T<span>hose who favored centralization thought that the Articles of Confederation gave little power to the central government, and therefore the central government was unable to impose taxes, or execuse laws. They would have changed the articles so that they would have a stronger central government and levied taxes, but that was prevented because they needed a unanimous vote for that to pass, and that didn't happen. </span>
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During the build-up to World War II, the Motorschiff St. Louis was a German ocean liner which carried more than 900 Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany in 1939 intending to escape anti-Semitic persecution. The refugees tried to disembark in Cuba but were denied permission to land. The captain, Gustav Schröder, went to the United States and Canada, trying to find a nation to take the Jews in, but both nations refused. He finally returned the ship to Europe, where various countries, including the United Kingdom, Belgium, the Netherlands and France, accepted some refugees. Many were later caught in Nazi roundups of Jews in the occupied countries of Belgium, France and the Netherlands, and some historians have estimated that approximately a quarter of them were killed in death camps during World War II. These events, have inspired film, opera, and fiction
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Currently for the state of Pennsylvania there are 18 representatives in the House of Representatives. There are nine democrats and nine republicans.
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The House of Representatives is the lower house of the Congress of the United States of America. The Senate is the upper house. The officials sitting in the house of representatives are divided among the 50 states in function of their population. Pennsylvania is one of the states that has been losing congressional seats in the house vis-a-vis other states because the total number of representatives is fixed by law at 435. In 1973, Pennsylvania had 27 seats and now it has 18. The largest delegation is that for California that had 53 representatives in 2010. There are seven states that have only one representative in the House of Representatives and they are: Alaska, Wyoming, Delaware, Montana, Vermont, North Dakota, and South Dakota.
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In the Middle Ages, Scandinavia was filled with fertile farmland. Friars spent most of their lives praying and working inside their monasteries. Each feudal territory had at its center a noble's castle. Knights trained for war by fighting each other in tournaments.
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The Secretary of State, appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate, is the President’s chief foreign affairs adviser. The Secretary carries out the President’s foreign policies through the State Department and the Foreign Service of the United States. Besides, the Secretary of State negotiates, interprets, and terminates treaties and agreements; ensures the protection of the U.S. Government to American citizens, property, and interests in foreign countries and supervises the administration of U.S. immigration laws abroad.
A Secretary of State must have the right qualities for his position: University degree, honest, loyal to the President, soundness, approachable, responsible. He should be able to speak at least three languages.
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