

	John Law
		Law was granted extensive powers to exploit the Mississippi region - in French eyes the area of North America watered by the Mississippi, and its tributaries.
		With the loss of confidence induced by the failure of the French scheme, the share-price collapsed, falling to 135 by November.
		Above the pediment stands a personification of the Mississippi, with the river flowing out of her shell.
	www.mapforum.com /05/law.htm (1891 words)

	Extraordinary Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
		The parliament was ultimately overawed by the arrest of their president and two of the councillors, who were sent to distant prisons.
		The man fell heavily to the ground, and, while the count was employed in riffing his portfolio of bonds in the Mississippi and Indian schemes to the amount of one hundred thousand crowns, Mille, the Piedmontese, stabbed the unfortunate broker again and again, to make sure of his death.
		He was dismissed from his post of Chancellor to make room for D'Aguesseau; but he retained the title of Keeper of Seals, and was allowed to attend the councils whenever he pleased, lie thought it better, however, to withdraw from Paris, and live for a time a life of seclusion at his country seat.
	www.andrewtobias.com /ExPopDel-3.html (15132 words)

	TheBearInsider.com: Coach's comments on So. Mississippi game
		Mississippi Coach Jeff Bower: we have an experienced defense and a young but eager offense.
		Mississippi scheme is to delay and re-route our wide receivers coming off the line, to gain enough time for a tough pass rush to reach the quarterback.
		It's not unusual in our scheme for a free safety to get so many tackles; In our set he's 8 to 9 yards off the line, and is part of the front line defense if the play calls for it.
	california.scout.com /2/172257.html (776 words)

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