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  2. Ruth Bader Ginsburg - Wikipedia

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    Virginia, 518 U.S. 515 (1996), which struck down the Virginia Military Institute's (VMI) male-only admissions policy as violating the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. For Ginsburg, a state actor could not use gender to deny women equal protection; therefore VMI must allow women the opportunity to attend VMI with its unique ...

  3. Assateague people - Wikipedia

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    The Assateague (meaning: "swifly moving water") [1] were an Algonquian people speaking the Nanticoke language who historically lived on the Atlantic coast side of the Delmarva Peninsula (known during the colonial period as the Eastern Shores of Maryland and Virginia, and the Lower Counties of Pennsylvania).

  4. Rappahannock people - Wikipedia

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    The Commonwealth of Virginia officially recognized the tribe in January 1983. In 1998, they elected Chief G. Anne Richardson, the first woman chief to lead a Native American tribe in Virginia since the 18th century. The tribe did not have a reservation, and during the centuries had intermarried with other ethnicities in the region.

  5. Tribal council (United States) - Wikipedia

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    The Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc. is a nonprofit organization founded in 1952 to represent the interests of the 21 tribes with lands in Arizona. [3] Many States have government offices to work with tribes with lands in their state. For example, the Minnesota Indian Affairs Council works with the 11 tribes with lands in Minnesota.

  6. Government of Virginia - Wikipedia

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    The political subdivisions of Virginia are the areas into which the state is divided for political and administrative purposes. In Virginia, the political subdivisions have only the legal powers specifically granted to them by the General Assembly and set forth under the Code of Virginia. Some are local governments; others are not. However, all ...

  7. Restored Government of Virginia - Wikipedia

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    The Restored (or Reorganized) Government of Virginia was the Unionist government of Virginia during the American Civil War (1861–1865) in opposition to the government which had approved Virginia's seceding from the United States and joining the new Confederate States of America. Each state government regarded the other as illegitimate.

  8. Werowocomoco - Wikipedia

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    Werowocomoco first became known to the early English settlers of Virginia as the residence of Wahunsenacawh or Wahunsonacock, the paramount weroance of the area. He and his people were known to them as Powhatan, a name derived from his native village, the small settlement of Powhatan, meaning the falls of the river, at the fall line of the James River (the present-day Powhatan Hill ...

  9. AP United States Government and Politics - Wikipedia

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    Advanced Placement (AP) United States Government and Politics (often shortened to AP Gov or AP GoPo and sometimes referred to as AP American Government or simply AP Government) is a college-level course and examination offered to high school students through the College Board's Advanced Placement Program.