American Government
The murderer of the first Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton.
Who was Vice President Aaron Burr?
House of Commons and House of Lords.
What are the two Houses of the Parliament of the United Kingdom?
What is the Diplomatic Rank System?
First Secretary of State; Second Vice President; Third President of the United States.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
What is the Constitution of the United States?
The two Vice Presidents to resign from office.
Who were John C. Calhoun (served under Andrew Jackson) and Spiro Agnew (served under Richard Nixon)?
Minister of Parliament Jeremy Corbin.
Who is the opposition leader of the United Kingdom?
"A diplomatic agent shall enjoy [_______] from the criminal jurisdiction of the receiving State. He shall also enjoy [_______] from its civil and administrative jurisdiction, except in the case of:
(a) A real action relating to private immovable property situated in the territory of the receiving State, unless he holds it on behalf of the sending State for the purposes of the mission;
(b) An action relating to succession in which the diplomatic agent is involved as executor, administrator, heir or legatee as a private person and not on behalf of the sending State;
(c) An action relating to any professional or commercial activity exercised by the diplomatic agent in the receiving State outside his official functions."
What is Diplomatic Immunity?
John Nance Garner (1933-1941)
Henry A. Wallace (1941-1945)
Harry S. Truman (1945)
Who were President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's three Vice Presidents?
"When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation."
What is the Declaration of Independence?
They are the first four in the Presidential Line of Succession.
What do the Vice President, Speaker of the House of Representatives, President Pro Tempore of the Senate, and Secretary of State have in common?
An Islamist militia active in Libya. It is considered to be the largest and best armed militia in eastern Libya. The brigade is financed by the Libyan defense ministry.
What is the February 17th Martyrs Brigade?
(Also known as 17Feb)
An international treaty that defines a framework for diplomatic relations between independent countries. (1961)
What was the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations?
The first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Who was J.Edgar Hoover?
"Though, in reviewing the incidents of my administration, I am unconscious of intentional error, I am nevertheless too sensible of my defects not to think it probable that I may have committed many errors. Whatever they may be, I fervently beseech the Almighty to avert or mitigate the evils to which they may tend. I shall also carry with me the hope that my country will never cease to view them with indulgence; and that, after forty five years of my life dedicated to its service with an upright zeal, the faults of incompetent abilities will be consigned to oblivion, as myself must soon be to the mansions of rest.
Relying on its kindness in this as in other things, and actuated by that fervent love towards it, which is so natural to a man who views in it the native soil of himself and his progenitors for several generations, I anticipate with pleasing expectation that retreat in which I promise myself to realize, without alloy, the sweet enjoyment of partaking, in the midst of my fellow-citizens, the benign influence of good laws under a free government, the ever-favorite object of my heart, and the happy reward, as I trust, of our mutual cares, labors, and dangers. "
What was George Washington's Farewell Address?
The law officer directly below the attorney general in the US Department of Justice, responsible for arguing cases before the US Supreme Court.
What is the Solicitor General of the United States?
The Bicameral Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation.
What are the Federation Council and State Duma?
"The receiving State may at any time and without having to explain its decision, notify the sending State that the head of the mission or any member of the diplomatic staff of the mission is persona non grata or that any other member of the staff of the mission is not acceptable. In any such case, the sending State shall, as appropriate, either recall the person concerned or terminate his functions with the mission. A person may be declared [_______ ___ _____] or not acceptable before arriving in the territory of the receiving State."
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What is a "Persona non grata"?
"Men of Virginia! pause and ponder upon those instructive cyphers, and these incontestable facts. Ye will then judge for yourselves on the point of an American navy. Ye will judge without regard to the prattle of a president, the prattle of that strange compound of ignorance and ferocity, of deceit and weakness; without regard to that hideous hermaphroditical character, which has neither the force and firmness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman." (Who was the President that James Calendar was referring to?)
Who was President John Adams?
"Resolved, That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved.
That it is expedient forthwith to take the most effectual measures for forming foreign Alliances.
That a plan of confederation be prepared and transmitted to the respective Colonies for their consideration and approbation."
What was the Lee Resolution?
The type of government the United States has.
What is a Republic?
Li Yuanchao.
Who is the Vice President of the Republic of China?
Article 3 of the "Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations"
Where are the Functions of a Diplomatic Mission outlined?
"1.The functions of a diplomatic mission consist, inter alia, in:
(a) Representing the sending State in the receiving State;
(b) Protecting in the receiving State the interests of the sending State and of its nationals, within the limits permitted by international law;
(c) Negotiating with the Government of the receiving State;
(d) Ascertaining by all lawful means conditions and developments in the receiving State, and reporting thereon to the Government of the sending State;
(e) Promoting friendly relations between the sending State and the receiving State, and developing their economic, cultural and scientific relations.
2.Nothing in the present Convention shall be construed as preventing the performance of consular functions by a diplomatic mission."
The event that sparked the United States need for "Continuity of Government".
What was 9-11?
"In the first place we have granted to God, and by this our present charter confirmed for us and our heirs forever that the English Church shall be free, and shall have her rights entire, and her liberties inviolate; and we will that it be thus observed; which is apparent from this that the freedom of elections, which is reckoned most important and very essential to the English Church, we, of our pure and unconstrained will, did grant, and did by our charter confirm and did obtain the ratification of the same from our lord, Pope Innocent III, before the quarrel arose between us and our barons: and this we will observe, and our will is that it be observed in good faith by our heirs forever. We have also granted to all freemen of our kingdom, for us and our heirs forever, all the underwritten liberties, to be had and held by them and their heirs, of us and our heirs forever."
What was the Magna Carta?