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- 911: Commonwealth
- ... defeated. 1932 - 1968: Eamon de Valera won the Irish Free State elections with his new republican party Fianna Fail. De Valera ended the oath of loyalty to the British monarch and brought in a republican constitution. The Irish Free State was renamed Eire and it remained neutral during World War II. Eire became the Republic of Ireland and joined the United Nations. Northern Ireland: suffered from the economic depression, but the ...
- 912: The French Revolution
- ... number of representatives in the Estates-General as the first estate4 (100,000) and the second estate5 (400,000) combined. Once the Estates-General had been renamed the National Assembly by the third estate a constitution was in the works. During this time the people of France became restless, food shortages plagued the country side. It also appeared that Louis XVI might dissolve the National Assembly. Desperate times called for desperate ...
- 913: Sedition Act Of 1798
- ... of support for the government. Those who spoke against the Sedition bill were accused of being in league with the Jacobeans. Edward Livingston, in opposing the bill said, If we are ready to violate the Constitution, will the people submit to our unauthorized acts? Sir, they ought not to submit; they would deserve the chains that our measures are forging for them, if they did not resist. The Federalist accused Livingston ...
- 914: The Political And Religious Wi
- ... afforded a monarchy (Kagan 449). During the seventeenth century two forms of government had been developed in Europe. The first, adopted by England was constitutionalism, which would prove to be the best. It created a Constitution, written by the people, which governed the people (Kagan 449). The other form of government, adopted by France was Absolutism. In absolutism all the power was held by the monarchy, which meant that the people ...
- 915: Aids
- ... Cited Flanders, Stephen A. AIDS , Facts on File, New York; 1991 Greenberg, Lorna. AIDS, understanding the epidemic,MN; Life Skills education Inc. 1994 Haney, Daniel Q. Scientist: AIDS came from Chimps, Atlanta Journal and and constitution, GA,1999. Mckenzie, Nancy F. The AIDS reader, US; A meridian Book,1991 Murphy, Dean E. Africans Silent Shame, CA; Los Angeles Times, 1998 Aids in Africa A Unaids fact sheet, November 30, Johannesburg ...
- 916: South Africa
- ... and "take over the land." In February 1990 president F. W. de Klerk released Nelson Mandela under some certain circumstances. Mandela assumed leadership of the ANC and led negotiations with the government for a new constitution that would grant political power to the country's black majority population. In 1991 the government repealed the last of the laws that formed the legal basis for apartheid. But then something bad happened, Mandela ...
- 917: Aeschylus
- ... city-state in the heart o f the Peloponnesos, without a powerful Sparta, extended control over some smaller neighboring cities. In 462, Argos, Athens, and Thessaly formed an informal alliance. In 461, Argos changed her constitution from aristocratic to democratic. Her assembly, courts, and other features mimicked those of Athens. Something to note is Palmieri 3 whether or not these events had any influence over Aeschylus decision to move the locale ...
- 918: The Cyprus Problem
- ... continued unlawfully to campaign against a bi-communal independent state and on 21 December 1963 put into effect their plan for a general onslaught on the Turkish Cypriot community. The aim was to abrogate the constitution of the country through the use of force and bring about ENOSIS (annexation of Cyprus to Greece). Turkish Cypriot members of the joint Parliament and the joint Government were expelled from their offices, the entire ...
- 919: The Return To Mecca, Muhammad
- ... contact with the Jews may have prepared them for a messianic religious leader, who would deliver them from oppression and establish a kingdom in which justice prevailed. A document has been preserved known as the Constitution of Medina. In its present form, it is a combination of at least two earlier documents and was probably compiled later than 627, but its main provisions are almost certainly those originally agreed upon between ...
- 920: Caesar And Naopoleon
- ... discovered his own military genius, Caesar was evidently fascinated and obsessed by military and imperial problems. He gave them an absolute priority over the more delicate by no less fundamental task of revising the Roman constitution. The need in the latter sphere was a solution which would introduce such elements of authoritarianism, which were necessary to check corruption and administrative weakness (Grant, Caesar 61). The story of all his battles and ...
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