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... Intelligent Design and Creation science In the United States some religious communities have refused to accept naturalistic explanations and tried to counter them ... states passed laws against the teaching of evolution in public schools, as upheld in the Scopes Trial ... entirely from school textbooks in most of the United States until the 1960s ...
... The 1998 elections in the United States were held on November 3, 1998 ... The elections showed little swings, as the composition in both houses of the United States Congress were not significantly altered ... In the United States Senate elections, no party made gains, as Republicans won Senate seats from Illinois, Kentucky, and Ohio ...
... Elected offices of municipalities, counties (in most states), and other local entities (such as school boards and other special-purpose districts) have their elections subject to rules of their state ... Connecticut, all towns, cities, and boroughs hold elections in every odd-numbered year, but as of 2004, 16 have them on the first Monday in May, while the other 153 are on Election Day ... In Massachusetts, the 50 cities are required to hold their elections on Election Day, but the 301 towns may choose any date, and most have traditionally held their elections in early spring, after the ...
... Bush had become the President of the United States and had rejected the Kyoto Protocol in March 2001 as a result the United States delegation to this meeting declined to participate in the negotiations ... The agreements included Flexible Mechanisms The "flexibility" mechanisms which the United States had strongly favored when the Protocol was initially put ...
... The Thirtieth United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, consisting of the United States Senate ... Representatives was based on the Sixth Census of the United States in 1840 ...
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“Places where he might live and die and never hear of the United States, which make such a noise in the world,—never hear of America, so called from the name of a European gentleman.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“In my public statements I have earnestly urged that there rested upon government many responsibilities which affect the moral and spiritual welfare of our people. The participation of women in elections has produced a keener realization of the importance of these questions and has contributed to higher national ideals. Moreover, it is through them that our national ideals are ingrained in our children.”
—Herbert Hoover (1874–1964)
“Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs.”
—Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)
“Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter we are known at home, by the former to the world. Our great title is AMERICANS—our inferior one varies with the place.”
—Thomas Paine (1737–1809)