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	Events Affecting the Constitution - The U.S. Constitution Online - USConstitution.net
		This event shocked much of the upper and ruling classes, as they realized how close the young United States came to a mass rebellion, and how ineffective the Articles of Confederation were in the quelling of such rebellion.
		The Rebellion was a motivating event that ultimately led to the Constitutional Convention.
		Schenck and four other members were arrested under the Espionage Act for conspiring to obstruct the draft.
	www.usconstitution.net /events.html (4048 words)

	Timeline of Events, Northwest Territory
		The convention issued a report that called upon the thirteen states to send representatives to a new convention to be held in Philadelphia in May, 1787, for the purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation.
		Dane made important contributions to the Ordinance of 1787 and was the compiler of the final draft of the ordinance.
		Congress selected a governor and other officers for the Northwest Territory according to the terms of the Ordinance of 1787.
	www.laughtergenealogy.com /bin/histprof/misc/nwtimeline.html (1354 words)

	AEI - Events
		Assyrians, who have suffered national and political persecution and other brutal aspects of the dictatorial regime were forced to leave their homeland and seek refuge in other countries.
		Our objection to these and other issues within the draft does not mean that we reject the aspiration of the Kurdish people and their right to express the formula they envision to create Iraqi national unity.
		Now, there were other areas that we did discuss that had to do with property, and that is the importance of property claims of people who have been either--were either internally displaced or have been forced into exile.
	www.aei.org /events/eventID.229/transcript.asp (13328 words)

	Securing Freedom And The Nation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		It is appropriate, therefore, that the use of TIA to query non-government databases be limited to the exigent circumstances that caused it to be necessary.
		Others (like the IRS database on taxpayer returns) can be accessed only with a special court order.
		More important, in each instance where data is sought from a private database, the holder of the data should be notified prior to securing the data and (as in the context of a subpoena today) have the capacity to interpose an objection to the data query to the same extent the law currently permits.
	www.heritage.org /Research/HomelandDefense/TST040903.cfm (5172 words)

	SparkNotes: The Constitution (1781–1815): Creating the Constitution: 1786–1787
		In 1787, delegates from twelve of the thirteen states (minus Rhode Island) met at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia.
		On the other hand, the president was granted the right to veto all Congressional legislation.
		Indeed, as events over the next two years would prove, the new Constitution was highly controversial.
	www.sparknotes.com /history/american/constitution/section2.rhtml (1338 words)

	Pennsylvania and the Federal Constitution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		As other states had similar matters to deal with, it was proposed that a larger and more general conference should be held at Annapolis in 1786.
		Not enough states were represented to accomplish anything definite, and at the suggestion of Alexander Hamilton, delegate from New York, the conference urged that another convention be held in May, 1787, at Philadelphia to consider measures for the strengthening of the central government.
		He was counted among the ablest lawyers of his time, and his deep understanding of political science made him one of the principal architects of the Constitution.
	www.phmc.state.pa.us /ppet/federal/page2.asp?secid=31 (531 words)

	Timelines - This Day in Alternate History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Indians, on the other hand, are sold to a group of Cleveland businessmen, who rename the team the Barons.
		These events are welcomed by the fledgeling Americans for the Banning of Baseball and that organization decides to suspend operations.
		At a Wondercon event in San Francisco, a small contigent of the "Alien Confederacy" Fan club approach former stage and occasional film actress Sigourney Weaver, who had a memorable supporting role in the first "Alien" and is known to make the odd convention appearence.
	www.othertimelines.com /testing/viewday.php?month=2&day=6 (7696 words)

	Threatened Secession by New England Over Purchase of Louisiana And Other Grievances (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Story-Webster-Lincoln myth that the Constitutional compact of 1787 was accomplished by a national body politic which parceled out some domestic responsibilities to states as inferior political subdivisions is a peculiarly New England doctrine.
		Generated primarily by the fear of power passing to other sections, threats of secession were voiced with such repetitive consistency during the nation’s infancy that historians Klos and Jones use the summary caption ‘the federal secessionist plot’ to described the various secessionist undertows emanating from New England.
		In his treatise on Webster, Henry Cabot Lodge noted that during the infancy of the experiment of the States, with a consolidated union for the exercise of specifically limited powers, the right of State voluntary withdrawal was taken for granted.
	www.southernevents.org /threatened_secession_by_new_engl.htm (2132 words)

	Bradford PA, Bradford's Other Web Site.
		But, what happened to the other seven samples is anyone's guess.
		Other top bears taken in the harvest included 671-pounder taken by Ray H. Reed of Howard at 7 a.m.
		1787 - New Jersey became the 3rd state to enter the union on this day.
	www.bradfordpa.net /archives/121804.html (1409 words)

	U.S. Senate: Art & History Home > Historical Minutes > 1787-1800
		This collection of brief essays describes important events and personalities in Senate history, and highlights recurring themes in the Senate's institutional development during its formative years, 1787 to 1800 (click on title for full story).
		In November of 1800 the U.S. Senate, along with the president and other federal offices, moved from its temporary home in Philadelphia to the still unfinished Capitol in the District of Columbia.
		Although grateful for a permanent home for the federal government, many senators were reluctant to leave behind the "convenient and elegant accommodations" of Philadelphia for the very rustic and raw environment of the new capital.
	www.senate.gov /pagelayout/history/one_item_and_teasers/1787.htm (1640 words)

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		Others would be content with a revisionary power to be overruled by three fourths of both Houses.
		The large States on the other hand urged that as the new Government was to be drawn principally from the people immediately and was to operate directly on them, not on the States; and consequently as the States wd.
		The other opponents he describes as of too little note to be mentioned, which gives a negative information of the Characters on the other side.
	www.constitution.org /jm/17871024_tj.htm (5454 words)

	The Revelation of God in History
		Discernment of this and other revelatory events requires that we belong to the inner life of a faith community that perceives its very identity as having been founded by the story of divine acts of fidelity to the promise.
		On the other hand, the account of the blind man cannot be clinically "objective" but will be filled with language of deep feeling, gratitude and emotional involvement.
		Similarly the revelatory significance of the promissory events in the life of Israel and the Church will not be obvious from the perspective of a purely external accounting.
	www.religion-online.org /showchapter.asp?title=1946&C=1787 (4091 words)

	Events
		The protection mechanism of public liberties was then translated into the prohibition of arbitrary arrests and the obligation of public authorities to bring any person who is under arrest before the judge within three days of the arrest.
		In 1787, the first American Constitution consecrated the rights of citizens as the expression of the people's conquest over the central authority in a Republic.
		Fighting for human rights is also fighting against bad treatments; tortures, mutilations and other abuses to the physical integrity of Mankind, humiliations, any violation of these banned practices will be severely punished by the law.
	www.ilhr.org /ilhr/events/wade_speech.htm (4219 words)

	Timelines - This Day in Alternate History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		This marriage is an event in the lifetime of a love.
		As a ceaseless reminder of this hour, and of the promise you have made to each other, these rings also speak of the oneness you now experience as husband and wife.
		The kiss is met with applause from those assembled, and the festivities move to the East Room, with the bride and groom passing under an arch of swords held by the Joint Chiefs of Staff and their deputies.
	www.othertimelines.com /testing/viewday.php?month=6&day=7 (8968 words)

	Colonial Williamsburg: Where History Lives
		On September 17, 1787, The Constitution of the United States was adopted by a special convention commissioned by the Congress to form a new government.
		The president of that convention was George Washington, and the principal author of the new document was James Madison.
		Over the course of that ratification period, from December 1787 through June 1788, Washington and Madison corresponded with each other and with Thomas Jefferson, the U.S. ambassador to France, about the new proposed government and its chances for ratification.
	www.history.org /visit/eventsAndExhibits/calendar/index.cfm?showthisevent=48654 (171 words)

	PBS - A Third Choice
		1787: United States Constitution is drafted in Philadelphia, and makes no mention of political parties.
		Within days, he and other progressives form the Bull Moose Party, creating, in a sense, four parties: progressive Democrats, conservative Democrats, stand-pat Republicans, and progressive Republicans.
		With the Republican and Bull Moose Party splitting the vote, Democrat Woodrow Wilson is elected president with 42 percent.
	www.pbs.org /thinktank/thirdchoice/timeline.html (1320 words)

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		A humane society is a group that aims to stop animal and human suffering due to cruelty or other reasons.
		Nightfall and Other Stories (1969) is a book collecting previously published science fiction short stories by Isaac A...
		Numerology is the study of the purported mystical or esoteric relationship between numbers and the character or acti...
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/science.html (7637 words)

	How to Create Conflict by Walter E. Williams
		In other words, democracy is just another form of tyranny -- tyranny of the majority.
		Religiously, Shia are about 60 percent of the population, Sunni 35 percent with Christian and other religions making up the balance.
		All other matters are controlled by the individual cantons and communes.
	www.humanevents.com /article.php?id=12764 (589 words)

	IF -- IF -- THIS IRAQ INVASION IS GOD'S FINAL END TIMES JUDGMENT, EVENTS WILL OCCUR ACCORDING TO THE PROPHESY -- ISAIAH ...
		Other analysts can see great danger lucking beneath the surface, and are not painting such a rosy picture.
		In other words, these armies from the "distant countries" are God's instrument of wrath, anger, and Judgment.
		While we shall have to wait to see how events are going to play out, it surely seems that this war may be the beginning of the planned World War III to produce Antichrist.
	www.cuttingedge.org /news/n1787.cfm (3264 words)

	Events and Announcements (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		This is our main job fair for the year, that we do in conjunction with seven other regional small liberal arts colleges and universities.
		By planning a joint event, we are able to attract more employers to see our students.
		As in years past, I will send you a list of students who register to attend Challenge, once that is available closer to the job fair date, and then will update you on any who do not attend as planned.
	www.roanoke.edu /announcements/dayevent.asp?eventID=1787 (201 words)

	Gandhi: 'Hind Swaraj' and Other Writings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		It is a key to understanding not only his life and thought but also the politics of South Asia in the first half of the twentieth century.
		He analyses the significance of Gandhi's experiences in England and South Africa, and examines the intellectual cross-currents from East and West that affected the formation of the mind and character of one of the twentieth century's truly outstanding figures.
		Short bibliographical synopses of prominent figures mentioned in the text and a chronology of important events are also included as aids to the reader.
	www.litencyc.com /php/adpage.php?id=1787 (166 words)

	SparkNotes: The Constitution (1781–1815): The Articles of Confederation: 1777–1787
		Interstate disputes over these western areas were common and heated: Maryland (which had no western claims) even refused to ratify the Articles of Confederation until the other states had ceded their claims.
		Other states followed suit, and within a few years the national government was responsible for governing these territories.
		Later, Congress passed the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 to establish a process for admitting these territories to the Union as states.
	www.sparknotes.com /history/american/constitution/section1.html (1340 words)

	AEI - Events
		It must not be seen as an instrument of one community to coerce other communities as was the case in Saddam's time.
		Ahmad, the question is, when the American constitution was adopted in 1787, there was a lot of opposition to it.
		CHALABI: Now as for the other side, you will recall I had offered before anybody thought of it back on May 23rd, 2004, on four national television shows that I'm prepared to go to the Senate and respond to questions.
	aei.org /events/filter.foreign,eventID.1192/transcript.asp (6882 words)

	Bush's Crimes Against Humanity and the Planet
		A threat or use of nuclear weapons should also be compatible with the requirements of the international law applicable in armed conflict particularly those of the principles and rules of international humanitarian law, as well as with specific obligations under treaties and other undertakings which expressly deal with nuclear weapons.
		It follows from the above mentioned requirements that the threat or use of nuclear weapons would generally be contrary to the rules of international law applicable in armed conflict, and in particular the principles and rules of humanitarian law.
		The only other country not to ratify is Somalia, which has no functioning government.
	www.motherearth.org /bushwanted/laws.php (3385 words)

	MichaelMoore.com : Social Security Events Belie U.S. Feeling
		Bush has hosted Social Security events in 14 states since his Feb. 2 State of the Union address.
		Only when dissenters manage to slip into the presidential events and voice their disapproval is there an inkling of what opinion polls clearly show: Not everyone is on board.
		The woman, one of four people who interrupted Bush's remarks, was escorted out of the event.
	www.michaelmoore.com /words/index.php?id=1787 (476 words)

	EDSITEment - Lesson Plan
		Lesson Two: A Documentary Timeline of Important Events (1787-1800): Time will vary depending on need and how the timeline is used.
		The handout "Timeline of Events Related to the Development of the U.S. Party System," (see Preparing to Teach This Curriculum Unit for download instructions), provides a list of events from 1787 to 1801.
		When the class has completed this exercise, move on to the fourth question and ask the students to decide what additional events or circumstances were critical to the formation of these first parties.
	edsitement.neh.gov /view_lesson_plan.asp?id=559 (796 words)

	Indiana Humanities Council
		Scott discussed the Bay of Pigs fiasco and other events leading up to the JFK assassination and traces the continuing involvement of Cuban exile figures in subsequent U.S. political scandals such as Watergate.
		In 1787, the year of its birth, the Constitution of the United States was a striking innovation in the design of republican govern nationhood and a practical instrument of government.
		Madison discussed the necessity of having a legislative body in which members would serve for a long period of time, protecting the people from their own "fickleness and passion" as opposed to a body popularly elected every two years, which might be more susceptible to public opinion.
	www.indianahumanities.org /htgPS.htm (1385 words)

	American Heritage Education Foundation, Inc.
		Many were interested in an accurate portrayal of events surrounding the formation of the country.
		While some students opposed Riner's message because of its Biblical content, many others cited Riner's right to free speech among many viewpoints and the crucial role of the university (as an educational institution) as a place to explore and contend with such important, philosophical questions.
		We offer these workshops in order to increase awareness of the curriculum by training other teachers/educators to be presenters in their own schools and communities.
	www.americanheritage.org /events.html (1494 words)

	Constitution Day :: San Diego Unified School District
		To support schools in teaching about this important event in American history, links to program options and resources are provided below.
		The Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 by James Madison
		A public announcement, school bulletin, or facts about the Constitution can be read over the intercom, or read by classroom teachers at the beginning of the day.
	www.sandi.net /events/constitution_day (522 words)

	The American Experience \| The Duel \| People & Events \| George Washington
		Alexander Hamilton, on the other hand, admired him and stood by his side as he helped shape the new Constitutional government on largely Federalist principles.
		When the country called delegates to form a new government to replace the Articles of Confederation in 1787, Washington was chosen to lead both the Virginia delegation and the entire convention.
		Throughout, he advocated not a temporary fix, but a radical restructuring that would give the central government the power it needed to survive.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/duel/peopleevents/pande12.html (680 words)

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