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  2. Reconstruction Finance Corporation - Wikipedia

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    The RFC closed in 1957 when prosperity had been restored and for-profit private financial institutions could handle its mission. [2] In total, the RFC gave US$2 billion in aid to state and local governments and made many loans, nearly all of which were repaid.

  3. List of RFCs - Wikipedia

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    This is a partial list of RFCs (request for comments memoranda). A Request for Comments (RFC) is a publication in a series from the principal technical development and standards-setting bodies for the Internet, most prominently the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).

  4. Request for Comments - Wikipedia

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    Although written by Steve Crocker, the RFC had emerged from an early working group discussion between Steve Crocker, Steve Carr, and Jeff Rulifson. In RFC 3, which first defined the RFC series, Crocker started attributing the RFC series to the Network Working Group. Rather than being a formal committee, it was a loose association of researchers ...

  5. Constitution of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Constitution outlines the U.S. judicial system. In the Judiciary Act of 1789, Congress began to fill in details. Currently, Title 28 of the U.S. Code [123] describes judicial powers and administration. As of the First Congress, the Supreme Court justices rode circuit to sit as panels to hear appeals from the district courts.

  6. John Dickinson - Wikipedia

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    Nevertheless, Dickinson wrote the first draft of the 1776–1777 Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union and served as a militia officer during the Revolution. He later was elected president of the 1786 Annapolis Convention , which called for the Constitutional Convention of 1787 , and as a delegate from Delaware , he signed the United ...

  7. The Federalist Papers - Wikipedia

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    The Federal Convention (Constitutional Convention) sent the proposed Constitution to the Confederation Congress, which in turn submitted it to the states for ratification at the end of September 1787. On September 27, 1787, "Cato" first appeared in the New York press criticizing the proposition; "Brutus" followed on October 18, 1787. [9]

  8. April 1969 - Wikipedia

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    The very first RFC [25] summarized the tentative agreements that the group had settled on for the Interface Message Processor (IMP) routers in the network sites, with initial messages being limited to 8,080 bits. The United States Supreme Court ruled in Stanley v.

  9. History of the United States Constitution - Wikipedia

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    The document was written at the 1787 Philadelphia Convention and was ratified through a series of state conventions held in 1787 and 1788. Since 1789, the Constitution has been amended twenty-seven times; particularly important amendments include the ten amendments of the United States Bill of Rights and the three Reconstruction Amendments.