Pop Quiz part 2
#21
11-23-2007, 12:55 PM
RE: Pop Quiz part 2
Fair trade is a must! But that is a bit of a pickle since China has been funding our Government and our War effort (BS) for the pass few years.
Me... lol...
Me... lol...
#22
11-23-2007, 05:42 PM
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RE: Pop Quiz part 2
Sorry people. Thanks for the feedback. I first misread this article, America is one of the "oldest." I am set to find out the true oldest!!!
Excerpt from a great Thanksgiving article I read. http://www.nysun.com/article/66648
...But Americans aren't novelty junkies on the important things. "The New World" is one of the oldest settled constitutional democracies on earth, to a degree "the Old World" can barely comprehend.
Where it counts, Americans are traditionalists. We know Eastern Europe was a totalitarian prison until the Nineties, but we forget that Mediterranean Europe (Greece, Spain, Portugal) has democratic roots going all the way back until, oh, the mid-Seventies; France and Germany's constitutions date back barely half a century, Italy's only to the 1940s, and Belgium's goes back about 20 minutes, and currently it's not clear whether even that latest rewrite remains operative.
The U.S. Constitution is not only older than France's, Germany's, Italy's or Spain's constitution, it's older than all of them put together. Americans think of Europe as Goethe and Mozart and 12th century castles and 6th century churches, but the Continent's governing mechanisms are no more ancient than the Partridge Family.
Aside from the Anglophone democracies, most of "the west"'s nation states have been conspicuous failures at sustaining peaceful political evolution from one generation to the next, which is why they're so susceptible to the siren song of Big Ideas — Communism, Fascism, European Union. If you're going to be novelty-crazed, better the zebra-mussel cappuccino than the Third Reich....
Excerpt from a great Thanksgiving article I read. http://www.nysun.com/article/66648
...But Americans aren't novelty junkies on the important things. "The New World" is one of the oldest settled constitutional democracies on earth, to a degree "the Old World" can barely comprehend.
Where it counts, Americans are traditionalists. We know Eastern Europe was a totalitarian prison until the Nineties, but we forget that Mediterranean Europe (Greece, Spain, Portugal) has democratic roots going all the way back until, oh, the mid-Seventies; France and Germany's constitutions date back barely half a century, Italy's only to the 1940s, and Belgium's goes back about 20 minutes, and currently it's not clear whether even that latest rewrite remains operative.
The U.S. Constitution is not only older than France's, Germany's, Italy's or Spain's constitution, it's older than all of them put together. Americans think of Europe as Goethe and Mozart and 12th century castles and 6th century churches, but the Continent's governing mechanisms are no more ancient than the Partridge Family.
Aside from the Anglophone democracies, most of "the west"'s nation states have been conspicuous failures at sustaining peaceful political evolution from one generation to the next, which is why they're so susceptible to the siren song of Big Ideas — Communism, Fascism, European Union. If you're going to be novelty-crazed, better the zebra-mussel cappuccino than the Third Reich....
#23
11-23-2007, 05:49 PM
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RE: Pop Quiz part 2
Here is a university articleabout a "lefty" who wrote a book that refutes the general knowledge that American has the currently oldest existing Democratic Constitution.
He states in his book that it is not a true "Constituion" because that forefathers had no starting point. Obviously he was an Athiest or something. Hey, It's a start:
http://www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/lpbr/su...vinson0107.htm
He states in his book that it is not a true "Constituion" because that forefathers had no starting point. Obviously he was an Athiest or something. Hey, It's a start:
http://www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/lpbr/su...vinson0107.htm
#24
11-23-2007, 05:53 PM
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RE: Pop Quiz part 2
India is the longest Socialist Secular Democratic Constitution written in 1949. (Whatever the heck that means?)
They must not refer to "OUR CREATOR" like the U.S. Constituion does.
The Constitution of India is the constitution of the Republic of India. It was passed by the Constituent Assembly on November 26, 1949, and came into effect on January 26, 1950. India celebrates January 26 each year as Republic Day.
It is the longest written constitution of any independent nation in the world, containing 395 articles and 12 schedules for a total of 117,369 words in its English language version.
They must not refer to "OUR CREATOR" like the U.S. Constituion does.
The Constitution of India is the constitution of the Republic of India. It was passed by the Constituent Assembly on November 26, 1949, and came into effect on January 26, 1950. India celebrates January 26 each year as Republic Day.
It is the longest written constitution of any independent nation in the world, containing 395 articles and 12 schedules for a total of 117,369 words in its English language version.
#25
11-23-2007, 05:56 PM
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RE: Pop Quiz part 2
From Answers.com
constitution
The set of fundamental rules governing the politics of a nation or subnational body. The word was first used in this sense after the ‘Glorious Revolution’ of 1688 in Britain, when the deposed king, James II, was accused of having violated the ‘fundamental constitution of the kingdom’. But though the word in this sense is a British invention, it is much harder to determine what the British constitution actually is than that of almost anywhere else.
A typical constitution is written, short, general, and entrenched. The oldest and (except from 1861 to 1865) most successful constitution in the world, that of the United States, illustrates all these points. It was written at a Constitutional Convention in 1787 and ratified by all the existing states except Rhode Island. The US Constitution and all its subsequent amendments run to only around 8,000 words. It contains no rules about what must be done, except procedural rules governing the election of Presidents and Congress and the nomination of Supreme Court justices and other senior officials. It contains many rules about what Congress, the executive, and (since the Civil War) the states may not do. And it contains the rules for its own amendment: proposals must emanate from either two-thirds of each house of Congress, or a convention called at the request of two-thirds of the state legislatures, and to succeed they must be ratified by three-quarters of the states.
Most other written constitutions are longer than that of the United States, and they often contain particular rules (a popular example being clauses like ‘The national anthem is the Marseillaise’ from the constitution of the French Fifth Republic, Title 1, Article 2). But they all entrench themselves by making themselves more difficult to amend than ordinary laws. Many go beyond the procedural rights guaranteed in the US Constitution to guarantee substantive rights as well: for instance, ‘Every individual has the duty to work and the right to employment’ (France); ‘Citizens of the USSR have the right to rest and leisure’ (USSR constitution of 1977). They are typically less forthcoming about how the citizen who feels deprived of these rights may seek redress.
constitution
The set of fundamental rules governing the politics of a nation or subnational body. The word was first used in this sense after the ‘Glorious Revolution’ of 1688 in Britain, when the deposed king, James II, was accused of having violated the ‘fundamental constitution of the kingdom’. But though the word in this sense is a British invention, it is much harder to determine what the British constitution actually is than that of almost anywhere else.
A typical constitution is written, short, general, and entrenched. The oldest and (except from 1861 to 1865) most successful constitution in the world, that of the United States, illustrates all these points. It was written at a Constitutional Convention in 1787 and ratified by all the existing states except Rhode Island. The US Constitution and all its subsequent amendments run to only around 8,000 words. It contains no rules about what must be done, except procedural rules governing the election of Presidents and Congress and the nomination of Supreme Court justices and other senior officials. It contains many rules about what Congress, the executive, and (since the Civil War) the states may not do. And it contains the rules for its own amendment: proposals must emanate from either two-thirds of each house of Congress, or a convention called at the request of two-thirds of the state legislatures, and to succeed they must be ratified by three-quarters of the states.
Most other written constitutions are longer than that of the United States, and they often contain particular rules (a popular example being clauses like ‘The national anthem is the Marseillaise’ from the constitution of the French Fifth Republic, Title 1, Article 2). But they all entrench themselves by making themselves more difficult to amend than ordinary laws. Many go beyond the procedural rights guaranteed in the US Constitution to guarantee substantive rights as well: for instance, ‘Every individual has the duty to work and the right to employment’ (France); ‘Citizens of the USSR have the right to rest and leisure’ (USSR constitution of 1977). They are typically less forthcoming about how the citizen who feels deprived of these rights may seek redress.
#26
11-23-2007, 06:04 PM
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RE: Pop Quiz part 2
Space, "Codified" means that India took a few other countries constitution like Japan and Malaysia and "cut and pasted" their own constituion.
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11-23-2007, 06:06 PM
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RE: Pop Quiz part 2
ORIGINAL: BLACK ATTACK
At first I thought it was the United States, because England wasrun by the Queen. But I looked it up... I cheated... The real answer is(unscrabble the letters) a k i n lg a and that is the answer.
At first I thought it was the United States, because England wasrun by the Queen. But I looked it up... I cheated... The real answer is(unscrabble the letters) a k i n lg a and that is the answer.
Never be shy to answer "America" when GPD lays it out there, okay Craig?
#28
11-23-2007, 06:15 PM
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RE: Pop Quiz part 2
From Wikepedia:
The current Constitution of Turkey, ratified in 1982, establishes the organization of the government of the Republic of Turkey and sets out the principles and rules of the state's conduct along with its responsibilities towards its citizens. The Constitution also establishes the rights and responsibilities of the latter while setting the guidelines for the delegation and exercise of sovereignty that belongs to the Turkish Nation.
The current Constitution of Turkey, ratified in 1982, establishes the organization of the government of the Republic of Turkey and sets out the principles and rules of the state's conduct along with its responsibilities towards its citizens. The Constitution also establishes the rights and responsibilities of the latter while setting the guidelines for the delegation and exercise of sovereignty that belongs to the Turkish Nation.
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