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President Jean-Claude Juncker of the European Union's response on the withdrawal. African Union – A joint statement with the European Union reaffirmed the commitment of the 55 African nations to the Paris Agreement. [94] Argentina – President Mauricio Macri was "deeply disappointed" by the withdrawal, and ratified the Argentine support to ...
In response, several similar petitions were posted on March 9, 2015. One petition, entitled "File charges against the 47 United States Senators in violation of the Logan Act in attempting to undermine a nuclear agreement", passed the 100,000-signature threshold within one day. The petition had reached the number 1 spot, garnering more than ...
The Economists' statement opposing the Bush tax cuts was a statement signed by roughly 450 economists, including ten of the twenty-four American Nobel Prize laureates alive at the time, in February 2003 who urged the U.S. President George W. Bush not to enact the 2003 tax cuts; seeking and sought to gather public support for the position.
President Jean-Claude Juncker of the European Union's response on the withdrawal. African Union – A joint statement with the European Union reaffirmed the commitment of the 55 African nations to the Paris Agreement. [95] Argentina – President Mauricio Macri was "deeply disappointed" by the withdrawal, and ratified the Argentine support to ...
Icelanders launched an on-line petition drive to protest this action, which is seen as comparing Icelandic banks with Al-Qaida. [73] Iceland's GDP is expected by economists to shrink at least 10 percent as a result of the crisis, putting Iceland by some measure in an economic depression. [74] On 27 January 2009 the government collapsed.
Real GDP is an example of the distinction between real and nominal values in economics.Nominal gross domestic product is defined as the market value of all final goods produced in a geographical region, usually a country; this depends on the quantities of goods and services produced, and their respective prices.
In response to these and other limitations of using GDP, alternative approaches have emerged. In the 1980s, Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaum developed the capability approach, which focuses on the functional capabilities enjoyed by people within a country, rather than the aggregate wealth held within a country. These capabilities consist of the ...
The 1688 Bill of Rights provides no such limitation to assembly. Under the common law, the right of an individual to petition implies the right of multiple individuals to assemble lawfully for that purpose. [11] England's implied right to assemble to petition was made an express right in the US First Amendment.