• A More Perfect Union: America Becomes a Nation is a 1989 American feature film dramatizing the events of the 1787 Constitutional Convention. The film...
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  • "A more perfect Union" refers to a phrase in the preamble to the United States Constitution that begins with "in order to form". Toward a more perfect...
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  • "A More Perfect Union" is the title of a speech delivered by then-Senator Barack Obama on March 18, 2008, in the course of the contest for the 2008 Democratic...
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  • More Perfect Union is a 1987 release by American rock band Icon. The album, initially released on cassette only, featured a Capitol Records logo like...
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    Philadelphia. We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the...
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  • Tia Williams. The film stars Gabrielle Union, Keith Powers, Aisha Hinds, D. B. Woodside, La La Anthony and Gina Torres. The Perfect Find had its world...
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  • between revolution and reform is more conceptual than empirical. A conservative is someone who generally opposes such changes. A reactionary is someone who...
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    brother Thomas Shallus was a mapmaker. He was born a year after his father Valentine immigrated to Pennsylvania and was a volunteer in the Revolutionary...
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    Senate, each State should have one vote and no more." What was ultimately included in the constitution was a modified form of this plan, partly because the...
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    the debate surrounding it are prominently featured in the 1989 film A More Perfect Union, which depicts the events of the 1787 Constitutional Convention...
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    more than 22 tons of pyrotechnics exploded in 2009. It generally holds displays in the East River. Other major displays are in Seattle on Lake Union;...
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    Congress passed its own version of a concurrent resolution agreeing that the amendment was validly ratified, despite the more than 202 years the task took....
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  • Obama: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union is a 2021 documentary series about Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States. It was directed by...
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    was ... to create 'a more perfect union' ... the Constitution was an exercise in nation building. Juarez regarded the United States as a model of republican...
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    no longer colonies of the Kingdom of Great Britain and, thus, no longer a part of the British Empire. The signers’ names are grouped by state, with...
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    Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p. 300. ISBN 978-0618267460. ...arguably owed more to Jefferson's...
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    The minister seemed to be actuated more by a spirit of retaliation, than by a conviction of the necessity of such a measure. "We must show the Americans...
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    Descendants". The campaign included two short films and ran on digital and social media platforms. Shannon Lanier, a descendant of Thomas Jefferson, said: “When...
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    of their taking up arms. They concluded, "We mean not to dissolve that union which as so long and so happily subsisted between us, in which we sincerely...
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    would eliminate protections for women in labor law, though over time more and more unions and labor feminist leaders became supportive. Five state legislatures...
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    managed the war effort, drafted the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, adopted the first U.S. constitution, secured diplomatic recognition and...
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  • Colorado will also observe the 150th anniversary of Colorado entering the Union. The America 250 - Colorado 150 Commission was established to guide the...
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    28, 2013. Rybczynski, Witold (July 8, 2003). "ARCHITECTURE REVIEW; More Perfect Union Of Function And Form – New York Times". The New York Times. Retrieved...
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    form a more perfect Union." It is difficult to convey the idea of indissoluble unity more clearly than by these words. What can be indissoluble if a perpetual...
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    train its own militia. A less radical plan was then proposed to create a Union of Great Britain and the Colonies, but the delegates tabled the measure...
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    termed "preservation of life, & liberty, & the pursuit of happiness" to the more succinct and sonorous phrase familiar to all today, “Life, Liberty and the...
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    controlled by Union forces on January 1, 1863, state action was used to abolish slavery. The exceptions were Kentucky and Delaware, and to a limited extent...
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    American Civil War. The fairs provided a creative and communal means for ordinary citizens to promote the welfare of Union Army soldiers and dedicate themselves...
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  • Congress. Retrieved February 3, 2017. Smith, Craig R. (1993). To form a more perfect union. Long Beach, CA: Center for First Amendment Studies. p. 21. Wikisource...
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    of America's Freedom Trains A film clip Tobacco and the Bicentennial is available for viewing at the Internet Archive A film clip 200 is available for viewing...
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