Examples of burned-over district in the following topics:
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- The "Burned-Over District" in central and western New York was so named due to the rampant religious revivals of the nineteenth century.
- The "Burned-Over District" refers to the religious scene in early nineteenth-century western and central New York, where religious revivals and Pentecostal movements of the Second Great Awakening took place.
- The term was coined in 1876 by Charles Grandison Finney, who argued that the area had been so heavily evangelized as to have no "fuel" (unconverted population) left over to "burn" (convert).
- The "Burned-Over District" of upstate New York, covering an area from approximately Buffalo to the eastern shores of Lake Erie.
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- Over time, the region and demographics represented in a district can change substantially.
- Furthermore, districts sometimes retain the same boundaries while changing their district numbers.
- California had the most, at 53 districts.
- Alaska is the district with the greatest area and New York's 15th district has the smallest area.
- Congress House Districts for the 110th-112th Congresses.
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- District magnitude is the number of representatives elected from a given district to the same legislative body.
- A single-member district has one representative, whereas a multi-member district has more than one.
- Proportional representation voting systems inherently require multi-member districts, and the larger the district magnitude the more proportional a system tends to be.
- This redrawing is necessary under single-member district systems, as each new representative requires his or her own district.
- Malapportionment occurs when voters are under or over-represented due to variation in district population.
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- The United States district courts are the trial courts within the U.S. federal court system.
- A bankruptcy court is associated with each U.S. district court.
- While district courts are the primary trial courts within the U.S., two special trial courts exist outside of the district court system.
- The Court of International Trade has jurisdiction over cases involving international trade and customs issues.
- These claims include money damages against the U.S., unlawful takings of private property by the federal government, and disputes over federal contracts.
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- A few states have two separate supreme courts, with one having authority over civil matters and the other reviewing criminal cases.
- In order for a district court to entertain a lawsuit, Congress must first grant the court subject matter jurisdiction over the type of dispute in question.
- Congress has established a procedure whereby a party, typically the defendant, can remove a case from state court to federal court, provided that the federal court also has original jurisdiction over the matter.
- Admission to the bar of a district court is generally granted as a matter of course to any attorney who is admitted to practice law in the state where the district court sits.
- Several district courts require attorneys seeking admission to their bars to take an additional bar examination on federal law, including the following: the Southern District of Ohio, the Northern District of Florida, and the District of Puerto Rico.
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- The District of Columbia in the Unites States offers an illustration of devolved government.
- The District of Columbia is constitutionally under the control of the United States Congress, which created the current District government.
- Any law passed by District legislature can be nullified by Congressional action.
- Indeed, the District government itself could be significantly altered by a simple majority vote in Congress.
- The governor of some states may also have power over local government affairs.
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- The
Inca Empire was a hierarchical system with the emperor, or Inca Sapa,
ruling over the rest of society.
- The
Spanish burned the vast majority of existing quipus when they arrived
in South America.
- Taxes
and goods were collected from four distinct suyus, or
districts, and sent directly to the ruling emperor in Cusco.
- The
populations of each district were expected to contribute to the
wealth of the empire by mining, farming, or doing other manual labor
that would benefit the entire empire.
- The economic system linked together four large suyus, or districts, that all reported back to the capital of Cusco.
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- It has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all federal courts and over state court cases involving issues of federal law.
- It also has original jurisdiction over a small range of cases .
- Each federal judicial district has at least one courthouse, and many districts have more than one.
- There is at least one judicial district for each state, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.
- There are eighty-nine districts in the fifty states, with a total of ninety-four districts including territories.
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- There are thirteen courts of appeals, twelve of which are based on geographic districts called circuits.
- Every federal court litigant has the right to appeal an unfavorable ruling from the district court by requesting a hearing in a circuit court.
- The procedure within appellate courts diverges widely from that within district courts.
- Decisions made within courts of appeals, unlike those of the lower district courts, establish binding precedents.
- In addition, the courts of appeals often serve as the final arbiter in federal cases, since the Supreme Court hears less than 100 of the over 10,000 cases sent to it annually.
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- Each campan was divided into 20 districts (calpullis), and each district was crossed by streets.
- Mexican pyramids were typically expanded by building over prior ones, using the bulk of the former as a base for the latter, as later rulers sought to expand the temple to reflect the growing greatness of the city of Tenochtitlan.
- The two temples were approximately 200 feet in height, and each had large braziers where the sacred fires continuously burned.
- Scale model of the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan, showing the various stages as it was enlarged over time.