In 1785, John Jay instructed the US minister to Great Britain to demand "in a respectful but firm manner" the return of frontier posts on US territory controlled by the British and the end of British restrictions on US trade. ... With Spain, two problems confronted Congress, as related by John Jay in 1786: Spain asked the US to relinquish navigation rights on the Mississippi and to give up its claims to certain western lands. ... A letter from John Jay to George Washington--both were wealthy aristocrats--expressed the fear that "the better kind of people [the aristocracy or patrician class] wi...

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Instead, every man in the kingdom was considered to be the king's army and it was the duty of everyone to protect the kingdom. ... In this case, it was determined that subjects of the kingdom had the right to be protected from searches and seizures that were unlawfully conducted, even if they were conducted by the king's representatives. ... Often juries were brought together to accuse political opponents of the king of various crimes in order to do away with their opposition. ... Therefore, when the votes were tallied in the election of 1796, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson received...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Reigning pork-barrel king, Senate Appropriations Committee Chairmen Ted Stevens, insisted that "the needs of his home state {Alaska} are immense and he is proud to have steered millions to the far Northwest" (Anderson 33-4). ... Imagine the case of John Q. ... John works a full time job, and pays a great portion of his salary to the federal government. ... (Carney 46) One can only assume that John will probably start to form negative opinions about the government, and act accordingly. ... Senator John McCain adds "I also think it is time the administration step in and the President veto some o...

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• Grade Level: High School

Spanish Prime Minister Jose Anzar says that "Spain wouldn't consider extraditing to the U.S. any of the eight alleged members of the al Qaeda terrorist network it arrested if they would be tried in a military court or faced the death penalty" (King, A2). ... Ruth Wedgewood of Yale and Johns Hopkins Law Schools states that the main objective "is to keep the al Qaeda out of commission," not deal with the details of military trials. ... The State Department human rights report of 2000 notes that "Cairo's use of military courts - created in 1992 to counter a wave of terrorist violence ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Roosevelt and accumulated with the very short term of John F. ... Congress believes that a king shouldn't rule over the United States. ... Alexander Hamilton said in the Federalist Papers, that the president commander in chief was like the Great King of Britain, but in substance much inferior. ... George Washington made the white house accountable to the Congress to a degree that the British king had not been answerable to the Parliament. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

America's governmental system mostly follows John Lockes" idea about the dispersion of power. ... The evolution of the parliamentary system began in the 17th century in Britain when the king was killed. ...

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The U.S. needs to pay close attention to this responsibility if it hopes to keep its place on the throne as king of the nations. ... The next set of foreign aid came when John F. ... In the late 1950's the United States, under John F. ...

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The leaders of the Federalists were Alexander Hamilton and John Adams. ... The caucus system was successful until the 1820's when many Americans became resentful of "King Caucus." ... As we entered the 1990's Democrats consider the Republican Party to be a John Wayne/Rambo/tough-guy party that talks a hard line against communists and terrorists in foreign affairs. ...

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Bush declared a doctrine stressing the use of violent defensive actions towards any state that harbors or supports terrorists (John King). ... The Iraqi civilian death toll has not been completed yet, but according to reports from reputable News agencies the civilian casualties" would add up to 5567 people (John Sloboda and Hamit Dardagan). ...

• Word Count: 2071
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