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	Wessex - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Wessex was one of the seven major Anglo-Saxon kingdoms (the Heptarchy) that preceded the kingdom of England.
		Wessex was, according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, founded by Cerdic and Cynric, although the specifics given by the ASC are considered to be mostly fictitious.
		Wessex groups are currently campaigning for boundary revisions to the regions in order to more closely match their definitions of Wessex.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Wessex (721 words)

	Wessex - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (ASC), Wessex was founded by Cerdic and Cynric, chieftains of a clan known as "Gewisse", although the specific events given by the ASC are considered to be suspect.
		Wessex expanded its boundaries and clashed with its neighbours, notably Celtic Dumnonia (essentially modern day Devon and Cornwall), which it eventually came to dominate, and with Mercia.
		In an unusual move, Prince Edward was made Earl of Wessex and Viscount Severn in honour of his marriage to Sophie Rhys-Jones (styled as Countess of Wessex) in 1999.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wessex (994 words)

	British monarchy - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		During the ninth century, Wessex came to dominate other kingdoms in England, especially as a result of the extinction of rival lines in England during the First Viking Age, and during the tenth century England was consolidated into a single realm.
		It has long been established in the unwritten Constitution of the United Kingdom that political power is ultimately exercised by the Parliament of the United Kingdom, of which the Sovereign is a non-partisan component, along with the House of Lords and the House of Commons, and by the Prime Minister and Cabinet.
		On 12 February 1689, the Convention Parliament declared that James's flight constituted an abdication, and that William III and Mary II (not James II's Catholic son James Francis Edward Stuart) were joint Sovereigns of England and Ireland.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/British_monarchy (9666 words)

	Wessex - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Archaeological evidence points to an origin in the upper Thames and Cotswolds area, and the ASC origin myth may have been political propaganda designed to justify a later invasion of the Jutish province in southern Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
		Wessex Archaeology - An educational charity and the largest UK archaeological practice.
		Wessex culture - an archaeological label used anachronistically to describe a bronze age culture whose remains are found in the Wessex area
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Wessex (990 words)

	Wessex (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Wessex is the name of the former kingdom which originated in south-central England and expanded to cover the whole of the south west.
		The theory that Wessex originated with the landing of Cerdic in Southampton Water in 495AD with the kingdom expanding from south to north as stated in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle has now largely been refuted based on the evidence from archaeology and historical sources, supported by research by academics such as John Blair and Barbara Yorke.
		Wessex had no cohesive origin but seems to have comprised several kin groups, possibly mercenaries, who finally became territorially established and identifiable to history in the region around Dorchester-on-Thames in Oxfordshire by the mid 6th century.
	home.comcast.net /~desilva22/Wessex.htm (1080 words)

	fr Wessex Wessex was one of the seven major...
		fr:Wessex "Wessex" was one of the seven major Anglo-Saxon Anglo-Saxon kingdoms (the Heptarchy Heptarchy) that preceded the kingdom of England England.
		Wessex was, according to the "Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Anglo-Saxon Chronicle", founded by Cerdic Cerdic and Cynric Cynric, although the specifics given by the "ASC" are considered to be mostly fictitious.
		The Wessex Constitutional Convention Wessex Constitutional Convention is an all-party pressure group pressure group in which those sympathetic to Wessex devolution who are not members of the Wessex Regionalist Party can also be represented.
	www.biodatabase.de /Wessex (520 words)

	The Wessex Constitutional Convention
		From Reading in the east to Plymouth in the west, from Bournemouth in the south to Gloucester in the north, Wessex is a dynamic and very distinct region, where there is a growing demand for a parliament with the same level of powers as that in Scotland.
		The Wessex Constitutional Convention was launched on 19 May 2001, in Exeter.
		Wessex, the cradle of England, is today a region with growing self confidence.
	hometown.aol.co.uk /crackytown/myhomepage/faith.html (411 words)

	Cynegils of Wessex dgun.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties is the authoritative treaty on the international law of treaties, establishing the procedures by which treaties are adopted, interpreted, and invalidated.
		Though the constitution does not expressly provide for any alternative procedure and although some noted constitutional scholars, such as Laurence Tribe, believe that CEAs are unconstitutional, the Supreme Court has considered these agreements to be valid, and that any disagreements are a political question for the executive and legislative branches to work out amongst themselves.
		However, the Vienna Convention provides that states are not excused from their treaty obligations on the grounds that they violate the state's constitution, unless the violation is manifestly obvious at the time of contracting the treaty.
	2005.en.dgun.org /en/Cynegils+of+Wessex (10956 words)

	Wessex Regionalist Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Wessex Regionalist Party was formed in 1974 by Alexander Thynne.
		It is a minor political party formed to try and establish some form of legislative and administrative devolved system for the area known as Wessex, in the south-west of England.
		It was established in response to growing demands for home rule in both Scotland and Wales arguing that devolution there would neccesitate a coherent federal system across the United Kingdom as a whole.
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/w/we/wessex_regionalist_party.html (174 words)

	The Third Amendment and the Issue of Standing Armies:
		Because constitutional government was being held in limbo pending its drafting and acceptance by the intended sovereigns, speed was essential, and its principles had to be ones acceptable to virtually all members of the legislature, from the most conservative Tory to the most radical Whig.
		While parliament must heed the "Constitution," the constitution was what parliament said it was.[85] The colonist, whose initial conflict was with parliament and not the king, necessarily had to take issue.[86] 0ne counter was to amplify the concept of individual rights which existed somehow beyond the scope of any governmental interference.
		Constitution of Massachusetts of 1780 ("In time of peace, no soldiers ought to be quartered in any house without the consent of the owner; and in time of war, such quarters ought not to be made but by civil magistrate, in a manner ordained by the legislature").
	www.saf.org /LawReviews/FieldsAndHardy2.html (12810 words)

	Devolution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Federal systems or a federacies differ in that sub-state government is guaranteed in the constitution.
		However, the governments of the 50 states have a broad range of powers reserved to them by the U.S. Constitution, and most of their laws cannot be voided by any act of the U.S. federal government.
		The District of Columbia, by contrast, is constitutionally under the sole control of the United States Congress, which created the current District government by statute.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Home_rule (1389 words)

	Stevens: Sources of the Constitution: Chapter 3
		And that constitution, in all the essential points, they brought with them into their new homes; and there transplanted to a new soil, it grew and flourished, and brought forth fruit rich and more lasting than it brought forth in the land of its earlier birth.
		Many of the new State constitutions made provision for the deputy governor to preside in the upper house of the legislature, and also to succeed to the governorship in case of vacancy.
		Almost every State represented in the Convention possessed a legislature of two houses; and the colonial tendency from the beginning of settlement on the Western Continent had been, as we have seen, to follow the usage of the historic two houses of the mother-land.
	www.constitution.org /cmt/ces/cessc_3.htm (6105 words)

	Home Page
		Wessex Regionalists, founded in 1974 by Alexander Thynne (now Lord Bath), are the oldest regionalist political party in England, and were advocating regional devolution for Wessex long before English regionalism entered mainstream political consciousness.
		Wessex is administered by 7 county councils with a total of 28 district, 13 borough and 4 city councils; 16 unitary district authorities (including 7 boroughs and 4 cities); one unitary county (Isle of Wight) and 2,244 parish councils.
		This means that the GDP per head index for Wessex (where UK figure=100) equals 108, compared to 109 for the South East region and 91 for the South West, the latter being the poorest English region south of the Humber.
	www.zyworld.com /wessexsociety/caseforwessex.htm (2758 words)

	Federal Union \| Scottish constitutional convention
		The Convention grew out of the Claim of Right, with the aims of defining the powers, composition and structure of a Scottish Parliament, and enlisting the support of the Scottish people in creating - or re-creating - their Parliament, which had disappeared in 1707.
		In sum, the Scottish Constitutional Convention was an invaluable means of gathering support from key sectors of Scottish life and opinion for the eventual shape and character of the Parliament.
		The Convention's Report, the government White Paper on Scottish devolution of July 1997 and the Scotland Act 1998 were closely studied in Cardiff and Belfast from 1995 to 1998.
	www.federalunion.org.uk /uk/scotland.shtml (2001 words)

	Wessex, England (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The wyvern is appearing more and more as a symbol of Wessex (my son's school for example has a wyvern on its badge) and the flag is used by the Wessex Regionalist Party, the Wessex Society and is the symbol of the Wessex Constitutional Convention, the group pushing for a parliament for Wessex.
		A wyvern on a pedestal inscribed "Wessex" was the badge of the Wessex Brigade, 1958-69, and the Wessex Regiment, 1967-95.
		The 43rd (Wessex) Division badge is sometimes quoted as being on fl but the illustration I have seen uses a blue background.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/gb-wessx.html (1231 words)

	Somerset Flag Forum
		This is comprised of the Wessex Regionalists, the Wessex Society and the Wessex Constitutional Convention.
		Wessex and virtually interest in Wessex as a defined region was as dead as a doornail for nearly a thousand years until Hardy took the name and used it in his novels.
		In that sense the kingdom of Wessex was shrunk down to the size of a county in the manner of Essex, Middlesex and Sussex.
	www.somersetflag.com /critique.html (3923 words)

	Wessex and Chard for the Tourist & Business Person- Gateway to the South
		Chard is an epicentre for Somerset, Devon, Dorset and Wessex.
		THE WESSEX CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION is an all party group that is forwarding the exciting plans of all the people of WESSEX to have their own parliament, with powers equal to those of Scotland.
		It was during the reign of King Athelstan (925-939), however, that the royal house of Wessex reached a peak of splendor and success, and the Wessex king could proudly lay claim to the title "King of all Britain".
	www.wessex.talktalk.net /chardpics.html (4428 words)

	BBC - Devon - devolution message board
		Even worse on this issue, the Bishop of Exeter is chairing a completely bogus convention which seeks to grant a facade of credibility to the regional govrnment in waiting, the SW Regional Assembly.
		Wessex Society felt able to lend its name to a joint submission with the Regionalists and the Constitutional Convention responding to the government's white paper on regional governance, as this concentrated purely on the boundary issue rather than the specifics of how Wessex should be governed.
		As I said before, I don't want a bar of a Wessex region, and the 'Wessex Constitutional Convention' website was kind enough to ask for feedback on which counties should be in, and out.
	www.bbc.co.uk /devon/have_your_say/devolution_04.shtml (2671 words)

	Wessex Society Forum - A Bravenet.com Forum
		Having said that, there are certain issues that affect Wessex more than some regions, such as agricultural policy, tourism issues and defence spending (due to the role of the armed forces in Wessex's economy).
		Of coures these are not unique to Wessex, but the emphasis may be stronger in Salisbury than in Liverpool, for example.
		The only political campaigning we have taken part in is to join the other Wessex organisations previously mentioned in calling for the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister to rethink their ridiculous regional boundaries that cut Wessex in half.
	pub48.bravenet.com /forum/4108908225/fetch/63730 (216 words)

	THE FEBRUARY 2001 ISSUE OF CHRONICLES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Framers of the Constitution, although undoubtedly skeptical of the ability of the people at large to decide on national affairs, were not opposed to popular election per se.
		But while proposed constitutional amendments to abolish the Electoral College have never gone anywhere, the system has been successfully undermined in the states over the years by the forces of faction, which go today by the name of political parties.
		There is nothing in the Constitution that requires all the votes of a state to go to one candidate.
	www.chroniclesmagazine.org /Chronicles/February2001/0201RoundTable.htm (3599 words)

	Berkshire oddd.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The county is one of the oldest in England, being reliably dated back to the setting of the traditional county borders by King Alfred the Great of Wessex.
		Following the reorganisation of local government in 1974, Abingdon (its traditional county town) and the Vale of the White Horse were transferred to Oxfordshire, Slough was added from Buckinghamshire, and Reading became the county town.
		On April 1, 1998 the county council was abolished and the districts became unitary authorities.
	www.oddd.org /en/Berkshire (9637 words)

	wikien.info: Wessex (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The earldom has recently been revived for His Royal Highness Prince Edward.
		Wessex Archaeology - An educational charity and the largest UK archaeological practice [link]
		Wessex culture - an archæological label used [[wikt:anachronisticanachronistic]]ally to describe a bronze age culture whose remains are found in the Wessex area
	www.wikien.info /index.php?title=Wessex (1043 words)

	Family Members of Mine
		Innes joined the movement for immediate, unconditional separation from Virginia, and was a member of at least eight of the conventions held before statehood was achieved in 1792, as well as both of the first two constitutional conventions.
		He was a delegate to the 1849 Kentucky Constitutional Convention and served in the Kentucky House in 1851 and the State Senate in 1852.
		In 1784, Shelby was chairman of a convention called to consider an expedition against the Indians and separation of Kentucky from Virginia.
	www.brennancallan.com /fam1.html (16834 words)

	Powell's Books - The Return of the Native (Modern Library Classics) by Thomas Hardy
		Thomas Hardy was born on June 2, 1840, in a thatched-roof cottage in upper Bockhampton, Dorset, England, a prophetic birthplace that lay in the center of 'Wessex,' the fictional region of southwest England which would serve as the backdrop for his novels.
		The eldest son of a prosperous builder and stonemason, Hardy was educated at the village school and apprenticed at the age of sixteen to local architect and church restorer John Hicks.
		His heart was buried in the Wessex countryside in the parish churchyard at Stinsford; his ashes were placed next to those of Charles Dickens in the Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey.
	powells.com /biblio?isbn=037575718x (1592 words)

	THE WESSEX INFORMATION PAGE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		This site draws together the various groups working to publicise and develop the nation of WESSEX and as a point of contact and information for THE WESSEX SOCIETY, WESSEX CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION and WESSEX REGIONALIST PARTY.
		THE WESSEX SOCIETY is dedicated to preserving and developing the cultural and linguistic heritage of Wessex.
		Until borders are agreed with all the various regionalist groups in England WESSEX for our purposes consists of the counties of Somerset, Wiltshire, Dorset, Devon, Hampshire, Berkshire, Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire.
	hometown.aol.co.uk /crackytown/myhomepage/newsletter.html (156 words)

	search.com - Wessex - Search.com Reference
		Society > Religion and Spirituality > Christianity > Denominations > United Reformed Church > Synods > Wessex Synod (24)
		Society > Religion and Spirituality > Christianity > Denominations > United Reformed Church > Synods > Wessex Synod > Churches (24)
		Reference > Education > Colleges and Universities > Europe > United Kingdom > England > Wessex Institute of Technology (1)
	domainhelp.search.com /reference/Wessex (1138 words)

	Powell's Books - Jude the Obscure (Modern Library Classics) by Thomas Hardy
		The experience so exhausted Hardy that he never wrote a work of fiction again.
		Rich in symbolism, Jude the Obscure is the story of Jude Fawley and his struggle to rise from his station as a poor Wessex stonemason to that of a scholar at Christminster.
		It is also the story of Jude’s ill-fated relationship with his cousin Sue Bridehead, and the ultimate tragedy that causes Jude’s undoing and Sue’s transformation.
	powells.com /biblio?isbn=0375757414 (816 words)

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