This Wednesday, July 4th, is Independence Day here in the USA. Actually, the Continental Congress voted to approve a resolution of independence from Great Britain two days earlier in 1776. On July 2, 1776, the Pennsylvania Evening Post published: “This day the Continental Congress declaredthe ...
The Estonian Day of Restoration of Independence was first celebrated on August 20, 1991. The peaceful Singing Revolution, which began in 1987, led to the eventual dissolution of the Soviet Union and paved the way for Estonia, along with its Baltic neighbors Lithuania and Latvia, to regain their...
Fears that the more radical BCP would win the 1970 elections in Lesotho led Jonathan, supported by South Africa, to declare a state of emergency, annul the election, and suspend the constitution. Opposition leaders fled, and by the late 1970s chronic warfare had erupted in Lesotho’s northeast...
Brian M. Ayres(Valrico, FL USA) A concise review of the world's most powerful document "I was first introduced to this book while attending law school. During my Constitutional law classes a professor recommended this little U.S. pocket constitution book that reviewed and outlined the constitu...
which became a very powerful argument of American terms for settlement with Britain. It would definitely light a fire and help to speed the way to independence. Jefferson drew heavily on George Mason’s Virginia Declaration of Rights and much of his own work on the Virginia Constitution in his...
without interfering in the constitution of society. Finally, some saw stereotypes rooted in 'Arctic Orientalism' confirmed; portraying Greenlanders as lazy people easily lured away from work by the prospects of a sunny day of sailing in the fords, or too hungover from modernization to show up...