Meeting in New Delhi under the auspices of the International Commission of Jurists, a body of lawyers from the free world, the Congress redefined and expanded the traditional Rule of Law to include affirmative governmental duties.

He sought to run Congress as he ran his New York American or Journal, a scheme veteran legislators resisted.

The news of battle on Breed's Hill had already seeped through, and New York itself was now left in the hands of the local Provincial Congress.

The people of the 17th District of New York, and I as their Representative in Congress, take great pride in the New York Times as one of the great and authoritative newspapers of the world.

In the latter year Samuel Hopkins, from whom the Hopkinsian strain of New England theology took its name, asked the Continental Congress to abolish slavery.

The Republicans did maintain their majorities in Congress and in the major states, except New York.

His father, Ulysses F. Doubleday, fought in the War of 1812, published newspapers and books, and represented Auburn, New York for four years in the United States Congress.

That year, the Congress of Angostura established the Republic of Gran Colombia, which included all territories under jurisdiction of the former Viceroyalty of New Granada.

FBI records show that 85 % of COINTELPRO resources targeted groups and individuals that the FBI deemed " subversive ," including communist and socialist organizations ; organizations and individuals associated with the civil rights movement, including Martin Luther King, Jr. and others associated with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and the Congress of Racial Equality and other civil rights organizations ; black nationalist groups ; the American Indian Movement ; a broad range of organizations labeled " New Left ", including Students for a Democratic Society and the Weathermen ; almost all groups protesting the Vietnam War, as well as individual student demonstrators with no group affiliation ; the National Lawyers Guild ; organizations and individuals associated with the women's rights movement ; nationalist groups such as those seeking independence for Puerto Rico, United Ireland, and Cuban exile movements including Orlando Bosch's Cuban Power and the Cuban Nationalist Movement ; and additional notable Americans — even Albert Einstein, who was a member of several civil rights groups, came under FBI surveillance during the years just prior to COINTELPRO's official inauguration .< ref >

Lenin's reply was evasive, but he stated that party discipline needed to be strengthened during " a retreat " – the New Economic Policy was introduced at the 10th Party Congress.

In 2006 he was one of the two inaugural recipients of the Athena Award, given by the Congress for the New Urbanism ( CNU ).

* 1790 – The U. S. Congress moves from New York City to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

At the International Zoological Congress at Budapest in 1927, Mayr was introduced by Stresemann to banker and naturalist Walter Rothschild, who asked him to undertake an expedition to New Guinea on behalf of himself and the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

In addition to continuing resistance to New York's attempts to assert control over the territory, Allen was active in efforts by Vermont's leadership for recognition by Congress, and he participated in controversial negotiations with the British over the possibility of Vermont becoming a separate British province.

After deliberation, Congress directed General Philip Schuyler, who had been appointed to lead the Army's Northern Department, to work with New York's provincial government to establish ( and pay for ) a regiment consisting of the Boys, and that they be paid Army rates for their service at Ticonderoga.

On July 4, Allen and Warner made their case to New York's Provincial Congress, which, despite the fact that the Royal Governor had placed a price on their heads, agreed to the formation of a regiment.

He reported that due to Vermont's expansion to include border towns from New Hampshire, Congress was reluctant to grant independent statehood to Vermont.

The matter was resolved with a compact between the states, ratified by U. S. Congress in 1834, which set the boundary line between them as the middle of the Hudson River and New York Harbor.

Elias Boudinot ( ; May 2, 1740 – October 24, 1821 ) was a lawyer and statesman from Elizabeth, New Jersey who was a delegate to the Continental Congress and was elected as a U. S. Congressman for New Jersey following the American Revolutionary War.

In November 1777, the New Jersey legislature named Boudinot as one of their delegates to the Second Continental Congress.

He resigned his crown-appointed positions in 1776 and, on June 22, went on to represent New Jersey in the Second Continental Congress where he signed the Declaration of Independence.

# That by retroactively extending copyright terms, Congress had violated the requirements of the Constitution's Copyright Clause, which gives Congress the following power: " To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries " ( emphasis added ) Plaintiffs argued that by reading this formulation so as to allow for any number of retroactive extensions, Congress could in practice guarantee an unlimited period of copyright protection, thus thwarting the intent of the clause.

Benjamin Franklin had raised this as far back as 1754 at the Albany Congress when he wrote, " That it is suppos ’ d an undoubted Right of Englishmen not to be taxed but by their own Consent given thro ’ their Representatives.

The issue has ALSO been to the floor of the US Congress in the form of the Hinchey-Rohrbacher Amendment, the Truth in Trials Act, and the States Right to Medical Marijuana Act.

:" The Congress shall have Power ... To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries ;"

since ... the Congress Party has swung to the Left, what is wanted is not an ultra or outer-Left the CPI or the Praja Socialist Party, PSP, but a strong and articulate Right

A moderate among the revolutionaries, in a resolution at the Second Congress, he said: " The ground and foundation of the present unhappy dispute between the British Ministry and Parliament and America, is a Right claimed by the former to tax the Subjects of the latter without their consent, and not an inclination on our part to set up for independency, which we utterly disavow and wish to restore to a Constitutional Connection upon the most solid and reasonable basis.

* Free Speech and the Right of Congress to Declare the Objects of the War

In the 1990s he became interested in the European Neopagan movement: he co-edited the extreme New Right from 1992, together with " pagan high priest " Koenraad Logghe, whom he joined at the " World Congress of Ethnic Religions ".

On the issue of abortion, Traficant voted in the position of the National Right to Life Committee 95 % of the time in the 105th Congress, and 100 % of the time in the 106th and 107th Congresses.

#* Significance: Congress followed Chiang Kai-shek's crackdown on Communists in Shanghai and elsewhere ; CPC continues to " support the KMT Left and oppose the KMT Right ".

Category: Congress of the New Right politicians

In Poland, a conservative liberal and eurosceptic political party Congress of the New Right ( New Right ) was founded on 25 March from former political parties Freedom and Lawfulness ( WiP ) and Real Politics Union ( UPR ) by Janusz Korwin-Mikke.

From Right to Left: Congress Hall, Independence Hall, and the old City Hall in 1855. In the years following the Civil War, Philadelphia's population continued to grow.

In the 109th Congress, he had a 100 % rating from the National Right to Life Committee.

As a blueprint for the policy of the new Congressional majority, Micklethwait & Wooldridge argue in The Right Nation that the Contract placed the Congress firmly back in the driver's seat of domestic government policy for most of the 104th Congress, and placed the Clinton White House firmly on the defensive.

In 1992, as part of a coalition of recording artists, singers, musicians, and others, AFTRA members worked with Congress to enact the Audio Home Recording Act of 1992, the Digital Performance Right in Sound Recordings Act of 1995 and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998.

Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of the U. S. Constitution says, " The Congress shall have Power ... To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.

The Force Act of 1870 ( Formally, " An Act to enforce the Right of Citizens of the United States to vote in the several States of this Union, and for other Purposes ," 41st Congress, Sess.

Right now, Hollywood is trying to ram this flawed bill-a handout for Tinsel Town fat cats-through Congress without hearings or debate.

The Soviet deputies of the more moderate socialist parties, the Mensheviks and the Right SRs, walked out of the Congress in protest at what they argued was a premature overthrow of the " bourgeois " government in which they had participated.