Resolutions must pass both houses in order to take effect.

Resolutions may be voted on jointly or by each House, in the latter case requiring passage in all Houses to be adopted by the particular council.

Madison and Jefferson secretly drafted the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions declaring the Alien and Sedition Acts to be unconstitutional and noted that " states, in contesting obnoxious laws, should ' interpose for arresting the progress of the evil.

Although the New England states rejected the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions in 1798 – 99, several years later, the state governments of Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island threatened to ignore the Embargo Act of 1807 based on the authority of states to stand up to laws deemed by those states to be unconstitutional.

in 1868 Gladstone proposed the Irish Church Resolutions to reunite the Liberal Party for government ( on the issue of disestablishment of the Church of Ireland – this would be done during Gladstone's First Government in 1869 and meant that Irish Roman Catholics did not need to pay their tithes to the Anglican Church of Ireland ).

" Nullification can be traced back to arguments by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in writing the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions of 1798.

Heavy fighting having broken out between Israel and Syria following Israeli work undertaken on Arab-owned land in the DMZ, the Security Council in Resolutions 92 ( 1951 ) and 93 ( 1951 ) of 8 and 18 May 1951 called upon the parties to cease fighting and endorsed the request of the Chief of Staff of UNTSO that the Israeli company involved be instructed to cease all operations in the DMZ until such time as an agreement is arranged through the Chairman of the MAC for continuing its project.

* Report and Resolutions of a Public Meeting, Held at Glasgow, on Friday, March 20 1846, in Support of Sir Robert Peel's Suggestions in Reference to Railways – Peel had commented upon the impolity and danger of allowing too much capital to be invested in railways in too short a period.

Iraq claimed that it had disposed of its anthrax stockpiles at a specific site, but UNMOVIC found this impossible to confirm since Iraq had not allowed the destruction to be witnessed by inspectors as required by the pertinent Resolutions.

) At a meeting on December 2 in Stoufferville, Mackenzie set forth his plan for rebellion in greatest detail: British troops occupied in Lower Canada would be unable to do anything as Reformers from the country marched on Toronto ; once there they would join up with Rolph, Morrison, and important men such as Peter Robinson, George Herchmer Markland, and John Henry Dunn ( who were not Reformers, but who had resigned from the Executive Council in protest of Lord John Russell's Ten Resolutions ).

The United Nations has issued Security Council Resolutions that declared some wars to be legal actions under international law, most notably Resolution 678, authorizing the Gulf War in Iraq in 1991.

Resolutions were eventually proposed that all PAW credentials be signed by individuals of the same race.

The resolution authorized President Bush to use the Armed Forces of the United States " as he determines to be necessary and appropriate " in order to " defend the national security of the United States against the continuing threat posed by Iraq ; and enforce all relevant United Nations Security Council Resolutions regarding Iraq.

A host of UN Resolutions ( 38 – 47 ) were passed calling for a plebiscite to be held in Kashmir to determine accession to India or Pakistan.

Ensign also voted in support of the President to use the United States Armed Forces " as he determines to be necessary and appropriate " in order to " defend the national security of the United States against the continuing threat posed by Iraq ; and enforce all relevant United Nations Security Council Resolutions regarding Iraq.

** Resolutions are offered to accomplish the purpose of the meeting -- these may either be prepared in advance or a committee can be appointed to draft resolutions and to make a report back to the assembly.

He led Nova Scotia's anti-Confederation movement believing the Quebec Resolutions to be bad for the province.

The style and format of the " Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions " was that of the " Declaration of Independence "; for example the " Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions " stated, " We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men and women are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights.

** Speaking in the House upon the Ninety-Two Resolutions, which he frames and Mr. Bedard moves, Louis-Joseph Papineau says " It is certain that, before long, the whole of America will be republicanized.

The Resolutions can not be justified, for they favor the refusal of supplies, without which there would be no means of defraying the expense of governing the Province.

The Virginia Resolution thus is sometimes considered to be more tempered than the Kentucky Resolutions, which assert that a state may nullify unconstitutional federal laws.

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* 1774 – Orangetown Resolutions adopted in the Province of New York, one of many protests against the British Parliament's Coercive Acts

The peace process collapsed following the outbreak of the second Palestinian ( Intifada ) uprising in September 2000, though Syria continues to call for a comprehensive settlement based on UN Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338, and the land-for-peace formula adopted at the 1991 Madrid conference.

The Turkish invasion, the continuous occupation of Cyprus as well as the self-declaration of independence of the TRNC have been condemned by several United Nations Resolutions adopted by the General Assembly and the Security Council.

At the end of the Conference, it adopted the Seventy-two Resolutions which would form the basis of a scheduled future conference.

Resolutions on the world situation, Latin America, women's liberation and Western Europe were adopted by overwhelming percentages.

The conference delegates approved the Thirteen Resolutions, based on the republican document Rights of Man written by British and later American Revolutionary Thomas Paine, which was also adopted by proponents of both the American Revolution and the French Revolution.

At the London session, London Resolutions were adopted, later restated by W. E. B.

Resolutions adopted by the UN General Assembly often request the conference to consider specific disarmament matters.

On June 13, the Texans adopted the Turtle Bayou Resolutions.

Though their main motives were for more representative government in their respective colonies, Mackenzie was inspired by the American model and wished to establish the same in Canada, and Papineau, who originally expressed loyalty to the Crown in his Ninety-Two Resolutions, turned when the British parliament instead adopted The Earl Russell's Ten Resolutions, which ignored all 92 of the requests from the Parti Patriote.

Recommendations adopted before 1979 were issued in the " Resolutions " series of texts adopted.

* to work for the ratification and implementation by Pakistan of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and of other related Charters, Covenants, Protocols, Resolutions, Recommendations and internationally adopted norms ;

In 1765, the famous Non-Importation Resolutions were drawn up, and the names of many Jewish citizens are appended to it ; by these resolutions, adopted October 25, 1765, the merchants and other citizens of Philadelphia agreed " not to have any goods shipped from Great Britain until after the repeal of the Stamp Act.

In a prelude to the Lower Canada Rebellion of 1837, Nelson led 5, 000 Patriotes in the two-day Assembly of the Six Counties in Saint-Charles, Lower Canada ( present-day Quebec ), on 23 and 24 October 1837, to protest the government's Russell Resolutions, taking place despite the 15 June Proclamation forbidding public assemblies.

" An Order in Council was then issued on 20 November the following year, establishing the Journée des patriotes – thenceforth known as National Patriots ' Day – as the Monday preceding 25 May, thereby replacing the Fête de Dollard ; the moving from November to May was motivated by the will to highlight the starting point of the numerous public meetings organized by citizens throughout Lower Canada from May to November 1837 in reaction to the passing of British Home Secretary Lord John Russell's Ten Resolutions by the House of Commons

Both kinds of Resolutions are public.

Resolutions encouraged that land titles be issued more quickly and that public lands be sold to raise money for bilingual schools.

The House passed the Pinckney Resolutions on May 26, 1836, the third of which was known from the beginning as the " gag rule " and passed with a vote of 117 to 68 ( The first stated that Congress had no constitutional authority to interfere with slavery in the states and the second that it " ought not " do so in the District of Columbia.

Some tribes have found sympathetic legislators to sponsor Assembly Joint Resolutions to urge the President to recognize their status as tribes ; however, these tribes do not enjoy any benefits from this type of recognition per se.