As of the censusGR2 of 2000, there are 19,666 people, 6,498 households, and 4,756 families residing in the city. The population density is 686.5/km² (1,778.4/mi²). There are 7,014 housing units at an average density of 244.9/km² (634.3/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 63.56% White, 4.21% African American, 0.72% Native American, 3.25% Asian, 0.06% Pacific Islander, 24.93% from other races, and 3.27% from two or more races. 43.29% of the ...

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One can argue what a liberal party is. In the list below, a liberal party is defined as a political party that adheres to the basic principles of (political) liberalism. This is a broad political current, that includes both right of center (or free market) liberals and left of center liberals. All liberal parties emphasize individual rights, but they differ in their opinion on an active role for the state. After liberals have gained power and realized their first reforms, one often sees a divergence within their ranks: ...

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In the 1918 general election Lloyd George, "the Man who Won the War", led his coalition into another khaki election, and won a sweeping victory over the Asquithian Liberals and the newly-emerging Labour Party. Lloyd George and the Conservative leader Andrew Bonar Law wrote a joint letter of support to candidates to indicate they were considered the official Coalition candidates - this "coupon" as it became known was issued against many sitting Liberal MPs, often to devastating effect, though not against Asquith himself. Asquith and mo ...

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The Liberals languished in opposition for a decade, while the coalition of Salisbury and Chamberlain held power and presided over the high noon of British imperialism. In 1900, led by Henry Campbell-Bannerman, they bravely opposed British policy in the Second Boer War, handing Salisbury a huge victory in the original "Khaki election". But with Salisbury's retirement in 1902 the Conservatives went into decline, and then split over the issue of free trade. In 1906 Campbell-Bannerman, rallying the party on a platform of free trade and land reform, led the Liberals to the greatest election victory in their history (this was the las ...

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Observer parties: Partido Movimiento Libertario (Costa Rica) LIBRA (Croatia) Partido Liberal Democratico (Angola) Partido Solidaridad Democratica (Cuba) Movimiento Fuerza Ecuador (Ecuador) Liberalerna på Åland (Finland) Progressive Democrats (Ireland) Federazione dei Liberali Italiani (Italy) Partia Liberale e Kosoves (Kosovo) New Union/Social Liberals (Lithuania) < ...

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Liberalism in Japan - From Public Society of Patriots until Constitutional Politics Party. 1874: Liberals founded the Public Society of Patriots (Aikoku Koto) 1881: The Aikoku Koto is continued by the Liberal Party (Jiyu-to) 1891: The Jiyuto is renamed into Constitutional Liberal Party (Rikken Jiyuto) 1898: The Constitutional Liberal Party merged with the ⇒ Progressive Party into the Constitutional Politics Party (Kenseito) ...

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Liberal Leaders in the House of Lords, 1859-1916 Granville George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville 1859-1865 John Russell, 1st Earl Russell 1865-1868 Granville George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville 1868-1891 John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley 1891-1894 Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery 1894-1896 John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley 1896-1902 George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon 1902-1908 < ...

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Liberal Democrats UK - Founding. The Liberal Democrats are descended from the Liberal Party which dominated British politics for much of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Having declined to third party status after the rise of the Labour Party in 1922, the Liberals found themselves challenged for their place as the centrist party of British politics in the 1980s, when in 1981, with the Labour Party moving to the left, a group of moderate Labour MPs broke away and established the Social Democrat ...

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Liberal Christianity - Protestant. Marcus Borg, New Testament scholar Charles Augustus Briggs, Hebrew scholar Rudolf Bultmann, Biblical scholar Peter Carnley, Anglican Primate of Australia William Ellery Channing, pioneering liberal theologian in the USA, who criticized the doctrine of the Trinity and the strength of scriptural authority, in favor of more rationalistic and historical-critical beliefs John B. Cobb, author of many texts in the vein of Process Theol ...

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Liberal theologians view religious language (i.e. descriptions of God, or of religious experience) as inevitably limited. Our language belongs to the world of phenomena, whereas religious experiences exist in the realm of noumena, so no matter how hard we try, our language can never describe God factually, but only in metaphors and analogies, symbols and myths etc. These myths, analogies etc. are important in forming religious communities and traditions, and can be a useful way of expressing a particular thought or feeling about God, but we cannot hope for them to sum up Go ...

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Liberal theologians view religious language (i.e., descriptions of God, or of religious experience) as inevitably limited. Our language belongs to the world of phenomena, whereas religious experiences exist in the realm of noumena, so no matter how hard we try, our language can never describe God factually, but only in metaphors and analogies, symbols and myths, etc. These myths, analogies, etc. are important in forming religious communities and traditions, and can be a useful way of expressing a particular thought or feeling about God, but we cannot hope for them to sum up Go ...

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Each province in Canada has its own Liberal Party. In most provinces, they are direct organizational affiliates with the federal Liberal party, much like the provincial sections of the New Democratic Party. These parties, and their leaders, are: Manitoba Liberal Party, Hon. Jon Gerrard, MLA New Brunswick Liberal Association, Shawn Graham, MLA Liberal Party of Newfoundland and Labrador, Hon. Gerry Reid (interim leader), MHA Nova Scotia Liberal Party, Francis MacKenzie Prince Edwar ...

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NOTES: 1 Brown was regarded by most Liberal candidates as their leader in the 1867 election but did not officially hold the title. Had he won a seat he would have almost certainly become Leader of the Opposition and had the Liberals won enough seats to form a government Brown would almost certainly have become Prime Minister. However, he failed in his bid for a seat in the House of Commons and the Liberals had no official leader until 1873. 2 Herb Gray served as Leader of the Opposition from June ...

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B-24 Liberator - United States Army Air Force. Fifth Air Force Eighth Air Force Ninth Air Force Thirteenth Air Force Fifteenth Air Force American Senator and presidential candidate George McGovern served as a B-24 pilot in missions over Italy as part of this group; his wartime exploits and some of the characteristics of the B-24 are at the center of Stephen Ambrose's book The Wild Blue. < ...

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The period between Paul Martin's assumption of the leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada on November 14, 2003, and the 2004 Canadian election being called on May 23, 2004, saw a large amount of infighting within the party. Many pundits have dated the current split to that earlier era, arguing that there is a clear division between the socially-populist, federalist wing of the party represented by Pierre Trudeau and Jean Chrétien, and the constitutionall ...

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Conservative Muslims are often critical of liberals for, what they see as, producing a watered-down, inauthentic form of Islam as a compromise with Western society. From their perspective, liberal Muslims are abandoning Islam and just imitating the West; in effect, they accuse liberals of becoming cultural Muslims. Critics also argue that it is possible to accept the many of the main liberal points, including women's rights and the ...

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Definition and meaning of Liberal Democracy

Liberal Democracy - [Government]

A liberal democracy is a type of democracy based on the protection of individual rights and freedoms and on the consent of the governed to establish political authority. The term liberal derives from "liberty." A liberal government focuses on protecting individual rights from the tyranny of the majority. The term democracy derives from the Greek word for "rule by the people." A democracy is a form of government which exists for the good of the people as a whole. In a democracy, people provide authority to the government. The United States developed as a traditional liberal democracy and its Declaration of Independence joined the concepts of liberty and democracy by stating that: "All men are created equal" "they are endowed . . . with certain unalienable rights" governments are "instituted among men" and are therefore artificial people have a right to create a government to protect their rights governments are established for the limited purposes of securing individual rights authority is derived from consent of the governed people have the right to alter or abolish government when it fails to fulfill its purpose

(Source: The Social Studies Center at Texas University )

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Definition and meaning of Liberal Democracy

Liberal Democracy - [Government]

A liberal democracy is a type of democracy based on the protection of individual rights and freedoms and on the consent of the governed to establish political authority. The term liberal derives from "liberty." A liberal government focuses on protecting individual rights from the tyranny of the majority. The term democracy derives from the Greek word for "rule by the people." A democracy is a form of government which exists for the good of the people as a whole. In a democracy, people provide authority to the government. The United States developed as a traditional liberal democracy and its Declaration of Independence joined the concepts of liberty and democracy by stating that: "All men are created equal" "they are endowed . . . with certain unalienable rights" governments are "instituted among men" and are therefore artificial people have a right to create a government to protect their rights governments are established for the limited purposes of securing individual rights authority is derived from consent of the governed people have the right to alter or abolish government when it fails to fulfill its purpose

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Aize, Liber; de Lapide Philosophico. An alchemic treatise by an unknown German author; dated 1677. It is to be found reprinted in the Hermetic Museum; in it is the well known design of a man with legs extended and his body hidden by a seven pointed star. Eliphaz Lévi has copied it.

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Liberal Christianity

A movement that seeks to retain religious and spiritual values of Christianity while discounting the authority of the Bible. Its origins are in the German Enlightenment, notably in the philosophy of Immanuel Kant and the religious views of Friedrich Schleiermacher.

Liberals claim the Bible is merely inspired, not infallible. They prefer naturalistic explanations of miracles or view miracle accounts as legend or myth.

They often deny or reinterpret in mythical terms such doctrines as the virgin birth, atoning death, and even the resurrection of Jesus. Liberalism has been most influential in mainline Protestant denominations and is rejected in Evangelical and Fundamentalist Christianity.

(See also: Liberal Christianity, New Age Spirituality, Body Mind and Soul)

Liber Linteus - Structure. The book is laid out in twelve columns from right to left, each one representing a "page". Much of the first three columns is missing, and it is not known where the book begins. Closer to the end of the book the text is almost complete (there is a strip missing that runs the entire length of the book). By the end of the last page the cloth is blank and the selvage is intact, showing the definite end of the book. There are 230 lines of text, with 1200 legible words. Black ink has been used for the main text, ...

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Liber Linteus - Purchase of the mummy. In 1848, Mihajlo Barić (1791–1859), a Croatian minor official in the Hungarian Royal Chancellery, resigned his post and embarked upon a tour of several countries, including Egypt. While in Alexandria, he purchased a sarchophagus containing a female mummy, as a souvenir of his travels. Barić displayed the mummy at his home in Vienna, standing it upright in the corner of his sitting room. He often told his visitors that it was the body of King Stephen of Hungary's s ...

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