(Encyclopedia) Babeuf, François NoëlBabeuf, François NoëlfräNswäˈ nôĕlˈ bäböfˈ [key], 1760–97, French revolutionary, organizer of a communist uprising against the Directory. Of petty bourgeois origin…
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The System of Checks and Balances
In 1787 leaders of the states gathered to write the Constitution-a set of principles that told how the new nation would be governed.
The leaders of the states…
Senate Years of Service: 1979-2009Party: RepublicanWARNER, John William, a Senator from Virginia; born in Washington, D.C., February 18, 1927; attended schools in Washington, D.C. and Virginia…
Senate Years of Service: 1825-1840Party: Jacksonian; Anti-Jacksonian; WhigWHITE, Hugh Lawson, a Senator from Tennessee; born in Iredell County, N.C., October 30, 1773; moved with his parents…
