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This propaganda film explains the role of the US congressional system in maintaining stability, regulating commerce, collecting taxes and protecting American soil. The film also encourages citizens to vote and not take for granted the work of congressmen and the legislative branch of government. Table of Contents: (1) The Powers of Congress (1947) - This film features the story of Mr. Bentley, an average American citizen. Mr.. Bentley constantly complains about the poor job Congress does for the American people and wishes Congress would disappear. Mr. Bentley gets his wish in a dream and finds out the horrors of a country lacking a centralized government. The film also explains in some detail the implied powers of congress - 10 Minutes

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Experience the American Journey through our country's visual heritage in this historical recording provided by the National Archives of the United States. This TV Satellite File program was designed for international distribution and contains a mix of both silent and sound news feeds, B-roll, and footage clips. Segments: Home Computers, Logging Festival, Lower Back Pain, Menudo, Peoples Court, Cajun Country, Milton Glaser, Silver Foxes, Monterrey Aquarium, Amish, New York Drama School, Computer Movie, Vintage Newspapers, The Great Whistle Off, Lost River, Eye Vitamin, The City of New Orleans, Teaching English With Movies, Americanization of Refugees, and Larry King - International Radio Host. From the U.S. Information Agency. This historical recording from the National Archives may contain variations in audio and video quality based on the limitations of the original source material. The content summary for this DVD is adapted from an historical description provided by the government agency or donor at the time of production release.

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The disintegration of the Soviet Union will have far-reaching effects on the world. The Cold War seems over but in its place is the spectre of political and economic chaos in Eastern Europe and Southern Asia. Can the Soviet Union's successor republics manage their deepening economic crisis, and what will be the consequences if they cannot? What political form will the new republics take, and can the changes be accomplished peacefully? What dangers and problems does the passing of the Soviet Union present to the outside world? In this collection of essays, sponsored by the American Assembly in cooperation with the Harriman Institute, some of America's leading experts on the Soviet Union offer their answers to these questions.

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In recent years renewed attention has been directed to the importance of the role of institutional design in democratic politics. Particular interest has concerned constitutional design and the relative merits of parliamentary versus presidential systems. A virtual consensus has formed around the argument that parliamentary systems are preferable overall to presidential systems, due largely to the loss of power to the executive and assembly in presidential systems. In this book, the authors systematically assess the strengths and weaknesses of various forms of presidential systems, drawing on recent developments in the theoretical literature about institutional design and electoral rules. They develop a typology of democratic regimes that are structured around the separation of powers principle, including two hybrid forms, the premier-presidential and president-parliamentary systems, and they evaluate a number of alternative ways of balancing powers between the branches within these basic frameworks. They also demonstrate that electoral rules are critically important in determining how authority can be exercised within these systems, describing the range of electoral rules that can be instituted and the effects they have on the shape of party systems, on the political agenda, and on the prospects for cooperation between presidents and assemblies.

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Fighting for First Amendment rights is as popular a pastime as ever, but just because you can get on your soapbox doesn't mean anyone will be there to listen. Town squares have emptied out as shoppers decamp for the megamalls; gated communities keep pesky signature gathering activists away; even most internet chatrooms are run by the major media companies. Brave New Neighborhood considers what can be done to protect and revitalize our public spaces.

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The Welsh Assembly Government (WAG) (Welsh: Llywodraeth Cynulliad Cymru, LlCC) was firstly an executive body of the National Assembly for Wales, consisting of the First Minister ... (more...)

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If you are looking for National Assembly for Wales information, please use the links on the left hand side of the page. Alternatively, visit the Welsh Assembly Government website (more...)

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Assembly Government Sponsored Bodies (AGSBs) (Welsh: Corff a Noddir gan Lywodraeth y Cynulliad, CNLC) are non-departmental public bodies directly funded by the Welsh Assembly ... (more...)

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The 22 local authorities in Wales are responsible for £4 billion of public expenditure, over one third of the total Welsh budget. (more...)

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was cancelled today just 24 hours after it was launched. Shadow Transport Minister Angela Burns AM said: "This is a hugely embarrassing situation. Only yesterday the Assembly ... (more...)

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1. Under Shah Abbas, the Safavid dynasty reached the high point of its glory. rapidly declined until it was too weak to fight off its many enemies. suffered an invasion by Moroccan peoples, who captured the capital of Isfahan. witnessed a relaxation of traditional religious beliefs. 2. Beyond the extended Chinese family was the , which consisted of dozens, or even hundreds, of related families. queue tribe group clan 3. What was the Japanese name for the heads of noble families? hari kari shogun osaka daimyo 4. Isaac Newton's universal law of gravitation was denounced by the Anglican Church as the work of the Devil. refuted Galileo Galilei's theory of universal movement. was laughed at by Galileo, Kepler, and Copernicus. showed how one law could explain all motion in the universe. 5. Francis Bacon, an English philosopher, believed scientists should use inductive reasoning. rely solely on the bible. leave nature alone. use chance to study nature. 16. In Jean-Jacques Rousseau's concept of a social contract, an entire society agrees to be governed by its general will. punishments are not exercises in brutality, and capital punishment is discarded. the government should not interfere in economic matters. women should be granted rights nearly equal to those of men. 7. composed The Marriage of Figaro, The Magic Flute, and Don Giovanni, three of the world's greatest operas. Franz Joseph Haydn Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Johann Sebastian Bach George Frederick Handel 8. Adam Smith believed in laissez-faire, by which he meant that the assets of the rich should be taken. the state should not regulate the economy. those who are able to work should help to support those who cannot work. the state should monitor the economy and impose regulations to keep it healthy. 9. The French National Assembly swore the Tennis Court Oath, which was a promise to destory all of the nation's tennis bracelets. a vow to continue to meet until they had produced a French constitution. an oath of loyalty to Jean Valjean, an outspoken lawyer that called for doing away with the relics of feudalism. a promise not to rest until all members of the clergy were tried and executed. 10. Napoleon's coup d'état overthrew the to establish his consulate. Directory city mayor British government Legislative Assembly 11. The most important of the seven legal codes established by Napoleon was the Religious Code. the Food Code. the Merchant Code. the Civil Code. 12. The Russians defeated Napoleon's superior Grand Army by retreating hundreds of miles and burning their own villages and countryside. waiting to attack during the brutal Russian winter. splitting their meager forces in half and attacking from two sides. making an alliance with Egypt, which launched an attack on Turkey to draw Napoleon out of Russia. (more...)

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I NEVER imagined I would one day agree with that bizarre neoconservative warmonger John Bolton, who was briefly the US ambassador to the United Nations. In 1994, Bolton was quoted as saying "There's no such thing as the United Nations. If the UN secretary building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference". I differ from Bolton only on one point. The entire expensive and useless organization founded in 1945 to prevent wars and pursue human rights should be demolished because it has failed to live up to its charter over and over again. On Saturday night, the UN Security Council met in a closed-door emergency session so as to agree a resolution on Gaza, where more than 520 Palestinians have been murdered and over 3,000 wounded. But due to American pro-Israel bias, hypocrisy and double standards its members couldn't even come up with a joint statement calling for an immediate cease-fire. For once, Britain broke with its joined-at-the- hip US ally and demanded an end to the aggression whereas only last week it, too, had blocked UN calls for a cease-fire. It seems that Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown has decided he is no longer willing to provide Washington with moral cover but unfortunately this is too little, too late. Saturday's stalemate is a repeat of attempts in the summer of 2006 to end Israel's war on Gaza that robbed the lives of 1,200 civilians. Then, the US and Britain, both veto-holders, stood together against the rest of the world and allowed the carnage to go on until it looked like Israel was receiving an unexpected bloody nose. The council's current inaction was too much for the president of the UN General Assembly Miguel d'Escoto Brockman, who termed it "a monstrosity". "Once again, the world is watching in dismay the dysfunction of the Security Council," he said, while blaming certain countries for playing politics. Article 1 of the UN Charter headed "Purposes of the United Nations" calls for the body "to maintain international peace and security, and to that end: To take collective measures for the prevention and removal of threats to the peace; and for the suppression of acts of aggression or other breaches of the peace, and to bring about by peaceful means, and in conformity with the principles of justice and international law, adjustment or settlement of international disputes..." Article 73 states members of the UN which have responsibilities for the administration of territories whose people have not attained a full measure of self-government must recognize the principle that the interests of the inhabitants of these territories are paramount and must ensure, with due respect for the culture of the peoples concerned, their political, economic, social and educational advancement, their just treatment and their protection against abuses". The UN has failed on all the above points and more. It does not maintain international peace and security. It does not suppress acts of aggression or settle international disputes and it does not censure Israel's willful failure to hold the interests of the occupied Palestinians paramount and protect them against abuses. The charter is further based on the sovereign equality of all its members. This fine sentiment has turned out to be a huge joke. There is no equality amongst members and there cannot be as long as the five permanent members of the Security Council have veto power - a power, by the way that cannot be withdrawn unless the five veto-holders agree. In reality, the 192 member states are under the boot of the five veto-holders. This situation makes a mockery of the term United Nations. There are the five bosses and then there are the others. To be precise, there are six bosses, one unofficial. Israel and the US are practically one when it comes to foreign policy and, thus, Israel receives carte blanche to produce undeclared nuclear weapons, carry out a policy of extrajudicial assassinations as well as bomb and invade neighboring countries at will. The US vetoes most resolutions critical of Israel and blocks all resolutions binding under Chapter 7. No wonder Israel feels free to publicly confront the veracity of UN representatives who say there is a severe humanitarian crisis in Gaza and expel those it doesn't like such as UN Special Rapporteur Richard Falk, who says he was treated like some sort of security threat locked in "a tiny room that smelled of urine and filth". Falk received such appealing treatment all because he had spoken out against Israel's violations of international humanitarian law. A fair and just world formed by the true will of all the international community requires a nonelitist body where all nations are empowered with a vote that counts. Moreover, such an organization should not be headquartered in the US where delegates are vulnerable to being browbeaten, threatened, bribed and monitored as occurred in the run-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. I (more...)

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A.a revolutionary government in Paris. B.the National Assembly. C.the Committee of Public Safety. D.an alliance between the peasants and the nobles. (more...)

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1. Under Shah Abbas, the Safavid dynasty reached the high point of its glory. rapidly declined until it was too weak to fight off its many enemies. suffered an invasion by Moroccan peoples, who captured the capital of Isfahan. witnessed a relaxation of traditional religious beliefs. 2. Beyond the extended Chinese family was the , which consisted of dozens, or even hundreds, of related families. queue tribe group clan 3. What was the Japanese name for the heads of noble families? hari kari shogun osaka daimyo 4. Isaac Newton's universal law of gravitation was denounced by the Anglican Church as the work of the Devil. refuted Galileo Galilei's theory of universal movement. was laughed at by Galileo, Kepler, and Copernicus. showed how one law could explain all motion in the universe. 5. Francis Bacon, an English philosopher, believed scientists should use inductive reasoning. rely solely on the bible. leave nature alone. use chance to study nature. 16. In Jean-Jacques Rousseau's concept of a social contract, an entire society agrees to be governed by its general will. punishments are not exercises in brutality, and capital punishment is discarded. the government should not interfere in economic matters. women should be granted rights nearly equal to those of men. 7. composed The Marriage of Figaro, The Magic Flute, and Don Giovanni, three of the world's greatest operas. Franz Joseph Haydn Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Johann Sebastian Bach George Frederick Handel 8. Adam Smith believed in laissez-faire, by which he meant that the assets of the rich should be taken. the state should not regulate the economy. those who are able to work should help to support those who cannot work. the state should monitor the economy and impose regulations to keep it healthy. 9. The French National Assembly swore the Tennis Court Oath, which was a promise to destory all of the nation's tennis bracelets. a vow to continue to meet until they had produced a French constitution. an oath of loyalty to Jean Valjean, an outspoken lawyer that called for doing away with the relics of feudalism. a promise not to rest until all members of the clergy were tried and executed. 10. Napoleon's coup d'état overthrew the to establish his consulate. Directory city mayor British government Legislative Assembly 11. The most important of the seven legal codes established by Napoleon was the Religious Code. the Food Code. the Merchant Code. the Civil Code. 12. The Russians defeated Napoleon's superior Grand Army by retreating hundreds of miles and burning their own villages and countryside. waiting to attack during the brutal Russian winter. splitting their meager forces in half and attacking from two sides. making an alliance with Egypt, which launched an attack on Turkey to draw Napoleon out of Russia. (more...)

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A unitary state is a state whose three organs of state are governed constitutionally as one single unit, with one constitutionally created legislature. The political power of government in such states may well be transferred to lower levels, to national, regional or local elected assemblies, governors and mayors (devolved government), but the central government retains the principal right to recall such delegated power (e.g. the period when Farum Municipality was ruled by the Danish Government for a time, or the era of direct rule in Northern Ireland by the United Kingdom's central government in London from 1973 to 2007). (more...)

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Paskistan has come to a standstill. The country has acute shortage of electric power. India stopped rivers water to Pakistan because it occupies Kashmir. So the hydel power generation of electricity has gone down to a minimum level. Gas too is very short in Pakistan which was used to run power generation system. People are suffering badly throughout Pakistan. The rich and the government bureaucrats and the political leaders and assembly members are not affected by shortage because they have their own private power generators in their homes. What can you suggest to install new power generators immediately in Pakistan. Pleeeeeeease help. (more...)

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What are the powers of the Scottish and Welsh parliaments? I know they were established in 1999. Do they and the Northern Ireland assembly exercise powers comparable to the state legislatures in the United States? I am interested in British history, but most of what I've read is on the history of the government by the king and Parliament in London. (more...)

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For those who want separation of church and state here in America but yet identify more with Islam than christianity, why? Islam covers all aspects of life including matters of the state (ie government), foreign affairs and daily living. It has strong punishments against certain crimes some that a lot of Americans commit and they are as follows: 1) Unlawful intercourse--premarital sex (imagine how many teens & adults would be stoned to death), adultery (all of our politicians and celebrities would be in trouble) and sodomy (sorry to the gay community) 2) Bearing false witness (again politicians and lawyers would be in trouble) 3) Alcohol consumption and any other intoxications (I am assuming drugs both legal and illegal would fall into this catagory) 4) Theft 5) Highway robbery (mugging) 6) Rebellion against a ruler by physical, written or oral means (no freedom of speech, the press or assembly) 7) Apostasy or rejection of Islam (no freedom of religion) and a lot of these violators especially those who turn to christianity are either put in prison or put to death Murder though is thought best to be handled by the person who commited the crime and the victims family who gets to pick the punishment (that I can agree with I think we would have less murderers walking the street and a lot more prison space) What are your thoughts? (more...)

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in 1971 the Supreme Court made a decision in Lemon v Kurtzman called the lemon law, which determines whether or not legislation violates the 1st Amendment. If a law violates ANY of these three tenents, it is unconstitutional. Proposition 8 clearly violates #3, if not #1 also 1. The government's action must have a secular legislative purpose; 2. The government's action must not have the primary effect of either advancing or inhibiting religion; 3. The government's action must not result in an "excessive government entanglement" with religion. In 1943, in West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette, a Justice for the concurring Opinion made the following statement: "The very purpose of the Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities and officials and to establish them as legal principles to be applied by the courts. One's right to life, liberty, and property, to free speech, a free press, freedom of worship and assembly, and other fundamental rights may not be submitted to vote; they depend on the outcome of no elections." It isn't often that we get a bill so corrupt it violates not one, but TWO Supremem court decisions. Isn't that terrible? (more...)

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Pakistan is the only country where government follows guidlines from the religious extremists, and where national assembly defines who is a "muslim" and who is not (although 90 percent of the assembly members know nothing about Islamic teachings of prophet Mohammad). This country has always been a heaven for the religious extremists. Those of you who know the state of affairs in Pakistan are invited for a serious answer to this question. But please be serious on it. The word heaven be replaced with HAVEN. Thanks. (more...)

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