Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Completed in 2006, it serves the District of Oregon as part of the Ninth Judicial Circuit. The courthouse is named in honor of former U.S. Senator Wayne Morse who represented Oregon for 24 years in the Senate and was a Eugene area resident. Located in downtown Eugene, the building overlooks the Willamette River.
Oregon Capitol building. The government of the U.S. state of Oregon, as prescribed by the Oregon Constitution, is composed of three government branches: the executive, the legislative, and the judicial. These branches operate in a manner similar to that of the federal government of the United States. [1]
After the Civil Rights Movement and the first World War, The Board of Eugenics became the Board of Social Protection in 1967. The last recorded forced sterilization was in 1981 and in 1983 the Oregon State Senate finally abolished the statute and the board. Oregon sterilized 2,648 people under its eugenics law. [8]
The Oregon Legislative Assembly [a] is the state legislature for the U.S. state of Oregon. The Legislative Assembly is bicameral , consisting of an upper and lower chamber : the Senate , whose 30 members are elected to serve four-year terms; and the House of Representatives , with 60 members elected to two-year terms.
The Oregon attorney general is a statutory officer within the executive branch of the state of Oregon, and serves as the chief legal officer of the state, heading its Department of Justice with its six operating divisions. [1] The attorney general is chosen by statewide partisan election to serve a term of four years.
The Oregon Government Ethics Commission, formerly known as the Oregon Government Standards and Practices Commission, is a nine-member government body in the U.S. state of Oregon responsible for enforcing the state's government ethics, lobbying, and Public Meetings laws. The commission reviews possible violations and is empowered to make legal ...
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
Two months later, on July 5, 1843, the Organic Laws of Oregon, modeled after the 1838 Iowa Territory's Organic Law and the previous old Ordinance of 1787 (adopted 56 years before by the former Confederation Congress (1781-1789), under the earlier governing document of the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union drawn up 1776-1780, and ...