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    Nationalist Congress Party

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    The Nationalist Congress Party(NCP) is a centre to centre left political party primarily based in the state of Maharashtra ‚ India. Its youth wing is the Nationalist Youth Congress. NCP was formed on 25 May 1999‚ by Sharad Pawar‚ P. A. Sangma‚ and Tariq Anwar after they were expelled from the Indian National Congress(INC) on 20 May 1999‚ for disputing the right of Italian-born Sonia Gandhi to lead the party. At the time of formation‚ the party also absorbed Indian Congress (Socialist)‚ which traced

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    Congress Part 1 The United States establishes a bicameral legislature‚ which is a legislature made up of two houses and they are the Senate and the House of Representative. Through the aspect of history‚ the framers of the constitution knew are familiar to the British Parliament of two-house system. And for practical‚ the framers have to create a two-chambered body in order to the issue between New Jersey plan and Virginia plan. In theoretical way‚ and they favored a bicameral Congress for two houses

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    When a candidate officially runs for Congress—whether it is for the U.S. House of Representatives or the Senate—there is always a motivation as to why he or she would make a run for public office on a national level. But behind every political campaign‚ behind every vote‚ there is always an aspiration each member of Congress tries to aspire to every day in Washington‚ D.C. So as far as we know‚ there can be a list of estimated guesses as to why senators and congressmen/women vote the way they do

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    England. By 1775‚ the Americans had developed a stronger sense of identity among themselves through imposed laws‚ which angered the Americans forcing them to unite‚ propaganda‚ influencing colonists to join together against Great Britain‚ and the Continental Congress‚ which created a unique identity for all thirteen colonies. American colonists developed a sense of identity through imposed laws from Great Britain‚ however this angered the Americans (Document F). A largely recognized and important act

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    whip‚ formally known as an “assistant party leader‚” is to keep track of the number of votes for and against a piece of legislation. Also‚ they are supposed to “whip up” support among the chamber membership. There are two types of committees in Congress: standing committees and select committees. Standing committees are permanent and are the more important type of committee. Standing committees have the power to propose and write legislation that covers a particular subject‚ such s finance or agriculture

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    dealing with Indians (Jaimes‚ p141). The fledgling government understood that changing the worlds perception was paramount to the survival both politically and economically of the United States (Jaimes‚ p141). What the Continental Congress hoped to gain from the Natives was legitimacy as a nation. If the United States entered into treaties with these nations in the same fashion as other countries it would in turn signal to the world that the United States was recognized on some level as a nation

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    Pros And Cons Of Congress

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    the articles confederation in order to acquire a stronger national government. The article of confederation provided the states with an abundant amount of power and not a sufficient amount to the nation government. Hence why states often ignored congress and worried only about the good of their state and not as a whole nation. "The national government had neither a consistent Currency‚ nor a military force‚ nor the power to regulate trade‚ nor the power to levy taxes." Although the people were free

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    During the two Decades from 1754 to 1775‚ the American colonies moved from division to unity. The accomplishments of the Albany Congress‚ the Stamp Act Congress‚ and the First Continental Congress caused this change. The Albany Congress was held in 1754. It was a meeting of representatives from various colonies in response to the war between Britain and France. The main plan was to form a colonial defense and gain the support of the Iroquois Confederacy. They also debated an intercolonial government

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    The Differences of Strategic Positioning Between Southwest Airlines Corporation and Continental Airlines Nowadays‚ Porter’s 5 Rules of Strategic Positioning as a most common business theory plays a significant role in operating companies and planning business activities. Southwest Airlines Corporation (Southwest) proves that clearly by its success. And the year-end results of Southwest marked 29 consecutive years of making profit (Govindarajan and Lang‚ 2002). I will elaborate how the Porter’s 5

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    Many people wonder what makes a person become president? A truly complicated question like that is hard to follow with bare facts. There are so many different personality traits and social events that can alter how people look at other people‚ therefore outcome for a presidency election can go either way. This essay will try to establish ideas for a suitable president by comparing and contrasting two presidents together. The two presidents are George Washington and John Adams. Two man that come from

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