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    operation of parties in mind, as they had been thought disreputable and factious. The Federalists planned to deal with this by having all their electors...
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    Supreme Court". www.supremecourt.uk. William Nelson, Legal Turmoil in a Factious Colony: New York, 1664–1776, 38 Hofstra L. Rev. 69 (2009). "Sara Jane Sandberg...
    137 KB (18,275 words) - 03:13, 11 May 2024
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    "patriot" had a negative connotation and was used as a negative epithet for "a factious disturber of the government". Prior to the Revolution, colonists who supported...
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    America: Volume 1, The Colonial Experience (1965) Bonomi, A Factious People, p. 282 Bonomi, A Factious People, pp 281–286 On the historiography, see Alan Tully...
    164 KB (21,040 words) - 17:07, 27 May 2024
  • facility, facinorous, facsimile, fact, faction, factional, factionary, factious, factitious, factor, factorable, factorial, factory, factotum, factual...
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    was constant tension, particularly in peacetime. According to Holt, the factious nature of emirs who were not the sultan's khushdashiyya stemmed from their...
    148 KB (18,375 words) - 12:13, 28 May 2024
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    doi:10.2307/447941. ISSN 0043-4078. JSTOR 447941. Patricia U. Bonomi, A Factious People: Politics and Society in Colonial New York (Columbia U.P., 1971)...
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    commander-in-chief of the army, was critical, enabling the government to retire factious generals who regarded it as their duty to maintain the existing constitution...
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    according to Dorothy L. Sayers. Dante also uses Justinian to criticize the factious politics of his 14th-century Italy, divided between Ghibellines and Guelphs...
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    themselves in the desire for land, resulting in the manipulation of the "factious Gaelic political system". This saw them back Gaelic lords competing with...
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    one of regents and ministers and was marked by chronic civil war among factious nobles, independence of provincial governors, paralysis of the central...
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    honor and immortality, he will give eternal life; but for those who are factious and do not obey the truth, but obey wickedness, there will be wrath and...
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    supporting its "legitimate" Shuja government "against foreign interference and factious opposition." Shuja Shah by 1838 was barely remembered by most of his former...
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    Biography in the 1966 Encyclopaedia of New Zealand (birth year wrong) "Factious 'Bob' Slugger-Actor". Sacramento Union. 20 May 1908. p. 12. Archived from...
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    and Chance). Her focus with respect to Owain is on the fluctuating and factious relationship between England and Wales. Literally prince of Waleses, asserting...
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    philosophical views, and ardent patriotism. He is above all sectional and factious prejudices more than any other statesman of this Union with whom I have...
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    diplomacy, and intrigue to take over the rule of Bengal from her people, factious nobles, and weak Nawab. Subsequently, to consolidate its hold on the province...
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  • minority irrespective of its factious or nonfactious character; and they can be used against the majority irrespective of its factious or nonfactious character...
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    George Terter I seized the throne. The new ruler temporarily united the factious aristocracy, and Ivaylo gradually lost support. In 1280 or 1281, he traveled...
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    later acclaimed, crowned, and consecrated on 18 July 1841. Removal of the factious regency brought stability to the government. Pedro II was seen nationwide...
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