The active sponsor of Jefferson's measure for religious liberty in Virginia, Madison played the most influential single role in the drafting of the Constitution and in securing its ratification in Virginia, founded the first political party in American history, and, as Jefferson's Secretary of State and his successor in the Presidency, guided the nation through the troubled years of our second war with Britain.

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.

On chemical grounds it seems most likely that iodide is first converted to Af and then to Af as the active iodinating species.

Albert ( 1949 ) has concluded that the most active preparations of TSH made during this period, from 1931 to 1945, were probably about 100 to 300 times as potent as the starting material.

It appeared that most of the mixed liquor suspended solids were active microbial solids with the heavier, less active solids settling out.

Gestation lasts between 90 and 110 days, producing one to five cubs ( most often two or three ) during the rainy season, when termites are active.

Athena is an active character in Marvel Comics ' main continuity, the Marvel Universe, most recently in the Incredible Hercules series.

and 4 suspected eruptions, have been the most active.

André de Longjumeau ( also known as Andrew of Longjumeau in English ) was a 13th century Dominican missionary and diplomat and one of the most active Occidental diplomats in the East in the 13th century.

He was endowed by nature with the most remarkable gifts both of mind and body: he was handsome and eloquent, but licentious ; and, at the same time, active, hardy, courageous, a great general and an able politician.

But for even the most active citizen the formal basis of his political activity was the invitation issued to everyone ( every qualified free male Athenian citizen ) by the phrase " whoever wishes ".

Though most of the early Waldorf schools were teacher-founded, the schools today are usually initiated and later supported by an active parent community.

The most common version of the Sparrow today, the AIM-7M, entered service in 1982 and featured a new inverse monopulse seeker ( matching the capabilities of Skyflash ), active radar fuse, digital controls, improved ECM resistance, and better low-altitude performance.

He has remained active in politics by campaigning for Democratic candidates, most notably for his wife's campaign for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, and then Barack Obama's presidential campaigns in 2008 and 2012.

It is through the most active of these connective routes, the Turkish Straits, that the Black Sea joins the world ocean.

The most active Internet users in Belarus belong to the 17 – 22 age group ( 38 percent ), followed by users in the 23 – 29 age group.

Also, this active attack probably requires custom hardware, since most commercially available Bluetooth devices are not capable of the timing necessary.

These members are the most active in the SIG and have considerable influence over both the strategic and technological directions of Bluetooth as a whole.

Of these features, dark matter is currently subjected to the most active laboratory investigations.

In most bipeds this is an active process, requiring constant adjustment of balance.

This active base would develop the cadre, a core of " professional revolutionaries ", consisting of loyal communists who would spend most of their time organising the party toward a mass revolutionary party capable of leading a workers ' revolution against the Tsarist autocracy.

Most of the U. S. federal courts of appeal have adopted a rule under which, in the event of any conflict in decisions of panels ( most of the courts of appeal almost always sit in panels of three ), the earlier panel decision is controlling, and a panel decision may only be overruled by the court of appeals sitting en banc ( that is, all active judges of the court ) or by a higher court.

Gravitational collapse of matter into black holes is also thought to power the most energetic processes, generally seen at the centers of galaxies ( see quasars and active galaxies ).

" Theorist Basil Liddell Hart considered that the most important aspect of the operation was the degree to which the Ottoman commanders were first denied intelligence on the British preparations for the attack through British air superiority, and then crippled by air attacks on their headquarters and telephone exchanges, paralysing their attempts to react to the rapidly deteriorating situation.

In the years following the completion of Astronomia Nova, most of Kepler's research was focused on preparations for the Rudolphine Tables and a comprehensive set of ephemerides ( specific predictions of planet and star positions ) based on the table ( though neither would be completed for many years ).

( 1967 ): " macromolecular preparations of mean molecular weights in the thousands containing most of the twenty amino acids found in protein hydrolyzates.

Although most colloidal silver preparations are harmless, there are cases where excessive consumption led to argyria over a period of months or years.

The last claimant was William of Normandy, against whose anticipated invasion King Harold Godwinson made most of his preparations.

His preparations bore great fruit when he and Nynaeve al ' Meara used the two most powerful sa ' angreal ever made ( the Choedan Kal ) to funnel the taint into Shadar Logoth.

Ginger powder is also used in certain food preparations, particularly for pregnant or nursing women, the most popular one being katlu which is a mixture of gum resin, ghee, nuts, and sugar.

In 1931, shortly after the Mukden Incident Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist Government ordered the museum to make preparations to evacuate its most valuable pieces out of the city to prevent them from falling into the hands of the Imperial Japanese Army.

His most notable involvement in any naval activity was actually on the sidelines: when Lt. George Washington De Long and James Gordon Bennett Jr. set up the USS Jeannette Expedition to the North Pole in 1879, Thompson gave some advice to the preparations, but seemed determined to watch the extent of Government involvement in the project.

There was little movement in 164 ; most of the year was spent on preparations for a renewed assault on Parthian territory.

He first sent word to Davout to hasten his attack preparations against the Austrian left, but the most urgent matter was to stabilise his own battered left wing.

NATO ( North Atlantic Treaty Organisation ) began preparations for a military defence of Western Europe by incorporating most West European nations into a defence pact against Soviet aggression in April 1951.

After lengthy preparations, the Greeks broke through the Ottoman defences in the Battle of Bizani and captured Ioannina and most of Epirus up into what is today southern Albania ( Northern Epirus ).

However, due to variations in the potency of the preparations, Cannabis indica in the 1930s had lost most of its former popularity as a medical drug.

It is sometimes used as a lubricant in enema preparations, because most of the ingested material is excreted in the stool rather than being absorbed by the body.

An astonished Pharaoh puts Joseph in charge of carrying out the preparations needed to endure the impending famine, and Joseph becomes the most powerful man in Egypt, second only to the Pharaoh (" Stone the Crows ").

Church Crookham lies on GHQ Line-the most important of a number of fortified stop lines constructed as a part of British anti-invasion preparations of World War II-and was at one of the most heavily fortified sections of that line.

Perhaps the most famous Nuu-chah-nulth artifact is the Yuquot " whaler's shrine ", a ritual house-like structure used in the spiritual preparations for whale hunts.

In 1940, the coastline at Studland Bay was one of the two stretches of Dorset coast where a German invasion was considered most likely and it was fortified as a part of British anti-invasion preparations of World War II.

The morning can be spent in various ways but most often it is the time when preparations are made for the evening.

Although it is unclear whether or not the original blocking of the tomb was stamped with Tutankhamun's seal, the several small seal impressions carrying his prenomen are most likely related to the reburial ( s ) in KV55 since he was probably not involved in the original burial preparations of either Tiye ( who died several years before Tutankhamun came to the throne ) or Akhenaten ( who presumably was buried by his co-regent and probable immediate successor Smenkhkare ).< ref > Reeves, C. N., < cite > Valley of the Kings </ cite > ( Kegan Paul, 1990 ) p. 44 </ ref >

1656 ), in Musarum deliciae, " on Sir John Suckling's most warlike preparations for the Scottish war.