President Toure had planned on resigning after the next scheduled presidential election at the end of April (New York Times). ... Additional rebel troops took advantage of the rioting in the capital and quickly seized several other cities, including Gao and Bamako, which have never fallen in any rebellions (New York Times). ... Although they vowed to restore order, they have so far been seen breaking into banks, local businesses, and buildings of government, while plastering the city with their rebel flag. "We are hearing heavy weapons going off, coming from the south and east of the cit...

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In 1787, several prominent Anti-Federalists published editorials in the New York Times under pen names such as Cato and Brutus. ... They, too, were published in the New York Times under a pen name-- Publius-- and appeared between 1787 and1788. Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay wrote a series of 85 essays that appeared in New York newspapers. ... In the end, even some of the most outspoken Antifederalists, like Melancton Smith of New York, ultimately voted for the Constitution. ... City Problems Crowded, unsanitary living conditions for workers and corrupt city politics. ...

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Six senators had written in a letter to Holder that the planned trial in New York " will be providing (the accused terrorists) on of the most visible platforms in the world to exalt their past acts and to rally others in support of further terrorism" (Silva and Parsons 1). ... A high profile trial like KSM in a city such as New York or any other city endangers the lives of American citizens by making it a big red target for terrorist organizations. ... New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who originally supported the plan, changed course this week. The city contends that it will cost hundreds of ...

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In 2009, The District of Columbia City Council approved the legislation allowing same-sex couples the right to marry, Vermont legalized same-sex marriage, The Iowa Supreme Court affirmed that their previous ban of same-sex marriage was unconstitutional and therefore permitted same-sex marriage and The New Hampshire legislature passed and governor John Lynch signed a bill legalizing same-sex marriage. ... District Court of Northern California decreed that Proposition 8, which prohibited same-sex marriage in the state of California, was unconstitutional and therefore legalized same-sex marriage,...

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Approving Our Constitution In 1787, political leaders met at the Constitutional Congress in Philadelphia to revise the Articles of Confederation. Instead, they wrote the United States Constitution, an entirely new plan of government. Under this new plan the states would retain a number of imp...

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In a riot in Philadelphia on August 22, 1834, Philip Hone, a New York City businessman and Whig politician, wrote, "The spirit of riot and insubordination to the laws which lately prevailed in New York has made its appearance in the orderly city of Philadelphia, and appears to have been produced by causes equally insignificant--hostility to the blacks and an indiscriminate persecution of all whose skins were darker than those of their enlightened fellow citizens" (Doc E). ...

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This Act worked really well for a few decades, but then shocking news published by the New York Times, disrespected every American's freedom. ... This spying was under secret for four years, only known by Congress, the Executive Branch, and the New York Times. ... After the Boston Marathon, government has increased video cameras in many cities, and GPS data are used to provide locations in cellphones, as well as devices called "stingrays" which they stimulate the phone towers and have officers collecting data of users from selected regions. ...

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According to PBS, The Civil War and Reconstruction, "By 1860, New York was home to over one million residents. More than half of the city's population at that time was immigrants and their American-born children." ... A majority of cities were flooded by this intense wave of immigration, increasing the population of immigrants living in America and making it more difficult for politicians and the government to create legislation, making it necessary that the needs of these immigrants be addressed properly. ...

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Should the money be disbursed to educational programs, or should we focus on more things such as; the beautification of our streets and our cities? ... Overtaxed New Yorkers shop in New Jersey, they influenced New York to provide tax-free shopping days. ...

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It was not until 1848 that the movement for women's rights launched on a national level with a convention in Seneca Falls, New York, organized by abolitionists Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott. ...

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Federalism in the American form of government is a distinctly unique form that is not practiced elsewhere. Quite unlike any other system established, American federalism was formed upon specifically American ideals of liberty. Federalism gives both the national and the state government separate sp...

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She also points out that the Patterson ruling declares that to shoot down law that puts tighter restrictions on voting "would be to place the vicious vagrant, the wandering Arabs, the Tartar hordes of our large cities, on a level with the virtuous and good man." ...

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LIBERTARIANISM Two hundred and twelve years ago thirty nine signatures spoke, gracing its delicate spaceless yet palatial surface with the ease and wave of a single downy bowed quill. Seventeen hundred and eighty seven was the year that the most momentous document in the United States history as well as posterity was created, approved and just two years later instituted as the foundation for a fledging yet promising nation destined for greatness. It was a great concept envisioned by extraordinary men, a system in which the people of the land reign, governing through democratically ...

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The 19th century witnessed the birth of two monumental movements in American history: Abolition of Slavery and Women's Suffrage. These two movements both sought to secure the American promise of liberty and equality for all people. With the turn of the 18th century, the dawn of a religious revival k...

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The 19th century witnessed the birth of two monumental movements in American history: Abolition of Slavery and Women's Suffrage. These two movements both sought to secure the American promise of liberty and equality for all people. With the turn of the 18th century, the dawn of a religious revival k...

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