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Abel Stearns
Abel Stearns (February 9, 1798 – August 23, 1871) was a trader who came to the Pueblo de Los Angeles, Alta California in 1829 and became a major landowner, cattle rancher and one of the area's wealthiest citizens.
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Admission to the Union
The Admission to the Union Clause of the United States Constitution, oftentimes called the New States Clause, and found at Article IV, Section 3, Clause 1, authorizes the Congress to admit new states into the United States beyond the thirteen already in existence at the time the Constitution went into effect.
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American pioneer
American pioneers are any of the people in American history who migrated west to join in settling and developing new areas.
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California
California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.
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California ballot proposition
In California, a ballot proposition can be a referendum or an initiative measure that is submitted to the electorate for a direct decision or direct vote (or plebiscite).
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California Constitutional Conventions
The California Constitutional Conventions were two separate constitutional conventions that took place in California during the nineteenth century which led to the creation of the modern Constitution of California.
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California Office of Legislative Counsel
The California Office of Legislative Counsel (OLC) was founded in 1913 and is a nonpartisan public agency that drafts legislative proposals, prepares legal opinions, and provides other confidential legal services to the Legislature and others.
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California State Capitol Museum
The California State Capitol Museum consists of a museum in and grounds around the California State Capitol in Sacramento, California, USA.
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California State Legislature
The California State Legislature is the state legislature of the U.S. state of California.
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California State Superintendent of Public Instruction
The State Superintendent of Public Instruction (SPI) of California is the nonpartisan (originally partisan) elected executive officer of the California Department of Education.
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Californio
Californio (historical and regional Spanish for "Californian") is a Spanish term with widely varying interpretations.
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Civil law (legal system)
Civil law, civilian law, or Roman law is a legal system originating in Europe, intellectualized within the framework of Roman law, the main feature of which is that its core principles are codified into a referable system which serves as the primary source of law.
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Conquest of California
The California Campaign (1846–1847), colloquially the Conquest of California or Conquest of Alta California by the United States, was an early military campaign of the Mexican–American War that took place in the western part of Mexico's Alta California Department, in the present-day state of California.
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Constitution
A constitution is a set of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which a state or other organization is governed.
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Constitutional amendment
A constitutional amendment is a modification of the constitution of a nation or state.
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Constitutional convention (political meeting)
A constitutional convention is a gathering for the purpose of writing a new constitution or revising an existing constitution.
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Contract city
Contract city is a term used in some U.S. states for a city who contract one or more municipal services to another unit of government, or to a private or commercial organization.
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Edward Gilbert
Edward Gilbert (– August 2, 1852) was an American newspaper editor and Democratic California politician.
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Elisha Oscar Crosby
Elisha Oscar Crosby (July 18, 1818 - June 25, 1895) was an American lawyer, politician and diplomat.
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English language
English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.
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European Americans
European Americans (also referred to as Euro-Americans) are Americans of European ancestry.
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First Amendment to the United States Constitution
The First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States Constitution prevents Congress from making any law respecting an establishment of religion, prohibiting the free exercise of religion, or abridging the freedom of speech, the freedom of the press, the right to peaceably assemble, or to petition for a governmental redress of grievances.
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Francis J. Lippitt
Francis J. Lippitt (1812–1902) was an American lawyer and veteran of the Mexican–American War, the Bald Hills War and the American Civil War.
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Freedom of speech
Freedom of speech is a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or a community to articulate their opinions and ideas without fear of retaliation, censorship, or sanction.
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Government of California
The government of California is the governmental structure of the state of California as established by the California Constitution.
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Governor of California
The Governor of California is the head of government of the U.S. state of California.
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Henry Halleck
Henry Wager Halleck (January 16, 1815 – January 9, 1872) was a United States Army officer, scholar, and lawyer.
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Hispanics and Latinos in California
Hispanic and Latino Californians are residents of the state of California who are of Hispanic or Latino ancestry.
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Hugo Reid
Hugo Reid (April 18, 1811 – December 12, 1852), born in Scotland, was an early resident of Los Angeles County who became a naturalized citizen of California (then a part of Mexico) and who married a local ''Gabrieleño'' woman.
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Initiative
In political science, an initiative (also known as a popular or citizens' initiative) is a means by which a petition signed by a certain minimum number of registered voters can force a public vote (referendum, sometimes called a plebiscite).
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Jacob David Hoppe
Jacob David Hoppe (1813 — 1853) was a 19th-century Californian newspaperman and politician.
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James McHall Jones
James McHall Jones (December 31, 1823 – December 15, 1851) was a United States federal judge.
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John McDougal
John McDougal (ca. 1818 – March 30, 1866) was an American politician who served as the second Governor of California from January 9, 1851 until January 8, 1852.
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John Sutter
John Augustus Sutter (February 23, 1803 – June 18, 1880), born Johann August Suter, was a German-born Swiss pioneer of California known for establishing Sutter's Fort in the area that would eventually become Sacramento, California, the state's capital.
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José Antonio Carrillo
Captain José Antonio Ezequiel Carrillo (1796–1862) was a Californio rancher, officer, and politician in the early years of Mexican Alta California and U.S. California.
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Lansford Hastings
Lansford Warren Hastings (1819–1870) is best remembered as the developer of Hastings Cutoff, a shortcut across what is now the state of Utah, a factor in the Donner Party disaster of 1846.
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Law of California
The law of California consists of several levels, including constitutional, statutory, and regulatory law, as well as case law.
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Manuel Dominguez
Manuel Dominguez (1803–1882) was born at Mission San Juan Capistrano, in the colonial Las Californias province of the Spanish Viceroyalty of New Spain (colonial México).
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Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo
General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo (4 July 1807 – 18 January 1890) was a Californio military commander, politician, and rancher.
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Mexican–American War
The Mexican–American War, also known as the Mexican War in the United States and in Mexico as the American intervention in Mexico, was an armed conflict between the United States of America and the United Mexican States (Mexico) from 1846 to 1848.
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Miguel Pedrorena
Miguel Pedrorena, Sr. or Miguel de Pedrorena, Sr. (c. 1808–1850) was an early settler of San Diego, California.
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Morton M. McCarver
"General" Morton Matthew McCarver (January 14, 1807 – April 17, 1875) was an American politician and pioneer in the West.
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O. M. Wozencraft
Oliver M. Wozencraft (July 26, 1814 – November 22, 1887) was a prominent early American settler in California.
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Official
An official is someone who holds an office (function or mandate, regardless whether it carries an actual working space with it) in an organization or government and participates in the exercise of authority (either their own or that of their superior and/or employer, public or legally private).
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Pablo de la Guerra
Pablo de la Guerra (November 29, 1819 – February 5, 1874), from the de la Guerra family of Santa Barbara, California, was the Acting Lieutenant Governor of California, 1861-1862.
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People v. Anderson
The People of the State of California v. Robert Page Anderson, 493 P.2d 880, 6 Cal.
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Petition
A petition is a request to do something, most commonly addressed to a government official or public entity.
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Pierre Sainsevain
Pierre "Don Pedro" Sainsevain (November 20, 1818 – October 4, 1904) was a French settler in California during the Mexican era.
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Police power (United States constitutional law)
In United States constitutional law, police power is the capacity of the states to regulate behavior and enforce order within their territory for the betterment of the health, safety, morals, and general welfare of their inhabitants.
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Politics of California
The recent and current politics of the U.S. state of California are complex and involve a number of entrenched interests.
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Progressive Era
The Progressive Era was a period of widespread social activism and political reform across the United States that spanned from the 1890s to the 1920s.
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Pruneyard Shopping Center v. Robins
Pruneyard Shopping Center v. Robins,, was a U.S. Supreme Court decision issued on June 9, 1980 which affirmed the decision of the California Supreme Court in a case that arose out of a free speech dispute between the Pruneyard Shopping Center in Campbell, California, and several local high school students (who wished to solicit signatures for a petition against United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379).
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Rancho Acalanes
Rancho Acalanes was a Mexican land grant in present-day Contra Costa County, California.
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Rancho Jacinto
Rancho Jacinto was a Mexican land grant in present-day Glenn County, California given in 1844 by Governor Manuel Micheltorena to Jacinto Rodriguez.
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Rancho Pescadero (Pico)
Rancho Pescadero was a Mexican land grant in present-day San Joaquin County, California and Alameda County, California given in 1843 by Governor Manuel Micheltorena to Antonio Maria Pico.
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Rancho San Carlos de Jonata
Rancho San Carlos de Jonata was a Mexican land grant in present-day Santa Barbara County, California given in 1845 by Governor Pío Pico to Joaquín Carrillo and Jose Maria Covarrubias.
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Robert B. Semple
Doctor Robert Baylor Semple (1806–1854) was a 19th-century California newspaperman and politician.
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Rodman M. Price
Rodman McCamley Price (May 5, 1816June 7, 1894) was an American Democratic Party politician, who represented in the United States House of Representatives from 1851–1853, and served as the 17th Governor of New Jersey, from 1854 to 1857.
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Sacramento, California
Sacramento is the capital city of the U.S. state of California and the seat of Sacramento County.
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Shopping mall
A shopping mall is a modern, chiefly North American, term for a form of shopping precinct or shopping center, in which one or more buildings form a complex of shops representing merchandisers with interconnecting walkways that enable customers to walk from unit to unit.
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Spanish language
Spanish or Castilian, is a Western Romance language that originated in the Castile region of Spain and today has hundreds of millions of native speakers in Latin America and Spain.
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Stanford University
Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University, colloquially the Farm) is a private research university in Stanford, California.
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State Bar of California
The State Bar of California is California's official.
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State Compensation Insurance Fund
The State Compensation Insurance Fund (State Fund) is a workers' compensation insurer that was created as a "public enterprise fund" by the U.S. state of California, and today has partial autonomy from the rest of the state government.
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State constitution (United States)
In the United States, each state has its own constitution.
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Stephen Clark Foster
Stephen Clark Foster (1820 – January 27, 1898) was a politician, the first American mayor of Los Angeles under United States military rule.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.
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Thomas O. Larkin
Thomas Oliver Larkin (September 16, 1802-October 27,1858) was an early American businessman in Alta California, and was appointed to be the United States' first and only consul to Mexican Alta California.
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U.S. state
A state is a constituent political entity of the United States.
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United States Bill of Rights
The Bill of Rights is the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.
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United States Constitution
The United States Constitution is the supreme law of the United States.
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University of California
The University of California (UC) is a public university system in the US state of California.
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William M. Gwin
William McKendree Gwin (October 9, 1805 – September 3, 1885) was an American medical doctor and politician, serving in elected office in Mississippi and California.
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Winfield S. Sherwood
Winfield Scott Sherwood (1817 – June 25, 1870) was an American politician from New York and California.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_California
