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This magnificent but greatly underestimated book, which bodies forth the very form and pressure of its time as no other comparable creation, has suffered severely from having been written about an historical event -- the Spanish Civil War -- that is still capable of fanning the smoldering fires of old political feuds.
In the 1960s with the African American Civil Rights Movement and opposition to the Vietnam War, the song took on a political tone.
During the period of the English Civil War, the role of bishops as wielders of political power and as upholders of the established church became a matter of heated political controversy.
The Republican Forces of Côte d ' Ivoire (; " FRCI ") is the current name of the armed forces of Côte d ' Ivoire ( Ivory Coast ) and serve the Forces Nouvelles de Côte d ' Ivoire ( FNCI ), the political coalition that triumphed in the Second Ivorian Civil War.
The Commonwealth of England was the official name of the political unit ( de facto military rule in the name of parliamentary supremacy ) that replaced the kingdoms of Scotland and England ( after the English Civil War ) from 1649 to 1653 and 1659 to 1660.
The American Civil War ( 1861 – 1865 ) was unusual for at least two reasons: it was fought around regional identities, rather than political ideologies, and it was ended through a war of attrition, rather than over a decisive battle over control of the capital, as was the norm.
Parliament had, to a large degree, encouraged the radical political groups which emerged when the usual social controls broke down during the English Civil War.
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Hume's coverage of the political upheavals of the 17th century relied in large part on the Earl of Clarendon's History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England ( 1646-69 ).
Despite legally mandated universal suffrage for males, political barriers were sometimes erected to prevent fair access to elections ( See Civil Rights movement ).
The English Civil War ( 1642 – 1651 ) was a series of armed conflicts and political machinations between Parliamentarians ( Roundheads ) and Royalists ( Cavaliers ).
After the Civil War, Douglass was appointed to several political positions.
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Although Ireland's political spectrum was traditionally divided along Civil War lines, rather than the traditional European left-right spectrum, Fine Gael is described generally as a centre-right, Christian democratic party, with a focus on law and order, enterprise and reward, and fiscal rectitude.
: The Confederate States of America is a political satire which explores issues of slavery and racism by assuming that the American Civil War was won by the Confederacy.
The Finnish Civil War (; ) was a part of the national, political and social turmoil caused by World War I ( 1914 – 1918 ) in Europe.
The decisive cleavage between the two guards broke out during the general strike, when the radical elements of the Red Guards and Worker's Security Guards executed several political opponents in the main cities of southern Finland, and the first armed clashes between Civil Guards and Workers ' Guards broke out, with 34 reported casualties.
Both failed by allowing the political crisis to end up in the bloody Civil War and a comprehensive terror, instead of reaching a compromise to accomplish a peaceful political settlement.
" Rodden refers to the essay " Why I Write ", in which Orwell refers to the Spanish Civil War as being his " watershed political experience ", saying " The Spanish War and other events in 1936 – 37, turned the scale.
* 1942 September – A small group of Gibraltarians, who remained in the town serving in the British Army, joined a mechanic official, Albert Risso, to create ' The Gibraltarians Association ', the starting point of what became the Association for the Advancement of Civil Rights ( officially established in December that year ), the first political party in Gibraltar.
Various categories of prisoners were defined: petty criminals, POWs of the Russian Civil War, officials accused of corruption, sabotage and embezzlement, political enemies, dissidents and other people deemed dangerous for the state.
Civil and political rights are enshrined in articles 3 to 21 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ( UDHR ) and in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights ( ICCPR ).

Civil and rights
progress, or lack of it, toward civil rights in the 50 states is reported in an impressive 689-page compilation issued last week by the United States Commission on Civil Rights.
One purpose of the change was to attain sympathetic enforcement of rights insured by the Civil War amendments against state interference.
The American Civil Liberties Union ( ACLU ) is a nonpartisan non-profit organization whose stated mission is " to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States.
African-American Civil Rights Movement ( 1955 – 1968 ) | Civil rights activists at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, 1963
An American Civil rights activist, Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968 at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
The influence of Jefferson's doctrine of states ' rights reverberated right up to the Civil War and beyond.
In the late 1960s discrimination against the Catholic minority in electoral boundaries, voting rights, and the allocation of public housing led organisations such as Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association ( NICRA ) to mount a non-violent campaign for change.
* Civil rights movement, an anti-racism campaign
Al Sharpton, former Pentecostal minister, now a Baptist minister and Civil rights leader, during his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004 said that asking whether gays or lesbians should be able to get married was insulting: " That's like saying you give blacks, or whites, or Latinos the right to shack up – but not get married [...] It's like asking ' do I support black marriage or white marriage '...
Civil Rights Act may refer to several acts in the history of civil rights in the United States, including:
* Civil Rights Act of 1866, extending the rights of emancipated slaves by stating that any person born in the United States regardless of race is a U. S. citizen.
* Herman Badillo ( 1951 ), Civil rights activist and the first Puerto Rican elected to the U. S. Congress
The 1957 act for the first time established a permanent civil rights office inside the Justice Department and a Civil Rights Commission to hear testimony about abuses of voting rights.
The Civil Rights Act of 1871 applies to public employment or employment involving state action prohibiting deprivation of rights secured by the federal constitution or federal laws through action under color of law.
By the time of the Civil War, Douglass was one of the most famous black men in the country, known for his orations on the condition of the black race and on other issues such as women's rights.
Category: Civil rights and liberties
Category: Civil rights and liberties
In just over two minutes, Lincoln reiterated the principles of human equality espoused by the Declaration of Independence and proclaimed the Civil War as a struggle for the preservation of the Union sundered by the secession crisis, with " a new birth of freedom ," that would bring true equality to all of its citizens, ensuring that democracy would remain a viable form of government and creating a nation in which states ' rights were no longer dominant.
The rights espoused in the UN charter would be codified and defined in the International Bill of Human Rights, composing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.

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