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Such was my state of mind that I did not question the possibility of this ; ;
It was over an hour before their escape was discovered, but still the news that Barton was free flashed across the central portion of the state.
Beyond the two basic tasks mentioned above, no attention was paid by statesman or scholar to an idea of state responsibility, either internally or externally.
At the same time, all suggestions that some sort of societal responsibility existed for the welfare of the people within the territorial state was strongly resisted.
In what has aptly been called a `` constitutional revolution '', the basic nature of government was transformed from one essentially negative in nature ( the `` night-watchman state '' ) to one with affirmative duties to perform.
This new force, love of country, super-imposed upon -- if not displacing -- affectionate ties to one's own state, was epitomized by Washington.
The state's rights position was formulated by Jefferson and Madison in the Kentucky and Virginia Resolves, but in their later careers as heads of state the two proved themselves better Hamiltonians than Jeffersonians.
Many believe -- and understandably -- that the great difference between the Constitution of the Southern Confederacy and the Federal Constitution was that the former recognized the right of each state to secede.
Much as he abhorred slavery, Lincoln was always willing to concede to each `` slave state '' the right to decide independently whether to continue or end it.
Platoons of Hearst agents were traveling from state to state in a surprisingly successful search for delegates at the coming convention, and there were charges that money was doing a large part of the persuading.
From his first bout with the canny Woodruff, Pike had learned that it was better not to attack him directly, so, harping on the theme that the cost of printing was too high, he condemned the governor for permitting such a state of affairs to exist.
Only a token start was made in attacking the tax reappraisal question and its companion issue of attracting industry to the state.
The subject he liked most was the female body, which he painted in every state -- naked, half-dressed, muffled to the ears, sitting primly in a chair, lying tauntingly on a bed or locked in an embrace.
But Michael Sept had unmasked him, revealing he had never been a bishop, but was an Anabaptist, afraid to state his faith, because he knew John Calvin had written a book against their belief that the soul slept after death.
and by the second night he was in a state of panic: he could see nothing out of the afflicted eye.
The market was not far and, once there, the doctor's sense of immediacy left him and he fell into a state of harmony with the birds around him.
At least one state vehicle was in existence in 1917.
The Registry of Motor Vehicles indicates that at least one state automobile was registered as far back as 1917.
The best reason that can be advanced for the state adopting the practice was the advent of expanded highway construction during the 1920s and '30s.
Using privately-owned vehicles was a personal hardship for such employees, and the matter of providing state transportation was felt perfectly justifiable.

state and conquered
During Baldwin III's reign, the County of Edessa, the first crusader state established during the First Crusade, was conquered by Zengi, the Turkic emir of Aleppo.
A disagreement between these two political philosophies came to a head in 223 BC when the Qin state conquered all of China.
By accommodating the conquered people's gods, religion became more polytheistic and government became somewhat more secular ; the title of lugal, big man, appears alongside the earlier religious titles, although his primary duty is still the worship of the state gods.
England had conquered Wales in the 12th century and was then united with Scotland in the early 18th century to form a new sovereign state called Great Britain.
The territories in the east won by 1921 would form the basis for a swap arranged and carried out by the Soviets in 1943-1945, who at that time compensated the reemerging Polish state for its eastern lands lost to the Soviet Union with conquered areas of eastern Germany.
The Oyo state had been conquered in 1550 by the kingdom of Nupe, which was in possession of cavalry, an important tactical advantage.
The mwato yamvo assigned a cilool or kilolo ( royal adviser ) and tax collector to each state conquered.
The Kingdom of Judah continued as an independent state until it was conquered by a Babylonian army in the early 6th century BCE, destroying the First Temple that was at the center of ancient Jewish worship.
* 1535 The Anabaptist state of Münster is conquered and disbanded.
Any soul that has conquered its own inner enemies and achieved the state of supreme being is called a jina (" conqueror " or " victor ").
The district of Kistwar, in the state of Kashmir, was also conquered.
In the 9th century, the Qarluq confederation formed the Qarakhanid state, which then conquered Transoxiana, the area north and east of the Oxus River ( the present-day Amu Darya ).
Arab-Berber relations were inconsistent and often tense in the early years while some Arab governors encouraged Berbers to participate in the new Islamic state and cultivated their Berber lieutenants, others regarded them as little more than a conquered people, imposing high taxes and tribute demands upon Berber populations and treating Berber auxiliaries rather shabbily.
During the reign of Almoravids, the position of the Jews was apparently free of significant abuses, but after another Berber dynasty, Almohads, conquered Córdoba in 1148 they have abolished the dhimma status ( i. e. state protection of life and wealth ) in some of their territories which threatened the Jewish and Christian communities with the choice of conversion to Islam, death, or exile.
In 963 the German Margrave Gero conquered territories occupied by the Polabian Lusatian and Słupian tribes, and as a result came into direct contact with the Polish state.
By the end of the third war, after more than a hundred years and the loss of many hundreds of thousands of soldiers from both sides, Rome had conquered Carthage's empire and completely destroyed the city, becoming the most powerful state of the Western Mediterranean.
His state was conquered by the Romans in 135 following a two-year war.
Their views are scattered throughout the Marx / Engels Collected Works and address past or the then extant state forms from an analytical or tactical viewpoint, not future social forms, speculation about which is generally anathema to groups considering themselves Marxist but who, not having conquered the existing state power ( s ) are not in the situation of supplying the institutional form of an actual society.
Much of the eastern part of the empire was conquered by the Parthians under Mithridates I of Parthia in the mid-2nd century BC, yet the Seleucid kings continued to rule a rump state from Syria until the invasion by Armenian king Tigranes the Great and their ultimate overthrow by the Roman general Pompey.
Kara-Khanids, or the Karakhans ( Black Khans ) Dynasty, was a state formed by the a confederation of Karluks, Chigils, Yaghma and other tribes in Semirechye, Western Tian Shan and Kashgaria, and who later conquered Transoxiana.
After Timur the state began to split, and by 1510 Uzbek tribes had conquered all of Central Asia.
* June 24 Münster Rebellion: The Anabaptist state of Münster is conquered and disbanded.
After a successful war with Byzantium in 680, Asparuh ’ s khanate conquered initially Scythia Minor and was recognised as an independent state under the subsequent treaty signed with the Byzantine Empire in 681.
Being conquered by Danes and Germans in 1227, Estonia was ruled initially by Denmark in the north, by the Livonian Order, an autonomous part of the Monastic state of the Teutonic Knights and Baltic German ecclesiastical states of the Holy Roman Empire.

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