The committees of correspondence were shadow governments organized by the Patriot leaders of the Thirteen Colonies on the eve of the American Revolution. They coordinated responses to England and shared their plans; by 1773 they had emerged as shadow governments, superseding the colonial legislature and royal officials. The Maryland Committee of Correspondence was instrumental in setting up the First Continental Congress, which met in Philadelphia. These served an important role in the Revolution, by disseminating the colonial interpretation of British actions between the colonies and to foreign governments. The committees of correspondence rallied opposition on common causes and established plans for collective action, and so the group of committees was the beginning of what later became a formal political union among the colonies.
A pocket veto is only possible if "<span>C. Congress is about to adjourn", since Congress must be out of session and therefore unable to take back the bill in order for such a veto to be possible. </span>
The abundance of volcanoes and earthquakes along the Ring of Fire is caused by the amount of movement of tectonic plates in the area. Along much of the Ring of Fire, plates overlap at convergent boundaries called subduction zones. ... A significant exception is the border between the Pacific and North American Plates.
The conflict between Protestants and Catholics was an open one with both sides seeking the support of the public.
The printing press became an important weapon in the Reformation.
Both the Protestant and Catholic propagandists made use of the printing press as a means of influencing the public.
Protestants used the printing press to proliferate revolutionary theological material at a popular level, while the Catholic Church produced large quantities of anti-Reformation texts.
