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.

A second truce had been arbitrated in April, 1298, by Jean D'Arlay, lord of Chalon-sur-Saone, the most staunch of Edward's Burgundian allies, and these last were represented in the discussions at the Curia by Gautier de Montfaucon, Othon's neighbor and a member of the Vaudois coalition.

The House was his habitat and there he flourished, first as a young representative, then as a forceful committee chairman, and finally in the post for which he seemed intended from birth, Speaker of the House, and second most powerful man in Washington.

Carvey considers that former Vice President Nixon would be Brown's most formidable foe, with ex-Gov. Knight a close second.

The ledger was full of most precise information: date of laying, length of incubation period, number of chick reaching the first week, second week, fifth week, weight of hen, size of rooster's wattles and so on, all scrawled out in a hand that looked more Chinese than English, the most jagged and sprawling Alex had ever seen.

At the Westminster KC Dog Show in Madison Square Garden, New York on the second day, the Finals of the Junior Class brought out the most competitive competition in the history of this Class.

In most places, there are two generations a year, a second brood of adults appearing late in the summer.

When 1 ml of conjugate was passed through a column ( Af ), the first and second milliliter fractions collected were the most specific and gave no nonspecific staining in some experiments, and very little in others.

Under the most favorable assumptions for increase, the Bureau of the Census projects that the annual rate of household formations will rise from about 883,000 in the last two years of the Fifties to an annual rate of about 1,018,000 in the first five years of the Sixties, and to a slightly higher annual rate of 1,083,000 in the second half of the decade.

It seems clear, when one takes into consideration the exceedingly defective eyesight of the patient ( we shall describe it in detail in connection with our second question, the one concerning the psychical blindness of the patient ), that he had to rely on his sense of touch much more than the usual portfolio-maker and that consequently that faculty was most probably more sensitive to shape and size than that of a person with normal vision.

Peanuts are the world's second most important legume.

The thing that impressed one of the visitors the most was the Gallery's rotunda fountain `` because it's on the second floor ''.

It becomes most evident in his description of Christ as the second Adam, who does indeed come to destroy sin, but whose work culminates in the achievement of immortality.

The existing reverence for Centrality must have been still further stimulated toward the close of the second century B.C., when the Han Emperor Wu Ti ordered the dynastic color changed to yellow -- which symbolized the Center among the traditional Five Directions -- and took 5 as the dynastic number, believing that he would thus place himself, his imperial family, and the nation under the most auspicious influences.

These Lambeth Conferences have been held roughly every 10 years since 1878 ( the second such conference ) and remain the most visible coming-together of the whole Communion.

Armenia is the second most densely populated of the former Soviet republics because of its small size.

The remainder of the book is a collection of essays on the game, statistics for the new characters and an update of the older ones in light of their appearance in the second series, and ( perhaps most usefully for GMs ) plot summaries of each of the ten books.

* 1537 – The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and the second most senior, is formed.

Afonso, born in 1109, took the title of Prince after taking the throne of his mother, supported by the generality of the Portuguese nobility who disliked the alliance between Galicia and Portugal Countess Theresa had come to, marrying a second time the most powerful Galician count.

In Stephen R. Lawhead's Pendragon Cycle, Aurelianus ( most often referred to as " Aurelius ") figures prominently, along with his brother Uther, in the second book of the series, Merlin.

According to the Fraser Institute, Alberta has very high levels of economic freedom and rates Alberta as the most free economy in Canada, and second most free economy amongst U. S. states and Canadian provinces.

The book of Acts has been most commonly dated to the second half of the 1st century.

Cruijff departed prior to the second Cup Winners Cup final and with most of the 80's stars such as van Basten also leaving, Ajax once again declined.

In the early 1980s a second wave of games consoles came to market, notably the Intellivision and numerous other announcements and releases.

Several of Ochino's Prediche were also translated into English by a lady, Anna Cooke ( or Anne Cooke ; b. 1533 ) afterwards second wife of Sir Nicholas Bacon ; and he published numerous controversial treatises on the Continent.

The Tutsi, noted Maquet, considered themselves as superior, with the more numerous Hutu and the least numerous Twa regarded, by birth, as respectively, second and third in the hierarchy of Rwandese society.

The Chicago Police Department made numerous arrests, and the extensive damage to the field forced the White Sox to forfeit the second game to the Detroit Tigers, who had won the first game.

Beginning during the second half of the 19th century the town became home to numerous artists.

In the UK it was reissued as Christmas Edit: Amarantine with a second disc containing the four new Christmas songs previously issued on Sounds of the Season ( the original album already had " Amid the Falling Snow " while " Oíche Chiúin " is a recording dating back to 1988, which had already been featured on numerous collections ).

The first of what would become a powerful line of Fujiwara regents, Yoshifusa had numerous family ties to the imperial court ; he was Ninmyō's brother in law ( by virtue of his sister who became Ninmyō's consort ), the second son of sadaijin Fuyutsugu, and uncle to the new crown prince.

Indeed, " after the first or perhaps the second century, there is not record of it in any Orthodox source, and it is not recorded as occurring even among the great Fathers of the Egyptian desert, who were so filled with the Spirit of God they performed numerous astonishing miracles, including raising the dead ".

Then another, even more numerous, army of invaders started a second naval invasion of the Balkans.

The influence of the gothic novel on the goth subculture can be seen in numerous examples of the subculture's poetry and music, though this influence sometimes came second hand, through the popular imagery of horror films and television.

Winning numerous local elections, they gained a stronghold in the second largest city of Zagreb, electing Svetozar Delić for mayor.

Later Christians found numerous other parallels between the life of Moses and Jesus to the extent that Jesus was likened to a " second Moses.

In the second year, it grows a flowering stem to 75 cm tall with sparser leaves and flat-topped 3 – 10 cm diameter umbels with numerous 2 mm diameter yellow to yellowish-green flowers.

Heironimus is one of numerous people who are claimed to be visible in an unreleased second reel of the film.

The PowerBook line was targeted at the professional market, and received numerous awards, especially in the second half of its life, such as the 2001 Industrial Design Excellence Awards " Gold " status, and Engadget's 2005 " Laptop of the Year ".

In the second half of the 16th century, numerous books were printed in Slovene, including an integral translation of the Bible by Jurij Dalmatin.

Adherents of gnosticism were most numerous during the second and third centuries.

The second edition of 3, 000 copies was quickly brought out on 7 January 1860, and incorporated numerous corrections as well as a response to religious objections by the addition of a new epigraph on page ii, a quotation from Charles Kingsley, and the phrase " by the Creator " amended to the closing sentence.

The second convention is also followed by numerous authors ( e. g., Stallings ) as well as by IEEE 802. 4 ( token bus ) and lower speed versions of IEEE 802. 3 ( Ethernet ) standards.

He was one of the numerous sons of Vladimir the Great, presumably his second by Rogneda of Polotsk, although his actual age ( as stated in the Primary Chronicle and corroborated by the examination of his skeleton in the 1930s ) would place him among the youngest children of Volodymyr.

Important common derivative characteristics ( synapomorphies ) include, for example, the mandibles of the second body segment and the oral papillae and associated slime glands of the third ; nerve strands extending along the underside with numerous cross-linkages per segment ; and the special form of the tracheae.

If we imagine the beam is made of photons, then every second numerous photons strike the surface and are absorbed.

The Métis today predominantly speak French, with English a strong second language, as well as numerous Aboriginal tongues.