Prior to 1954 I imagine that a majority of Southerners would have voted against the Confederacy.

John Adams dismissed John Dickinson, who voted against the Declaration of Independence, as `` a certain great fortune and piddling genius ''.

There are only two men remaining in Congress who, with Rayburn, voted for the declaration of war against Germany in 1917.

Douglas has consistently voted to aid the people who killed Masaryk, and against principles Masaryk died to uphold.

The NLRB said that of 11 potentially eligible voters eight voted against the union, two voted for it, and one vote was challenged.

The current conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh ( NK ) began in 1988 when Armenian demonstrations against Azerbaijani rule broke out in both Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia and the Nagorno-Karabakh Supreme Soviet voted to secede from Azerbaijan and join Armenia.

Seven Republican senators – William Pitt Fessenden, Joseph S. Fowler, John B. Henderson, Lyman Trumbull, Peter G. Van Winkle and notably Senators Grimes and Ross played a decisive role ; purportedly disturbed by how the proceedings had been manipulated to give a one-sided presentation of the evidence, they voted against conviction, in defiance of their party and public opinion.

Every member of the future protectionist cabinet then in parliament ( except Disraeli ) voted against the measure.

It made constitutional history in being imposed by the laity alone, as all the bishops, except those imprisoned by the Queen and unable to attend, voted against it.

Arias thus remained barred from a second term as president ; however, in April 2003 – by which time two of the four judges who had voted against the change in 2000 had been replaced – the Court reconsidered the issue and, with the only dissenters being the two anti-reelection judges remaining from 2000, declared the 1969 amendment null and thus opened the way to reelection for former presidents – which in practice meant Arias.

She has advocated for stricter gun control laws and gay rights, and voted against California's Proposition 8 during the 2008 elections.

George Lansbury, a convinced pacifist, resigned as leader at the 1935 Labour Party conference after the party voted in favour of sanctions against Italy for its aggression against Abyssinia.

Each of these four nations voted against the General Assembly resolutions.

In two referendums, in December 1974 and February 1976, the population of Mayotte voted against independence from France ( by 63. 8 % and 99. 4 % respectively ).

In the House of Commons, 161 MPs ( 88 of them Labour ) voted against the renewal of Trident and the Government motion was carried only with the support of Conservatives.

For example, the Central Committee voted for or against signing a peace treaty with the Germans between 1917 and 1918 during World War I ; the majority voted in favour of peace when Trotsky backed down in 1918.

Even so, Kamenev and Zinoviev were crushed at the congress, and 559 voted in favour of the Soviet leadership and only 65 against.

This led many commentators to assume that Nicaraguans voted against the Sandinistas out of fear of a continuation of the contra war and economic deprivation.

Delaware voted against secession on January 3, 1861.

The alternative majority in these issues was because the Social liberal Party ( Radikale Venstre ) supported the governing majority in economic policy issues, but was against certain NATO policies and voted with the left in these issues.

Davros uses a trick to wipe out those who oppose him, by ordering a vote to decide whether to continue with the project, when the Daleks arrive they kill those who voted against Davros, but ultimately turn on Davros and apparently kill him at the conclusion of the serial.

Allying with the population of West, the East population unanimously voted for Fatima Jinnah during the 1965 presidential elections against Ayub Khan.

Pelosi voted against the Secure Fence Act of 2006.

Andrews voted for the Secure Fence Act of 2006, authorizing the erection of a 700-mile fence across the U. S .- Mexico border.

Soon afterwards the government banned the Social Democratic Party, which had voted against the Act, while the other parties were intimidated into dissolving themselves rather than face arrests and concentration camp imprisonment.

Only the Social Democrats voted against the Act.

Congress voted in 2010 to extend the legislation until 2020 under the Haitian Economic Lift Act ( HELP ); the apparel sector accounts for about 90 % of Haitian exports and nearly one-tenth of GDP.

Although that bill was never voted on in the Senate, a similar Senate bill was passed after his death and named the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act in his memory.

In the first contact between Michigan partisans and the Stickney family, the sheriff arrested two Ohioans under the Pains and Penalties Act on the basis that the men had voted in the Ohio elections.

Most Democrats and Republicans in the Senate — in fact four-fifths of the members of his own party — voted for the Civil Rights Act, but not Senator Goldwater.

On the third reading of Peel's Bill of Repeal ( Importation Act 1846 ) on 15 May, MPs voted 327 votes to 229 ( a majority of 98 ) to repeal the Corn Laws.

Congress nonetheless voted to extend the Act for twenty-five years with its original enforcement provisions left intact.

The < span lang =" fr "> Villèle </ span > government, under pressure from the Chevaliers de la Foi, which many deputies were members of, voted on the Anti-Sacrilege Act in January 1825, which punished by death the theft of consecrated hosts as parricide.

She voted to implement the 9 / 11 Commission Recommendations Act of 2007.

In 1991, he voted in favor of Biden-Thurmond Violent Crime Control Act of 1991.

The group's following came largely from their energetic live shows — they have been voted " Best British Live Act " in Kerrang!

Parliament was shocked by this, but at first was unaware of the relation with the French alliance ; in February 1673 it voted to start funding the alliance in exchange for a suspension of the Indulgence ( and an issuing of the Test Act in March ), not as yet seeing any contradiction in such policies.

On the third reading of Peel's Bill of Repeal ( Importation Act 1846 ) on 15 May, MPs voted 327 votes to 229 ( a majority of 98 ) to repeal the Corn Laws.

In 2009 it voted 73 % in favor of a referendum rejecting same-sex marriage and 54 % against the Maine Medical Marijuana Act.

* On November 26, 2009, the New Zealand Parliament voted to abolish Section 169 of the Crimes Act 1961, removing the provocation defence from New Zealand law, although this change was more a result of the failed provocation defence in the Sophie Elliott murder trial of her ex-boyfriend.

In November 2004, township residents voted to change their form of government from a Township Committee to a Mayor-Council form under the Faulkner Act.

In May 1993, West Windsor Township residents voted to change their form of government from a Township Committee to a Mayor-Council form under the Faulkner Act.

Loch Arbour was the last to do so, but on December 20, 2011, its residents voted to change to the Walsh Act form of government, with a three-member board of commissioners.

Pelosi voted against the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 and earlier attempts at similar bans, and voted against the criminalization of certain situations where a minor is transported across state lines for an abortion ( HR 748, passed ).

In 2001, she voted in favor of the USA Patriot Act, but voted against reauthorization of certain provisions in 2005.

Pelosi voted for the No Child Left Behind Act, which instituted testing to track students ' progress and authorized an increase in overall education spending.