Most judges in the state of Texas are elected by registered voters and vacancies that may occur outside the normal electoral calendar are filled by someone appointed by the relevant elected officials. Vacancies at the county level for instance and the justice of the peace officer is filled by the appointment of the county commissioners court while at the municipal court vacancies are filled by people appointed by the governing body of the city or the mayor and the judicial vacancies at the supreme court level are filled by the appointment of the governor with advice from the Senate.
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The Virginia House of Burgesses was the first democratically-elected legislative body in British North America. This group of representatives met from 1619 until 1776. ... The House of Burgesses is important because the ideas and leaders from this House helped bring about the American Revolutionary War.
The United States used the sinking as propaganda to get the country on board for war
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"John (“Jack”) Reed wasn’t looking backward to the French Revolution or even the Paris Commune when he chronicled the seizure of power of the Russian Revolution of 1917. As a 30-year-old independent radical journalist, he was looking at it with fresh eyes. What he saw was not just the overthrow of a repressive monarchist oligarchy and its attendant bourgeois class, but a vast democratic, majoritarian movement based on “soviets,” or councils, made up of workers, soldiers, and peasants. Although he had been embedded in Pancho Villa’s rebel army in Mexico and covered Industrial Workers of the World strikes in New Jersey and miners’ struggles in Colorado, it was witnessing the cataclysmic events in Russia that confirmed him as a revolutionary."-Ten Days That Shook the World by John Reed
