In every war of the United States since the Civil War the South was more belligerent than the rest of the country.

Thus, to cite but one example, the Pax Britannica of the nineteenth century, whether with the British navy ruling the seas or with the City of London ruling world finance, was strictly national in motivation, however much other nations ( e.g., the United States ) may have incidentally benefited.

National responsibility for individual welfare is a concept not limited to the United States or even to the Western nations.

( Since the time-span of the nation-state coincides roughly with the separate existence of the United States as an independent entity, it is perhaps natural for Americans to think of the nation as representative of the highest form of order, something permanent and unchanging.

In recent weeks, as a result of a sweeping defense policy reappraisal by the Kennedy Administration, basic United States strategy has been modified -- and large new sums allocated -- to meet the accidental-war danger and to reduce it as quickly as possible.

Its radar screens would register Soviet missiles shortly after they are launched against the United States.

In 1938, at the insistence of Arturo Toscanini, Steinberg left Germany for the United States, by way of Switzerland.

After he had spent the first three years in New York as associate conductor, at Toscanini's invitation, of the NBC Orchestra, he made numerous guest appearances throughout the United States and Latin America.

`` Then I return to the United States for engagements at the Hollywood Bowl and in Philadelphia '', he added.

The difference came down to this: The Southern States insisted that the United States was, in last analysis, what its name implied -- a Union of States.

`` we the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common Defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America ''.

The 140,414 Americans who gave `` the last full measure of devotion '' to prevent disunion, preserved individual freedom in the United States from the dangers of anarchy, inherent in confederations, which throughout history have proved fatal in the end to all associations composed primarily of sovereign states, and to the liberties of their people.

There one finds concentrated in a comparatively small area the chief universities, colleges, and preparatory schools of the United States.

The rise of the giant corporations in Western Europe and the United States dates from the period 1880-1900.

He says: `` beside the Protestant philosophy of Progress, as expressed in radical or conservative millenarianism, should be placed the doctrine of the democratic faith which affirmed it to be the duty of the destiny of the United States to assist in the creation of a better world by keeping lighted the beacon of democracy ''.

During the next five years liberal leaders in the United States sank in the cumulative confusion attendant upon and manifested in a negative policy of Containment -- and the bitterest irony -- enforced and enforceable only by threat of a weapon that we felt the greatest distaste for but could not abandon: the atom bomb.

And here again we hear the same refrain mentioned above: `` the paramount goal of the United States set long ago was to guard the rights of the individual, ensure his development, enlarge his opportunity ''.

`` I arrived in the United States with the idea of establishing myself there more or less permanently and finding inspiration for new compositions ''.

This is the good kind of sophistication, and with all our problems and crises this kind of sophistication has flowered in the United States during recent years.

but Wright stayed in the United States.

* USAM 9-16. 000 Pleas — Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 11, United States Department of Justice

The late 19th and early 20th centuries in Ireland were dominated by Irish nationalists ' pursuit of Home Rule ( or even independence ) from the United Kingdom.

Legislation introducing Home Rule, i. e. limited self-government for Ireland within the United Kingdom, was passed by the British parliament in 1914, but its implementation was immediately postponed because of the outbreak of the First World War.

In the United States federal courts, class actions are governed by Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Rule 23 and 28 U. S. C. A.

In a non-criminal case in a United States district court, a litigant ( or a litigant's attorney ) who presents any pleading, written motion or other paper to the court is required, under Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, to certify that, to the best of the presenter's knowledge and belief, the legal contentions " are warranted by existing law or by a nonfrivolous argument for the extension, modification, or reversal of existing law or the establishment of new law ".

Fort Collins is a Home Rule Municipality situated on the Cache La Poudre River along the Colorado Front Range, and is the county seat and most populous city of Larimer County, Colorado, United States.

Following years of political and military agitation for ' Home Rule ' for Ireland, the Anglo-Irish treaty of 1921 established the Irish Free State ( now the Republic of Ireland ) as a separate state, leaving Northern Ireland as part of the United Kingdom.

The political violence that broke out across Ireland in 1919, and which continued on and off until 1923, had its origins in Irish nationalist demands for Home Rule within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and unionist resistance to those demands.

In 1912 the Liberal government introduced the Third Home Rule Bill into the British Parliament, with the aim of establishing self-government for Ireland within the United Kingdom.

( For specific rules and regulations in United States Track & Field see Rule 185 ).

* 1914 – The United Kingdom's House of Commons passes the Home Rule Act for devolution in Ireland.

Parnell's movement campaigned for ' Home Rule ', by which they meant that Ireland would govern itself as a region within the United Kingdom, in contrast to O ' Connell who wanted complete independence subject to a shared monarch and Crown.

* United Nations Rule of Law: The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, on the rule of law work conducted by the High Commissioner for Refugees.

Rule XIX, which governs debate, does not authorize the Vice President to participate in debate, and grants only to members of the Senate ( and, upon appropriate notice, former presidents of the United States ) the privilege of addressing the Senate, without granting a similar privilege to the sitting Vice President.

The historian H. C. G. Matthew states that Gladstone's chief legacy lay in three areas: his financial policy ; his support for Home Rule ( devolution ) that modified the view of the unitary state of the United Kingdom ; and his idea of a progressive, reforming party broadly-based and capable of accommodating and conciliating varying interests, along with his speeches at mass public meetings.

The Global Gag Rule "... required nongovernmental organizations to agree as a condition of their receipt of Federal funds that such organizations would neither perform nor actively promote abortion as a method of family planning in other nations ...." The Global Gag Rule was again suspended as one of the first official acts by United States President Barack Obama.

Though less than expected by the Sinn Féin leadership, it was substantially more than the initial form of home rule within the United Kingdom sought by Charles Stewart Parnell from 1880, and a serious advancement on the Home Rule Act of 1914 that the Irish nationalist leader John Redmond had achieved through parliamentary proceedings.

Entry of default in the United States district courts is governed by Rule 55 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.

In almost all cases pending in United States federal courts, depositions are carried out under Rule 30 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.

The United States Golf Association banned this technique in 1968 by amending the old Rule 35 – 1, since until that time, golfers had always faced the ball when striking.

As a source of reference, in 1917, United States Senate adopted a cloture rule ( Rule 22 ), at the urging of President Woodrow Wilson, that allowed the Senate to end a debate with a two-thirds majority vote.

During the 1990s the term Cool Britannia ( drawn from a humorous version by the Bonzo Dog Band of the song " Rule Britannia ", with words by James Thomson, which is often used as an unofficial national anthem ), was used to describe the contemporary United Kingdom.