I think it is essential, however, to pinpoint here the difference between the two concepts of sovereignty that went to war in 1861 -- if only to see better how imperative is our need today to clarify completely our far worse confusion on this subject.

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.

'' The other important difference between the two Constitutions was that the President of the Confederacy held office for six ( instead of four ) years, and was limited to one term.

One is tempted to say that, on the difference between the concepts of sovereignty in these two preambles, the worst war of the Nineteenth century was fought.

I murmured something about a possible difference between New Mexico's history and Mississippi's.

If we examine the three types of change from the point of view of their internal structure we find an additional profound difference between the third and the first two, one that accounts for the notable difference between the responses they evoke.

Now we can argue that the irresistible fate of Oedipus Rex was nothing more than the irresistible unconscious longings of Oedipus projected outward, but this externalization of unconscious conflict makes all the difference between a story and a clinical case history.

Free world decisions in this matter may spell the difference between world disaster and world progress in freedom.

The second timely part of this sketch of literature and the search for identity has to do with the difference between good and enduring literary works and the ephemeral mass culture products of today.

he was given the difference between that amount and $5000.

Banks the Butcher was a hard master and a hard father, a man who didn't seem to know the difference between the living flesh of his family and the hanging carcasses of his stock in trade.

Democratic Speaker Champ Clark saw little difference between a conscript and a convict.

The other reason ( and the one with which I am here concerned ) is that one thus becomes inclined to inquire of any opinion, or change of opinion, whether it represents the wisdom of experience or is only the result of the difference between youth and age which is as inevitable as the all too obvious physical differences.

Although the false glamour surrounding bourbon or other whisky commercials is possibly no more fatuous than the pseudo-sophistication with which TV soft-drinks are downed or toothpaste applied, there is a sad difference between enticing a viewer into sipping Oopsie-Cola and gulling him into downing bourbon.

This matter is of great importance, and the outcome may mean the difference between life or death, or at least serious injuries, for many veterans.

Such payments shall be made to small domestic producers of lead as long as the market price for common lead at New York, New York, as determined by the Secretary, is below 14-1/2 cents per pound, and such payments shall be 75 per centum of the difference between 14-1/2 cents per pound and the average market price for the month in which the sale occurred as determined by the Secretary.

Such payments shall be made to small domestic producers of zinc as long as the market price for prime western zinc at East Saint Louis, Illinois, as determined by the Secretary, is below 14-1/2 cents per pound, and such payments shall be 55 per centum of the difference between 14-1/2 cents per pound and the average market price for the month in which the sale occurred as determined by the Secretary.

A second fundamental principle is that involved particularly in the present proceeding -- the difference between nighttime and daytime propagation conditions with respect to the standard broadcast frequencies.

Because of the difference between daytime and nighttime propagation conditions, it has been necessary to evolve different allocation structures for daytime and nighttime broadcasting in the AM band, with many more stations operating during the day than at night.

Compare the vast difference in scope and beauty between his neat and witty little Classical Symphony and his big, muscular, passionate, and eloquent Fifth Symphony ; ;

We may then dismiss the time difference between these courses and the usual four year course of the interior design student as not having serious bearing on the subject.

After the defeat of Xerxes the Thasians joined the Delian confederacy ; but afterwards, on account of a difference about the mines and marts on the mainland, they revolted.

The only difference is that in federal countries the subnational governments may be involved in decision making process through some appropriate political or constitutional forum while the central government may dominate quite heavily in a unitary country.

The major difference between a Canadian province and a territory is that provinces are jurisdictions that receive their power and authority directly from the Constitution Act, 1867, whereas territories derive their mandates and powers from the federal government.

Red lines indicate the debt held by the public ( net public debt ) and black lines indicate the total public debt outstanding ( gross public debt ), the difference being that the gross debt includes that held by the federal government itself.

The federal government budget deficit or surplus is the difference between government receipts and spending, ignoring intra-governmental transfers.

As having established a federal state, the EPRDF's slogan remains ' our difference signifies the strength of our unity ' as it keeps peace and harmony amongst them as they work cooperatively towards the good of the nation.

The principal difference between the Commonwealth and UK versions of the Australia Act lies in the reference, appearing in the long title and preamble to the Commonwealth version but not present in the UK version, to Australia as " a sovereign, independent and federal nation ".

Except for the difference in the number of deputies, the provisions of the federal Constitution applied equally to the national councils of each republic: deputies were elected to five-year terms of office ; the national councils had to hold at least two sessions annually ; and each national council elected its own presidium ( fifteen to twenty-one members in the Slovak National Council and up to twenty-five members in the Czech National Council ), which was empowered to act when the full national council was not in session.

The main difference between a by-law and a law passed by a national / federal or regional / state body is that a bylaw is made by a non-sovereign body, which derives its authority from another governing body, and can only be made on a limited range of matters.

" several races ... the ability to bring home hundreds of federal projects might have made enough of a difference to withstand a Democratic tide.

The federal government wants to eliminate this difference in proposed regulations expected to be finalized in 2007.

Another difference is that while the Fed cannot set an exact federal funds rate, it can set a specific discount rate.

Practically, this brought the situation back to what it had been between 1963 and 1968, but with the difference that the NPDQ, which after the first division of 1963 had ended up being an organization centred on federal politics, now ended up being an organization centred on provincial politics after the second division of 1989.

Despite the difference in nomenclature, both the provincial and federal governments use the term " minister " to describe the head of a ministry or department.

Volokh also noted that Thompson " takes federalism seriously, and he seems to have a fairly deep-seated sense that there is a real difference between state and federal power.

Generally, the difference between a central government and a federal government is that the autonomous status of self-governing regions exists by the sufferance of the central government and are often created through a process of devolution.

These include project ( the process of eliminating some of the columns ), restrict ( the process of eliminating some of the rows ), union ( a way of combining two tables with similar structures ), difference ( which lists the rows in one table that are not found in the other ), intersect ( which lists the rows found in both tables ), and product ( mentioned above, which combines each row of one table with each row of the other ).

More sophisticated transformations include set operations on closed shapes ( union, difference, intersection, etc.

A crucial difference was that the Cape ’ s liberal constitution and multiracial franchise were to be extended to the other states of the union.

An important difference between the Clayton Act and its predecessor, the Sherman act, is that the Clayton Act contained safe harbors for union activities.

Monophysitism was condemned by the Council of Chalcedon in 451 ( the " Fourth Ecumenical Council "), which among other things adopted the Definition of Chalcedon ( often known as the " Chalcedonian Creed ") stating that Christ is the eternal Son of God " made known in two natures without confusion mixture, without change, without division, without separation, the difference of the natures being by no means removed because of the union, but the property of each nature being preserved and coalescing in one prosopon and one hupostasis -- not parted or divided into two prosopa, but one and the same Son, only-begotten, divine Word, the Lord Jesus Christ.

Of the uncanny feeling of emotional unity we experience in surrendering ourselves — giving up temporarily the burden of our difference — to the Other in art, Rank writes in Art and Artist: " produces a satisfaction which suggests that it is more than a matter of the passing identification of two individuals, that it is the potential restoration of a union with the Cosmos, which once existed and was then lost.

* Spatial operators for determining geospatial set operations, like union, difference, symmetric difference and buffers ( provided by GEOS ).

Five primitive operators of Codd's algebra are the selection, the projection, the Cartesian product ( also called the cross product or cross join ), the set union, and the set difference.

Although three of the six basic operators are taken from set theory, there are additional constraints that are present in their relational algebra counterparts: For set union and set difference, the two relations involved must be union-compatible — that is, the two relations must have the same set of attributes.

A crucial difference was that the Cape ’ s constitution and multiracial franchise were to be extended to the other states of the union.

Blelloch and Reid-Miller describe an application of treaps to a problem of maintaining sets of items and performing set union, set intersection, and set difference operations, using a treap to represent each set.

Regions can be combined ( union ), subtracted ( difference ), and XORed to form other Regions.

The symmetric difference of two simple cycles is either a simple cycle or a union of edge-disjoint simple cycles.

Barlaam issued a number of treatises mocking the absurdity of the practices which he reported included, " miraculous separations and reunions of the spirit and the soul, of the traffic which demons have with the soul, of the difference between red lights and white lights, of the entry and departure of the intelligence through the nostrils with the breath, of the shields that gather together round the navel, and finally of the union of Our Lord with the soul, which takes place in the full and sensible certitude of the heart within the navel.

It is said that an object is constructed from primitives by means of allowable operations, which are typically Boolean operations on sets: union, intersection and difference.

Simplifying a path to contain less nodes while preserving the shape, or performing Boolean operations like union, difference, intersection or exclusion on them.

The difference in social standing between the lovers long impedes their union until an earthquake destroys both the city and all semblance of class distinction.

A key difference between the two sports is that in rugby union both sets of forwards try to push the opposition backwards whilst competing for the ball and thus the team that did not throw the ball into the scrum have some chance of winning the possession.

Most of them left their former mother country before the implementation of the Maastricht treaty in 1993 and the following years, meaning that cooperations like the EU citizenship, the VAT union or the Eurozone did not exist, so it made less difference to be a special territory then.

At the time this difference was sufficient to preclude the union being pursued.

), constructive solid geometry ( intersection, difference, union ), and procedural textures like wood and marble.

Doctrinally there was little difference between the United Presbyterian Church and the Free Church of Scotland, and between 1863 and 1873 negotiations were carried on for a union, which however were fruitless.

Three-quarter unions are similar to grand unions in that they are also rail track junctions where two double-track railway lines cross at grade, often in a street intersection or crossroads ; the primary difference being that one corner of the crossing does not have curved junction tracks, with the union having a total of twelve railroad switches ( sets of points ).