The end of the institution, maintenance, and administration of government, is to secure the existence of the body politic, to protect it, and to furnish the individuals who compose it, with the power of enjoying in safety and tranquillity, their natural rights, and the blessings of life; ...
Justice Banks is being retired today based on constitutional mandate in Article 72 (b) of Liberia's 1986 Constitution requiring the retirement of the Chief Justice, Associate Justices and judges of subordinatecourts of recordat the age of 70. ...
Along with Ethiopia, Liberia is considered to be one of the only two African countriesnever to have been colonized by European powers during theScramble for Africafrom 1880 to 1900. However, this is disputed as the country was founded by free Black American immigrants in the 1820s and governed...
It is notable for being first country in Europe to adopt a modern constitution in 1791 (though it was only the second in the world, after the United States two years prior), the first to abandon state communism during the Revolutions of 1989, and the first to economically recover afterwards...
About one-half of the population of Lebanon, Nigeria, and Albania is Muslim, as is more than 30 percent of the population of Ethiopia, about 20 percent of the population of Liberia, the Ivory Coast, the Malagasy Republic, and Tanzania, and about 11 percent of the population of India. In...
By Nelleke van de WalleA recent article in Africa Confidential, a respected outlet specializing in in-depth coverage of the continent, argued that "Tshisekedi is playing fast and loose with the constitution" in his "bid to assume complete political control" of the country.The Africa Report, 9...
1917: When the Russian czar is toppled, the provisional government grants universal suffrage with equality for women; later, the new Soviet Russian constitution includes full suffrage to women. 1917: Women in the Netherlands are granted the right to stand for election. ...
Report of the Harvard Expedition to Liberia Harvard ... RP Strong,GC Shattuck,M Theiler,... - 《Indian Medical Gazette》 被引量: 40发表: 1931年 Indian affairs and the administrative state in the nineteenth century The framers of the Constitution and the generations that followed built a ...
1897: Solomon Carter Fuller, a native of Liberia, graduated from the Boston University School of Medicine and became the nation’s first Black psychiatrist. 1899: Mary Annette Anderson of Middlebury College becomes the first Black woman elected to Phi Beta Kappa. 1900: More than 2,000 Blacks ...
First U.S. Senator elected by the direct vote of the people, under the 17th Amendment to the Constitution. Died in Norwood, Montgomery County, Md., December 25, 1944 (age 87 years, 138 days). Interment at Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C. Relatives: Son of Samuel Phillips Lee ...