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1012000 New Year Honours — The insignia of the Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George: Andrew Wood was awarded the Grand Cross in this Honours list. The New Year Honours 2000 for the United Kingdom were announced on 31 December 1999, to celebrate the year… …
102Yakus v. United States — Infobox SCOTUS case Litigants = Yakus v. United States ArgueDate = January 7 ArgueYear = 1944 DecideDate = March 27 DecideYear = 1944 FullName = Albert Yakus v. United States USVol = 321 USPage = 414 Citation = Prior = Subsequent = Holding = An… …
103Civil liberties in the United Kingdom — have a long and formative history. This is usually considered to have begun with the English legal charter the Magna Carta of 1215, following its predecessor the English Charter of Liberties, a landmark document in English legal history. Judicial …
104United Kingdom — a kingdom in NW Europe, consisting of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: formerly comprising Great Britain and Ireland 1801 1922. 58,610,182; 94,242 sq. mi. (244,100 sq. km). Cap.: London. Abbr.: U.K. Official name, United Kingdom of Great… …
105Roger B. Taney: Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) — ▪ Primary Source By the mid 1850s there existed a widespread feeling that the slavery question, which Congress had been unable to resolve, should be dealt with by the courts; and President Buchanan, in his inaugural address (March 4, 1857) …
106Constitution of Fiji: Chapter 9 — Constitution of Fiji Preamble Chapters 1: The State 2: Compact 3: Citizenship 4: Bill of Rights 5: Social Justice 6: The Parliament 7: Executive Government 8: Great Council of Chiefs 9: Judiciary 10: State Services 11 …
107Politics of Hong Kong — Politics and government of Hong Kong …
108List of Governors-General of Barbados — The Governor General of Barbados is the domestic representative of the Queen of Barbados. The pre independence title for this post was known as Governor, the post independence title is currently known as a Governors General. Since the settlement… …
109Pakistan — /pak euh stan , pah keuh stahn /, n. 1. Islamic Republic of, a republic in S Asia, between India and Afghanistan: formerly part of British India; known as West Pakistan from 1947 71 to distinguish it from East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).… …
110William Howard Taft: Limited Presidential Power — ▪ Primary Source Theodore Roosevelt, in his Autobiography (1913), discussed the presidential office in terms of what he called Buchanan Presidents and Lincoln Presidents. The former category included those whose strict constitutional …
