Political Constituencies, United Kingdom, electoral divisions in the United Kingdom from which Members of Parliament are elected to the House of Commons in the British Parliament. ... The area covered by a parliamentary constituency is decided by the Boundary Commission. ... These commissions reassess electoral boundaries every 10-15 years to take account of population changes. ... Political parties are allowed to propose inquiries by the commissions, and may if successful receive an alteration of constituency boundaries in their favour (as the Labour Party did during the run-up to the 1997 ge...

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Historically, women have played a relatively small role in politics. ... This paper will analyze the involvement of women in politics and political positions, what issues are most important to women, and the voting patterns of women. ... As of 1990, women's political participation was at such a rate as to rival that of men. ... The idea of fluid citizenship, brought up by Jane Junn, is just that more participation by women should eradicate the boundaries of race (388). By doing such, not only will women erase some of the boundaries that divide them as a group, but they will also lear...

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International law recognizes the right of nations to grant or withhold permission to do business within its political boundaries and control its citizens when it comes to conducting business. ... Some of the African countries are among the unstable with seemingly unending civil wars, boundary disputes and oppressive military regimes. ... ASSESSING POLITICAL VULNERABILITY Some products are more politically vulnerable than others, in that they receive more government attention. ... POLITICALLY SENSITIVE PRODUCTS. ... FORECASTING POLITICAL RISKS A number of firms are employing systematic me...

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Everywhere you turn someone is challenging the norm, pushing the boundaries of the "stereotype". At what point to we set true boundaries at which they cannot be crossed. ... What I think is too much may be enough for another but does not create a sense of ethical boundaries. ... It is not limited to cultural differences, religions, political beliefs, talents, disabilities, class, gender. ... A code of ethics whether corporately or as a culture helps us form boundaries and treat one another fairly. ...

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Popular sovereignty 3) boundary b/n N.M. + Texas settled $10 M given to Texas 4) Slave trade abolished in D.C. 5) Reinvigorated fugitive Slave Act - creates greater sectional tension! -political/moral - Federal Government responsible for finding all fugitive slaves. ...

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Democracy is a very important aspect of politics. ... It originally began in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries for the purpose of "political pluralism and religious and later political toleration" (Wiarda, 22). ... Liberal democracy is a political system which is based on the ideas that the power of the government should be limited and that the government should observe the rule of law and that the rights of the people are protected. ... Liberal democracy reflects a tolerance of ideological pluralism as it is a willingness to discuss alternatives there are specific bounda...

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Nineteen Eighty Four; Extending the Boundaries of the Imagination When the novel Nineteen Eighty Four was written there were no existent computers nor were there any political leaders from which to extract the idea of Big Brother. ...

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Gerrymandering is a term used for the deliberate distortion of boundary lines for political purposes. ... The boundary lines can be drawn to concentrate a certain political power or can be drawn to spread up the support of the competition. ... Still in the twentieth century many states refused to redraw their congressional or legislative district boundaries. ... Each state is charged with delineating its own congressional and state legislative boundaries. In many states, the legislature is in charge with district boundary delineation. ...

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Three of the most important political advisors of the renaissance were Patrarch, Machiavelli, and Richelieu. ... While Machiavelli was also a humanist, he was not a traditionalist and stepped outside the boundaries of convention and used contemporary history as his primary subject and source of information. ... The third major topic that they all disagreed on was political unity. ... For Patriarch political unity was a reward, not a goal, in his state. ...

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Soon after, their neighborhood wants a fence to keep people out, creating boundaries not only for the outside, but a shelter for the inside. ... The title of this book is talking about a boundary, but more of a boundary that is private and a boundary that is hiding something on the other side of it. ... After much thought, I realized that this novel is simply about political correctness gone wrong. I think that an important thing to remember about this novel is that all the boundaries that exist in the book are all flexible boundaries, which are continuously crossed by people on both sides. ...

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Iraq began the war with hopes to accomplish political issues over sovereignty, security, and territorial boundaries. Iran officials saw the war as a religious battle, not with any political boundaries involved. ... The Shatt al-Arab waterway serves as a boundary between the two nations. ... The countries peace settlement hardly lasted four years before political structure changed in both countries. Iraq's political structure changed after the fall of their President Shah. ...

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Churchill took a major role in setting the foundation of the welfare state in Britain, he prepared the Royal Navy for world war I , and he helped settle the political boundaries in the middle east after the war. ... Winston was then taken to a prison camp in Pretoria, where he made a dramatic escape and eventually traveled along the Portuguese East African boundaries back to the fighting front in Natal. ... "The Dardanelles failure seemed the end of his political career."... As secretary of state for air and colonies, he had a major role in setting the political boundaries...

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Despite the original intentions of the founders, certain branches have found ways to stretch their powers beyond the boundaries laid out in the Constitution. ... In today's political world, the goal has seemingly transformed into taking power from other branches of government in order to accomplish as much as possible despite Constitutional boundaries. ... Political power in America operates through the transfer of power. ... This means that at any given time, the political system will have a sum of 9 pieces of power. When a branch oversteps their constitutional boundaries, the pieces of ...

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This obtained a satisfactory effect for that particular audience, but was never completely successful as the music was composed against a set of conditions, and few works provoked any interest beyond the boundaries of Russia, unlike before the revolution. ... His Fifth Symphony is one of the most debated examples of whether or not music can be political. ... As we can see here, it is very common for the audience not to be able to separate the composer from his works, therefore seeing the composers own views in the music, seeing the music as a political piece even though that cannot be told f...

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After obtaining and continuing his own law practice Polk gradually became more involved and interested in politics. ... The next hurdle was the battle with Mexico over the disputed boundary of Texas and the purchase of New Mexico and California. ... The war ended in 1847 and a treaty was signed in 1848 settling the Texas boundary and accomplishing the primary objectives stated when war was declared. Polk continuously displayed old-fashioned, Jeffersonian principles throughout his political career. Polk was not real imaginative but to an impressive degree political and administrative skills...

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Drawing the Border Lines There are many boundaries between persons and places in our history. These boundaries not only restrict people and places, but they also put limitations on genders, classes, ethnicities, and time periods. ... Placing a border between two cultures can have an unpredictable affect on the social community and political society. ... This cultural and political change, along with the discovery of Charlie Wade's body, has led to the search for "truth" in La Fonteria's history. ... It resulted in violence and blood shed even though it tried to resolve politic...

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Social and political bases of terrorism It is important to keep in mind what constitutes the social and political bases of terrorism differ depending what philosophy is being advocated. ... Reform is the social and political premise of terrorism. ... Another type of reform would be political reform. ... Faraj's misinterpretations of the Qur'an and his misguided philosophy was, any type of tactic regardless of innocent bystanders or moral boundaries is right and proper through the act of Jihad. ... Al-Jihad used political reform to exploit the Muslim communities religious beliefs....

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The crux of violence lies in this process of creating boundaries and separating thing to make them other. ... In the process of categorizing things we try to create artificial boundaries. All the boundaries try to bring a disturbance to what is "naturally continuous". ... Boundaries and structure create the difference between self and other. ... It also brings with itself another concept of dominance and political structures. ...

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On Slavery and Political Conflicts in the U.S In the midst of conflicting regional visions that prevailed in that time, northern vs. southern, slavery emerges as an important and controversial political issue. ... In respect to that, Douglas, in his 7th Debate speech, argues that it is not only possible for the Union to exist being divided but it is politically correct because it represents the exercise of each state's sovereignity. ... Respecting the existence of slavery in Southern states meant that they still had some political agency, even though they were a minority in Federal i...

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Thus, we find no sovereignty located in the American political system. ... American federalism answers these questions but on a case-by-case basis through intergovernmental politics and court decisions. ... For example, the doctrine of nullification held that any state could suspend within its boundaries the operation or implementation of any federal law it deemed to be unconstitutional. " However, McCulloch v. ... Federalism helps facilitate the mobilization of political activity. ... The people whose aim is to satisfy local interests locally acquire political power. ...

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In fact, the war had many reasons for its occurrence, including political, economical, cultural, racial, expansion, and slavery. ... The changing population and addition of states also had an impact on political issues. ... The sectional concerns of the 1820's repeatedly influenced politics. ... Thomas called for the ban of slavery North of 36 degrees 30" latitude, the westward extension of Missouri's Southern boundary. ... With all of the immigration to the North, a huge population change began bringing the North more power culturally, economically, and politically. ...

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Throughout his political career, Laurier was known for his ability to compromise. ... This started during the Yukon Boundary Dispute between the United States and Canada. Britain still controlled all of Canada's foreign affairs and Canada believed that Britain betrayed them when they made the decision of where the boundary was. ... Laurier continued in politics until he passed away in 1919....

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After Jefferson heard the rumors of the secret transfer of Louisiana, he began to reconsider his position toward France in 1802, with the intuitions that it reversed all of the political relations of the United States. ... Although he was out of public office and attention after extensive political obligations, victory was still his, corresponding to his beliefs held high on the Democratic platform. ... Polk openly supported the American title to all of the Oregon Territory, but was willing to compromise in setting the boundary at the 49th parallel as opposed to the British's "fifty-fo...

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The Illinois Supreme Court ruled in the Crouch brothers' favor: so the city removed all the other bodies and left Ira Crouch and his brother behind an iron fence near the boundary of the zoo, looking very much like another caged exhibit, albeit non-mobile. ... It's simply one of my favorite political stories. ... He came to symbolize Chicago politics in his person. ... The title of this talk is satire and identification in Chicago political humor. ... Putatively, satirists would want to eradicate the political conditions they satirize. ...

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