Examples of Federal district in the following topics:
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- The Whiskey Rebellion (1791-1794), a tax protest, was a defining moment of federal triumph over civil unrest and protest.
- On the western frontier, protesters used violence and intimidation to prevent federal officials from collecting the tax.
- Under the Articles of Confederation, the federal government did not have the power to levy or institute any new taxes and was forced to borrow money from state governments to meet expenses.
- In May of that year, federal district attorney William Rawle issued subpoenas for more than 60 distillers in Pennsylvania who had not paid the excise tax.
- Under the law then in effect, distillers who received these writs would be obligated to travel to Philadelphia to appear in federal court.
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- Federal holidays are only established for certain federally chartered and regulated businesses (such as federal banks) and for Washington, D.C.
- As a result, holidays have not historically been governed at the federal level, and federal law does not govern business activities.
- The history of federal holidays in the United States dates back to June 28, 1870, when Congress created federal holidays to correspond with holidays already celebrated and observed by the States.
- Although federal holidays were at first applicable only to federal employees in the District of Columbia, Congress extended coverage in 1885 to all federal employees.
- George Washington's birthday became a federal holiday in 1880.
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- On November 9, 2010, Windsor filed a lawsuit against the federal government in the U.S.
- District Court for the Southern District of New York, seeking a refund because DOMA singled out legally married same-sex couples for "differential treatment compared to other similarly situated couples without justification."
- Jones ruled that Section 3 of DOMA was unconstitutional under the due process guarantees of the Fifth Amendment and ordered the federal government to issue the tax refund, including interest.
- Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in a 2-1 decision, affirmed the district court's judgement on October 18, 2012.
- Prior to Obergefell, 36 states, the District of Columbia, and Guam already issued marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
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- However, the stresses the new government faced soon exposed different ideas about the direction of the new federal republic.
- Federalism was concentrated in the bustling maritime towns and cities of New England and in the plantation districts of the Chesapeake Bay and South Carolina.
- Their greatest strength was in farming districts throughout the country and among the working classes of the burgeoning cities.
- Washington (in heaven) warns party men to let all three pillars of Federalism, Republicanism, and Democracy stand to hold up Peace and Plenty, Liberty and Independence.
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- Individual state constitutions were created to help define and enumerate the powers not accorded to the federal government.
- Many state constitutions, unlike the federal constitution, also begin with an invocation of God.
- The District of Columbia (Washington City in the District of Columbia) has a charter similar to charters of major cities instead of having a constitution like the states and territories.
- The District of Columbia Home Rule Act establishes the Council of the District of Columbia, which governs the entire district and has certain devolved powers similar to those of major cities.
- Attempts at statehood for the District of Columbia have included the drafting of two constitutions in 1982 and 1987 respectively, referring to the district as the State of New Columbia.
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- Second Military District: North Carolina and South Carolina, under General Daniel Sickles
- Third Military District: Georgia, Alabama and Florida, under General John Pope and George Meade
- Fifth Military District: Texas and Louisiana, under Generals Philip Sheridan and Winfield Scott Hancock
- These districts placed the ten Southern state governments under the direct control of the United States Army.
- For example, the Reconstruction Acts denied the right to vote from men who had sworn to uphold the Constitution only to rebel against the Federal Government.
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- Second Military District: North Carolina and South Carolina, under General Daniel Sickles
- Third Military District: Georgia, Alabama and Florida, under General John Pope and George Meade
- Fifth Military District: Texas and Louisiana, under Generals Philip Sheridan and Winfield Scott Hancock
- These districts placed the ten Southern state governments under the direct control of the United States Army.
- The Reconstruction Acts denied the right to vote for men who had sworn to uphold the Constitution and then rebelled against the Federal Government.
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- In 1951, a class action suit was filed against the Board of Education of the City of Topeka, Kansas in the United States District Court for the District of Kansas.
- The suit called for the school district to reverse its policy of racial segregation.
- The District Court ruled in favor of the Board of Education, citing the U.S.
- Woodrow Wilson Mann, the mayor of Little Rock, asked the President to send federal troops to enforce integration and protect the nine students.
- However, he federalized the National Guard in
Arkansas and ordered them to return to their barracks.
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- The case resulted from a petition to the Supreme Court by William Marbury, who had been appointed by President John Adams as justice of the peace in the District of Columbia.
- Maryland (1819) was one of several decisions involving the balance of power between the federal government and individual states in which the Marshall Court affirmed federal supremacy.
- State action may not impede valid constitutional exercises of power by the Federal government.
- Marshall avoided the issue of exclusivity of federal powers over commerce, claiming it was not essential to the case.
- Instead, Marshall relied on an existing federal statute for licensing ships in reaching his decision.
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- 'Reconstruction' was a set of federal policies that addressed the status of the former Confederate states after the Civil War.
- It required 50 percent of the voters to take the loyalty oath and allowed only those who could swear that they had never supported the Confederacy to run for office or hold federal employment.
- Over Johnson's vetoes, Congress passed three Reconstruction acts in 1867 which divided the southern states into five military districts under the control of the Union army.
- The military commander in charge of each district was to ensure that the state fulfilled the requirements of Reconstruction by ratifying the Fourteenth Amendment and by providing voting rights without a race qualification.
- Tennessee was not included in the districts because it had ratified the Fourteenth Amendment in 1866 and was quickly readmitted to the Union.