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2 Military hostilities begin Source of data: USGS, A total of about 7000 to 8000 Patriots served on "Committees of Correspondence" at the colonial and local levels comprising most of the leadership in their communities Loyalists were excluded the committees became the leaders of the American resistance to British actions and largely determined the war effort at the state and local level When the First Continental Congress decided to boycott British products the colonial and local Committees took charge examining merchant records and publishing the names of merchants who attempted to defy the boycott by importing British goods. 5.3 Bills and resolutions Main article: Southern theater of the American Revolutionary War, Religious and philosophical beliefs Painting by Alonzo Chappel 1858 showing the frantic battle scene of Battle of Long Island with smoke in the background. Further information: Confederation Period and Articles of Confederation, Slavery was the single most contentious issue in the writing and approval of the Constitution of the United States in it the words "slave" and "slavery" do not appear although several provisions clearly refer to it the Constitution did not prohibit and therefore tacitly permitted slavery, History[show] Punjab and Haryana: Both states share Chandigarh as their capital city the city itself is administered as a Union territory.

Main article: Memorials to Abraham Lincoln Each bill goes through several stages in each house including consideration by a committee and advice from the Government Accountability Office. Most legislation is considered by standing committees which have jurisdiction over a particular subject such as Agriculture or Appropriations the House has twenty standing committees; the Senate has sixteen Standing committees meet at least once each month. Almost all standing committee meetings for transacting business must be open to the public unless the committee votes publicly to close the meeting a committee might call for public hearings on important bills. Each committee is led by a chair who belongs to the majority party and a ranking member of the minority party Witnesses and experts can present their case for or against a bill. Then a bill may go to what is called a mark-up session where committee members debate the bill's merits and may offer amendments or revisions. Committees may also amend the bill but the full house holds the power to accept or reject committee amendments After debate the committee votes whether it wishes to report the measure to the full house If a bill is tabled then it is rejected If amendments are extensive sometimes a new bill with amendments built in will be submitted as a so-called clean bill with a new number. Both houses have procedures under which committees can be bypassed or overruled but they are rarely used Generally members who have been in Congress longer have greater seniority and therefore greater power. . 6.8.2 Advance on Puebla, This omission was not related to any constitutional restriction or apparently any rationale at all Legal scholars in 2004 called the omission of voting rights a simple "historical accident" pointing out that the preceding Residence Act of July 16 1790 exercising the same constitutional authority over the same territory around the Potomac had protected the votes of the district's citizens in federal and state elections Those citizens had indeed continued to cast ballots from 1790 through 1800 for their U.S House representatives and for their Maryland and Virginia state legislators. James Madison had written in the Federalist No 43 that the citizens of the federal district should "of course" have their will represented "derived from their own suffrages." the necessary language simply did not appear in the 1801 legislation, .. the percentage of free black slave owners as the total number of free black heads of families was quite high in several states namely 43 percent in South Carolina 40 percent in Louisiana 26 percent in Mississippi 25 percent in Alabama and 20 percent in Georgia. . ! An encounter was noted between Sir George Cockburn and a female resident of Washington "Dear God! is this the weather to which you are accustomed to in this infernal country?" enquired the Admiral "This is a special interposition of Providence to drive our enemies from our city" the woman allegedly called out to Cockburn "Not so Madam" Cockburn retorted "It is rather to aid your enemies in the destruction of your city" before riding off on horseback. Yet the British left right after the storm completely unopposed by any American military forces What makes this event even more serendipitous for the Americans is that as the Smithsonian reports there have only been seven other tornadoes recorded in Washington D.C in the 204 years since with probably a similar rare occurrence in the years prior to this event, Polk's gambit 6 Other proposals, Dred Scott v Sandford Any letters addressed to the subscribers through the Post Office at Alexandria will be promptly attended to for information enquire at the above described house as we can at all times be found there. .