Search results for "Petition" - New World Encyclopedia
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- leaders who visited the White House to present a petition favoring federal anti-lynching legislation. As her business developed, she organized ...18 KB (2,870 words) - 10:48, 9 March 2023
- mistress Empress Elizabeth of Russia endorsed his petition to establish the university in Moscow. The church of Saint Tatiana was later built in the university ...19 KB (2,791 words) - 01:43, 11 March 2023
- as agent for the colony, this time to petition the King to resume the government ... New York and Pennsylvania presented their petition for abolition. Their argument ...36 KB (5,370 words) - 09:50, 28 September 2023
- for active military service. In 2007, a petition to the German parliament to revive the Iron Cross decoration received over 5,000 signatures. ...23 KB (3,657 words) - 13:20, 6 March 2024
- lifeforms. By 1982, he was able to get a petition advocating the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence SETI published in the journal Science ...18 KB (2,690 words) - 12:47, 27 November 2023
- Occasionally, players will petition the NFL to allow them to wear a number that is not in line with the numbering system. Brad Van Pelt, a linebacker ...39 KB (6,001 words) - 14:44, 11 November 2022
- " "Non-Partisan," "Nom. Petition," "Nomination," "Not Designated," and "Court Order." Although ...18 KB (2,729 words) - 04:13, 23 March 2024
- and dangerous problem. Taking advantage of a petition presented by the Polish landed proprietors of the Lithuanian provinces, and hoping that their ...18 KB (2,638 words) - 14:23, 18 July 2023
- the Ohio state legislature approved a new petition for statehood that was delivered ... amendments have been proposed by petition to the legislature hundreds ...38 KB (5,430 words) - 22:43, 12 February 2022
- but rather as an intermediary figure who can petition her husband for the dispensation of grace upon human beings. In spite of this trend, some Shakta ...19 KB (3,150 words) - 22:35, 29 January 2023
- Shortly thereafter the association filed a petition with the Department of the Interior for a reservation and submitted to an adjudicative process for ...19 KB (2,932 words) - 16:43, 21 January 2024
- ratify all its decrees and definitions. This petition was complied with by Pope Pius IV, January 26, 1564, in the papal bull, Benedictus Deus, which ...19 KB (2,903 words) - 08:28, 10 January 2024
- peace proposal known as the Olive Branch Petition. The proposal was quickly ... #039; behalf after the Olive Branch Petition. Many modern British historians ...42 KB (6,393 words) - 10:46, 13 December 2023
- confused about how to treat The Charter; the Petition of Right in 1628 was meant as a reaffirmation of The Charter, but was defeated by the Attorney General ...62 KB (10,535 words) - 05:01, 5 November 2022
- President Mário Soares launched a petition urging the European Union to start membership talks with Cape Verde. Cape Verde annually runs a high ...19 KB (2,758 words) - 19:33, 25 November 2023
- In the 2001 election, three parties filed a legal petition challenging the election of ruling party candidate Levy Mwanawasa. The new president ...21 KB (2,892 words) - 10:38, 9 March 2023
- Rutledge chaired a committee that drew up a petition to the House of Lords, and he was responsible for the removal of a concession that acknowledged the ...23 KB (3,551 words) - 18:20, 29 November 2022
- when it dissolved itself in April 1793. A petition was made to the king early in 1793, and that year the first enfranchisement of Catholics was ...20 KB (3,240 words) - 17:54, 30 April 2023
- were to agree on this issue, that a petition to this effect sent to Rome might result in an annulment. Cranmer was employed to compile a written ...22 KB (3,583 words) - 21:06, 30 April 2023
- In 1957, Pauling began a petition drive in cooperation with biologist Barry Commoner, who had studied radioactive strontium-90 in the baby teeth ...44 KB (6,490 words) - 04:18, 29 October 2022
- prompted U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt to petition Tsar Nicholas II of Russia on behalf of the American people in July 1905. On August 22, 1905, police ...21 KB (3,032 words) - 17:07, 10 December 2023
- believed the two rivers were one and the same, the petition suggested, only because Chinese settlers had falsely accused the Korean farmers of crossing ...24 KB (3,531 words) - 08:52, 3 April 2024
- Group, a body of 114 notables who had signed a petition in May calling for elections and improved human rights. During the contrived trial that resulted ...21 KB (3,059 words) - 01:10, 4 February 2023
- Pastrana and other officials denied this petition arguing that neither they, nor the Colombian Army, could guarantee her safety during the turmoil ...22 KB (3,388 words) - 22:51, 5 February 2023
- procedures such as the House discharge petition process (the process of ... The one successful discharge petition from the 104th Congress, session ...50 KB (7,439 words) - 11:53, 3 May 2023
- are more likely to persuade others to sign a petition (Eagly and Chaiken, 1993). The social psychological mechanisms of attitude formation and attitude ...26 KB (3,918 words) - 18:25, 21 August 2023
- giving residents the right to secure, by petition, the cancellation or granting of liquor licenses in their district. The Licensing Act of 1873 ...23 KB (3,290 words) - 05:37, 27 February 2023
- unusual" punishment clause outside of a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Clarence Hill had already exhausted all of his legal appeals through ...26 KB (3,901 words) - 23:34, 21 October 2023
- crowd gathered at the Champ de Mars to sign a petition calling for the abolition of the monarchy. Jean-Sylvain Bailly, the Mayor of Paris, ordered ...23 KB (3,607 words) - 06:57, 15 December 2022
- which is believed to come word-for-word from the petition presented by Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham to the assembly which met on June 25, 1483 ...25 KB (3,839 words) - 16:21, 9 August 2023
- In 1704 and 1709, another petition was filed in hopes of a monetary settlement. In 1711, a compensation of 578 pounds and 12 shillings was divided ...24 KB (3,678 words) - 01:48, 23 December 2022
- death of this pope, and therefore handed his petition to Benedict III, who decided it (Hincmar, ep. xl in P.L., CXXXVI, 85). All these witnesses prove ...24 KB (4,035 words) - 00:23, 12 April 2023
- Tax Board." 219 Cal. App.2d 1710. (petition for Sup. Ct. hearing denied). *1977. "Complete Auto Transit, Inc. v. Brady (Chairman), Mississippi ...25 KB (4,002 words) - 01:49, 23 December 2022
- com/kennebec.org/fks/neptunepetition.html Petition of the Chiefs of the Penoscot Tribe of Indians.] Atlantic Salmon History Project. Retrieved ...23 KB (3,545 words) - 07:18, 23 November 2022
- to organize constitutional conventions and petition for admission as states equal to the original thirteen. Not all provisions were promptly or ...23 KB (3,330 words) - 22:50, 21 January 2023
- in July 1978 the Hiss defense filed a petition in federal court for a writ of coram nobis, asking that the guilty verdict be overturned due ...52 KB (8,001 words) - 20:43, 20 July 2023
- On August 20, 1955, Greece submitted a petition to the United Nations requesting the application of the principle of self-determination to the ...25 KB (3,804 words) - 05:34, 5 November 2022
- content and the main purpose of worship was to petition the gods to protect the city or the state and make it victorious over its enemies. There was ...28 KB (4,007 words) - 19:54, 9 February 2023
- Muskingum to receive a degree. His petition was rejected, but Muskingum awarded Glenn an honorary doctorate after his Mercury space flight; they ...55 KB (7,935 words) - 02:28, 9 February 2023
- of children. Chicago tried again, with a petition signed by 3.4 million schoolchildren, for the 1933 Century of Progress Exhibition and New ...54 KB (8,496 words) - 11:03, 7 March 2023
- of press and publication, religion, assembly, and petition. But the state is not compelled to aid anyone in carrying out any of those freedoms. If you ...28 KB (4,455 words) - 10:43, 11 April 2024
- of James I, following the so-called Millenary Petition, the Hampton Court conference of 1604, a meeting of bishops and Puritan divines, resisted the pressure ...28 KB (4,558 words) - 07:25, 17 November 2023
- to such things as freedom of speech, press, petition, assembly, political participation, religion, and non-discrimination in housing, jobs and employment ...29 KB (4,520 words) - 22:29, 10 December 2023
- Schuyler to invade Canada. He also circulated a petition to stave off a Massachusetts Committee's inquiry into his alleged misdeeds. He collected ...26 KB (3,968 words) - 09:08, 27 September 2023
- the Commission to legislate in an area via a petition carrying one million signatures, but it would not be binding. Diana Wallis and Severine ...35 KB (5,142 words) - 04:28, 23 March 2024
- of removal as president, but was saved by a petition signed by 15,000 employees requesting that he be allowed to remain. Matsushita convinced General ...25 KB (3,633 words) - 11:11, 11 March 2023
- was wound up and applicants could petition the court directly. The nature of the Convention is that it is drafted in broad terms, in a similar ...32 KB (4,886 words) - 04:33, 23 March 2024
- the U.S. Congress to make Nauvoo a territory. His petition was declined. In February, 1844, Smith announced his candidacy for President of the ...28 KB (4,522 words) - 21:59, 10 December 2023
- On July 17, 1791, Hébert was at the Champ de Mars to sign a petition to demand the removal of King Louis XVI and was caught up in the subsequent ...26 KB (3,903 words) - 21:56, 28 November 2022
- rancher named Pierce Cunningham, circulated a petition to have Jackson Hole saved for the "education and enjoyment of the Nation as a whole." ...24 KB (3,641 words) - 19:45, 19 September 2021
- mourning gradually evolved into a "petition" nature, as students ... once again incarcerated for continuing to petition for political reform in ...57 KB (8,680 words) - 14:07, 14 January 2024
- federal acknowledgment, finally filing a petition in 1993. Federal acknowledgment was awarded in 1999. They are based in Dorr, Michigan. ...28 KB (4,269 words) - 00:29, 12 April 2023
- Itzhak Ben-Zvi turned down Eichmann's petition for mercy. A large number of prominent persons sent requests for clemency. Ben-Zvi replied quoting ...27 KB (4,132 words) - 06:02, 15 June 2023
- turned down the opportunity to file a petition for mercy. He cheerfully expressed his preference for death to seeking clemency from those who ...26 KB (4,137 words) - 17:08, 23 December 2022
- Empress Dowager Cixi1 ( c=慈禧太后|p=Cíxǐ Tàihòu|w=Tz'u-Hsi T'ai-hou ) (November 29, 1835 – November 15, 1908), (pronounced ...56 KB (8,700 words) - 18:30, 13 February 2024
- had been cheated by the common-law system would petition the King in person. For example, they might argue that an award of damages (at common law) was ...32 KB (5,079 words) - 00:10, 8 January 2024
- in the same way and so when the Chartist's petition had been rejected by the House of Commons a meeting was held on April 10, 1848 to discuss how ...29 KB (4,360 words) - 10:32, 11 April 2024
- In his Embassy to Gaius, Philo says he was carrying a petition which described the sufferings of the Alexandrian Jews, and which asked the emperor ...29 KB (4,517 words) - 04:00, 24 November 2022
- feared results of granting Mr. Scott's petition: It would give to persons of the negro race, …the right to enter every other State whenever ...32 KB (5,035 words) - 17:39, 30 January 2024
- suspended their operations, pending a petition to Parliament. A select Committee was appointed, and concluded that steam carriages were safe ...27 KB (4,255 words) - 22:32, 29 January 2023
- friend, Texas theater owner Skipper Cherry, to petition and join the Masonic Order in California. He returned to Texas to become a 32nd degree Scottish ...27 KB (4,174 words) - 18:26, 21 August 2023
- aid. On August 16, Robespierre presented the petition of the Commune of Paris to the Legislative Assembly, demanding the establishment of a revolutionary ...30 KB (4,512 words) - 09:20, 10 March 2023
- refers to himself as Pontifex Maximus in a petition to the Emperor for judicial immunity, but gives no source for this statement. Other sources ...31 KB (4,749 words) - 00:22, 12 April 2023
- bishops (known as the Seven Bishops) submitted a petition requesting the reconsideration of the King's religious policies, they were arrested and ...32 KB (4,831 words) - 21:40, 8 February 2024
- #039;s segregation rules in 1962, he sent a petition to Mayor Art Hanes' office asking that public facilities be desegregated. Hanes responded ...60 KB (8,930 words) - 17:58, 31 October 2023
- towards her with a pistol in one hand and a petition to free Irish prisoners in the other. The gun was not loaded; the youth's aim was most likely ...55 KB (8,686 words) - 14:59, 10 May 2024
- by name Naveen Jindal filed a public interest petition in the Delhi High Court, seeking the striking down of that restriction. When Jindal flew the flag ...33 KB (5,237 words) - 17:33, 28 March 2024
- Effects of Increased Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide] Petition Project Category:Physical sciences Category:Environmental science 227428481 ...34 KB (4,898 words) - 17:16, 16 February 2023
- weapons, telling them it was illegal to present a petition in arms, although their march to the Tuileries was not banned. They invited the officials ...31 KB (4,299 words) - 01:21, 21 April 2023
- in England. It mentions his trip to Rome to petition the Celtic church to the Pope, and it claims he travelled in his brother's Viking ships ...30 KB (4,672 words) - 14:58, 12 March 2023
- to the Winter Palace to deliver a petition This petition asked for "an eight-hour day, a minimum daily wage ...57 KB (8,235 words) - 06:28, 13 June 2023
- once more, again temporarily. The Jews had to petition annually for permission to live there, and were restricted from owning any property, even within ...30 KB (4,539 words) - 23:27, 21 October 2023
- in 1848. In 1881, Otto von Bismarck received a petition with 250,000 signatures demanding severe anti-Jewish measures. The petition said that Jews were ...56 KB (8,438 words) - 08:48, 3 April 2024
- law, its accomplishment lay in the drafting of the petition of Slavic demands that provided a blueprint for equality among nations. The old Bohemian Diet ...30 KB (4,624 words) - 05:23, 17 November 2023
- England; he was presented with the Millenary Petition, a document which it is claimed contained one thousand signatures, by Puritans requesting further ...30 KB (4,913 words) - 21:16, 20 March 2024
- where Ramkhamhaeng was said to hear the petition of any subject who rang the bell at the palace gate to summon him, the king was revered as ...29 KB (4,487 words) - 06:07, 10 January 2023
- to any rumors that were spreading. They raised a petition to al-Ḥākim and he forgave them. ==Death and succession== ===The Disappearance of ...28 KB (4,430 words) - 04:12, 17 June 2023
- on June 15, 2020, and the Court certified the petition on May 17, 2021, limited to the question, "Whether all pre-viability prohibitions on elective ...34 KB (5,154 words) - 02:29, 16 December 2022
- in 1928, where he presented the "Petition of the Negro Race" to the League of Nations. This statement outlined the abuse of Africans ...30 KB (4,654 words) - 11:11, 9 March 2023
- S. state in 1816, one of its first acts was to petition the federal government for removal of the Indians. ==Geography== Indiana is bounded on ...31 KB (4,480 words) - 18:55, 4 March 2024
- of hospitals, and only by direct petition from the citizens of London, were the hospitals St Bartholomew's, St Thomas's, and St Mary ...34 KB (4,867 words) - 16:01, 25 April 2020
- time, asking him to consider a local petition. The letter was filled with ... others: the right to vote, the right to petition, and equal eligibility for ...66 KB (9,644 words) - 18:02, 26 November 2022
- left". However, in 1650 she resisted a petition from the nobility to reduce the level of tax against property, which in the circumstances did ...33 KB (5,367 words) - 21:12, 10 December 2023
- In 2009, after receiving a petition with over 30,000 signatures, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown made an official public apology on behalf ...35 KB (5,278 words) - 04:33, 17 June 2023
- in 1965, Pope Paul VI denied Opus Dei's petition to become a personal prelature. Pope John Paul I, a few years before his election, wrote ...43 KB (6,418 words) - 15:47, 27 March 2024
- Jacques Pierre Brissot drafted a petition, insisting that in the eyes of the nation Louis XVI was deposed since his flight. An immense crowd ...68 KB (10,394 words) - 10:55, 11 April 2024
- as evil, however; and individuals may petition for acceptance of a particular technology in the local community. In some communities, the church ...35 KB (5,323 words) - 07:31, 25 July 2023
- In most instances, however, the party must petition the Supreme Court for a writ of certiorari. By custom, certiorari is granted on the vote of ...40 KB (6,036 words) - 23:51, 26 February 2023
- press, the freedom of assembly, and freedom of petition. *Second Amendment: declares "a well regulated militia" as "necessary to ...45 KB (6,615 words) - 11:55, 3 May 2023
- to the Book of Exodus, the Hebrews' petition was granted only after a series of miraculous plagues were visited upon the Egyptians. Moses ...41 KB (6,339 words) - 21:58, 10 December 2023
- a closer intimacy with God, as well as an act of petition. Some take up a regular fast of one or two days a week as a spiritual observance. Holiness movements ...36 KB (5,745 words) - 00:43, 25 March 2024
- that Scarrooyady, an Iroquois Chief, had to petition the Governor of Pennsylvania to intervene in trade: Your Traders now bring scarce anything ...41 KB (6,201 words) - 23:24, 9 December 2021
- to the breaking point. The company was forced to petition Parliament for assistance. This was the background to the Charter Act of 1813 (53 Geo. III ...38 KB (6,054 words) - 02:25, 22 November 2023
- founding of the Republic of China in 1911. The petition was accepted, and the ban was lifted in 1912, although male Dan continued to be popular after ...41 KB (6,269 words) - 18:41, 11 January 2023
- subjects who resolved to shirk European rule and petition through military force for their freedom from it. His service on the side of the locals would ...40 KB (6,434 words) - 05:43, 10 May 2024
- of India. The main purpose of the festival is to petition the goddess to destroy evil by diminishing the ego and all negative aspects of the human psyche ...40 KB (6,102 words) - 10:18, 26 January 2023
- problems posed by Puritans in the Millenary Petition. According to an eyewitness account, Dr John Rainolds "moved his majesty that there might be ...44 KB (6,927 words) - 23:10, 3 March 2023
- Edward III (November 13, 1312 – June 21, 1377) was one of the most successful English monarchs of the Middle Ages. Restoring royal authority ...40 KB (6,070 words) - 18:24, 12 February 2024
- adopted in 1988 by a vote following an Initiative Petition. ===Ancestry Groups=== The largest reported ancestries in the 2000 census were German ...40 KB (5,623 words) - 17:42, 28 March 2024
- Taino slaves for prostitution. Although his petition was refused by the Crown, in February 1495, Columbus took 1600 Arawak (a different tribe, who ...38 KB (6,067 words) - 21:42, 10 December 2023
