...h Carolina). Emancipation led to near bankruptcy. The Union states of Connecticut, Minnesota, and Wisconsin refused to pass constitutional amendmen... ...libuster is a term common to all the procedural techniques employed by members of a legislature to delay legislation they oppose. Thus, filibuster i... ...tive unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of the several States, as provided in the Constitut...

...accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction Branches: Revolutionary Council acts as legislature and final court of appeal; Chairman of Council acts as chief ... ...ory ICJ jurisdiction National holiday: Liberation Day, 29 November Branches: legislature (People's Assembly), Council of Ministers, judiciary Governme... ...serva- tions National holiday: Australia Day, 26 January Branches: bicameral legislature (Federal Parliament Senate and House of Repre- sentatives); P... ...mpul- sory ICJ jurisdiction National holiday: 26 October Branches: bicameral legislature (Federal Assembly Federal Council, National Council), directl... ...h common law National holiday: Independence Day, 10 July Branches: bicameral legislature (Parlia- ment 16-member appointed Senate, 43-member elected H... ...ea: 97,740 km 2 ; land area: 97,180 km 2 Comparative area: about the size of Minnesota Land boundaries: 1,770 km total (before 1967 war) Coastline: 26...

...l, paraphrastic, or incomplete designations as- the national assembly, the legislature of the state, the upper house of Congress, the German federa... ...OF EMPLOYEES I Wedge I STATES Illinois. ........... Wisconsin ......... Minnesota. ........ Michigan. ......... ........... Indiana Total .......

...e next and three succeeding biennial elections I was elected to the state legislature. As I rode horseback along the county roads something rode wit... ... a neater establishment than ours, but, she was not a member of the state legislature. The White House July 3rd, 1863 During my political career... ...n crippled by bullets; they say he screams when his Corps sees action. A Minnesota unit manages to keep a half-grown bear; they swear he is the bes... ...e. There were Michigan men, New York men, VOICES FROM THE PAST 590 Minnesota men—defeated, defeated at Bull Run. The broken regiments strug- g...

...ween judicial interpretation, the business and legal communities, and the legislature." For more about the facts of the case and the formalism deb... ...r Sustainable Resource use in the Kizilirmak Delta- Turkey, University of Minnesota, (1999) 144-185. http://env.erciyes.edu.tr/Kizilirmak/ UODisser...

...ronyism, nepotism, inaptitude and worse - on condition that the government and the legislature redistribute the wealth they confiscate. Such redist... ...ect Investment Accelerate Economic Growth? - M Carkovic, R Levine - University of Minnesota, Working Paper, 2002 Does Foreign Direct Investment ...

...on the question of college taxation now reached in the Massachusetts state legislature is indicated by the bill which was reported by the taxation com... ...ing on this question have been presented during the present session of the legislature, among them being one providing for reimbursement by the state ... ...part for his office. That bill was re- jected, and it was assumed that the legislature desired to see such property taxed. Oxford Views The latest gro... ...n. Pensylvania, Princeton, Vander- bill, West Point and Yale. Anna- polis. Minnesota and jKebraska failed to send delegates. TENNIS LOST AND WON Willi... ... Mr. Pierce studied law under Col. Davis, former speaker of the Col- orado legislature. Since then he has been a member of the consti- tutional conven... ... ed in 1891. Iin?nediately after graduation Mr. Root was sent tj the state legislature by the Repuli- lioans of Watorbury. At the time uf his death he... ...rrill is in basineia in Dulutb. Ex-'10—Fish is attending the University of Minnesota. ..Greylock National Bank.. ADAMS United States Depository W. B. ...

...f the lion of the day—or rather of the night. Can you not elect him to the Legislature? It seems to me he would be hard to beat. What objection could ... ...t wish to say anything as to who shall be the Republican candidate for the Legislature in your district, further than that I have full confi- dence in... ..., as the Dred Scott decision holds, Con- gress can authorize a Territorial Legislature to do everything else, and cannot authorize them to prohibit sl... ...in La Salle and Bureau to run Douglas Republicans for Congress and for the Legislature in those counties, if they can only get the encour- agement of ... ...in La Salle and Bureau, to run Douglas Republican for Congress and for the Legislature in those counties, if they can only get the en- couragement of ... ...vitations which I am compelled to decline. I was pressingly urged to go to Minnesota; and I now have two invi- tations to go to Ohio. These last are p... ...uth. About supplies of troops, my general idea is that all from Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, and Kansas, not now elsewhere, be left... ...h circuit courts, attended by Supreme judges, while, in fact, Wiscon- sin, Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas, Florida, Texas, California, and Oregon have never ...

...tribution to the convention. I think it may be fairly said that he came off the lion of the day--or rather of the night. Can you not elect him to the Legislature? It seems to me he would be hard to beat. What objection could be made to him? What is your Senator Martin saying and doing? What is Webb about?...

...cent heresies of Voltaire, Darwin, and Robert Ingersoll. Pious families in Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, the Dakotas send their children thither, and Bl... ...sembled the town council and dramatically defeated him. III Though she was Minnesota-born Carol was not an intimate of the prairie villages. Her fathe... ...rmured noth- ing in particular, Carol remembered that Gopher Prairie was a Minnesota wheat-prairie town of something over three thousand people. “Plea... ...ked more trustingly, more personally, as they trudged on. They crossed the Minnesota River in a row- boat ferry. They climbed the hill to the round st... ...e tower of Fort Snelling. They saw the junction of the Mississippi and the Minnesota, and recalled the men who had come here eighty years ago—Maine lu... ...the whole shooting-match—probably if they had their way they’d fill up the legislature with a lot of farmers in manure-covered boots—yes, and they’d c... ...ist himself has clearly indicated the new dispensa- tion, then I think the legislature ought to step in—” At this point Carol awoke. She got through t...

... is America--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would be the same in Ohio or Montana, in Kansas or Kentucky or Illinois, and not very differently would it be told Up York State or in ...

...rade seems to have ignored Washington altogether. Such being the case, the Legislature and the Executive of the country together have been unable to m... ...ady gathered constellations of those Western stars—of Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, and Iowa; nor did he dream of Texas conquered, Louisiana purchas... ...Their election is not made by the people of their States, but by the State legislature. The two Houses, for instance, of the State of Massachu- setts ... ...either by two-thirds of both the houses of the general Congress, or by the legislatures of two-thirds of the States; and must, when so proposed, be ra... ...f two-thirds of the States; and must, when so proposed, be ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the States, (Article V.) There can, I thin... ...mit- ted as a free State, and from that day to this Wisconsin, California, Minnesota, Oregon, and Kansas have been brought into the Union; all as free... ...esent moment, all Congress voting to- gether, with the full consent of the legislatures of thirty- three States, could not constitutionally put down s... ...uis, and make it the depot of the carrying trade of all that vast country. Minnesota is 1500 miles above New Orleans, but the wheat of Minnesota can b... ... State, after a terrible struggle, and shortly previous to that Oregon and Minnesota, also free States, had been added to the Union. Up to that date t...

...the Constitution of the United States,” neither Congress nor a Territorial Legislature can ex- clude slavery from any United States Territory. This po... ...nstitution of the United States neither permits Congress nor a Territorial Legislature to exclude slavery from any United States Territory, they all o... ... to end, So much, then, as to my disposition—my wish to have all the State legislatures blotted out, and to have one consoli- dated government, and a ... ...your- selves? Why, he tried to persuade you last night that our Illi- nois Legislature instructed him to introduce the Nebraska Bill. There was nobody... ...re instructed him to introduce the Nebraska Bill. There was nobody in that Legislature ever thought of such a thing; and when he first introduced the ... ... made upon the case of a negro being taken and actually held in slavery in Minnesota Territory, claiming his freedom because the Act of Congress prohi...

...ps notwithstanding, and yet there was Union feeling enough left to elect a Legislature the next autumn, which in turn elected a very excellent Union U... ...NOR RAMSEY . EXECUTIVE MANSION, August 27, 1862 GOVERNOR RAMSEY, St. Paul, Minnesota: Y ours received. Attend to the Indians. If the draft cannot pro-... ...members to the Congress of the United States par- ticularly, and perhaps a Legislature, State officers, and a United States senator friendly to their ... ...IVE MANSION, W ASHINGTON, November 10, 1862. MAJOR-GENERAL POPE, St. Paul, Minnesota: Y our despatch giving the names of 300 Indians condemned to deat... ...VOCATE-GENERAL. SIR:—Three hundred Indians have been sentenced to death in Minnesota by a military commission, and execution only awaits my action. I ... ... stipula- tions required. In the month of August last the Sioux Indians in Minnesota attacked the settlements in their vicinity with extreme ferocity,... ...tribes between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains. The State of Minnesota has suffered great injury from this Indian war. A large portion o... ...of both Houses concurring), That the following articles be proposed to the Legislatures (or conventions) of the sev- eral States as amendments to the ... ..., all or any of which articles, when ratified by three fourths of the said Legislatures (or conventions), to be valid as part or parts of the said Con...

... has refused leave of absence to members in military service to attend the legislature. All such are radical and administration men. The election of ... ... shall protect each of them against invasion, and, on appli- cation of the legislature, or the executive (when the legislature can not be convened), a... ...f all right to participate in the selection of public officers, except the legislature, boldly advocated, with labored argument to prove that large co... ...he late election; and not less so that your State government including the legislature, is organized and in good working order. Whatever I can I will... ...lding of lawful elections, or with the proceedings of the constitu- tional Legislature of Kentucky, or with the administration of justice in the court... ...linois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hamp- shire, New Jersey, New Y ork, Ohio, Oregon, ...

...e through the whole center of the American continent up to Wiscon- sin and Minnesota. To the United States the navigation of the Mississippi was, we m... ... mous sisters. She has a governor, and an upper house and a lower house of legislature; and she is somewhat fantas- tic in the use of these constituti... ...for Maine. It is very generally the case that the States do not hold their legislatures and carry on their government at their chief towns. Augusta an... ...y that the laws in the different States may be as various as the different legislatures may choose to make them. In New Hampshire universal suffrage d... ...styled The General Court of New Hamp- shire. It sits annually, whereas the legislature in many States sits only every other year. Both houses are re-e... ...normous wheat-growing districts of the Northwest. St. Paul, the capital of Minnesota, is nine hundred miles directly north of St. Louis, the most nort... ...n States of the Union; 116 North America V ol. 1 and the farming lands of Minnesota stretch away again for some hundreds of miles north and west of S... ...17 Indiana 1,350,802 Illinois 1,691,238 Michigan 754,291 Wisconsin 763,485 Minnesota 172,796 Iowa 682,002 Kansas 143,645 Missouri 1,204,214* Total ... ... America—to those States of which I am now speaking—Michigan, Wis- consin, Minnesota, Iowa, or Illinois, and there by indus- try escape the ills to wh...

...e Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Two have got their measure through the Legislature pretty much or quite in the shape they desired. Nothing else no... ...expanded is obvious. But is this any more true in Congress than in a State Legislature? If a member of Con- gress must have an appropriation for his d... ...Con- gress must have an appropriation for his district, so a mem- ber of a Legislature must have one for his county. And if one will overwhelm the nat... ...he halls of Congress, and it will, just as easily, drive us from the State Legislatures. Let us, then, grapple with it, and test its strength. Let us,... ...not be denied. Still it is no more difficult in Congress than in the State Legislatures, in the counties, or in the smallest municipal districts which... ...t States of Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, and Iowa; also the Territory of Minnesota, and the present bone of con- tention, Kansas and Nebraska. Slave... ...ge is employed as in the Ordi- nance of 1787. It directly applied to Iowa, Minnesota, and to the present bone of contention, Kansas and Nebraska. Whet... ...ation, could it not have had it as well without as with a repeal? Iowa and Minnesota, to both of which the Missouri restriction applied, had, without ... ...tlements began in it also. In due course Iowa came in as a free State, and Minnesota was given a territorial gov- ernment, without removing the slaver...

...e troops asked for by the ad- ministration. A bill was before the National Legislature from early in the session of 1846-7, authorizing the creation o... ... had customers in all the little towns in south-west Wisconsin, south-east Minnesota and north-east Iowa. These generally knew I had been a captain in... ...hom to accept was quite embarrass- ing to the governor, Richard Yates. The legislature was in session at the time, however, and came to his relief. A ... ...ge scale. He remained in the office until that time. As I have stated, the legislature authorized the governor to accept the services of ten additiona... ...o do after the muster of the last of the regiments authorized by the State legislature, I asked and obtained of the governor leave of absence for a we... ... I was reprimanded from the same quarters for my cor- respondence with the legislature and warned against a rep- etition of the offence. Soon after I ...