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Delegates from 11 slave states walked out of the Democratic convention, disagreeing with Douglas's position on popular sovereignty, and ultimately selected John C. Breckinridge as their candidate.
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Mr. Simpkins made a name for himself as a member of the House of Delegates from 1951 through 1958.
* 1861 – American Civil War: Maryland's House of Delegates votes not to secede from the Union.
Delegates from the Museum of Bad Art are often on hand to display some pieces from their collection, showing that bad art and bad science go hand in hand.
Madison was elected a second time to the Virginia House of Delegates, serving from 1784 to 1786 in the new years of independence.
Delegates from 34 nations attended the assembly.
* 1454 – Thirteen Years ' War: Delegates of the Prussian Confederation pledge allegiance to King Casimir IV of Poland who agrees to commit his forces in aiding the Confederation's struggle for independence from the Teutonic Knights.
Delegates from 60 countries attended an international convention of Natural Law Parties held in Bonn Germany in 1998.
Delegates are actually international ; the organization takes its name from the topic.
Delegates from 22 countries participated.
# REDIRECT List of Delegates to the United States House of Representatives from the United States Virgin Islands
# REDIRECT List of Delegates to the United States House of Representatives from American Samoa
Delegates from Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, Maryland, and New York were still not yet authorized to vote for independence, however, and some of them threatened to leave Congress if the resolution were adopted.
Delegates from many countries attended the Bretton Woods Conference.
* September 8 – Delegates from the Canadian colonies meet at the Charlottetown Conference to discuss the Canadian Confederation.
In 2010, Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell gave the Republican response from the floor of the Virginia House of Delegates.
Delegates called for better-known speakers, such as Altgeld or Bryan, but were granted neither then ; the Illinois governor declined, and the Nebraskan, once seated, spent much of his time away from the convention floor at the platform committee meeting at the Palmer House.
Delegates were present from the District of Columbia, and on the first contested roll call vote in convention history, the convention voted 126-153 to deprive the District of Columbia of its voting rights in the convention.
Delegates sent from the member churches meet every seven or eight years in an Assembly, which elects a Central Committee that governs between Assemblies.
Besides establishing the system of Delegates, he created the wide-ranging supervisory post of " Architypographus ": an academic who would have responsibility for every function of the business, from print shop management to proofreading.
Impatient of the endless committees that would no doubt attend the appointment of a successor to Price, Jowett extracted what could be interpreted as permission from the Delegates and headhunted Philip Lyttelton Gell, a former student acolyte of his, to be the next Secretary to the Delegates.
However, he came under increasing pressure from the Delegates in Oxford concerning the continued flow of expenditures from what seemed to them an unprofitable venture.
Delegates and 11
The act granted the island with a civil governor ( named by the U. S. President ) and a House of Delegates composed of 35 members elected by the people of Puerto Rico, as well as an Executive Council of 11 members, designated all by the U. S. President, and six sitting members consisting of the governor's cabinet.
Terrill R. Gilleland, Jr ( born April 11, 1977 ) in Baltimore, Maryland was a member of the Maryland House of Delegates.
In 1969, he was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates and served from April 11, 1969 to November 21, 1972.
Delegates and states
Delegates used two streams of intellectual tradition, and any one delegate could be found using both or a mixture depending on the subject under discussion, foreign affairs or the economy, national government or federal relationships among the states.
Except for Nebraska, which has unicameral legislature, all states have a bicameral legislature, with the upper house usually called the Senate and the lower house called the House of Representatives, the House of Delegates, Assembly or something similar.
Five states designate the larger chamber the Assembly and three states call it the House of Delegates.
Delegates from a majority of states agreed to this mode of election.
Delegates from the small states generally favored the Electoral College out of concern that the large states would otherwise control presidential elections.
Delegates came from eleven states, including one delegate from California — a state only a few weeks old.
Delegates from ten states meet with the prime minister to urge him to drop the proposals.
Delegates from Greece, Romania, Serbia, and Montenegro attended the sessions concerning their states, but were not members of the congress.
Delegates from all fifty U. S. states and from American dependencies and territories such as Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands attend the convention and cast their votes to choose the Party's presidential candidate.
In addition to the states ' requirements, the party rules state ( Rule 12. J ): " Delegates elected to the national convention pledged to a presidential candidate shall in all good conscience reflect the sentiments of those who elected them.
* Delegate is also the title given to individuals elected to the lower houses of the bicameral legislative bodies of the states of Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia ( see House of Delegates ).
Delegates from states with a large population of slaves argued that slaves should be considered persons in determining representation, but as property if the new government were to levy taxes on the states on the basis of population.
Delegates from states where slavery had become rare argued that slaves should be included in taxation, but not in determining representation.
Delegates from eleven local fraternities from nine different states united to form the new fraternity.
Only three states — Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia — refer to their lower house as the House of Delegates.
Delegates and out
" To cure this disgraceful state of affairs, Blackstone called for sweeping reforms that would firmly set out the Delegates ' powers and obligations, officially record their deliberations and accounting, and put the print shop on an efficient footing.
Delegates from Manchuria in the assembly responded by yelling out and calling for the death of those responsible for the loss of Manchuria.
Adolph Sanger, on behalf of the Board of Delegates, in 1880 sent out an agent, L. A. Cohen, to Morocco to report on conditions there.
In a very rare case of the convocation of a General Congregation being imposed on a Superior General ( GC V, of 1593 ) Aquaviva's ways or working were forcefully challenged, but his openness and genuine humility won him the Delegates ' hearts and he came out of the ordeal completely vindicated.
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