Though his election was interpreted by many Southerners as the forerunner of a dangerous shift in the federal balance in favor of the Union, Lincoln himself proposed no such change in the rights the Constitution gave the states.

It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election.

Colonial Labour parties contested seats from 1891, and federal seats following the Federation at the 1901 federal election.

Labor was the first party in Australia to win a majority in either house of the Australian Parliament, at the 1910 federal election.

* Anything But Conservative, or ABC campaign, 2008 Canadian federal election political campaign

The most recent election, the German federal election, 2009, was held on September 27, 2009.

After a decade as president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, he entered parliament as a Labor MP at the 1980 federal election and became Prime Minister within three years, leading Labor to victory at four consecutive federal elections: 1983, 1984, 1987 and 1990.

The territory Country Party members first contested the 1919 federal election, with an established federal Country Party contesting the 1922 federal election.

After the 1974 federal election and subsequent Joint Sitting of parliament, legislation was passed to create a unicameral Legislative Assembly, as well as members with full voting rights at a federal level.

In the 2004 federal election, the NDP captured 28. 45 % of the vote in Nova Scotia, more than any other province.

In the 2004 federal election, the Conservatives had one of the worst showings in the region for a right-wing party, going back to Confederation, with the possible exception of the 1993 election.

In the 1997 federal election, Prime Minister Jean Chrétien's Liberals endured a bitter defeat to the PCs and NDP in many ridings as a result of unpopular cuts to unemployment benefits for seasonal workers, as well as closures of several Canadian Forces Bases, the refusal to honour a promise to rescind the Goods and Services Tax, cutbacks to provincial equalization payments, health care, post-secondary education and regional transportation infrastructure such as airports, fishing harbours, seaports, and railways.

* 2008 – The Governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, is arrested by federal officials for a number of crimes including attempting to sell the United States Senate seat being vacated by President-elect Barack Obama's election to the Presidency.

During the run-up to the German general election in 2005, which was held ahead of schedule, Stoiber created controversy through a campaign speech held in the beginning of August 2005 in the federal state of Baden-Württemberg.

In all federal election campaigns since the 1980s, the party sided with the CDU and CSU, the main conservative parties in Germany.

In case of a deadlock between prison boards and inmates, a federal arbitration board to include a `` lifer '' and two escapees should decide the issue.

This saved for state adjudication, in the first instance, the two major areas where federal injunctions had been most obnoxious, but other areas remained vulnerable.

In federal courts in the United States, arraignment takes place in two stages.

In Australia's Federal Parliament, the ACT is represented by four federal members: two members of the House of Representatives ; the Division of Fraser and the Division of Canberra and is one of only two territories to be represented in the Senate, with two Senators ( the other being the Northern Territory ).

In December 1978, the federal district court ruled in the university's favor ; two years later, that decision was overturned by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.

For most purposes, most jurisdictions, including the U. S. federal system and most states, have merged the two courts.

Provisions in these two acts, along with less-formal instructions issued by the federal cabinet known as orders-in-council, represent the bulk of the CRTC's jurisdiction.

* 2008 Ottawa radio licences: On November 21, 2008, federal Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages James Moore issued a statement calling on the CRTC to review its approval of two new radio stations, Frank Torres ' CIDG-FM and Astral Media's CJOT-FM, which it had licensed in August 2008 to serve the Ottawa-Gatineau radio market.

Senator Nigel Scullion and Solomon MP Natasha Griggs are the CLP's only two representatives in federal parliament.

The party also directs its federal members and senators as to which of the two other parties they should sit with in the parliamentary chamber.

Their grievances were against the two main Northern Territory employers: Vestey ’ s Meatworks and the federal government.

Erfurt has an Airport and lies on two Bundesstraßen ( federal motorways ):

In the late 20th century, Belgium became a federal state in which the Dutch-speaking part was given autonomy as the Flemish Community () and the Flemish Region (); these two entities were effectively merged, and Flanders now refers to the territory of the Flemish Community, which additionally has partial jurisdiction over Brussels.

Brown visited Douglass ' home two months before he led the raid on the federal armory in Harpers Ferry.

In general, two extremes of federalism can be distinguished: at one extreme, the strong federal state is almost completely unitary, with few powers reserved for local governments ; while at the other extreme, the national government may be a federal state in name only, being a confederation in actuality.

For almost two years after the federal elections in 2005, the Greens were not part of any government at the state or federal level.

They also won 56 % of the two party preferred vote, which is still the greatest winning margin at a federal election in Australian political history.

The goal of these two plans was to change public housing into tenant-owned residences and to lure industry and business into inner cities with federal incentives.

Under, the Supreme court has original and exclusive jurisdiction over controversies between two or more states, and original ( but non-exclusive ) jurisdiction over cases involving officials of foreign states, controversies between the federal government and a state, actions by a state against the citizens of another state or foreign country.

From 1961 to 1965 the two states, along with Tanzania, were united in the East African Common Services Organization, a common market with a loose federal structure.

During the " nullification crisis " of 1828 – 1833, South Carolina passed an Ordinance of Nullification purporting to nullify two federal tariff laws.

Both the federal and state governments commence their fiscal years on July 1.

Other parts of the Kennedy health plan would entail federal grants of 750 million to 1 billion dollars over the next 10 years.

The President recommended federal `` matching grants '' totaling 700 million dollars in 10 years for constructing new medical and dental schools or enlarging the capacity of existing ones.

Her husband, who was sentenced to 15 years in the federal prison at McNeil Island last April for robbery of the Hillsdale branch of Multnomah Bank, also was charged with the store holdup.

After years of extensive lobbying for federal dollars, a 1987 public works bill appropriating funding for the Big Dig was passed by U. S. Congress, but it was subsequently vetoed by President Ronald Reagan as being too expensive.

His political career in the federal cabinet was unique in that he had served four ministerial posts in the years between 1953 and 1969.

This hub, the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis, will receive up to $ 122 million in federal funding over five years.

The new federal Constitution came into effect in 2002 ; it included elements of consociationalism, including a presidency that rotates every four years among the islands and extensive autonomy for each island.

In addition to the decennial federal census, local censuses have also been conducted, for example, in Massachusetts, which conducted a statewide census every five years until 1985.

In recent years, the 1867 document has mainly served as the basis on which the division of powers between the provinces and federal government have been analyzed.

Part V of this act established an amending formula for the Canadian constitution, the lack of which ( due to more than 50 years of disagreement between the federal and provincial governments ) was the only reason Canada's constitutional amendments still required approval by the British parliament after ratification of the Statute of Westminster in 1931.

Within a few years, the federal government would create its own need-based program, known as Pell Grants, providing the neediest students with a tuition-free college education.

At the end of the War of 1812, Fort Gibson was built and the island remained a military post for nearly 80 years before it was selected to be a federal immigration station.

Sir Earle Christmas Grafton Page, GCMG, CH ( 8 August 188020 December 1961 ) was the 11th Prime Minister of Australia, and is to date the second-longest serving federal parliamentarian in Australian history, with 41 years, 361 days in Parliament .< ref >

This US federal law also gave students 18 years old or older, or students of any age if enrolled in any post-secondary educational institution, the right of privacy regarding grades, enrollment, and even billing information, unless the school has specific permission from the student to share that specific type of information with the parent.

Only a few years into his service as a federal judge, Hopkinson died in Philadelphia at the age of 53 from a sudden epileptic seizure.

He lost his intuitive touch during the war years, when the federal money stopped flowing in, and never realized that he had created far more infrastructure than the city could afford.

Most actions by the federal government can find some legal support among the express powers, such as the Commerce Clause, whose applicability has been narrowed by the Supreme Court in recent years.

The law includes health-related provisions to take effect over the next four years, including expanding Medicaid eligibility for people making up to 133 % of the federal poverty level ( FPL ), subsidizing insurance premiums for people making up to 400 % of the FPL ($ 88, 000 for family of 4 in 2010 ) so their maximum " out-of-pocket " payment for annual premiums will be from 2 % to 9. 5 % of income, providing incentives for businesses to provide health care benefits, prohibiting denial of coverage and denial of claims based on pre-existing conditions, establishing health insurance exchanges, prohibiting insurers from establishing annual coverage caps, and support for medical research.

Petroleum seeps on the North Slope have been known for many years, and in 1923, the federal government created US Naval Petroleum Reserve No. 4 to cover the presumed oil fields beneath the seeps.