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The proposed annexation of Santo Domingo was an attempted treaty during the later Reconstruction era, initiated by United States President Ulysses S. Grant in 1869, to annex Santo Domingo (as the Dominican Republic was commonly known) as a United States territory, with the promise of eventual statehood.
Dominican courts commonly accept French case law as a source of law whenever the legal texts of the Dominican Republic and France are the same. The writings of legal scholars (doctrina), like the court decisions, are considered authorities in the Dominican law system. The role of doctrine is, however, quite different from that of the case law.
Annexation of Santo Domingo or of the Dominican Republic may refer to: French annexation during the Era de Francia (1795–1815) Haitian occupation of Santo Domingo (1822–1844) Annexation of the Dominican Republic to Spain (1861–1865) Proposed annexation of Santo Domingo by the United States (1869–1871)
Moderate Dominican leaders, however, used the plan as the basis for further negotiations that resulted in an agreement between U.S. Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes and Dominican Ambassador to the United States Francisco J. Peynado on June 30, 1922, [27] allowing for the selection of a provisional president to rule until elections could ...
The Order of Preachers (Latin: Ordo Prædicatorum, abbreviated OP), commonly known as the Dominican Order, is a Catholic mendicant order of pontifical right that was founded in France by a Castilian priest named Dominic de Guzmán.
The Dominican position was set forth about the same time by Báñez and seven of his brethren, each of whom presented a separate answer to the charges. But the presiding officer of the Inquisition desired these eight books to be reduced to one, and Báñez, together with Pedro Herrera and Diego Alvarez was instructed to do the work.
By 1865, the Dominican forces confined the Spaniards to the capital and they were afraid to venture out. Realizing that the reconquest of Santo Domingo would be costly and complicated due to the ending of the U.S. Civil War, the Queen authorized the abandonment of the territory on May 3, 1865. The last Spanish troops withdrew on July 11.
Doctrine and Life is an Irish religious periodical published by the Dominican religious order. It was initially published from September 1946 as part of the Irish Rosary magazine. From February 1951 it was published as a separate periodical, under its founding editor Fr. Anselm Moynihan.