" Lincoln, however, did support the Corwin Amendment to the Constitution, which had passed in Congress and protected slavery in those states where it already existed.

Congress had the last word, however, between 1973 and 1975.

It was, however, an unusual regime in presidentialist Latin America, for Congress really did overshadow the rather ceremonial office of the president and exerted authority over the chief executive's cabinet appointees.

The 10th Party Congress also introduced a ban on factionalism within the Communist Party ; however, what Lenin considered to be ' platforms ', such as the Democratic Centralists and the Workers Opposition, were allowed.

The President is also Commander in Chief of the United States Armed Forces, and as such has broad authority over the armed forces ; however only Congress has authority to declare war, and the civilian and military budget is written by the Congress.

In its original permanent dispositions, it gave the President of the Republic a large amount of power ; however, some of these dispositions, such as the power of dissolving the Lower Chamber of Congress and serving eight year terms with possibility of reelection, were modified or eliminated after 1990, when the country regained its democracy and the Congress was reestablished.

Hopes for the Enlightenment, human rights, republican government, democracy, and freedom after Napoleon I's defeat in 1815 were dashed, however, when the Congress of Vienna reinstated many monarchies.

Under clause 17 Article I Section 8 of the Constitution however, Congress has power to " exercise exclusive Legislation in all cases whatsoever " over the federal district ( Washington, D. C .) and other territory ceded to the federal government by the states, such as for military installations.

At the urging of Congress, however, he ultimately accepted the payment, to avoid setting a precedent whereby the presidency would be perceived as limited only to independently wealthy individuals who could serve without any salary.

In 1949 in Congress, the Communist party only had less than forty members, however, by 1953 it went up to nearly four thousand.

He did not abandon mathematics completely, however, lecturing on the paradoxes of set theory ( Burali-Forti paradox, Cantor's paradox, and Russell's paradox ) to a meeting of the Deutsche Mathematiker – Vereinigung in 1903, and attending the International Congress of Mathematicians at Heidelberg in 1904.

" After most of the 1941 season, however, he was honorably discharged when the United States Congress released men aged 28 years and older from service, being released on December 5, 1941, two days before Japan bombed Pearl Harbor.

The Congress may be viewed as the most secular party with a national agenda ; however, it also practices votebank politics to gain the support of minorities, especially Muslims, through appeasement and pseudo-secularist strategies.

Members of the U. S. Congress are not exempt from the laws that ban insider trading, however, they generally do not have a confidential or fiduciary relationship with the source of the information they receive and accordingly, do not meet the definition of an " insider ".

On his return to Russia Radek became the Secretary of the Comintern, taking the main responsibility for German issues, however, he was removed from this position after he supported the KPD in opposing inviting representatives of the Communist Workers ' Party of Germany to attend the 2nd Congress of the Comintern, pitting him against the Comintern's executive and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

State Department officials, however, knew that Stalin would almost certainly not participate, and that any plan that would send large amounts of aid to the Soviets was unlikely to be approved by Congress.

President Lugo has supported Venezuela's entry into Mercosur however the Colorado Party's influence in Paraguay's Congress and Senate retards this expansion.

Beginning in 2005, portions of the African National Congress wished to change the name of the city to match the name of the Tshwane municipality, however this met with stiff opposition, particularly from Afrikaner civil rights groups and political parties since it denies the history of the city as founded by Pretorius.

In 1997, however, at the urging of the Military Order of the Purple Heart, Congress passed legislation prohibiting future awards of the Purple Heart to civilians.

Congress, however, was not told that the US was under a continuity of government status until February 2002.

In 1978, the NASA SETI program was heavily criticized by Senator William Proxmire, and funding for SETI research was removed from the NASA budget by Congress in 1981, however, funding was restored in 1982, after Carl Sagan talked with Proxmire and convinced him of the program's value.

The split in the Constitutionalist Liberal Party helped to allow the FSLN to become the largest party in Congress, however it should be noted that the Sandinista vote had a minuscule split between the FSLN and MRS, and that the liberal party combined is larger than the Frente Faction.

Because of the dispute, however, Congress refused to accept his credentials and seated him instead as a non-voting delegate.

What I want is to have this evidence come before Congress and if the Attorney General does not report it, as I am very sure he won't, as he has refused to do anything of the kind, I then wish that a committee of seven Representatives be appointed with power to take the evidence.

The Senate refused to meet to hold an impeachment trial before the end of the old term, so the trial was held over until the next Congress.

A US-funded airlift of ammunition and rice ended when Congress refused additional aid for Cambodia.

Congress decided to depose Balmaceda, who refused to step down.

Congress refused on the pretext that many people were involved in the flag's design, and that Hopkinson was already paid as a public servant.

Adams so ably justified Jackson's conduct that he silenced protests from either Spain or Britain ; Congress refused to punish Jackson.

Madison faced formidable obstacles – a divided cabinet, a factious party, a recalcitrant Congress, obstructionist governors, and incompetent generals, together with militia who refused to fight outside their states.

The election of his daughter Indira as Congress President in 1959 aroused criticism for alleged nepotism, although actually Nehru had disapproved of her election, partly because he considered it smacked of " dynastism "; he said, indeed it was " wholly undemocratic and an undesirable thing ", and refused her a position in his cabinet.

After being refused recognition as official representative of the Bolshevik regime, Radek alongside other delegates ( Adolph Joffe, Nikolai Bukharin, Christian Rakovsky and Ignatov ) to the German Congress of Soviets.

In 1804 Haiti declared independence but, fearing a slave revolt at home, Jefferson and the US Congress refused to recognize the new republic, the second in the Western Hemisphere, and imposed a trade embargo against it.

However, when the ruling Basotho National Party ( BNP ) lost the first post-independence general elections to the Basotho Congress Party ( BCP ), Leabua Jonathan refused to cede and declared himself Tona Kholo ( Sesotho translation of prime minister ).

Under the leadership of Prime Minister Chief Leabua Jonathan, the ruling Basotho National Party ( BNP ) refused to cede power to the rival Basotholand Congress Party ( BCP ), although the BCP was widely believed to have won the elections.

To date the U. S. Congress has refused to fund many of these policies.

The strong ties to Somoza decreased the potential to gain domestic support for the FDN, and prevented the U. S. guided unification operation, UNO: “ The contra war had to be sold to Congress and the public as the struggle of an opposition united against the regime in Managua .” The revolutionary hero and commander of the contra force of southern Nicaragua ARDE ( Nicaraguan Democratic Revolutionary Alliance ), Eden Pastora, refused to cooperate with the FDN.

Twelve nuns and employees of the Temple refused to answer questions by pleading the Fifth Amendment when they were subpoenaed to testify before Congress in 1997.

Congress refused however to fund the Tariff Board which the President included in the Payne – Aldrich Bill, which would have removed the setting of rates from direct continual Congressional manipulation.

Wilson tried to bring labor and management together, but when management refused, he had Congress pass the Adamson Act in September 1916, which avoided the strike by imposing an 8-hour workday in the industry ( at the same pay as before ).

While Marshall enjoyed considerable success in working with Congress and President Franklin D. Roosevelt, he refused to lobby for the position.

Saxony refused to agree to territorial adjustments that were designed to benefit Bavaria, Prussia, Württemberg, and Baden at the Congress of Rastatt and in 1803 at the issuance of the Final Report of the Empire Delegation law of the Holy Roman Empire that laid out the new order of the Empire.

Republicans in Congress refused to accept Johnson's terms, rejected the new members of Congress elected by the South, and in 1865 / 66 broke with the president.

However, Congress refused to count any of the votes from Louisiana, Arkansas, and Tennessee, in essence rejecting Lincoln's moderate Reconstruction plan.

Indeed, Congress had already, a few days before, put into effect a nonimportation act, originally passed in April 1806, which refused entry to many British goods.

Congress refused.