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	The Ultimate United States Constitution - American History Information Guide and Reference
		The former clause prevented Congress from prohibiting the slave trade until 1808; the latter required direct taxes to be apportioned among the states according to their populations.
		Congress is permitted to regulate the manner in which proof of such acts, records or proceedings may be admitted.
		The United States is a common law country, and courts are obliged to follow the precedents established in prior cases.
	www.historymania.com /american_history/United_States_Constitution (4435 words)

	Andrew Jackson's Seventh Annual Message :: Tracking Westward Expansion & the Trail of Tears
		In addition to the injury in the nonpayment of the money by France, conformably to her engagement, the United States were exposed to a heavy claim on the part of the bank under pretense of damages, in satisfaction of which that institution seized upon and still retains an equal amount of the public money.
		Congress was in session when the decision of the Chambers reached Washington, and an immediate communication of this apparently final decision of France not to fulfill the stipulation of the treaty was the course naturally to be expected from the President.
		That the feelings produced in the United States by the news of the rejection of the appropriation would be such as I have described them to have been was foreseen by the French Government, and prompt measures were taken by it to prevent the consequence.
	www.synaptic.bc.ca /ejournal/JacksonSeventhAnnualMessage.htm (5698 words)

	United States (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		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.
	abcworld.net /United_States.html (6108 words)

	UNODC - UN Crime Congresses
		United Nations congresses are major global events with a distinguished history and recognized achievements that have reverberated throughout the world.
		Invitations to the Eleventh Congress will be sent to Governments through their Permanent Missions at New York and Vienna, as well as to representatives of intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations, specialized agencies and other United Nations entities.
		The Union suggested that the Congress should devote some time to consideration of poverty reduction through debt cancellation, as a strong tool for the prevention of illicit trafficking and abuse of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, and for preventive drug abuse education.
	www.unodc.org /unodc/en/crime_cicp_congresses.html (2145 words)

	Constitution for the United States of America
		The Congress may determine the Time of chusing the Electors, and the Day on which they shall give their Votes; which Day shall be the same throughout the United States.
		The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall neither be increased nor diminished 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.
		For purposes of representation in the Congress, election of the President and Vice President, and article V of this Constitution, the District constituting the seat of government of the United States shall be treated as though it were a State.
	www.constitution.org /cons/constitu.htm (4802 words)

	The Constitution of the United States of America
		United States,\34\ the Court ruled that the Amendment requires trial by jury in civil actions to determine liability for civil penalties under the Clean Water Act, but not to assess the amount of penalty.
		The Seventh Amendment was interpreted to mean that equitable and legal issues could not be tried in the same suit, so that such aid in the federal courts had to be sought in separate proceedings.
		Federal statutes prohibiting courts of the United States from sustaining suits in equity where the remedy was complete at law served to guard the right of trial by jury and were liberally construed.
	www.gpoaccess.gov /constitution/html/amdt7.html (3445 words)

	United States - Demopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Continental Congress first convened in 1774, not to declare a desire for independence from England, but to redress the wrongs that had been inflicted upon the colonies.
		It's end represented the true birth of the United States of America, regardless that the Declaration of Independence was written early in the process.
		The Progressive Era is the period in the United States during which numerous reforms were made in an attempt to curb corruption in the government and industry.
	demopedia.democraticunderground.com /index.php/United_States (735 words)

	The Avalon Project : U.S. Constitution : Article I
		The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, (chosen by the Legislature thereof,) (The preceding five words were superseded by Amendment XVII) for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote.
		The migration or importation of such persons as any of the states now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the year 1808, but a tax or duty may be imposed on such importations, not exceeding 10 dollars for each person.
		No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no person holding any office or profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state.
	www.yale.edu /lawweb/avalon/art1.htm (1746 words)

	United States Constitution information - Search.com
		Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
		"Congress and all thirteen state legislatures approved the new ratification process as required by the Articles." Eleven states held ratification conventions (approved by their legislatures) and approved the Constitution by July 26, 1788, a direct approval of the change in procedure.
		Amar's interpretation has the appeal that it allows the Constitution ratification be legal, yet also makes the secession of the states prior to the American Civil War illegal, as South Carolina and her sister states had ceased to be sovereign nations by ratifying the Constitution.
	domainhelp.search.com /reference/United_States_Constitution (5912 words)

	The 27th Amendment to the Constitution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		This particular amendment was ratified by only six states (MD, NC, SC, DE, VT, VA) out of the eleven needed, and aside from the idiosyncratic action of the Ohio legislature in 1873, which ratified the proposal in protest of a controversial pay increase adopted by Congress, the congressional pay amendment had long been assumed dead.
		This amendment, submitted to the states in the 11th Congress (around 1811), said that any citizen who accepted or received any title of nobility from a foreign power, or who accepted without the consent of Congress any gift from a foreign power, by would no longer be a citizen.
		In 1926, an amendment was proposed which granted Congress the power to regulate the labor of children under the age of 18.
	www.uwm.edu /People/jnelsen/ushist/27amend.html (565 words)

	Chapter 25
		Acknowledging the United States as the major contributor, the U.N. Security Council on July 7 asked it to form a command into which all forces would be integrated and to appoint a commander.
		To strengthen the line, he committed the 2d Division to the central sector where positions were weakest, even though that unit had not fully recovered from losses in the Kunu-ri roadblock, and pressed General Almond to quicken the preparation of the X Corps whose forces needed refurbishing before moving to the front.
		For as a gradual development since the Chinese intervention, the United States and other members of the UNC coalition by that time were willing, as they had not been the past autumn, to accept the clearance of enemy troops from South Korea as a suitable final result of their effort.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/books/AMH/AMH-25.htm (9810 words)

	USAJOBS - USAJobs FAQ
		Today's United States Capitol Police Officer has the primary responsibility for protecting life and property; preventing, detecting, and investigating criminal acts; and enforcing traffic regulations throughout a large complex of congressional buildings, parks, and thoroughfares.
		Additionally, the protection of Members of Congress, Officers of Congress, and their families is expanded by statute to the entire United States, its territories and possessions, and the District of Columbia.
		Selection and assignment to these units is accomplished on a competitive basis and is available to officers after one (1) to two (2) years of field experience.
	www.usajobs.opm.gov /ei51.asp (1823 words)

	Basic Principles on the Independence of the Judiciary, Seventh United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and ...
		Basic Principles on the Independence of the Judiciary, Seventh United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders, Milan, 26 August to 6 September 1985, U.N. Doc.
		The independence of the judiciary shall be guaranteed by the State and enshrined in the Constitution or the law of the country.
		The judiciary shall be bound by professional secrecy with regard to their deliberations and to confidential information acquired in the course of their duties other than in public proceedings, and shall not be compelled to testify on such matters.
	www1.umn.edu /humanrts/instree/i5bpij.htm (1011 words)

	1850 Census of Population and Housing
		The seventh census was governed by the provisions of an act of May 23, 1850, which directed that six schedules be used to collect the information requested by the Congress.
		The Seventh Census of the United States: 1850.
		Mortality statistics of the Seventh Census of the United States, 1850...
	www.census.gov /prod/www/abs/decennial/1850.htm (384 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online:
		In March 1898 he purchased the Free State Enterprise, a Canton weekly newspaper, for which he served as editor until 1901, when he was made assistant journal clerk of the Texas Senate.
		Sanders was elected to the state legislature for two terms beginning in 1902.
		In 1920 he was elected Third District member of the Sixty-seventh United States Congress, where he served until 1930.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/SS/fsa23.html (424 words)

	Seventh District United States Coast Guard Auxiliary Web Site - Public Index
		Greetings from all the members of the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary in the Seventh District.
		The United States Coast Guard Auxiliary is the civilian, uniformed volunteer component of the United States Coast Guard, as well as the lead volunteer force in the Department of Homeland Security.
		The "Super Seventh" has 870 operational boats, 500 VHF radio stations facilities and over 57 aircraft to assist the United States Coast Guard.
	cgaux7.org /index_public.asp (368 words)

	Teacher Lesson Plan - In Congress Assembled
		Upon this principle they recommend to Congress, that in the present requisition for three millions of dollars, the quotas of the several states be as follows, viz.
		Provided nevertheless, that where any state hath made provision by law, for paying any part of the interest of the domestic debt of the United States contained in the estimate on which this
		That the board of treasury cause to be made a bank-paper, and thereon to be struck the form of certificates, to evidence the interest due as aforesaid, and transmit to the several loan-officers, a sufficient number of the same.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/constitu/debt3.html (381 words)

	Lewis and Clark in North Dakota - Credits
		The Debates & Proceedings in the Congress of the United States.
		He concluded that "the North American Indian in his native state is an honest, hospitable, faithful, brave, warlike, cruel, revengeful, relentless,--yet honourable, contemplative and religious being." Catlin spent three weeks with the Mandans in the summer of 1832, painting portraits of their chiefs, picturing village life, religious ceremonies, games and dances.
		Message of President Thomas Jefferson to Congress on the progress of the Corps of Discovery, February 19, 1806 (3 pp.).
	dorgan.senate.gov /students/lewis_and_clark/credits.html (715 words)

	Workers World April 17, 2003: Seventh Cavalry's first massacre was in 1868
		Commissioned by Congress in 1866, the Seventh Cavalry is one of the oldest continuously serving regiments in the U.S. It was initially given the task of quelling Native uprisings and ensuring that pioneers were safe in the Midwestern states.
		On Nov. 27, 1868, Custer led the regiment in a pre-dawn raid on a peaceful Cheyenne encampment on the Washita River in Oklahoma.
		The Seventh Cavalry was exonerated for its conduct.
	www.workers.org /ww/2003/cavalry0417.php (843 words)

	Holland & Knight LLP - United States - Seventh Circuit Deals Blow to Critical Vendor Doctrine (16/06/2004) from Mondaq
		On February 24, 2004, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit issued a decision in an appeal arising out of the Kmart Corporation (Kmart) bankruptcy that may dramatically affect large and small business bankruptcy cases across the country.
		The Seventh Circuit affirmed a United States District Court’s reversal of an order by the Bankruptcy Court in the Kmart bankruptcy case that had granted the debtor authority to pay in full prepetition claims of any vendor the deb
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	The Avalon Project : South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification, November 24, 1832.
		An ordinance to nullify certain acts of the Congress of the United States, purporting to be laws laying duties and imposts on the importation of foreign commodities.
		Done in convention at Columbia, the twenty-fourth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, and in the fifty-seventh year of the Declaration of the Independence of the United States of America.
		The Federalist : A commentary on the Constitution of the United States by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay edited with notes, illustrative documents and a copious index by Paul Leicester Ford.
	www.yale.edu /lawweb/avalon/states/sc/ordnull.htm (127 words)

	The History Place - Constitution of the United States
		The Congress shall assemble at least once in every Year, and such Meeting shall be on the first Monday in December, unless they shall by Law appoint a different Day.
		No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.
		No Person held to Service or Labour in one State, under the Laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in Consequence of any Law or Regulation therein, be discharged from such Service or Labour, but shall be delivered up on Claim of the Party to whom such Service or Labour may be due.
	www.historyplace.com /unitedstates/revolution/us-constitution.htm (2555 words)

	Congressional Research Service Employment Home Page
		The Congressional Research Service is where Members of Congress turn for the nonpartisan research, analysis, and information they need to make informed decisions on behalf of the American people.
		CRS employs a highly educated professional staff who are hired, retained, and promoted on the basis of merit and accomplishment.
		The Library of Congress, 101 Independence Avenue, SE, Washington, DC 20540-7500
	www.loc.gov /crsinfo (114 words)

	Teacher Resources - Feature - Thanksgiving in American Memory: Founders
		Following the Revolutionary War, the Continental Congress recognized the need to give thanks for delivering the country from war and into independence.
		Done in Congress, at Philadelphia, the eleveth day of October, in the year of our LORD one thousand seven hundred and eighty-two, and of our Sovereignty and Independence, the seventh.
		NOTE: In Continental Congress and Constitutional Convention, 1774-1789, search on Thanksgiving to see the original document above, " State of New-Hampshire.
	memory.loc.gov /learn/features/thanks/thanks.html (140 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online:
		On November 2, 1920, Wurzbach was elected to the Sixty-seventh United States Congress from the Fourteenth Texas District, the first native Texan to be a Republican representative.
		He was also the first Republican from Texas to be elected for more than two terms, for he was reelected to the Sixty-eighth, Sixty-ninth, Seventieth, and Seventy-second congresses.
		He died in San Antonio on November 6, 1931, and was buried there in the National Cemetery.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/WW/fwu4.html (267 words)

	Congressman Pombo's Web Site for Kids (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Congressman Richard Pombo represents the 11th Congressional District of California in the House of Representatives in Washington, DC.
		Congressman Pombo was sworn into his seventh term in January of 2005.
		The Senate is made up of 100 Senators, two from each state.
	www.house.gov /pombo/kids/kids.htm (501 words)

	One Hundred Seventh Congress of the United States of America, from Lawrence Associates - Business White Papers, ...
		One Hundred Seventh Congress of the United States of America, from Lawrence Associates - Business White Papers, Webcasts and Case Studies - BNET.com
		One Hundred Seventh Congress of the United States of America
		Overview: This article provides an act summary to protect investors by improving the accuracy and reliability of corporate disclosures made pursuant to the securities laws, and for other purposes.
	jobfunctions.bnet.com /whitepaper.aspx?docid=67219 (379 words)

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