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The history of direct democracy amongst non-Native Americans in the United States dates from the 1630s in the New England Colonies. [1] The legislatures of the New England colonies were initially governed as popular assemblies, with every freeman eligible to directly vote in the election of officers and drafting of laws. Within a couple of ...
The Oregon Direct Legislation League was an organization of political activists founded by William S. U'Ren in the U.S. state of Oregon in 1898. U'Ren had been politically activated by reading the influential 1893 book Direct Legislation Through the Initiative and Referendum, [1] and the group's founding followed in the wake of the 1896 founding of the National Direct Legislation League, which ...
U'Ren had been inspired by reading the influential 1893 book Direct Legislation Through the Initiative and Referendum, [76] and the group's founding followed in the wake of the 1896 founding of the National Direct Legislation League, which itself had its roots in the Direct Legislation League of New Jersey and its short-lived predecessor, the ...
List of Public Universities in Texas by Fall Enrollment University 2023 2022 2021 [1] 2020 [1] 2019 [1] 2018 [2] 2017 [3] 2016 [4] 2015 [5] 2014 [6] 2013 [7] 2012 [8] Texas A&M University: 77,491 74,829 66,057 65,272 63,859 63,694 62,915 60,435 58,515 60,507 58,219 56,378 University of Texas at Austin: 53,082 52,384 51,786 50,282 50,894 51,684 ...
Location of Texas. Texas is a state in the South Central region of the United States. The region's second-quarter 2018 gross state product was 8.6% of the GDP of the country at $1.755 trillion, with significant growth in mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction. [1]
The Permanent University Fund was established by the 1876 Constitution of the State of Texas. [2] Initially, its assets included one-tenth of University of Texas at Austin lands bordering the railroads (UT Austin was granted 1 million acres (4,000 km 2) in West Texas as compensation) as well as 1 million acres (4,000 km 2) additional. [3]
After Texas was annexed, the Seventh Texas Legislature on February 11, 1858, passed O.B. 102, establishing the University of Texas and allocating $100,000 in United States bonds from the Compromise of 1850 for its construction. [6] Additionally, land reserved for railroad development was designated to support the university's endowment.
This is a chronological, but still incomplete, list of United States federal legislation. Congress has enacted approximately 200–600 statutes during each of its 118 biennial terms so more than 30,000 statutes have been enacted since 1789.