In four opening chapters reminiscent of Macaulay's famous third chapter, Trevelyan surveys the state of England at the opening of the eighteenth century.

In the hearings before the Ad Hoc Political Committee that considered Israel's application for membership in the United Nations, Abba Eban said that the rights stipulated in section C. Declaration, chapters 1 and 2 of UN resolution 181 ( II ) had been alluded to in the fundamental law of the state of Israel as proposed by the resolution.

De Triangulis ( On Triangles ) was one of the first textbooks presenting the current state of trigonometry and included lists of questions for review of individual chapters.

There are currently 4 chapters in the metropolitan New York City area, one in upper New York state, three in Massachusetts, three in California, and one each in Durham, North Carolina, Fort Collins, Colorado, Norman, Oklahoma, Fayetteville, Arkansas, Olympia, Washington, and Alpena, MI.

Some LNC members are also elected by the governing bodies of LP state affiliate chapters.

There were a number of state chapters, only loosely tied to the main organization.

Prison gangs often have several " affiliates " or " chapters " in different state prison systems that branch out due to the movement or transfer of their members.

The association has active state chapters in 12 Lincoln Highway states and maintains a national tourist center in Franklin Grove, Illinois, in an historic building built by Harry Isaac Lincoln, a cousin of Abraham Lincoln.

Since its launch in Paris in December 2008, Global Zero ( campaign ) has grown to 300 leaders, including current and former heads of state, national security officials and military commanders, and 400, 000 citizens worldwide ; developed a practical step-by-step plan to eliminate nuclear weapons ; launched an international student campaign with 75 campus chapters in eight countries ; and produced an acclaimed documentary film, Countdown to Zero, in partnership with Lawrence Bender and Participant Media.

In the 1870s, chapters of the White League developed throughout Louisiana, paramilitary groups that intimidated Republicans, repressed voting by freedmen, and supported white Democrats returning to power in the state legislature.

Soon White League chapters rose across the state.

Other chapters quickly grew up across the state.

Local chapters, known as “ unions ”, were largely autonomous, though linked to state and national headquarters.

The Moral Majority was a southern-oriented organization of the Christian Right, although the Moral Majority ’ s state chapters and political activity extended beyond the South.

After the Moral Majority ’ s establishment, the state chapters grew quickly, with organizations in eighteen states by 1980.

As far as elections, state Moral Majority chapters tended to deliberately focus their efforts towards particular candidates.

For example, state chapters participated in campaigns to oust liberal members of Congress during the 1980 election.

Each chapter is designated by its state and a Greek letter indicating its position in the order in which that state's chapters were founded.

Local chapters come under the auspices of the state or " Division ".

For example, Louisiana jurisprudence refers to the major subdivisions of the UCC as “ chapters ” instead of articles, since the term “ articles ” is used in that state to refer to provisions of the Louisiana Civil Code.

In 1874, such militias organized as the White League in Grant Parish, and other chapters were soon founded across the state.

Forty-nine state chapters were also created as independent corporations within their states, including the Christian Coalition of Texas.

The once prosperous group now owes more than $ 2 million in debt and is now under siege by lawsuits from creditors and is also struggling to hold on to state chapters.

In spending several chapters lamenting the state of the arts in America he fails to envision the literary Renaissance that would shortly arrive in the form of such major writers as Edgar Allan Poe, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Walt Whitman.

The episode entitled " The Moral Dimension ", in which Hacker and his staff engage in the scheme of secretly consuming alcohol on a trade mission to the fictional Islamic state of Qumran, was based on a real incident that took place in Pakistan, involving Callaghan and Donoughue, the latter of whom informed Jay and Lynn about the incident.

* Moral Majority Inc. – the organization ’ s lobbying division, which addressed issues on local, state, and national levels.

Before long, the Moral Majority became heavily invested in presidential elections and national politics ; although at the state level branches of the Moral Majority continued to pursue specific issues at lower levels of government.

Also, in 1981, the Moral Majority mobilized delegates to the Virginia Republican state nominating convention in order to support Guy Farley, an evangelical candidate for lieutenant governor.

In South Carolina, the Moral Majority had no presence because Bob Jones University ’ s religious network had already organized the state ’ s independent Baptists.

In 1811, when he proclaimed himself king, Henri I of Haiti awarded himself the title, " Défenseur de la Foi ", and incorporated it into his full style, which translates from the French original as: By the grace of God and the constitutional law of the state, King of Haiti, Sovereign of Tortuga, Gonâve and other adjacent Islands, Destroyer of Tyranny, Regenerator and Benefactor of the Haitian Nation, Creator of her Moral, Political and Martial Institutions, First Crowned Monarch of the New World, Defender of the Faith, founder of the Royal and Military Order of Saint-Henry.

In its Thirty-Fourth Annual Report, the society acclaimed the news as " a great Moral demonstration of the propriety and necessity of state action!

In 1982, The Voice of Reason merged with the Center for Moral Democracy, which had been started by Ethical Culture leader Edward L. Ericson and others, to form a new organization, Americans for Religious Liberty, which continues as an advocacy group for the separation of church and state.

While Reagan's election hinted at the importance of the religious right, it was the formation of the Christian Coalition ( the successor to the Moral Majority ) in the early 1990s that gave Republicans organizational and financial muscle, particularly at the state level.

As a Republican Party member, Baldwin was state chairman of the Florida Moral Majority in the 1980s.

From 1980 to 1984, Baldwin served as Pensacola chairman and then state executive director of the Florida Moral Majority, organized by the Rev.

In Scottish state schools, Religious Education is called Religious and Moral Education from ages 5 to 14, and Religious, Moral and Philosophical Studies from 14 to 18.

Majority candidate per state according to PREP.

The town is represented by Senator Joan M. Menard ( D-Fall River ), Assistant Majority Leader in the state senate in the First Bristol and Plymouth district, which also includes Fall River, Freetown, Rochester, Somerset and Swansea.

* Ted Winter, former Minnesota House Majority Leader and longtime state representative ( 1987 – 2003 ) is from Fulda.

Until the 1980s, Acts of the Australian state of Victoria were numbered in a continuous sequence from 1857 ; thus the Age of Majority Act 1977 was No. 9075 of 1977.

Senator Joan M. Menard, Assistant Majority Leader, ( D-Fall River ) represents Somerset in the state senate.

He was a state representative, U. S. Representative, 23rd Governor of Arkansas, U. S. Senator, Senate Majority Leader, and candidate for Vice President.

These positions made him even more unpopular with his state party's machine than ever before, especially after he, fellow Tennessee Senator Albert Gore, Sr., and Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas became the only three southern Senators to refuse to sign the so-called Southern Manifesto in 1956.

Committed to the doctrine of supply-side economics, he assisted the approval of the " Reagan Budget " ( the Gramm-Latta Budget ), which Stockman hoped to be a serious curtailment of the " welfare state ", gaining a reputation as a tough negotiator with House Speaker Tip O ' Neill's Democratic-controlled House of Representatives and Majority Leader Howard Baker's Republican-controlled Senate.

Walker's political background includes eight years in the state legislature including a term as Majority Whip.

From 1983 to 1993, McInnis served in the state house of representatives, where he was elected House Majority Leader and served as Chairman of the Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee.

After Republicans won a majority in the state House in the 2010 elections, Stam lost a vote to become the party's nominee for Speaker of the House to representative Tom Tillis, but was elected Majority Leader instead.

He served two terms ( four years ) as Speaker pro tempore of the state House, and two terms as House Majority Leader ( or Democratic leader, when no party had a majority in 2003-2004 ).

In January, 1969, after the NPP's electoral triumph and his own election as a state representative, in spite of being a freshman, he was selected as House Majority Leader for the 1969-1972 term.

His opponent was James E. Tierney, former Majority Leader of the Maine House and state Attorney General – though he did also face two independent candidates, Sherry Huber and John Menario.