Author: Layli Long Soldier
Publisher: Graywolf Press
ISBN: 1555979610
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 121
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The astonishing, powerful debut by the winner of a 2016 Whiting Writers' Award WHEREAS her birth signaled the responsibility as mother to teach what it is to be Lakota therein the question: What did I know about being Lakota? Signaled panic, blood rush my embarrassment. What did I know of our language but pieces? Would I teach her to be pieces? Until a friend comforted, Don’t worry, you and your daughter will learn together. Today she stood sunlight on her shoulders lean and straight to share a song in Diné, her father’s language. To sing she motions simultaneously with her hands; I watch her be in multiple musics. —from “WHEREAS Statements” WHEREAS confronts the coercive language of the United States government in its responses, treaties, and apologies to Native American peoples and tribes, and reflects that language in its officiousness and duplicity back on its perpetrators. Through a virtuosic array of short lyrics, prose poems, longer narrative sequences, resolutions, and disclaimers, Layli Long Soldier has created a brilliantly innovative text to examine histories, landscapes, her own writing, and her predicament inside national affiliations. “I am,” she writes, “a citizen of the United States and an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, meaning I am a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation—and in this dual citizenship I must work, I must eat, I must art, I must mother, I must friend, I must listen, I must observe, constantly I must live.” This strident, plaintive book introduces a major new voice in contemporary literature.
Author: United States. Congress
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1324
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Category : Korea (South)
Languages : en
Pages : 1654
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Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments
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Category : Election law
Languages : en
Pages : 1094
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Considers. S.J. Res. 1 and related Senate Joint Resolutions, to revise procedure for President and Vice President election in both general and primary elections. S.J. Res. 14 and related Senate Joint Resolutions, to revise voter residence, age and economic qualification standards.
Author: United States. Congress. House
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Category : Legislative calendars
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1372
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Includes history of bills and resolutions.
Author: United States. Congress
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1356
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Author: United States. Superintendent of Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 2660
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Author: Gary Bugh
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317145267
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 317
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The United States has not updated the Electoral College system since the Twelfth Amendment was ratified in 1804, despite public opinion polls showing a majority of Americans are in favor of changing or outright abolishing it. So why hasn't the United States reformed this system? Electoral College Reform brings together new essays examining all aspects of this crucial debate, including the reasons for reform, the issues surrounding a constitutional amendment, the effect of the Electoral College on political campaigns and the possibilities for extra-constitutional avenues to change. The authors consider both the Federalists' vision of balanced representation and a more democratic and equality-based ideal. These competing frameworks, perhaps more than any other factor, account for centuries of American indecision on this key issue. By offering an unprecedented and carefully researched analysis of an always controversial subject, this volume explores the potential for changing a system that many contend is long overdue.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate
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Category : Legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 1794
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