Inauguration Day was moved to January 20, with the Oath of Office to be administered at noon, when Congress ratified the 20th constitutional amendment in 1933. Reasons cited included the improved roads and transportation, the unpredictability of March weather, and the desire to reduce the time tha...
This was something that would come later in the form of Constitutional Amendments. However, there were concerns the original document didn’t go far enough. Massachusetts was one of the first states to falter over this issue, and it caused a lot of debate for a long time. The same ...
The provision states basically that if a party (here the carrier), having received an offer from the other party (here the shipper), replies to that offer in the belief that he is accepting the offer as expressed by that other party but is in reality giving a new offer (because the ans...
Acceptance (the agreement by the other party to the offer presented) Consideration (the money or something of interest being exchanged between the parties) Capacity of the parties in terms of age and mental ability. Intent of both parties to carry out their promise. Who is considered to have ...
it was only in the end from Yugoslavia that really exploded and even there the EU was able to attract Slovenia, Croatia to the gains of EU-type peace. Where the EU has a more questionable or uncertain record is when its leaders are actually trying to do something about peace and when th...
All countries, which ratified the Protocol, must therefore present inventories of their GHG emissions and report their progress. Where the UNFCCC says : "All counties which have ratified this convention should do something about climate change", the Kyoto Protocol's message is : "All countries ...
shaped by school experience, in which doing mathematics means following the rules laid down by the teacher; knowing mathematics means remembering and applying the cor- rect rule when the teacher asks a question; and mathematical truth is deter- mined when the answer is ratified by the teacher....
"For the work of a day, for the taxes we pay, for the laws we obey, we want something to say" Favorite (1) Share Even when we protest, we're artistic! [ Click image for details ] AncientFaces 380k+ followers 411 favorites shared on 01/08/2012 1918 Suffrage demonstration at...
The time dimension of the Human Drama involving living memory serves each generation in turn and can have something of it's Great Stories and lessons passed on. Everyone has 'big moments' they will always remember. lesson of my times is that if enough people pool their skills they can make...
In recent years, the U.S. Supreme Court has taken steps that call into question Jefferson’s understanding of religious liberty as something that is inherently harmless to others. Instead, in two cases involving contraception, the Court has suggested that one person’s religious liberty might perm...