* State atheism

: For intolerance of religion itself, see Antireligion, Irreligion, and State atheism.

The Republic is based on the principle of laïcité, that is of freedom of religion ( including of agnosticism and atheism ) enforced by the Jules Ferry laws and the 1905 law on the separation of the State and the Church, enacted at the beginning of the Third Republic ( 1871 – 1940 ).

As part of the program of state atheism, the church was confiscated from the Russian Orthodox community as part of the Soviet Union's anti-theist campaigns and has operated as a division of the State Historical Museum since 1928.

State atheism has been defined by David Kowalewski as the official " promotion of atheism " by a government, typically by active suppression of religious freedom and practice.

State atheism was first practised during a brief period in Revolutionary France and repeated only in Revolutionary Mexico and some communist states.

In 1948, the Communist regime that had taken power adhered to Marxist – Leninist atheism and at Stalin's request, deposed all 12 bishops of the Greek-Catholic Church and, on October 21, 1948, the 250th anniversary of the Romanian Greek Catholic Union with the Roman Catholic Church, arranged the " spontaneous " passage of all its members ( decree 358 / 1948 ), who were then some 1, 500, 000 in numbers, to the Romanian Orthodox Church, to which some of its property, including four cathedrals, were given, while the rest was confiscated by the State.

State atheism is the official promotion of atheism by a government, sometimes combined with active suppression of religious freedom and practice.

State promotion of atheism as a public norm was first practiced during a brief period in Revolutionary France.

The complex State legal argument against atheism or agnosticism is difficult to condense — but essentially atheism as denial of God not so much implies illegal communist leanings but denies the sacrosanct humanity of Indonesians and contravenes the Preamble of the Indonesian Constitution-to which all Indonesian citizens are bound, as a condition of their citizenship and by which they are oath-bound to via retention of citizenship.

State atheism in the Soviet Union was known as gosateizm, and was based on the ideology of Marxism – Leninism.

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State support of atheism and opposition to organized religion was made policy in all communist states, including the People's Republic of China and the former Soviet Union.

and now, therefore, do I, John A. Notte, Jr., governor of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, proclaim the week of april 29th to may 7th, 1961, as Rhode Island Heritage Week, advising our citizens that throughout this week many historic houses and beautiful gardens will be open to visitors as well as industrial plants, craft shops, museums and libraries and I earnestly urge all to take advantage of these opportunities to see as many of these places as they can during this outstanding week.

and ( C ) to finance, for not more than three years beyond the end of said period, such activities as are required to correlate, coordinate, and round out the results of studies and research undertaken pursuant to this Act: Provided, That funds available in any one year for research and development may, subject to the approval of the Secretary of State to assure that such activities are consistent with the foreign policy objectives of the United States, be expended in cooperation with public or private agencies in foreign countries in the development of processes useful to the program in the United States: And provided further, That every such contract or agreement made with any public or private agency in a foreign country shall contain provisions effective to insure that the results or information developed in connection therewith shall be available without cost to the United States for the use of the United States throughout the world and for the use of the general public within the United States.

This may just be pride in my adopted State of Washington, but certainly I love to visit their mound cities near Yakima and Prosser in July or August, when the bees are in their most active period.

Justices Frankfurter and Jackson dissented: `` One State may cherish formalities more than another, one State may be more responsive than another to procedural reforms.

The reason for this bears explaining for those who may wonder why State spends so much of its diplomatic energy on Congress when the Russians are so available.

The statutes, similar in both the Bay State and Rhode Island and dating back in some instances to colonial times, severely limit the types of merchandise that may be sold on the Sabbath.

With regard to historic properties ( those properties that are listed or that are eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places, or properties designated as historic under State or local law ), those facilities must still comply with the provisions of Title III of the ADA to the " maximum extent feasible " but if following the usual standards would " threaten to destroy the historic significance of a feature of the building " then alternative standards may be used.

Rogers stated that " one may see that Solitude and Retirement from the World is not such an unsufferable State of Life as most Men imagine, especially when People are fairly call'd or thrown into it unavoidably, as this Man was ".

In terms of ultra vires actions in the broad sense, a reviewing court may set aside an administrative decision if it is unreasonable ( under Canadian law, following the rejection of the " Patently Unreasonable " standard by the Supreme Court in Dunsmuir v. New Brunswick ), Wednesbury unreasonable ( under British law ), or arbitrary and capricious ( under U. S. Administrative Procedure Act and New York State law ).

Smaller containers may be made of glass, aluminum or plastic. Lone Star State Edition Budweiser On August 3, 2011, Budweiser announced its twelfth can design since 1936, one which emphasizes the bowtie.

* Even if victims recognize their own role as victims, they may not have the resources to investigate and seek legal redress for the injuries suffered: the enforcers formally appointed by the State often have better access to expertise and resources.

People may find such law acceptable, but the use of State power to coerce citizens to comply with that law lacks moral justification.

Species in the Appendices may be proposed for addition, change of Appendix, or de-listing ( i. e., deletion ) by any Party, whether or not it is a range State and changes may be made despite objections by range States if there is sufficient ( 2 / 3 majority ) support for the listing.

First, State coercion may very easily be arbitrary – indeed technically very specific, according to the above definition.

State constitutions may grant certain rights above and beyond what are granted under the United States Constitution and may impose their own obligations including the sovereign right of taxation and military service ; each state maintains at least one military force subject to national militia transfer service, the state's national guard, and some states maintain a second military force not subject to nationalization.

In May 2010, the Washington State Supreme Court provided an opinion after it was asked to certify a question referred by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Washington: “ Whether a public library, consistent with Article I, § 5 of the Washington Constitution, may filter Internet access for all patrons without disabling Web sites containing constitutionally-protected speech upon the request of an adult library patron .” The Washington State Supreme Court ruled that NCRL ’ s internet filtering policy did not violate Article I, Section 5 of the Washington State Constitution.

" Refusing to give a literal reading to the state-granted charter of the Southern Pacific Railroad, which specified that the company could " collect and receive such tariffs ... as it may prescribe, Hughes contended that this clause " necessarily implies that the charges shall be reasonable and does not detract from the power of the State ... to prescribe reasonable rates.

Trap Pond State Park in Sussex County, for example, supports what may be one of the northernmost stands of bald cypress.

Arizona State University's Division I athletic teams are called the Sun Devils, which is also the nickname used to refer to students and alumni of the university.

Later developments of Trotsky's theories, notably Tony Cliff's theory of State Capitalism, did refer to the nomenklatura as a new class.

State terrorism may refer to acts of terrorism conducted by a state against a foreign state or people.

State capitalism has also come to refer to an economic system where the means of production are owned privately but the state has considerable control over the allocation of credit and investment, as in the case of France during the period of dirigisme.

State terrorism has been used to refer to terrorist acts by governmental agents or forces.

In a less common usage, the term may also refer to non-political, cultural Zionism, founded and represented most prominently by Ahad Ha ' am ; and political support for the State of Israel by non-Jews, as in Christian Zionism.

In a broader sense, a prime minister can be used loosely to refer to various comparable positions under a Head of State that is an absolute monarch ( especially is the case of ancient or feudal eras, so the term " prime minister ", in this case, could be considered an anachronism ).

A small but significant minority of Irish people, usually attached to parties like Sinn Féin and the smaller Republican Sinn Féin, denied the right of the twenty-six county state to use the name Republic and continued to refer to the state as the Free State.

The State Bar of Texas sought to bring actions against lawyers whom it believed to be paying people to refer clients to them.

Although Interstate 84 does not enter New Jersey, the signs on it for the interchange with County Route 15 refer to Route 23, even though some signs erroneously refer to it as New York State Route 23.

Ownership and identity of the facility has changed many times over the years but many residents still refer to the facility as the " State National Bank Building ".

According to the Maryland State Archives, many more official documents refer to the " Town of Pocomoke City " than to the " City of Pocomoke City.

* Bryant Pattengill West-These names collectively or as two separate names refer to the area west of State Street and north of Ellsworth.

For further details, refer to the Oklahoma State Election Board's Election Results and Statistics for the 2006 elections

" Happy Valley " is another often-used term to refer to the State College area, including the borough and the townships of College, Harris, Patton, and Ferguson.

The Texas State Bar sought to bring actions against lawyers whom it believed to be paying people to refer clients to them.

To avoid confusion between the sovereign nation of Mongolia and China's Inner Mongolia, but to recognize the sovereignty of Mongolia, media in China generally refer to the former as " State of Mongolia " () instead of just " Mongolia " ().

From the 14th century, in old texts ( until the 16th / 17th c .) and in Latin, the terms Prut ( h ) enia and Prut ( h ) enic refer not only to the original settlement area of the extinct Old Prussians ( Prusowie, see: Prussia ) along the Baltic Coast east of the Vistula River, but also to the adjacent lands of the former Samboride dukes of Pomerelia, which the Teutonic Knights had acquired from Poland in the 1343 Treaty of Kalisz and added to their Order's State.

Under section 14 of the Northern Ireland Act 1998, a Bill which has been approved by the Northern Ireland Assembly is presented to the Queen by the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland for Royal Assent after a four-week waiting period during which the Attorney General for Northern Ireland may refer the Bill to the Supreme Court.

The term continued to be used after this First Dáil and was used to refer to later members of the Irish Republic's single chamber Dáil Éireann ( or " Assembly of Ireland ") ( 1919 – 1922 ), members of the Free State Dáil ( 1922 – 1937 ), and of the modern Dáil Éireann.

The name would be used again, this time to refer to Nebraska by Charles " Cy " Sherman in The Nebraska State Journal during the 1899 season and would replace all other names by 1900.

) President Hyde also twice used his power under Article 26 of the Constitution, having consulted the Council of State, to refer a Bill or part of a Bill to the Supreme Court, for the court's decision on whether the Bill or part referred is repugnant to the Constitution ( so that the Bill in question cannot be signed into law ).

In fact, the President does not have such a veto power, being able only to refer a Bill to the Council of State for its consideration.

Appalachian State University uses University College to refer to the general education and first-year seminar programs.