Clinton also spoke in favor of California Proposition 87 on alternative energy, which was voted down.

In the non-USSR annexed portion of Poland, less than a third of Poland's population voted in favor of massive communist land reforms and industry nationalizations in a policies referendum known as " 3 times YES " ( 3 razy TAK ; 3xTAK ), whereupon a second vote rigged election was held to get the desired result.

In the presence of a UN observer team, a referendum was held on August 11, 1968, and 63 % of the electorate voted in favor of the constitution, which provided for a government with a General Assembly and a Supreme Court with judges appointed by the president.

Eritreans voted overwhelmingly in favor of independence between 23 and 25 April 1993 in a UN-monitored referendum.

The November 7 elections determined that more than 77 % of the population voted in favor to NATO membership.

57 % of all party members voted in the member referendum, with 67 % voting in favor of the change.

Two days later, the Astros were officially sold to Crane after the other owners unanimously voted in favor of the sale.

However, in a surprising move, the NFL owners voted 26-2 in favor of awarding the 30th franchise to Jacksonville.

Free state senators voted 14 to 12 in favor while slave state senators overwhelmingly supported the bill 23 to 2.

In the South, Democrats voted in favor by 57 to 2 and Whigs by a closer 12 to 7.

In November 1947, Luxembourg voted in favor of the partition plan to create a Jewish state.

On 7 and 8 June 2003, 77. 45 % of the referendum participants voted in favor of Poland ’ s accession to the European Union.

On June 14, 1993, the people of Malawi voted overwhelmingly in favor of multi-party democracy.

Paraguay regularly voted in favor of United States policies in the United Nations and the Organization of American States.

On 21 May 2006, the Montenegrin independence referendum was held, and 55. 5 % of voters voted in favor of independence.

Though it voted in favor of UNSCR 1441 in 2002, Syria was against coalition military action in Iraq in 2003.

In 2000, the Senate voted 63 – 37 in favor of the amendment, which fell four votes short of the requisite two-thirds majority.

The remaining nine delegations voted in favor of independence, which meant that the resolution had been approved by the committee of the whole.

In 1970, the IUOTO general assembly voted in favor of forming the World Tourism Organization ( WTO ), based on statutes of the IUOTO, and after ratification by the prescribed 51 states, the WTO came into operation on November 1, 1974.

He supported the Polk Administration's conduct of the Mexican-American War, spoke in favor of the 54 ° 40 ' northern limit to the Oregon territory, and voted for the Wilmot Proviso, which would have banned slavery from the territory gained from Mexico.

As a Democrat, he voted with the seven-member minority, in favor of the Samuel J. Tilden electors in all cases, but the Republican majority prevailed in all the votes, and Thurman's 1867 gubernatorial opponent, Rutherford B. Hayes, became President.

His opponents then backed Peres in the second round and 86 members of the Knesset voted in his favor, while 23 objected.

When the votes were counted on October 1, out of 416, 619 voters only 16, 771 voted in favor and 52, 219 against.

Nasser was accused by many in Egypt, including the Brotherhood, of distracting the issue of Sudan with the withdrawal from Suez, but the Sudanese voted overwhelmingly in favor of independence.

In 1946 Sardinians voted for more than 60 % in favor of monarchy like the rest of the Southern Italy, but but a few days later will be declared the Italian Republic.

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

In July of the same year, in Seoul, South Korea, the Member Churches of the World Methodist Council ( WMC ) voted to approve and sign a " Methodist Statement of Association " with the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification ( JDDJ ), the agreement which was reached and officially accepted in 1999 by the Catholic Church and the Lutheran World Federation and which proclaimed that " Together we confess: By grace alone, in faith in Christ ’ s saving work and not because of any merit on our part, we are accepted by God and receive the Holy Spirit, who renews our hearts while equipping and calling us to good works ... as sinners our new life is solely due to the forgiving and renewing mercy that God imparts as a gift and we receive in faith, and never can merit in any way ," affirming " fundamental doctrinal agreement " concerning justification between the Catholic Church, the LWF, and the World Methodist Council.

Lee had returned to Virginia by the time Congress voted on and adopted the Declaration of Independence, but he signed the document when he returned to Congress

The Declaration was ultimately a formal explanation of why Congress had voted on July 2 to declare independence from Great Britain, more than a year after the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War.

The following countries voted in favour of the Declaration:

On July 18, 2006, delegates to the World Methodist Council voted unanimously to adopt the " Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification ", which was approved in 1999 by the Vatican and the Lutheran World Federation.

Powell had voted against the Schuman Declaration in 1950 and had supported entry only because he believed that the Common Market was simply a means to secure free trade.

On October 19, 1998, participants at IFOAM's 12th Scientific Conference issued the Mar del Plata Declaration, where more than 600 delegates from over 60 countries voted unanimously to exclude the use of genetically modified organisms in food production and agriculture.

He voted for and signed the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation.

On September 15, 2008, the Village Board voted to accept a Negative Declaration on the State Environmental Quality Review for the proposed rink, which eliminates the need for further exhaustive site environmental impact studies.

The Church of Denmark voted in December 2009 to join the Porvoo Communion as a full member and signed the Porvoo Declaration on October 3, 2010.

In 1776, the Continental Congress voted for independence on July 2 and adopted the Declaration of Independence two days later, July 4.

The 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, voted by the National Constituent Assembly, seemed to some in the church to mark the appearance of the antichrist, in that they excluded Christian morality from the new ' natural order '.

On September 13, 2007 the United Nations General Assembly adopted the “ Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples .” A total of 144 states or countries voted in favor.

Recognising that these positions were irreconcilable, the National Council voted for Slovakia's Declaration of Independence by 113 votes to 24, and Mečiar concluded formal negotiations over the dissolution of Czechoslovakia.

On October 19, 1998, participants at IFOAM's 12th Scientific Conference issued the Mar del Plata Declaration, where more than 600 delegates from over 60 countries voted unanimously to exclude the use of genetically modified organisms ( GMOs ) in food production and agriculture.

Laurens and Paine accused Morris of war profiteering in 1779, and Willing had voted against the Declaration of Independence.

Wolcott, the father of Declaration of Independence signer Oliver Wolcott, was voted out of office in 1754 for his role in the Spanish Ship Case.

On winning 73 seats the Dáil voted at its first session for the Democratic Programme as embodying these ideals and also the Declaration of Independence.

As a member of the Continental Congress in 1775 and 1776, he voted against the Declaration of Independence.

He voted against the Declaration of Independence, since he believed it would inevitably escalate the Revolutionary War and that conflicted with his Quaker beliefs.

For the last text of the 4th Universal ( Declaration ) voted: " for "-39 voices, " against "-4 voices, " abstained "-6

On June 29, 1776, Virginians declared their independence from Great Britain and wrote the state's first constitution, thereby creating an independent government four days before Congress voted for the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia on July 4.

He was one of three Maryland delegates to the Congress who voted in July 1776, to declare America's independence from Great Britain and to approve the Declaration of Independence.