• The Test Acts were a series of penal laws originating in Restoration England, passed by the Parliament of England, that served as a religious test for...
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  • restrictions on Roman Catholics introduced by the Act of Uniformity, the Test Acts and the penal laws. Requirements to abjure (renounce) the temporal and...
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    February 1828, Russell introduced the Sacramental Test Bill, which would Repeal the Test and Corporation Acts. Russell argued that religious liberty was a...
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    English and Scottish Parliaments refused to repeal the 1678 and 1681 Test Acts, he suspended them in November 1685 and ruled by decree. Attempts to form...
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  • A religious test is a legal requirement to swear faith to a specific religion or sect, or to renounce the same. The Test Act 1673 in England obligated...
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    was Queen of Great Britain and Ireland following the ratification of the Acts of Union on 1 May 1707, which merged the kingdoms of Scotland and England...
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  • that was brought as a test case of the Test Acts, a series of penal laws in Restoration England that established religious tests for public office with...
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  • no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States. A variety of Test Acts were instituted...
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  • Article Six of the United States Constitution specifies that "no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under...
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    of both Houses of Parliament were originally required to take by the Test Acts. Eventually, by the time it was changed in 1910, the monarch was the only...
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    The Acts of the Apostles (Koinē Greek: Πράξεις Ἀποστόλων, Práxeis Apostólōn; Latin: Actūs Apostolōrum) is the fifth book of the New Testament; it tells...
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  • withdraw the declaration and implement, in its place, the first of the Test Acts (1673), which required anyone entering public service in England to deny...
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    Catholicism within the laws of Great Britain, which included various Test Acts to prevent governmental, judicial and bureaucratic appointments from going...
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    Samuel Cooper. Pope's education was affected by the recently enacted Test Acts, a series of English penal laws that upheld the status of the established...
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  • software testing, a test harness is a collection of stubs and drivers configured to assist with the testing of an application or component. It acts as imitation...
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    The Turing test, originally called the imitation game by Alan Turing in 1950, is a test of a machine's ability to exhibit intelligent behaviour equivalent...
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    A cardiac stress test is a cardiological examination that evaluates the cardiovascular system's response to external stress within a controlled clinical...
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    lateral flow test (LFT), is an assay also known as a lateral flow device (LFD), lateral flow immunochromatographic assay, or rapid test. It is a simple...
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  • by the previous test, the Hicklin test, stemming from the English precedent. In practice, pornography showing genitalia and sexual acts is not ipso facto...
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    Parliament in 1813. In 1828 he took a leading role in the repeal of the Test Acts which discriminated against Catholics and Protestant dissenters. He was...
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    authority. The abuses charged to James included the suspension of the Test Acts, the prosecution of the Seven Bishops for merely petitioning the Crown...
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    Cargill gained them considerable sympathy. The 1681 Scottish Succession and Test Acts made obedience to the monarch a legal obligation, "regardless of religion"...
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  • Voges–Proskauer /ˈfoʊɡəs ˈprɒskaʊ.ər/ or VP is a test used to detect acetoin in a bacterial broth culture. The test is performed by adding alpha-naphthol and...
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    label connected to acts like Depeche Mode, Soft Cell, The The, Cabaret Voltaire, PTV, Foetus, and Swans. The slides and film for Test Dept multi-media events...
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    An Address to the Opposers of the Repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts (see Test Act). Readers were shocked to discover that such a well-reasoned...
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    acceptance testing is a test conducted to determine if the requirements of a specification or contract are met. It may involve chemical tests, physical tests, or...
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    test ACTS abilities. In Nov. 1997 a record data rate of 520 Mbit/s TCP/IP throughput was achieved using ATM between several ground stations via ACTS....
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    England, and Argyll's Rising in Scotland. The 1681 Scottish Succession and Test Acts made obedience to the monarch a legal obligation, 'regardless of religion';...
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  • substances also gives a positive result. Such tests that use this reagent are called the Benedict's tests. A positive test with Benedict's reagent is shown by a...
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    oath before admission to vote or to stand for office. The 1672 and 1678 Test Acts forbade non-Anglicans to hold public offices, and the 1727 Disenfranchising...
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