John Edwards

(noun)

An American politician who served as a U.S. Senator from North Carolina, and the Democratic nominee for Vice President in 2004.

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  • John Kerry
  • George W. Bush

Examples of John Edwards in the following topics:

  • The Election of 2004

    • Bush was elected for a second term when he narrowly defeated Democratic candidate John Kerry.
    • Kerry's running mate, John Edwards, who had also run as a Democratic primary candidate, received one electoral vote for president from an elector from Minnesota.
    • On July 6, 2004, John Kerry selected John Edwards as his running mate, shortly before the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston held later that month.
    • Red denotes states won by Bush/Cheney, Blue denotes those won by Kerry/Edwards.
    • The split vote in Minnesota denotes an elector's vote counted for Vice President nominee John Edwards.
  • The Rights of Englishmen

    • The Magna Carta, sealed in 1215 by King John after coercion from an assembly of his barons, is an English charter that limited the power of the king by guaranteeing certain rights, liberties, and privileges to the English aristocracy .
    • It was not until the early seventeenth century that jurist Edward Coke interpreted Magna Carta to apply not only to the protection of nobles but to all subjects of the crown equally .
    • For instance, in 1690, John Locke (one of the fathers of the English Enlightenment) wrote that all people have fundamental natural rights to "life, liberty and property," and that governments were created in order to protect these rights.
    • John Locke, often credited for the creation of liberalism as a philosophical tradition.
    • Jurist Edward Coke interpreted Magna Carta to apply not only to the protection of nobles but to all subjects of the crown equally.
  • The Triumph of Congressional Reconstruction

    • Third Military District: Georgia, Alabama and Florida, under General John Pope and George Meade
  • Johnson's Battle with Congress

    • Third Military District: Georgia, Alabama and Florida, under General John Pope and George Meade
  • The Muckrakers

    • McClure and John Sanborn Phillips started McClure's Magazine in May 1893.
    • Galvin and John Moody), Collier's Weekly (Samuel Hopkins Adams, C.P.
    • Norcross, Charles Edward Russell), Everybody's Magazine (William Hard, Thomas William Lawson, Benjamin B.
    • Hampton, John L.
    • Mathews, Charles Edward Russell, and Judson C.
  • The Boston Massacre and Military Occupation

    • Edward Garrick began calling out insults to White and another British officer, Captain Lieutenant John Goldfinch.
    • John Adams wrote that the "foundation of American independence was laid" on March 5, 1770, and Samuel Adams and other Patriots used annual commemorations of the event to rally against British rule.
  • The Founding of Carolina

    • Shaftesbury, with the assistance of his secretary, the philosopher John Locke, drafted the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina, a plan for government of the colony.
  • Burgoyne's Army and the Battle of Saratoga

    • General John Burgoyne, in an attempt to isolate the northern colonies, was defeated by Patriot troops in the Battle of Saratoga.
    • In the summer of 1777, British General John Burgoyne planned an attack from Quebec on the Continental Army.
    • As Burgoyne's troops attempted to march from Ticonderoga to Fort Edward, Patriot forces systematically felled trees, destroyed bridges, and dammed streams in Burgoyne's path.
    • One thousand Native Americans, led by John Butler and several Iroquois war chiefs, joined them as well.
    • Portrait of British General John Burgoyne by Sir Joshua Reynolds, ca. 1766
  • Administrative Corruption

    • Senator John B.
    • The leases themselves were not illegal, but Fall accepted bribes from the companies to secure the deals totaling approximately $404,000 (about $5.36 million today), including a no-interest loan of $100,000 ($1.3 million today) from Pan American oil baron Edward L.
    • Oil businessman Edward L.
  • The Glorious Revolution

    • The crisis facing the king came to a head in 1688, with the birth of the King's son, James Francis Edward Stuart, on 10 June.
    • The expression "Glorious Revolution" was first used by John Hampden in late 1689, and is an expression that is still used by the British Parliament.
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