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• 36th United States Congress/Senators
  *3: [[Benjamin Fitzpatrick]] ''([[Democratic Party (United States)|D]])'' ...lement Claiborne Clay|Clement C. Clay, Jr.]] ''([[Democratic Party (United States)|D]])''
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• 28th United States Congress/Senators
  *2: [[William R. King| William R. D. King]] ''([[Democratic Party (United States)|D]])'' *: [[Dixon Hall Lewis| Dixon H. Lewis]] ''([[Democratic Party (United States)|D]])''
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• Upper house
  ...atures (though today they are selected in [[popular election]]s). In the [[United Kingdom]], the House of Lords is made up of unelected members of the countr * [[United Kingdom]]: The [[House of Lords]]
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• U.S. Senate
  ...Congress]]. Its membership consists of two senators from each of the fifty states. ...is gave unequal representation to smaller states, an advantage the smaller states were loath to relinquish.
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• Massachusetts (U.S. state)/Related Articles
  {{r|United States of America}} ====U.S. Senators====
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• Government of the United States of America
  ...the Union address, 2007. Also pictured are [[Vice-President of the United States of America|Vice President]] [[Dick Cheney]] and [[Speaker of the House of R ...federal courts, the highest of which is the [[Supreme Court of the United States of America|Supreme Court]]. The two chambers of Congress, the [[House of Re
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• Minnesota (U.S. state)
  ...pital. The Twin Cities is the 13th largest metropolitan area in the United States. The state is often nicknamed the "North Star State", and borders [[Wiscons ...mer-Labor Party]] (DFL). At the federal level, Minnesota is represented by Senators [[Amy Klobuchar]] (D) and [[Al Franken]] (D), and by eight congressional re
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• Twenty-seventh Amendment of the U.S. Constitution
  ...es of amendment three through twelve were [[ratification|ratified]] by the states and became Amendments 1 through 10. ...icle, which eventually became the 27th Amendment, was ratified by only six states during the eighteenth century. The Constitution, however, puts no time lim
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• U.S. Congress
  The '''United States Congress''' is the national legislature of the [[United States of America]]. As established in Article I of the [[U.S. Constitution]], it The precedent for a national legislature in the United States dates back to the end of the colonial period when, on September 5, 1774, 55
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• Lower house
  ...more frequently than members of an upper house. For instance, [[Senate|US Senators]] (upper house) stand for election every 6 years, while [[House of Represen * [[United Kingdom]]: The [[House of Commons]]
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• Indian Americans
  ...individuals who hold citizenship in the [[United States of America|United States]] and trace their ancestry back to India. This community has grown signific The history of Indian immigration to the United States dates back to the early 20th century. The majority of early Indian immigran
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• Oren E. Long
  ...nted Governor of the [[Territory of Hawai'i]] by [[President of the United States of America]] [[Harry Truman]] in 1951 and served until 1953. On July 28, 1 |title = [[United States Senators From Hawaii|United States Senator (Class 3) from Hawai{{okina}}i]]
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• Chris Matthews
  ...The [[San Francisco Chronicle]], which was syndicated to 200 newspapers by United Media. ...][[Utah (U.S. state)|Utah]]) and Edmund Muskie ([[Democratic Party (United States)|D-]]Maine), and was the senior assistant to Speaker of the House Thomas P.
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• Henrik Shipstead
  ...www.senate.gov/pagelayout/senators/one_item_and_teasers/minnesota.htm U.S. Senators from Minnesota]</ref> ...He was the only Farmer-Laborite in the Senate, and served in the [[United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations|Foreign Relations Committee]]. In the
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• Free Soil Party
  ...terwards, the party was largely absorbed by the [[Republican Party (United States), history |Republican Party]] in 1854. ...hile they lost their presidential bid they were successful in electing two senators and fourteen representatives to the thirty-first Congress.
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• John M. Clayton
  ..., and as [[United States Senator|U.S. Senator from Delaware]] and [[United States Secretary of State|U.S. Secretary of State]]. ...] and his cousin, [[Thomas Clayton]], was a prominent [[lawyer]], [[United States Senate|U.S. Senator]] and jurist. John M. Clayton studied at [[Berlin, Mary
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• Chuck Hagel
  ...considered a moderate Republican. Before the [[Iraq War]], he worked with Senators [[Joe Biden]], [[Richard Lugar]] to draft legislation to limit the Presiden | title = Former Sen. Hagel: GOP being 'irresponsible' on healthcare
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• Bicameral legislature
  ...tate, currently 100 members. Originally, [[senator]]s were selected by the states, but in 1912, the Senate was changed to popular election of members. In the US, most states maintain their own bicameral legislatures. Most are named following the nat
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• New York (U.S. state)
  '''New York''' is a state in the northeastern [[United States of America]] and has an estimated population of 18,976,457 people (as of th ...federally owned company, has extensive service in the northeastern United States between Boston and Washington, D.C. Amtrak also operates New York-Albany-B
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• Gadsden Purchase
  ...led the '''Mesilla Treaty ''') of 1853 was the acquisition by the [[United States of America]] from [[Mexico]] of 29.1 million acres in a strip of borderland ...ressing Indian attacks across the border. For these concessions the United States was to pay Mexico $15 million and assume all claims of its citizens against
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• Joshua Clayton
  ...[[Delaware General Assembly]], as [[Governor of Delaware]] and as [[United States Senate|U.S. Senator from Delaware]]. ...liation is unclear, but they were almost certainly members of the Bethel [[United Methodist Church|Methodist Church]] by the time of their deaths.
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• U.S. Constitution
  [[Image:P1_constitution.jpg|thumb|right|Page 1 of the United States Constitution]] ...result of the first ten amendments adopted as the [[Bill of Rights (United States)|Bill of Rights]]. The process of amendment has continued into the modern e
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