As Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew described to the BBC and in his memoirs, due to his experiences as a trial lawyer, " I had no faith in a system that allowed the superstition, ignorance, biases, and prejudices of seven jurymen to determine guilt or innocence.

Political leaders in Singapore argued instead for the equality of all citizens, with places in universities, government contracts, political appointments, etc., going to the most deserving candidates, rather than to those chosen on the basis of connections or ethnic background ( It is worth noting that Lee Kuan Yew was originally a Fabian Socialist and opposed racism ).

Singaporean politics have been dominated by the People's Action Party ( PAP ) since the 1959 general election when Lee Kuan Yew became Singapore's first prime minister ( Singapore was then a self-governing state within the British Empire ).

Singapore left the Commonwealth in 1963 to join the Federation of Malaysia, but was expelled from the Federation in 1965 after Lee Kuan Yew disagreed with the federal government in Kuala Lumpur.

Goh's predecessor Lee Kuan Yew served as Singapore's prime minister from independence through 1990.

* 1923 – Lee Kuan Yew, Chinese-Singaporean politician, 1st Prime Minister of Singapore

* Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew ( Singapore )

* November 28 – Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Kuan Yew resigns and is replaced by Goh Chok Tong.

* June 3 – Singapore becomes a self-governing crown colony of Britain with Lee Kuan Yew as Prime Minister.

* August 7 – Tunku Abdul Rahman, Prime Minister of Malaysia, recommends the expulsion of Singapore from the Federation of Malaysia, negotiating its separation with Lee Kuan Yew, Prime Minister of Singapore.

* September 16 – Lee Kuan Yew, Prime Minister of Singapore

* World's longest serving current republican head of government: Lee Kuan Yew, Prime Minister of Singapore from 1965 to 1990 ().

In 1954, Lim Chin Siong, along with his Chinese High senior, Fong Swee Suan, was introduced to Lee Kuan Yew.

Lee Kuan Yew eventually accused Lim Chin Siong and his supporters of being Communists, though declassified British government documents later suggested that no evidence was ever found that Lim was a Communist.

Lee Kuan Yew imprisoned Lim Chin Siong without trial for many years, preventing him from competing against Lee as leader of the banned break-away opposition party the Barisan Sosialis ( Socialist Front ).

The party won three seats, one by its leader Lee Kuan Yew, and one by co-founder of the PAP, Lim Chin Siong, the election going to the Workers Party's David Saul Marshall.

Following this initial defeat, the PAP decided to re-assert ties with the labour faction of Singapore by promising to release the jailed members of the PAP and at the same time getting them to sign a document that they supported Lee Kuan Yew and the PAP, in the hope that it could attract the votes of working-class Chinese Singaporeans.

According to Tan Jing Quee in the book " Comet in our Sky ", Lee Kuan Yew was being deceptive at this time: while pretending to be on the side of the jailed labour members of the PAP, he was secretly in collusion with the British to stop Lim Chin Siong and the labour supporters from attaining power, whom Lee had courted because of their huge popularity, without which Lee would most likely not have been able to attain power.

" Lee Kuan Yew was secretly a party with Lim Yew Hock "-adds Dr Greg Poulgrain of Griffiths University-" in urging the Colonial Secretary to impose the subversives ban in making it illegal for former political detainees to stand for election.

The result was successful for the PAP under Lee Kuan Yew's control who won the 1959 election, and has held power ever since.

The clash of personalities between PAP leader Lee Kuan Yew and Malaysian Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman resulted in a crisis and led to the latter expelling Singapore from the Federation of Malaysia in August 1965.

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In the 1965 session of Parliament, Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew ( who was also a Member of that Parliament ) questioned the implementation of Malay rights as proposed.

He vociferously attacked Singapore's dominant People's Action Party for being " pro-Chinese " and " anti-Malay " and called its leader, Lee Kuan Yew, " arrogant ".

Lee reported that the work was simply a display of one's love for their country and an expression of joy at Singapore's success, and in a press statement, he asked that the piece be " treated as an artistic and complimentary interpretation of a national icon ".

Lee Kuan Yew was Senior Minister from 1990 to 2004, after which he became Minister Mentor in the Cabinet of Singapore's third Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.

Lee Hsien Loong ( born 10 February 1952 ) is the third and current Prime Minister of Singapore, and the eldest son of Singapore's first Prime Minister, Lee Kuan Yew.

A 5th Generation of Han Chinese Singaporean and also the eldest child of Singapore's first prime minister Lee Kuan Yew and his wife Kwa Geok Choo, Lee Hsien Loong was born in Singapore on 10 February 1952.

On 28 November 1990, Goh Chok Tong took over from Lee Kuan Yew as Singapore's Prime Minister, and Lee Hsien Loong was made one of two Deputy Prime Ministers ( along with Ong Teng Cheong ).

In the months leading up to Lee taking over as Singapore's third Prime Minister in 2004, he was already signalling reforms in some key areas, including ceding more space to the private and people sectors.

As the eldest son of Singapore's first Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, Lee's career has been shadowed by allegations of nepotism.

The court found the 2006 article " Singapore's ' Martyr ': Chee Soon Juan " meant that Lee Kuan Yew " has been running and continues to run Singapore in the same corrupt manner as T. T. Durai operated the National Kidney Foundation Singapore ( see the National Kidney Foundation Singapore scandal ) and he has been using libel actions to suppress those who would question to avoid exposure of his corruption.

Lee Siew Choh ( a former leader of the Barisan Sosialis ) became Singapore's first NCMP, serving until the 1991 general election.

During 2005, the governments of both countries discussed lifting the ban, with Singapore's former Prime Minister, Lee Kuan Yew, speaking in favour of such a move, although Malaysian politicians were more wary.

Singapore's Prime Minister, Lee Hsien Loong is the Member of Parliament for this constituency.

For example, while Mrs Chew is giving birth, Lee Kuan Yew's voice can be heard on a radio in the background, announcing Singapore's separation from Malaysia.

The school was opened as the Singapore International School in 1971 in an official opening ceremony attended by Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew.

In the first Memorial Lecture, Singapore's Minister mentor Lee Kuan Yew was invited to give a speech titled " The Legacy of Sultan Haji Omar Ali Saifuddien ".

Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew responded by saying that the British colonial government did not represent the voice of Singaporeans.

It also has shops such as Singapore's famous custom tailor, CYC The Custom Shop, which makes shirts for Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew and Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.

Richard Henry Lee ( January 20, 1732June 19, 1794 ) was an American statesman from Virginia best known for the motion in the Second Continental Congress calling for the colonies ' independence from Great Britain.

An early advocate of independence, Lee became one of the first to create Committees of Correspondence among the many independence-minded Americans in the various colonies.

This however drew an angry reaction from the PRC who believed that Lee was covertly supporting Taiwan independence.

Over the course of the 1990s, President Lee appeared to drift away from the One-China formulation, leading many to believe that he was actually sympathetic to Taiwan independence.

" Harrison served frequently as Chairman of the Committee of the Whole in the Continental Congress, presided over the final debates on an independence resolution offered by Virginia delegate Richard Henry Lee, and presided as well over the final debates and amendments to the Declaration itself.

After the election, there was widespread anger within the Kuomintang against Lee Teng-hui, who was expelled and formed his own pro-Taiwan independence party, the Taiwan Solidarity Union.

The hardliners in the KMT and recently expelled supporters of James Soong believed Lee secretly harbored support for Taiwan independence and had purposely sabotaged the KMT ( by not allowing Soong to run under the KMT ) in order to allow Chen Shui-bian, the Democratic Progressive Party candidate, to win.

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A third novel, The Spider's House, ( Random House, New York, November 1955 ) was set in Fez ( immediately prior to Morocco's independence and sovereignty in 1956, away from the French Protectorate ) and charted the relationships among three expatriates and a young Moroccan: John Stenham, Alain Moss, Lee Veyron and Omar.

Lee played an important role during the 2000 Presidential Election and since then has been a supporter of the Pan-green coalition which advocates Taiwan independence.

As an active protester of issues such as the Stamp Act, Lee helped move the colony in the direction of independence from Britain.

Lee goes on to capture Philadelphia, earning the Confederate States of America diplomatic recognition from both the United Kingdom and France, thus winning the war ( which is known as the War of Secession in the alternate timeline ) and independence from the United States on November 4.

In 2003, she and another legislator, James To of the Democratic Party, attended a seminar entitled " Hong Kong Under One Country, Two Systems " organised by a pro-Taiwan independence group headed by former ROC President Lee Teng-hui.

Outspokenly running on a platform of Taiwanese independence, Peng garnered 21 % of the votes, second only to incumbent Lee Teng-hui, who won the election.

Also during this time, however, the rhetoric of ROC President Lee Tung-hui began to turn further towards Taiwan independence.

It argued that Lee harbored pro-Taiwan independence sentiments and was therefore a threat to stability in the region.

During the American Revolution, the legal separation of the Thirteen Colonies from Great Britain occurred on July 2, 1776, when the Second Continental Congress voted to approve a resolution of independence that had been proposed in June by Richard Henry Lee of Virginia declaring the United States independent from Great Britain.

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* Lee Beom-seok ( Prime Minister ) ( 1900 – 1972 ), Korean independence activist and later the first Prime Minister of South Korea from 1948 until 1950

Many Taiwanese independence supporters, including former President Lee Teng-Hui, argued that Taiwan should declare independence before 2008 on the theory that international pressure over the Beijing Olympics would prevent the PRC from using force against Taiwan.

Hatch attended King Edward's School, Birmingham, where he studied under James Prince Lee, who later became the Bishop of Manchester ; it was during this period of his life that he was first noted for his strong mental independence and extreme study habits.

The Lee Resolution, also known as the resolution of independence, was an act of the Second Continental Congress declaring the United Colonies to be independent of the British Empire.