query: who holds the real power in texas government

pos: Government of Texas Texas Education Agency governs public education in Texas. Other special districts include Groundwater Conservation Districts (regulatory agencies), river authorities, water supply districts (for irrigation or municipal supply), public hospitals, road districts and community colleges. Government of Texas The government of Texas operates under the Constitution of Texas and consists of a unitary democratic state government operating under a presidential system that uses the Dillon Rule, as well as governments at the county and municipal levels. Austin is the capital of Texas. The State Capitol resembles the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., but is faced in Texas pink granite and

pos: Government of Queensland state government offices are located at 1 William Street in the Brisbane central business district. The Government of Queensland operates under the Westminster system, a form of parliamentary government based on the model of the United Kingdom. The Governor of Queensland, as the representative of Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia, holds nominal power, although in practice only performs ceremonial duties. The Parliament of Queensland holds legislative power, while executive power lies with the Premier and Cabinet, and judicial power is exercised by a system of courts and tribunals. The Parliament of Queensland is the state's legislature. It consists of Her

pos: Government of Texas agencies and is published yearly by the Secretary of State. The "Texas Register" contains proposed rules, notices, executive orders, and other information of general use to the public and is published weekly by the Secretary of State. The Texas Legislature is bicameral. The Texas House of Representatives has 150 members, while the Texas Senate has 31. The Speaker of the House presides over the House, and the Lieutenant Governor presides over the Senate. It is a powerful arm of the Texas government not only because of its power of the purse to control and direct the activities of state government

pos: Texas Legislature are within the legislative branch of state government. Those five agencies are as follows: Texas Legislature The Legislature of the state of Texas is the state legislature of Texas. The legislature is a bicameral body composed of a 31-member Senate and a 150-member House of Representatives. The state legislature meets at the Capitol in Austin. It is a powerful arm of the Texas government not only because of its power of the purse to control and direct the activities of state government and the strong constitutional connections between it and the Lieutenant Governor of Texas, but also due to Texas's

pos: Kedah Kedah is the constitutional ruler of the State. His position is hereditary and he holds office for life. The Ruler is the head of the religion of Islam in the State and the executive power of the state government is vested in him. The current Sultan is Tunku Mahmud Sallehuddin, who has reigned on September 12, 2017 after his elder brother Abdul Halim of Kedah died on September 11, 2017. The State Executive Council, which along with the Sultan is Kedah's executive branch of government. It is composed of the Menteri Besar, who is its chairman and Kedah's head of

neg: Comparison of Nazism and Stalinism the party or its representatives. Fourth, a similar monopoly held by the party over the mass media and all technological forms of communication. Fifth, “a system of terroristic police control” that is not only used to defend the regime against real enemies, but also to persecute various groups of people who are only suspected of being enemies or who may potentially become enemies in the future. Two first pillars of any totalitarian government, according to Friedrich and Brzezinski, are the dictator and the Party. The dictator, whether Stalin, Hitler or Mussolini, holds supreme power. Friedrich and Brzezinski explicitly reject the

neg: Joe Pickett Sub-Committee Chairman on General Government of Appropriations Committee/Appointed January 2003 Previously Chairman of Budget Oversight for the Committee on Land and Natural Resources/ Appointed January 2003 Previously Vice-Chairman of Committee on Family and Juvenile Justice One of El Paso’s longest serving members of the Appropriations Committee, Pickett has also served on Licensing and Administrative Procedures Committee, Land and natural Resources, Juvenile Justice & Family Affairs. He has been recognized by the following organizations: Pickett holds a Texas Real Estate Broker's license and has been a real estate educator for more than two decades. He has written and published text books

neg: Frank Corte Jr. Frank Corte Jr. Frank Julius Corte Jr. (born August 10, 1959) is a real estate businessman in San Antonio, Texas who served as a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives between 1993 and 2011. Corte is the son of Frank Corte Sr. and the former Rose Dean of San Antonio. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in building construction from Texas A&M University in College Station. He has been a cubmaster for the Boy Scouts of America. Corte is a Sunday school teacher and a deacon at the University Baptist Church in San Antonio. Corte is employed

neg: Front bench (Ireland) Front bench (Ireland) A front bench in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Oireachtas of Ireland, refers to any organised group of party members who holds any degree of speaking power (derived from the party) on specific issues. The Teachtaí Dála (TDs) who are members of the Government of Ireland constitutes the government front bench, while the members of parties in declared opposition to the government constitute the opposition front bench. Third parties (those who may not be in government or opposition) may only form front benches with the power to speak or be recognised by the Ceann Comhairle

neg: Front bench (Ireland) front bench roster. Front bench (Ireland) A front bench in Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Oireachtas of Ireland, refers to any organised group of party members who holds any degree of speaking power (derived from the party) on specific issues. The Teachtaí Dála (TDs) who are members of the Government of Ireland constitutes the government front bench, while the members of parties in declared opposition to the government constitute the opposition front bench. Third parties (those who may not be in government or opposition) may only form front benches with the power to speak or be recognised by

neg: Jivanmukta Paramukti and became a Paramukta, so, a Jivanmukta has a body while a Paramukta is bodyless and pure. In the "śramaṇic" traditions, the jivanmukta is called an "arhat" in Buddhism and "arihant" in Jainism. The Advaita school holds the view that the world appearance is owing to "avidya" (ignorance) that has the power to project i.e. to superimpose the unreal on the real (adhyasa), and also the power to conceal the real resulting in the delusion of the Jiva who experiences objects created by his mind and sees difference in this world, he sees difference between the ātman ("the individual

neg: Government of Bangladesh post. The real power is held by the Prime Minister, who is the head of government. The president is elected by the legislature every five years and has normally limited powers that are substantially expanded during the tenure of a caretaker government, mainly in controlling the transition to a new government. Bangladesh has instituted a unique system of transfer of power; at the end of the tenure of the government, power is handed over to members of a civil society for three months, who run the general elections and transfer the power to elected representatives. This system was first practiced

neg: Spherical harmonics uniformly to "f". A square-integrable function "f" can also be expanded in terms of the real harmonics "Y" above as a sum The convergence of the series holds again in the same sense, but the benefit of the real expansion is that for real functions "f" the expansion coefficients become real. The total power of a function "f" is defined in the signal processing literature as the integral of the function squared, divided by the area of its domain. Using the orthonormality properties of the real unit-power spherical harmonic functions, it is straightforward to verify that the total power of

neg: Les Eaves Les Eaves Leslie Dale Eaves (born June 27, 1967), is a businessman from Searcy, Arkansas, who is a Republican member of the Arkansas House of Representatives for District 46 in a portion of White County near Little Rock. Eaves was born in Conway in Faulkner County near Little Rock. As a youth, he moved with his mother to Arlington, Texas, where he graduated from high school and studied at the University of Texas. He was employed at Arlington Printing and worked there as a real estate broker. He holds a degree in Business Management from Colorado State University in Fort

neg: Prime Minister of Israel Prime Minister of Israel The Prime Minister of Israel (, "Rosh HaMemshala", "lit." Head of the Government, Hebrew acronym: ; , "Ra'īs al-Ḥukūma") is the head of government and chief executive of Israel. Israel is a republic with a President as head of state. However, the President's powers are largely ceremonial; the Prime Minister holds the real power. The official residence of the Prime Minister, "Beit Aghion" is in Jerusalem. The current Prime Minister is Benjamin Netanyahu of Likud, the ninth person to hold the position (excluding caretakers). Following an election, the President nominates a member of the Knesset to

neg: Politics of Jersey corporate services, (iv) education and home affairs and (v) health, social security and housing. The real utility of the panels is said to be "that of independent critique which holds ministers to account and constructively engages with policy which is deficient". According to constitutional convention United Kingdom legislation may be extended to Jersey by Order in Council at the request of the Island's government. Whether an Act of the United Kingdom Parliament may expressly apply to the Island as regards matters of self-government, or whether this historic power is now in abeyance, is a matter of legal debate. The States

neg: Louis H. Bruni unofficial gathering of South Texas power brokers, sometimes called "patróns", of which Martin and Bruni’s father were original members. Bruni described the phenomenon as "like some bizarre novela, isn’t it? A real family feud." Bruni quarreled with his cousin, J. C. Martin, III, and his brother-in-law, Steve Whitworth, the owners of Unitec Industrial Park who filed a multimillion-dollar defamation suit against Bruni and the City of Laredo. Whitworth told the publication "Texas Monthly": "The real irony is that Louis wants to be the next patrón. He'll be worse than anything we’ve seen in this valley." In 1994, Bruni was elected

neg: Culture of Cameroon multiple parties that have the potential to gain power over the government. Cameroon's first president, Ahmadou Ahidjo, was in power from 1960 to 1982. The president holds executive power for seven years, for a maximum of two terms. The president and his cabinet hold the main power at the national level, while at the local level, the "prefet" and "sous-prefet" hold the most power. Getting a government position can happen several different ways: Regional background, ethical background, party loyalty, and who you know. The national and local levels have been known to work together, even though they have to deal

neg: County (United States) the board in charge of a county holds powers that transcend all three traditional branches of government. It has the legislative power to enact ordinances for the county; it has the executive power to oversee the executive operations of county government; and it has quasi-judicial power with regard to certain limited matters (such as hearing appeals from the planning commission if one exists). The day-to-day operations of the county government are sometimes overseen by an elected county executive or by a chief administrative officer or county administrator who reports to the board, the mayor, or both. In many states, several

neg: Shadow government (conspiracy) Shadow government (conspiracy) The shadow government (cryptocracy, secret government, or invisible government) is a family of conspiracy theories based on the notion that real and actual political power resides not with publicly elected representatives but with private individuals who are exercising power behind the scenes, beyond the scrutiny of democratic institutions. According to this belief, the official elected government is subservient to the shadow government which is the true executive power. Some of the groups proposed by these theories as constituting the shadow government include central banks; Freemasons, intelligence agencies; think tanks; organized Jewry; the Vatican; secret societies; Jesuits; moneyed

neg: Shadow government (conspiracy) itself, our president,”. "— Ron Paul, former U.S. Representative, November 2016 (following Donald Trump presidential election win). Shadow government (conspiracy) The shadow government (cryptocracy, secret government, or invisible government) is a family of conspiracy theories based on the notion that real and actual political power resides not with publicly elected representatives but with private individuals who are exercising power behind the scenes, beyond the scrutiny of democratic institutions. According to this belief, the official elected government is subservient to the shadow government which is the true executive power. Some of the groups proposed by these theories as constituting the shadow

neg: Lauren Woods Lauren Woods Lauren Woods is an American artist who works with film, video, performance, and installation art that challenges the systems of oppression and power. She was raised in Dallas, Texas. She is a visiting lecturer at Southern Methodist University. Woods holds undergraduate degrees from the University of North Texas and a 2006 Master of Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute. Her site-specific installation "A Dallas Drinking Fountain Project" gained national attention. Her artwork has been exhibited both across the United States and internationally, including Washington D.C., San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Dallas, and Miami, as well

neg: Gibraltar Savings Association Kosberg. An investor in FTFC was lawyer and political power broker Robert S. Strauss, who owned 10% of the stock. His son, real estate developer Richard Strauss, joined the board and was active in running the thrift. Gibraltar Savings failed in December 1988, at which time it was the largest thrift in Texas. Under the Federal Home Loan Bank Board and Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation's Southwest Plan, five failed Texas thrifts with total assets of $12.2 billion were combined. The five thrifts were Gibraltar Savings Association (with $6.3 billion in assets), First Texas Savings Association in Dallas ($3.2

neg: Kiki DeAyala Kiki DeAyala Julian Luis "Kiki" (born October 23, 1961 in Miami, Florida) is a former American football linebacker in the United States Football League and the National Football League. He was drafted by the Cincinnati Bengals in the sixth round of the 1983 NFL Draft, but first played for the USFL's Houston Gamblers. He played college football for the Texas Longhorns. He graduated from Memorial High School in Houston, Texas. DeAyala holds six Texas Longhorns records including career sacks with 40.5 and sacks in a season with 22.5. DeAyala currently owns a real estate development company in Houston/Rockport, Texas, known

neg: William Willard Gibson Jr. William Willard Gibson Jr. Specializing in real property and estates, Professor Gibson taught courses in Texas land titles, real estate transactions, real estate finance, insurance, Texas procedure, wills and estates, fraud and mistake, and professional responsibility. From 1971-73 Professor Gibson took a leave of absence to serve as an attorney advisor to the Federal Power Commission. In 1983 he was named Sylvan Lang Professor of Law. In addition to his teaching duties, he served as Associate Dean for Administration and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. Professor Gibson contributed to continuing legal education in Texas in a variety of ways. He

neg: Melody of Oblivion Satanic cult and part ultra-fascist secret society, is composed of people who have been given power and authority in exchange for providing a steady supply of human sacrifices to their Monster overlords, and keeping the majority of humanity in the dark as to who holds the real power and what really goes on in the world. The process of imbuing Monster Union members with their powers leaves a visible mark on the body identical to a hot iron brand mark. Monster Union leaders employ machines called robot-monsters in combat, but in contrast to the Melos Warriors, there is no standard

neg: Detaining Power Detaining Power A Detaining Power is the country, state, government, or any other jurisdiction which detains, holds, or incarcerates those who are alleged to have committed an offence against this jurisdiction or others (which for whatever reason have not been or will be proven not to be fit to process the detainees in question). In short, anyone who prevents someone from leaving a country or state and may have lawfully arrested and held such persons for a length of time may be referred to as a Detaining Power. For legal purposes, it is a condition of the 3rd drafting of

neg: Power associativity 1948). Over a field of prime characteristic formula_4 there is no finite set of identities that characterizes power-associativity, but there are infinite independent sets, as described by Gainov (1970): A substitution law holds for real power-associative algebras with unit, which basically asserts that multiplication of polynomials works as expected. For "f" a real polynomial in "x", and for any "a" in such an algebra define "f"("a") to be the element of the algebra resulting from the obvious substitution of "a" into "f". Then for any two such polynomials "f" and "g", we have that . Power associativity In abstract algebra,

neg: American frontier to annex Texas, stalemated by contentious arguments over slavery and regional power. Thus, the Republic of Texas remained an independent power for nearly a decade before it was annexed as the 28th state in 1845. The government of Mexico, however, viewed Texas as a runaway province and asserted its ownership. Mexico refused to recognize the independence of Texas in 1836, but the U.S. and European powers did so. Mexico threatened war if Texas joined the U.S., which it did in 1845. American negotiators were turned away by a Mexican government in turmoil. When the Mexican army killed 16 American soldiers

neg: Aransas City, Texas of its designation as the county seat. The events mirrored the political feud between Lamar, who was supported by Byrne, and former President Sam Houston, whom Power backed. Power moved on to Copano, and by 1847, Aransas City was largely abandoned and no longer had a functioning government. Aransas City, Texas Aransas City is a ghost town on the tip of the Live Oak Peninsula in Aransas County, Texas near present-day Fulton. It served as a port on Aransas Bay at its confluence with Copano Bay during the 1830s and 1840s, but declined following its loss of a Republic of

neg: Texas Instruments real world. These chips, including data converters, power management and other devices, can extend and optimize battery life, improve accuracy, sense conditions like humidity and temperature and much more. Texas Instrument's analog integrated circuit portfolio includes both power management and signal chain devices, as well as integrated analog device and application solutions. TI's subdivision power management includes the following product categories: Texas Instruments maintains several lines of signal chain product categories. The categories are as follows: Embedded processors are the processing brains of electronics that gather inputs from analog chips and perform computational processing to operate a system. Embedded processors

neg: Politics of the Republic of Ireland Politics of the Republic of Ireland Ireland is a parliamentary, representative democratic republic and a member state of the European Union. While the head of state is the popularly elected President of Ireland, it is a largely ceremonial position, with real political power being vested in the indirectly elected Taoiseach (leader of government), who is the head of the government. Executive power is exercised by the government, which consists of no more than 15 cabinet ministers, inclusive of the Taoiseach and Tánaiste (the deputy leader of government). Legislative power is vested in the Oireachtas, the bicameral national parliament, which consists

neg: Marriage Royale Marriage Royale "Marriage Royale"'s story revolves around the male protagonist, a high school student named Tsukasa Hinomoto, who is told one day by his parents that he was adopted. Furthermore, they tell him that his real father is a manager of a large company, meaning he is very rich and holds a lot of power. Tsukasa's real father wants his son to marry a good woman, so he sets up an event known as "Marriage Royale" where beautiful girls from all over Japan will come together at a school built especially for the event and vie to become Tsukasa's fiancée.

neg: Politics of Latvia (associate partner), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO, WTrO (applicant) Politics of Latvia The politics of Latvia takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic republic, whereby the Prime Minister is the head of government, and of a multi-party system. The President holds a primarily ceremonial role as Head of State. Executive power is exercised by the government. Legislative power is vested in both the government and parliament, the Saeima. The Judiciary is independent of the executive and the legislature. The Economist Intelligence Unit has rated Latvia as "flawed democracy" in 2016. On March 19, 1991 the Supreme Council passed

neg: Politics of Hungary WFTU, Visegrád group, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WToO, WTrO, and the Zangger Committee. "Note: with restructruring and reorganization, this information may change even within a governmental period." Politics of Hungary Politics of Hungary takes place in a framework of a parliamentary representative democratic republic. The Prime Minister is the head of government of a pluriform multi-party system, while the President is the head of state and holds a largely ceremonial position. Executive power is exercised by the government. Legislative power is vested in both the government and the parliament. The party system since the last elections is dominated by the conservative

neg: Kiki DeAyala as DeAyala Properties. Kiki DeAyala Julian Luis "Kiki" (born October 23, 1961 in Miami, Florida) is a former American football linebacker in the United States Football League and the National Football League. He was drafted by the Cincinnati Bengals in the sixth round of the 1983 NFL Draft, but first played for the USFL's Houston Gamblers. He played college football for the Texas Longhorns. He graduated from Memorial High School in Houston, Texas. DeAyala holds six Texas Longhorns records including career sacks with 40.5 and sacks in a season with 22.5. DeAyala currently owns a real estate development company in

neg: Century Properties is Century Properties Group, Inc. who owns 6,469,965,032 shares or 66.7% of the company. Since February 18, 2012 APG Strategic Real Estate Pool N.V. (APG) holds 868,316,042 shares or 8.95% Century Properties Century Properties Group, Inc. (CPI) is a real estate company in the Philippines focusing on high-rise and mid-rise residential condominia and mixed-use developments. It was established by Mr. Jose E. B. Antonio in 1986, just six days prior to the EDSA People Power Revolution. From an original core staff of 6 people, CPI now employs over 3,000 individuals, with marketing representatives in five countries and six international offices.

neg: Texas Real Estate Commission Texas Real Estate Commission The Texas Real Estate Commission (TREC) is the state agency that governs real estate practices in the state of Texas. The agency is headquartered at 1700 North Congress in Austin. TREC is composed of nine members appointed by the Governor with the concurrence of the Texas Senate. The members are appointed for six-year terms, with the terms of three members expiring every two years. Six members must be licensed real estate brokers who have been engaged in the real estate brokerage business as their major occupations for at least five years preceding their appointments. Three members

neg: Gita Wirjawan moving to Bangladesh, and later to India, at the age of thirteen as his father was serving as a WHO officer in Bangladesh. Wirjawan earned a bachelor's degree in Business Administration from the University of Texas, Austin in 1988, a master's degree in Business Administration from Baylor University in 1989, and a master's degree in Public Administration from Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, as a Mason Fellow, in 2000. He also qualified as a Certified Public Accountant in the State of Texas, U.S.A., and holds a Chartered Financial Analyst designation. An avid musician, Wirjawan met his wife,

neg: Terry W. Gee 4,845 (39 percent). Windhorst is a son of State Senator Fritz Windhorst, who represented parts of Jefferson and Orleans parishes from 1972 to 1992. Stephen Windhorst later left the legislature to assume a judgeship, which he still holds. In February 2005, Gee was named the assistant vice president of capital sourcing of Ecoloclean Industries, founded in 2001 in Crystal City, southwest of San Antonio, Texas. According to then company president and CEO Melvin Royis Ward (1934-2013), a native of Navarro County, Texas, Gee was retained because of his "working knowledge of Louisiana government policies and regulations. ... He will have

neg: JINED who also holds the post of Fellow of Tokyo Electric Power Co., Inc. JINED The , headquartered in Tokyo, is a consortium of thirteen Japanese companies, with the prime purpose of "proposal and research activities for nuclear power plant project orders in emerging countries". The thirteen-member consortium was established on 22 October 2010, and its members consist of nine Japanese power companies (Tokyo Electric Power Co, Kansai, Chubu, Hokkaido, Tohoku, Hokuriku, Chugoku, Shikoku, and Kyushu), and three Japanese nuclear power-related manufacturers (Toshiba, Hitachi, and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries). The thirteenth member is a joint venture between the Japanese government and industry,

neg: Symmetric cone a natural complex inner product and norm. The Jordan product on "E" extends bilinearly to "E", so that ("a" + "ib")("c" + "id") = ("ac" − "bd") + "i"("ad" + "bc"). If multiplication is defined by "L"("a")"b" = "ab" then the Jordan axiom still holds by analytic continuation. Indeed, the identity above holds when "a" is replaced by "a" + "tb" for "t" real; and since the left side is then a polynomial with values in End "E" vanishing for real "t", it vanishes also "t" complex. Analytic continuation also shows that all for the formulas involving power-associativity for a

neg: Hulett C. Merritt Hulett C. Merritt Hulett C. Merritt (August 17, 1872 – January 13, 1956) was an American real estate developer, investor, rancher and art collector. He sold real estate in his hometown of Duluth, Minnesota, developed Texas City, Texas with other businessmen, and invested in real estate in Los Angeles, California, where he built the Merritt Building. He was a director and large shareholder of U.S. Steel. As a majority shareholder of the United Electric and Power Company, he installed electricity and gas in 17 cities in California, including Santa Barbara and San Diego. He owned a large ranch in Tulare

neg: Velasco Ministry Velasco Ministry The Velasco Ministry was a short-lived government of Spain headed by Manuel de Vadillo y Velasco which served between 15 April 1714 and 30 November 1714 during the reign of Philip V of Spain. Although as Secretary he could be considered Chief Minister, real power was invested in the time in the hands of royal favourites such as the Princesse des Ursins a practice that would continue intermittently for the remainder of the eighteenth century. His fall brought to power José de Grimaldo who would become the first Secretary of State to gain real power as Chief Minister,

neg: Rocard government the real value of benefits under the housing allowance programme (APL), the first time since the early Eighties that its real value had not been reduced by inflation. A new rent law provided the government with the power to issue decrees prohibiting excessive rent increases, while more funds were allocated to social housing. Housing aid was increased by over 8% over 1989, with personalized aid extended to those who had been previously excluded from the housing allowance. More land was also made available in city centres for social housing construction by releasing government land for building. Rocard’s government also decided

neg: James Hewetson Hewetson was involved in various mining, manufacturing, and mercantile businesses, as well as with local government in Coahuila. Hewetson and James Power partnered as "empresarios" in 1826 to establish a colony in Texas. After forming the partnership, Power and Hewetson applied to be "empresarios" with the Mexican government in 1825 in order to begin a colony on the Texas coast with Mexican and Irish families. The original 1826 application requested a grant between the Nueces and Sabine Rivers, but in 1828, the Mexican government instead offered the strip of land between the Guadalupe and Lavaca Rivers. The next year, Power

neg: Government of the Republic of China who gave up their membership in the KMT were offered 1,000 British pounds. Yuan maintained power locally by sending military generals to be provincial governors or by obtaining the allegiance of those already in power. When Yuan died, the parliament of 1913 was reconvened to give legitimacy to a new government. However, the real power of the time passed to military leaders, forming the warlord period. The impotent government still had its use; when World War I began, several Western powers and Japan wanted China to declare war on Germany, in order to liquidate German holdings. There were also several

neg: Texas Longhorns men's basketball Oklahoma (54–39). In series against conference opponents since the advent of the Big 12, Texas trails only KU (which leads 27–7) and KSU (16–15). Texas men's basketball leads the all-time series against all former Big 12 Conference opponents but Missouri (which leads 13–12). Texas holds a winning record against all former Big 12 members in games played in Big 12 competition. In series against former Southwest Conference members who are not current members of the Big 12, Texas trails only Arkansas (which leads 87–68). In contests against these opponents since the dissolution of the Southwest Conference, Texas holds the lead

neg: States' rights states themselves, became increasingly inclined to resist the encroachments of the slave power upon their states' rights and encroachments of the slave power by and upon the federal government of the United States. The slave power, having failed to maintain its dominance of the federal government through democratic means, sought other means of maintaining its dominance of the federal government, by means of military aggression, by right of force and coercion, and thus, the Civil War occurred. In "Texas v. White", the Supreme Court ruled that Texas had remained a state ever since it first joined the Union, despite claims

neg: Nanboku-chō period respective provinces (Grossberg 1981:25). Subsequently, the Yamana, who were related to the Ashikaga, and the Ouchi, who were not related, began to play an increasingly important role in government affairs. However, within a few decades, both "shugo" houses became powerful enough to incur the wrath of the shogun. In 1366, the first "kanrei" office holder's father, Shiba Takatsune who held real power over his thirteen-year-old son, and who engineered the placement of Shiba family members in key government offices was declared a traitor, because of his growing power and arrogance (he felt demeaned by accepting the "kanrei" post, so he

neg: Younicos it provides real-time power management and energy dispatch for the entire island’s grid. The system allows the island to be powered entirely by wind and solar, with the existing diesel generators used only as backup power during prolonged periods of unfavorable weather. In April 2014, Younicos acquired the assets of the former Xtreme Power, a Kyle, Texas-based battery systems developer, after it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in January of that year. Xtreme Power was founded in 2004 in Austin, Texas. In 2009, it installed its first megawatt-scale storage system in Maui, Hawaii. Working with Duke Energy, in

neg: Detaining Power the Geneva Agreement that a detainee may request that their crimes be proven to justify their incarceration. At time of submission the Quirin case and the Guantanamo Bay trials are examples of highly disputed Detaining Power in the US and under the US jurisdiction. Detaining Power A Detaining Power is the country, state, government, or any other jurisdiction which detains, holds, or incarcerates those who are alleged to have committed an offence against this jurisdiction or others (which for whatever reason have not been or will be proven not to be fit to process the detainees in question). In short,

neg: Lon Burnam 382,647 votes (35.2 percent), and Grady Yarbrough, with 434,137 votes (40 percent), will met in the May 24 runoff election to choose the party nominee for the position. Burnam holds a bachelor's degree in government from the University of Texas at Austin. He holds two master's degree, one from UT-Austin and the second in municipal and regional planning from the University of Texas at Arlington. He is a member of the Society of Friends or the Quaker Church. In 2007 when TX House of Representative Debbie Riddle authored HB1034 to amend the TX state pledge of allegiance to the State

neg: Thomas O'Connor (rancher) Thomas O'Connor (rancher) Thomas O'Connor (1819 – October 16, 1887) was an Irish rancher and landowner from County Wexford, Ireland whose estate was reportedly the largest individual land and cattle holding in Texas at the time of his death. O'Connor was born in born in County Wexford, Ireland. In 1834, he sailed with his uncle James Power, who was an empresario, to Texas. Given Power's diplomatic status, the newly formed independent Republic of Mexico granted them access to the country's unpopulated northern lands. On September 28, 1834, the Mexican government granted O'Connor 4,428 acres as a "settler in the Power

neg: Texas Association of Licensed Investigators Texas Association of Licensed Investigators The Texas Association of Licensed Investigators (TALI) is a professional association of private investigators in the U.S. state of Texas. It ensures adherence to licensing requirements for investigators; organizes training and education; and represents the profession to the state and federal government and regulatory bodies, including the Texas Private Security Board and the Texas Department of Public Safety. TALI holds an annual convention and publishes a magazine, "The Texas Investigator". TALI was founded in 1971. During the 1990s it lobbied repeatedly to retain access to drivers’ license and vehicle registration information. In the 2000s it

neg: InterCultura that had recently deciphered the Maya script: Linda Schele, of the University of Texas, and Mary Miller, of Yale University. The exhibition demonstrated, through a never-before-assembled collection of ancient Maya art borrowed from sources as diverse as the British Museum and the Government of Honduras, the imperative of an entirely new approach based on the decipherment of the Maya writing system. It revealed the Maya as real individuals - kings, queens, and royal dynasties as blood-thirsty and colorful as their Old World counterparts. The power of the exhibition was critical in the collapse of the old view of the Maya

neg: Constitution of Texas former slaves, and placed more power on centralized state power (p. 57, Practicing Texas Politics, 2015). Constitution of Texas The Constitution of the State of Texas is the document that describes the structure and function of the government of the U.S. state of Texas. The current document took effect on February 15, 1876, and is the seventh (including the Mexican constitution) constitution in Texas history. The previous six were adopted in 1827 (while Texas was still part of Mexico), 1836 (as the Republic of Texas), 1845, 1861, 1866 and 1869. The current constitution is among the longest of state constitutions

neg: Hurricane Dolly (2008) Paso, Texas metropolitan area on the morning of July 26<ref name="Dolly's Remnant Low Holds Together: Causing West Texas/Desert SW Flooding"></ref> and then north across New Mexico. The remnant low of Dolly finally began to dissipate late in the evening of July 27 approximately west-northwest of Dalhart, Texas. On July 20, the Mexican government issued a tropical storm warning for the Yucatán Peninsula from Campeche to the international border with Belize. A few hours later, Belize's government issued a tropical storm watch from Belize City to the Mexican border. That same morning, the Quintana Roo Civil Protection authorities in Chetumal declared

neg: Texas Real Estate Commission must be members of the general public who are not regulated by the Commission or employed by organizations regulated by or receiving funds from the Commission. TREC is the state's regulatory agency for the following: Texas Real Estate Commission The Texas Real Estate Commission (TREC) is the state agency that governs real estate practices in the state of Texas. The agency is headquartered at 1700 North Congress in Austin. TREC is composed of nine members appointed by the Governor with the concurrence of the Texas Senate. The members are appointed for six-year terms, with the terms of three members expiring

neg: Evan Johns to an H-Bombs EP, described the H-Bombs' music as "a little Tex-Mex here, garage power there, all whipped into a witch's brew of spitfire guitar and Evan's trademark vocal growl. This is the real stuff." In 1984, Johns relocated to Austin, Texas, to join the band The LeRoi Brothers. In Austin, Johns performed on the 1985 compilation album, "Trash, Twang and Thunder" by several Austin guitarists who styled themselves as Big Guitars From Texas; the album earned a Grammy Award nomination for rock-instrumental music. In 1985, Johns re-formed the H-Bombs in Austin and continued as its leader. Johns and the

neg: Cauchy–Kowalevski theorem in abstract (real or complex) vector spaces. Let "V" and "W" be finite-dimensional real or complex vector spaces, with "n" = dim "W". Let "A", ..., "A" be analytic functions with values in End ("V") and "b" an analytic function with values in "V", defined on some neighbourhood of (0, 0) in "V" × "W". In this case, the same result holds. Both sides of the partial differential equation can be expanded as formal power series and give recurrence relations for the coefficients of the formal power series for "f" that uniquely determine the coefficients. The Taylor series coefficients of

neg: Government but there are also elective monarchies where the monarch is elected. Aristocracy (Greek ἀριστοκρατία "aristokratía", from ἄριστος "" "excellent", and κράτος "" "power") is a form of government that places power in the hands of a small, privileged ruling class. Many monarchies were aristocracies, although in modern constitutional monarchies the monarch himself or herself has little real power. The term "Aristocracy" could also refer to the non-peasant, non-servant, and non-city classes in the Feudal system. An oligarchy is ruled by a small group of segregated, powerful or influential people who usually share similar interests or family relations. These people may

neg: Wind power in Texas power is a for-profit enterprise between land owners and wind farm operators. Texas farmers can lease their land to wind developers for either a set rental per turbine or for a small percentage of gross annual revenue from the project. This offers farmers a fresh revenue stream without impacting traditional farming and grazing practices. Although leasing arrangements vary widely, the U. S. Government Accountability Office reported in 2004 that a farmer who leases land to a wind project developer can generally obtain royalties of $3,000 to $5,000 per turbine per year in lease payments. These figures are rising as larger

neg: Security, Territory, Population power comes from those who gives comfort to those who use it in the hope of a false belief of change can happen leaving the practicalities of the system as ‘real’ events. This, Foucault notices produced two consensus correlations namely; birth of economists, birth of the ‘’publicistes’’ known as economy and public opinion the two correlative elements of field of reality that is emerging as the direct correlate of government. Mercantilism, according to Foucault, was the first rationalization of the exercise of power as a practice of government; it is the first time that a knowledge of the state can

neg: Republic India. These states are parliamentary republics and operate similarly to constitutional monarchies with parliamentary systems where the power of the monarch is also greatly circumscribed. In parliamentary systems the head of government, most often titled prime minister, exercises the most real political power. Semi-presidential systems have a president as an active head of state, but also have a head of government with important powers. The rules for appointing the president and the leader of the government, in some republics permit the appointment of a president and a prime minister who have opposing political convictions: in France, when the members of

neg: Total War (series) the rule of the ancient Han dynasty in 190 AD where the child Emperor Xian of Han is placed on the throne as a puppet ruler by his regent Dong Zhuo who holds the real power. The game centers on heroes who will fight tyranny but whose ambitions may break their fragile alliance and divide China leading up to the rise of the Three Kingdoms period. "Spartan: Total Warrior" was developed by The Creative Assembly and released in 2005 for the PlayStation 2, Xbox and GameCube. "Spartan: Total Warrior" is a hack and slash action title that was to bring

neg: Texas Longhorns men's college basketball teams, moving up one spot from the previous year. The women's basketball team has long been a national power, especially during the late 1980s (winning a national title in 1986) and through the 1990s. Both teams play home games in the Frank Erwin Special Events Center. The adjacent Denton A. Cooley Pavilion serves as the training and practice facility for both the men's and women's teams. The Texas Longhorns are the winningest team in college baseball history, both in terms of total wins and in terms of win percentage. Texas holds the records for most appearances in

neg: Cabinet (government) as they play only a ceremonial role. Instead, it is usually the head of government (usually called Prime Minister) who holds all means of power in their hands (e.g. in Germany, Sweden, etc.) and the Cabinet reports to them. The second role of cabinet officials is to administer executive branches, government agencies, or departments. In the United States federal government, these are the federal executive departments. Cabinets are also important originators for legislation. Cabinets and ministers are usually in charge of the preparation of proposed legislation in the ministries before it is passed to the parliament. Thus, often the majority

neg: Executive Council (Canada) Executive Council (Canada) Executive councils in the provinces of Canada are constitutional organs headed by the lieutenant governor and composed of the ministers in office. The executive branch of the Canadian federal government is not called an executive council. Executive power is exercised by the Canadian Cabinet who are always members of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada. A Council's informal but functioning form is the Cabinet, headed by a provincial premier, who holds "de facto" power over the body. The Executive Council in Canadian provinces is composed only of ministers in office, and is the official body by which

neg: Runaway Scrape December 30. Most of the General Council wanted to remain part of Mexico, but with the restoration of the 1824 constitution. Governor Smith supported the opposing faction who advocated for complete independence. Smith dissolved the General Council on January 10, 1836, but it was unclear if he had the power to do that. He was impeached on January 11. The power struggle effectively shut down the government. The Convention of 1836 met at Washington-on-the-Brazos on March 1. The following day, the 59 delegates created the Republic of Texas by affixing their signatures to the Texas Declaration of Independence. Houston's military

neg: Surya Santoso energizing, ferroresonance, transient recovery voltage of circuit breakers, lightning protection, and series capacitor bank protection. Dr. Santoso joined the faculty at the Cockrell School of Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin in 2003. He teaches courses in the broad area of electric power systems, particularly in power quality, modeling and simulation of electrical transients and wind power systems. Since becoming professor, he has graduated seven doctoral and twenty-four master’s students. Dr. Santoso has published over 40 journal and 65 conference articles and holds 5 patents. He co-authored one of the leading books in power quality studies, Electric Power

neg: Governor colony's administration, and in a further stage of self-government, Legislative Councils or Assemblies, in which the Governor often had a role. Today, crown colonies of the United Kingdom continue to be administered by a governor, who holds varying degrees of power. Because of the different constitutional histories of the former colonies of the United Kingdom, the term "Governor" now refers to officials with differing amounts of power. Administrators, Commissioners and High Commissioners exercise similar powers to Governors. (Note: such High Commissioners are not to be confused with the High Commissioners who are the equivalent of Ambassadors between Commonwealth states). Frequently

neg: PSi Technologies is based in Laguna, the Philippines. PSi Technologies, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Integrated Micro-Electronics, Inc. PSi owns 40% of PSiTech Realty Inc., the holding company of Pacsem Realty, which is a real estate company that acquires, holds, develops and disposes any real estate or interest acquired. In 2010, Integrated Micro-Electronics, Inc. (IMI) bought shares of PSi as part of a strategy to offer an integrated hybrid power solution in a multi-chip module that contains advanced manufacturing technologies. It allowed IMI to own majority or 56 percent of the power semiconductor company. In 2012, IMI has bought out minority

neg: Chad Willis Chad Willis Phillip “Chad” Willis is the chairman and CEO of Texas Energy Holdings and its subsidiaries. Willis holds ownership in companies ranging from software, bomb detection, real estate, restaurants, and sports management. In aggregate, his holdings encompass direct ownership in more than 16 companies that oversee close to 500 employees. Willis was born in 1979 in Dallas Texas and raised in Mesquite, a suburb of the Dallas/Ft. Worth Metroplex. Willis, the oldest of two siblings, grew up in a working class environment, the son of a school district maintenance worker and a high school mathematics teacher. Willis got his

neg: Robert Lipsett Robert Lipsett Robert Crawford Lipsett Jr. (born October 23, 1947) is a violin teacher in Los Angeles, California. He holds the Jascha Heifetz Distinguished Violin Chair at the Colburn School of Performing Arts. He also serves on the faculty at the Aspen School of Music, the Colburn Conservatory and the Colburn Academy. He has given master classes at major schools around the world. Lipsett was born in Louisville, Kentucky. He has a younger brother named Stephen James Lipsett, a successful real estate investor/broker living on Lake Granbury, Texas. As a child, he moved with his family to Dallas, Texas, where

neg: Vedanta Limited in India. Sesa Sterlite holds a controlling 51% stake in BALCO, while the Government of India remains an equity partner and holds the remaining 49% stake. The Korba-II Balco smelter produces 245 ktpa of aluminium and they are expanding production capacity to 570 ktpa with the commencement of the new Korba-III 325 ktpa smelter in FY 2014.BALCO's current operations have access to captive power from 540 MW thermal power plant. A new 1,200 MW power plant is expected to commence production soon.Beside this company has 1.75MTPA of aluminium manufacturing unit at Jharsuguda,Odisha. Power: Sesa Sterlite is one of India's leading

neg: Chapter III Court Chapter III Court In Australian constitutional law, Chapter III Courts are courts of law which are a part of the Australian federal judiciary and thus are able to discharge Commonwealth judicial power. They are so named because the prescribed features of these courts are contained in Chapter III of the Australian Constitution. The doctrine of separation of powers refers to a system of government whereby three aspects of government powerlegislative power, executive power, and judicial powerare vested in separate institutions. This doctrine holds that abuse of power can be avoided by each arm of government acting as a check on

neg: McCombs School of Business at New York University’s Stern School of Business, and prior to his current role, he held several key administrative roles at the McCombs School. His most notable positions include his service as the Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Chair of the Finance Department, and Executive Director of the McCombs School’s Real Estate Finance and Investment Center. Dr. Hartzell holds the Centennial Chair in Business Education Leadership and the Trammell Crow Regents Professorship in Business. He holds a B.S. in Business Administration and Economics (cum laude) from Trinity University and a Ph.D. in Finance from The University of Texas at

neg: Cepstrum where is the integer required to properly unwrap the angle or imaginary part of the complex log function. It is also sometimes called the spectrum of a spectrum. The "real cepstrum" uses the logarithm function defined for real values. The real cepstrum is related to the power by the relationship and to the complex cepstrum as The complex cepstrum uses the complex logarithm function defined for complex values. The "phase cepstrum" is related to the complex cepstrum as The complex cepstrum holds information about magnitude and phase of the initial spectrum, allowing the reconstruction of the signal. The real cepstrum

neg: Public Citizen Texas loophole that allowed older power plants run without emissions controls, and improved safety requirements at the South Texas Nuclear Generating Station and the Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant. Public Citizen Texas has hosted over 340 interns since its founding. They are given challenging research tasks and often are given the opportunity to speak at to government officials and other reform groups and draft proposed legislation. Public Citizen Texas is associated with other organization including: Public Citizen, the SEED Coalition, Texans for Public Justice, the Sierra Club, ReEnergize Texas, the Gray Panthers, Clean Water Action, Nuke Free Texas and Coal Block.

neg: Politics of the Comoros Nations, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UPU, WCO, WHO, WMO. Politics of the Comoros Politics of the Union of the Comoros takes place in a framework of a federal presidential republic, whereby the President of the Comoros is both head of state and head of government, and of a multi-party system. Executive power is exercised by the government. Federal legislative power is vested in both the government and parliament. As of 2008, Comoros and Mauritania were considered by US-based organization Freedom House as the only real “electoral democracies” of the Arab World. The Union of the Comoros, known as the Islamic Federal

neg: Thomas O'Connor (rancher) total of 587,000 acres by the Texas Coastal Plain. Thomas O'Connor (rancher) Thomas O'Connor (1819 – October 16, 1887) was an Irish rancher and landowner from County Wexford, Ireland whose estate was reportedly the largest individual land and cattle holding in Texas at the time of his death. O'Connor was born in born in County Wexford, Ireland. In 1834, he sailed with his uncle James Power, who was an empresario, to Texas. Given Power's diplomatic status, the newly formed independent Republic of Mexico granted them access to the country's unpopulated northern lands. On September 28, 1834, the Mexican government granted

neg: Jordan algebra commutative ("xy" = "yx") and power-associative (the associative law holds for products involving only "x", so that powers of any element "x" are unambiguously defined). He proved that any such algebra is a Jordan algebra. Not every Jordan algebra is formally real, but classified the finite-dimensional formally real Jordan algebras. Every formally real Jordan algebra can be written as a direct sum of so-called simple ones, which are not themselves direct sums in a nontrivial way. In finite dimensions, the simple formally real Jordan algebras come in four infinite families, together with one exceptional case: Of these possibilities, so far

neg: University of Texas at Austin the Old Main building. University President Ashbel Smith, presiding over the ceremony, prophetically proclaimed "Texas holds embedded in its earth rocks and minerals which now lie idle because unknown, resources of incalculable industrial utility, of wealth and power. Smite the earth, smite the rocks with the rod of knowledge and fountains of unstinted wealth will gush forth." The University of Texas officially opened its doors on September 15, 1883. In 1890, George Washington Brackenridge donated $18,000 for the construction of a three-story brick mess hall known as Brackenridge Hall (affectionately known as "B.Hall"), one of the university's most storied buildings

neg: Jones Creek, Texas grounds after flooding in 1989. The city is served by the Brazosport Independent School District. Jones Creek residents attend: The city is also served by Brazosport College. The city is served by the Brazoria County Library System. The city incorporated in 1970. The city government holds regular meetings. Jones Creek has lately gained a reputation among drivers in Southeast Texas as being a speed trap for vehicles passing through the community along Highway 36. The speed limit through the City of Jones Creek is governed by the Texas Department of Transportation, not the city council. Jones Creek, Texas Jones Creek

neg: Frederik Paulsen Jr other business interests include: In addition, he has interests in real estate and viticulture. Frederik Paulsen also holds several board memberships. He is for instance member of the board of directors of the tobacco company Philip Morris International. Since 2009, Frederik Paulsen also has held the position of honorary consul general of the Russian Federation, a form of pro-Russian soft power. Paulsen is the recipient of numerous national honours and holds many and varied positions. Some of these are listed here: Paulsen holds the following memberships among others: Frederik Paulsen Jr Frederik Paulsen (born in 1950) is a Swedish billionaire

neg: Drone Racing League per hour. Earlier prototypes of the RacerX burst into flames when hitting its peak acceleration due to the amount of power it used. To broaden the accessibility of drone racing, DRL created the DRL Simulator, which helps pilots fly FPV better in real life, and is downloadable on Steam. The sim features a 50-mission tutorial to help teach aspiring pilots how to fly before buying a real drone. Once in-game, pilots can fly real drones on real DRL race maps that they have seen on television. The league holds an annual live esports tournament on the DRL Sim called the

neg: Shadow Children Children sequence is set in a country where the government has enforced strict population control laws in order to control overpopulation after environmental conditions have severely limited resources, particularly food. As a result, it is against the law for families to have more than two children; the law is strictly enforced by the Population Police, who are said to conduct raids specifically to find and punish families who have more than two children. The Population Police, due to its power, is usually corrupt and holds control over government policies. Unknown to the common public, the elite of society, known as

neg: Prime Minister of Morocco king who holds substantial discretionary power over the executive branch and has exclusive authority over the military, religion, and the judiciary. Prime Minister of Morocco The Prime Minister of Morocco (officially Head of Government) is the head of government of the Kingdom of Morocco and serves in a position akin to a prime minister in other constitutional monarchies. The Prime Minister is chosen by the king of Morocco from the largest party elected to parliament. The Constitution of Morocco grants executive powers to the government and allows the head of government to propose and dismiss cabinet members, provincial governors, and

neg: Memphis, Texas Station Info: Digital Full-Power Memphis is home to the Annual Traditional Bowhunters 3D target competition and Annual Country Club Memorial Day Tournament. The 3D competition is a group of targets set up along the plainsman archery club course. Bowhunters compete against each other scoring points for accuracy. This competition is held on the first weekend in May. The Country Club holds an annual golf tournament on Memorial Day. Details about the tournament can be found on http://www.memphistxcc.com. Memphis, Texas Memphis is a city and the county seat of Hall County, Texas, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population

neg: Political system Political system A political system is a system of politics and government. It is usually compared to the legal system, economic system, cultural system, and other social systems. However, this is a very simplified view of a much more complex system of categories involving the questions of who should have authority and what the government's influence on its people and economy should be. Anthropologists generally recognize four kinds of political systems, two of which are uncentralized and two of which are centralized. The sociological interest in political systems is figuring out who holds power within the relationship of the government

neg: President of Indonesia straightforwardly as possible as well as to dedicate myself to the service of the nation and the people." The 1945 Constitution: The president has constitutional authority over the Government and has the power to name and remove ministers. He has the power to create laws with the agreement of the People's Representative Council (DPR), to make Government regulations in accordance with laws, and in the case of emergencies has the power to make Government regulations in lieu of law. Militarily, the president holds supreme authority over the Army, Navy, and Air Force whilst security-wise, the president has the power to

neg: Headlight flashing claiming to originate with a Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) officer in Texas. The rumor spread further when officials in the San Diego government circulated the fax among city agencies; this version of the fax, though quickly dismissed within city government when it was found that the Sheriff's office had no real connection to it, now appeared to be a legitimate government-issued document. Also in the fall of 1998, the Sheriff's office of Nassau County, Florida sent a warning about such gang initiation to the county fire department, who subsequently spread the fax to all county agencies. Police dispatcher Ann

neg: Jennifer Archer Jennifer Archer Jennifer Archer (born 1957) is an author of young adult/teen fiction, women's fiction and romance born in Cleburne, north central Texas. Her novels typically have strong female protagonists, and have been nominated for numerous awards. Archer holds a bachelor's degree in Business Administration from West Texas A&M University, and after graduating she worked in the fields of oil and gas accounting, real estate management, and the pharmacy and medical equipment industries, before becoming a full-time writer. She is a frequent speaker on the topics of creative writing and pursuing dreams, and has presented numerous talks and workshops for

neg: Sanford Levinson Austin, Texas where he is also a professor of government. He holds the W. St. John Garwood and W. St. John Garwood, Jr. Centennial Chair in Law. Levinson is quoted often in publications about numerous topics involving law. Levinson has described himself as "a card-carrying A.C.L.U. member who doesn't own a gun" who has argued that the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution limits the government's authority to regulate private gun ownership. Levinson's opinions on Constitutional Law have been reported in the media including his opinions about Second Amendment cases. Levinson has been a panelist on programs sponsored by

neg: State government Council of Ministers with the Prime Minister as head of government. The State resembles the federal system. In the states, the Governor is the head of Executive, but real executive power vests with the Chief Minister who heads the Council of Ministers. The judicial setup of the country is headed by the Chief justice, who presides over one of the largest judicial apparatus dispensing criminal, civil and all other forms of litigation. The government head of its legal wing is the Attorney General of India. In Nigeria, States are constituent political entities, which shares sovereignty with the Federal Government of

neg: Socii their own growing wealth. Milestones in their ultimately successful struggle are the establishment of a plebeian assembly (the "concilium plebis") with some legislative power and to elect officers called tribunes of the plebs, who had the power to veto Senatorial decrees (494); and the opening of the Consulship to plebeians (367). By 338, the privileges of the patricians had become largely ceremonial (such as the exclusive right to hold certain state priesthoods). But this does not imply a more democratic form of government. The wealthy plebeians who had led the "plebeian revolution" had no more intention of sharing real power

neg: Ted Cruz the coast of Texas. Cruz rejects the scientific consensus on climate change. He has said that "the scientific evidence doesn't support global warming". He has also stated: "They call anyone who questions the science who even points to the satellite data – they call you a, quote, 'denier'. Denier is not the language of science. Denier is the language of religion. It is heretic. You are a blasphemer. It's treated as a theology. But it's about power and money. At the end of the day, it's not complicated. This is liberal politicians who want government power." In March 2015, he

neg: Fusion power this involved no fusion. The fusion power trends as the plasma confinement raised to the fourth power. Hence, getting a strong plasma trap is of real value to a fusion power plant. Plasma has a very good electrical conductivity. This opens the possibility of confining the plasma with magnetic field, generally known as magnetic confinement. The field puts a magnetic pressure on the plasma, which holds it in. A widely used measure of magnetic trapping in fusion is the beta ratio: formula_11 This is the ratio of the externally applied field to the internal pressure of the plasma. A value

neg: Texas secession movements instead they were created by it. Current [[U.S. Supreme Court|Supreme Court]] precedent, in "[[Texas v. White]]," holds that the states cannot secede from the union by an act of the state. More recently, Supreme Court Justice [[Antonin Scalia]] stated, "If there was any constitutional issue resolved by the Civil War, it is that there is no right to secede." Texas [[Texas Revolution|seceded from Mexico]] in 1836, spurred on primarily by American settlers in the former Mexican territory against the government of [[Antonio López de Santa Anna|Santa Anna]]. After the [[Battle of San Jacinto|final engagement at San Jacinto]] in 1836, there

neg: Oncor Electric Delivery city of Dallas; Texas Electric Service Company (TESCO), which served areas surrounding Fort Worth and west Texas; and Texas Power and Light (TP&L), which served other areas of northern and east-central Texas. Oncor is privately held by a limited number of investors including Energy Future Holdings Corporation ("EFH"). Oncor is separate from its owners and separately managed by a majority independent board of directors. While a majority owner, EFH is not involved in the management of Oncor. On March 24, 2016, the Texas Public Utility Commission (PUC) granted the request to convert Oncor into a real estate investment trust (REIT)