The Republican Palace (Arabic: القصر الجمهوري, al-Qaṣr al-Jumhūriy) is a palace in Baghdad, Iraq, constructed on the orders of King Faisal II.It was Saddam Hussein's preferred place to meet visiting heads of state. The United States spared the palace during its shock and awe raid during the 2003 invasion of Iraq, in the belief that it might hold valuable documents.

Voters of the Republican Party elected state delegations to the 2012 Republican National Convention in presidential primaries.The national convention then selected its nominee to run for President of the United States in the 2012 presidential election.There were 2,286 delegates chosen, and a candidate needed to accumulate 1,144 delegate votes at the convention to win …

At the 1787 Constitutional Convention, a proposal to include the phrase, "new States shall be admitted on the same terms with the original States", was defeated. It was feared that the political power of future new western states would eventually overwhelm that of the established eastern states. ... A republican form of government is ...

Liam Lynch (Irish: Liam Ó Loingsigh; 20 November 1892 – 10 April 1923) was an officer in the Irish Republican Army during the Irish War of Independence of 1919-1921. During much of the Irish Civil War, he was chief of staff of the Irish Republican Army.On 10 April 1923, Lynch was killed whilst trying to escape an encirclement by Free State troops in south Tipperary.

T, or t, is the twentieth letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide.Its name in English is tee (pronounced / ˈ t iː /), plural tees. It is derived from the Semitic Taw ???? of the Phoenician and Paleo-Hebrew script (Aramaic and Hebrew Taw ת/????/, Syriac Taw ܬ, and Arabic ت Tāʼ) via the …

Gary Earl Johnson (born January 1, 1953) is an American businessman, author, and politician. He served as the 29th governor of New Mexico from 1995 to 2003 as a member of the Republican Party.He was the Libertarian Party nominee for President of the United States in the 2012 and 2016 elections.He was also the Libertarian nominee in the 2018 U.S. Senate election in New …

The 1st United States Congress provided the detailed organization of a federal judiciary through the Judiciary Act of 1789.The Supreme Court, the country's highest judicial tribunal, was to sit in the nation's Capital and would initially be composed of a chief justice and five associate justices. The act also divided the country into judicial districts, which were in turn organized into circuits.

The Michigan Civil Rights Initiative (MCRI), or Proposal 2 (Michigan 06–2), was a ballot initiative in the U.S. state of Michigan that passed into Michigan Constitutional law by a 58% to 42% margin on November 7, 2006, according to results officially certified by the Michigan Secretary of State.By Michigan law, the Proposal became law on December 22, 2006.

Robert Phillips Corker Jr. (born August 24, 1952) is an American businessman and politician who served as a United States Senator from Tennessee from 2007 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party, he served as Chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2015 to 2019.. In 1978, Corker founded a construction company, which he sold in 1990. This increased …

The Volcker Rule is § 619 of the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (12 U.S.C. § 1851).The rule was originally proposed by American economist and former United States Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker to restrict United States banks from making certain kinds of speculative investments that do not benefit their customers.