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PHILADELPHIA (AP) - After 50 years of spinning webs and catching a who's who of criminals, Peter Parker is out of the hero game.
But Spider-Man is still slinging from building to building _ reborn, refreshed and revived with a new sense of the old maxim that Ben Parker taught his then-fledgling nephew that "with great power, comes great responsibility."
Writer Dan Slott, who's been penning Spidey adventures for the better part of the last 100 issues for Marvel Entertainment, said the culmination of the story is a new, dramatically different direction for the Steve Ditko and Stan Lee-created hero.
"This is an epic turn," Slott said. "I've been writing Spider-Man for 70-plus issues. Every now and then, you have to shake it up. ... The reason Spider-Man is one of the longest running characters is they always find a way to keep it fresh. Something to shake up the mix."
And in the pages of issue 700, out Wednesday, it's not just shaken up, it's turned head over heels, spun in circles, kicked sky high and cracked wide open.
Parker's mind is trapped in the withered, decaying dying body of his nemesis, Doctor Octopus aka Otto Octavius. Where's Doc Ock? Inside Parker's super-powered shell, learning what life is like for the brilliant researcher who happens to count the Avengers and Fantastic Four as friends and family.
The two clash mightily in the pages of issue 700, illustrated by Humberto Ramos and Victor Olazaba. But it's Octavius who wins out and Parker is, at least for now, gone for good, but not before one more act of heroism.
Slott said that it's Parker, whose memories envelop Octavius, who shows the villain what it means to be a hero.
"Gone are his days of villainy, but since it's Doc Ock and he has that ego, he's not going to try and just be Spider-man, he's going to try to be the best Spider-Man ever," said Slott.
Editor Stephen Wacker said that while Parker is gone, his permanence remains and his life casts a long shadow.
"His life is still important to the book because it affects everything that Doctor Octopus does as Spider-Man. Seeing a supervillain go through this life is the point _ trying to be better than the hero he opposed," Wacker said.
"Doc has sort of inspired by Peter's life. That's what I mean when he talks about the shadow he casts," he said.
The sentiment echoes what Uncle Ben said in the pages of "Amazing Fantasy" No. 15, Slott said.
Editor Stephen Wacker called it a fitting end to the old series, which sets the stage for a new one _ "The Superior Spider-Man" early next year _ because it brings Peter Parker full circle, from the start of his crime-fighting career to the end.
"In his very first story, his uncle died because of something he did so the book has always been aimed at making Peter's life as difficult as possible," Wacker said. "The book has always worked best when it's about Peter Parker's life, not Spider-Man's."
And with Octavius influenced by Parker's life _ from Aunt May to Gwen Stacy to Mary Jane _ it will make him a better person, too.
"Because Doctor Octopus knows all of those things and will make decisions on what he saw Peter going through," Wacker said. "In a way, he gets the ultimate victory as he becomes a better hero."
Follow Matt Moore at http://www.twitter.com/MattMooreAP
(Copyright 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)


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- 1 pound goat cheese
- 3 eggs
- 1 cup yogurt
- 1/3 cup icing sugar
- 1/2 cup flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 orange (zest)
- 2 cups pecans (chopped)
- 1 package phyllo dough
- 1 cup strawberry and rhubarb jam (or strawberry jam)
- 1 egg (lightly beaten)
- * granulated sugar
- 1/4 cup pecans (chopped)
- Mix the cheese, eggs and yogurt.
- Sift in the icing sugar, flour, baking soda and mix.
- Mix in the orange zest and pecans.
- Lay 3 layers of phyllo dough into a 9×9 inch baking dish.
- Spread a third of the cheese mixture on top.
- Lay 2 layers of the phyllo dough on top.
- Spread half of the jam on top.
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- Spread half of the jam on top.
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- Lay 2 layers of the phyllo dough on top.
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Contributing roles in the Fedora Games SIG
Goal: to make Fedora the best Free software and open source gaming platform there is for both developers and users.
We aim to accomplish this goal through a variety of activities:
- Creating high quality packages of games, gaming-related libraries, and game development tools
- Documenting the available games, including wiki documentation and listing in comps.xml
- Providing a forum where users and developers can discuss issues related to current games, requests for new games to be packaged, and game packaging issues (but not game playing help, so don't bother asking how to kill the wumpus!)
- Seeking publicity for games in Fedora
- Actively review each other's game packages to shorten the time it takes to get games approved and imported into Fedora Package Collection
- Design additional guidelines on top of the Fedora Packaging guidelines that are specific to games
- Help each other fix bugs that have been filed against game packages
- Alerting each other about orphaned and soon-to-be orphaned games so that we can prevent their removal
Gaming News sites
- Free Gamer
- Libregamewiki
- Linux games at MobyGames CONTAINS NON FREE SOFTWARE
- [2] (German with Wiki, Forum and News)
- Unixgames Q&A
Game List References
- Allegro games Instructions: genre -> listing -> show options -> "Source" to "yes" -> Apply
- Debian games
- First-person shooters with different levels of Freeness
- Libre game wiki's list of games
- Linux Gamers' Game List
- List of open source video games at Wikipedia
Documentation for installation and configuration including screenshots for games in Fedora is available at Games.
The Games SIG has a number of channels for communication. First, there is the email@example.com mailing list.
Second, there is this wiki page. Want to suggest a game? Just add it to the Games of Interest list. Working on packaging a game, or need a review for your game-related package? Just add it to the Games Being Packaged list. Interested in joining the SIG? Just add your WikiName to the list.
Third, we have an IRC channel, #fedora-games, on irc.libera.chat.
Fourth, we have a Matrix room, #gaming:fedoraproject.org .
New packaging guidelines are created on an as-needed basis. As issues arise with game packages they are discussed. If the issue affects other games then we discuss the issue in the Bugzilla ticket where the issue was first found, which is often the review request for a new game. Once the issue has been discussed and a solution agreed upon, the package review completes. This serves as the first test for the new guideline. If the guideline is acceptable, that is, no problems are found after the package has been pushed to the repo, then we add the guideline to the wiki. Existing packages are not modified to conform to newer guidelines until they are updated/patched for other reasons (new version available, bug fixing). See the Bugzilla ticket for shippy for an example of this process.
The guidelines that we develop are in addition to, not a replacement for, the standard Fedora Packaging guidelines. Any guidelines that we feel should become standard Fedora Packaging policy will, of course, be brought up on the Fedora packaging mailing list. The Games SIG mailing list can be used to propose and discuss new packaging guidelines.
Games Packaging Guidelines
Available Games
There are pointers to descriptions of some individual games on the Games- list. This list and the individual descriptions is intended for end users who want to get more information on what games are available for Fedora and to help them get started playing the individual games. This is an attempt to help squash the misconception that there are no real games for Linux. Feel free to add a description of your favorite game that is already available in Fedora. Try to avoid including information that is already included in the spec file, with the exception of the %description or %summary and %url. Do include any post-install instructions, how to play information, client and server configuration details (or pointers to manpages), and screenshots.
Game Support Tools of Interest
- GtkRadiant - Game level editor for Doom and Quake
- xqf - Game Server browser supporting Nexuiz and netpanzer among a lot other and also commercial games and been packaged on newrpms before (feel free to take over parts of the specs).
- Grapple - Grapple is designed to be a simple network layer, allowing the addition of multiplayer features to a game for as little as a dozen lines of code.
Games Being Packaged
For a slightly more full list, take a look at this tracker bug on Bugzilla. New games-related review requests should be made to block this ticket.
- Omega (project) - Omega Universe Simulator (track progress here)
- libraknet (project) - Networking library for games
Orphaned Packages Needing Maintainers
None currently.
Packagers/Reviewers/People interested
- JasonTibbitts
- MichaelThomas
- JohnMahowald
- MichelSalim
- HansdeGoede
- ChristopherStone
- ErickGoes
- HugoCisneiros
- RudolfKastl
- RahulSundaram
- PeterGordon
- MichałBentkowski
- StevenPritchard
- PeterLemenkov
- AurelienBompard
- RafałPsota
- JonCiesla
- AdamGoode
- AndreaMusuruane
- NigelJones
- XavierLamien
- PabloMartin-Gomez
- LucianLanga
- Stefan Posdzich
- Mathew W Coddington
- Simon Wesp
- Alexey Torkhov
- Josh Steffen
- Felix Kaechele
- Bruno Wolff
- Cody Smith
- Guido Grazioli
- Wei Zhang
- James Butler
- Jason Clark
- William Cunningham
- Alexandre Moine
- Igor Gnatenko
- Mo Morsi
- Nitesh Narayan Lal
- Andrzej Dubaj
- Raphael Groner
- Gary Scott
- Ditlev Munk Raboel
- Ben Rosser
- Jonh M. Harris
- Antonio Trande
- Link Dupont
- François Cami
- Antonette Caldwell
- evrifaessa
- Dominik Mierzejewski
General Issues
- We need more interested packagers.
- non-commercial clauses in game licenses render them invalid for inclusion into Fedora Package Collection. Such games are not Free and open source software and violate Clause 6 of the OSI definition. An example can be found in Moria and its derivatives such as angband (which now is released under GPLv2):
This software may be copied and distributed for educational, research, and not for profit purposes provided that this copyright and statement are included in all such copies. Other copyrights may also apply.
List of games which we couldn't previously package
Some things couldn't in the past be packaged due to various issues which have now been rectified. We applaud the efforts of the upstream projects and all contributors who have worked to bring things to this state. To avoid any lingering misconceptions about the status of things here's a list of things which used to be not OK, are now OK, and which have not yet been included in Fedora.
Name | Description | What's been fixed |
Trigger | A rally racing game | Pictures of real cars, including logos & brandnames, have been removed according to upstream. |
Conquest | A real-time, multi-player space warfare game | Was Artistic License v. 1 but has been relicensed to Artistic v2. |
Warsow | FPS focused on the art of movement | The old license was a mess, but this is fixed with the 2.0 release: https://www.warsow.gg/forum/thread/16760/1. Warsow Review Request Game data for Warsow Review Request |
List of games we will NOT package
Name | Description | Why it won't be packaged |
Aliens vs Predator | Linux port of the Fox Interactive / Rebellion Developments game, Aliens vs Predator | No free data |
Challenge Promode | Quake mod | Requires original full version quake3 datafiles |
Cube | Modern FPS | See Sauerbraten |
D2X-XL | OpenGL mod for the classic 3D game Descent 2 | Requires original datafiles |
Elite: The New Kind | Advanced Elite remake | Copyright holder asked a developer to stop distribution |
Eternal Lands | Free fantasy MMORPG | Non-free data, too restrictive license |
Danger from the Deep | Submarine simulation | The artwork is CC At-Nc-Nd 2.0/2.5. Use auto downloader? |
(JF)Duke3D | Duke3d Linux port | The build engine license is far from opensource [1] |
(most) emulators | Console, Hand-held, Arcade Emulators | Read this for details [2] |
Exult | A free ultima 7 engine | There is no free data for it |
FreeSCI | A virtual machine made to run many classic adventure games from sierra | There is no free data for it. FreeSCI funclionality was merged into ScummVM |
Frets on Fire | A Guitar Hero style game | Patent issues prevent us from including it |
Funny Boat | Funny arcade sidescroller | Music is CC At-Nc-Hd 2.5. Use autodownloader? Post to fedora-music list and other packages and request replacements. |
High Noon with Smokin' Guns | 3D FPS | No free data |
Isabella Coq, Naturette II and III | AGI adventure games | Require AGIMouse, which is AWOL |
Jake2 | Java port of Quake2 | Requires original datafiles or demos. |
PlaneShift | Fantasy MMORPG | Although game sources are under GPL, game data license prohibits redistribution of any kind. Use autodownloader? |
Open Sonic | Sonic the Hedgehog clone | Trademark infringement, art seems to be copied without permission |
Possible Worlds | 3D submarine warfare | Includes/requires FMOD, which is non-free, and some art/music might not be free |
Quake II | 3D FPS | No free data |
sauerbraten | 3D FPS engine | Various non commercial use clauses in the data. Use autodownloader? |
Scourge | A Role Playing game | The artwork isn't free. Use autodownloader? |
Secret Maryo Chronicles | Super Mario Chronicles clone | Too much like the original [3] |
SoulFu | 3d rogue like (continuation of egoboo by original author) | Sources have GPL headers, README gives all kind of bogus clauses incompatible with GPL, data status unclear |
Stepmania | A DDR style game | Patent issues prevent us from including it |
Tile Racer | Racing game | Needs the non-free AGEIA PhysX SDK |
WolfGL | A remake of well-known Wolfenstein, FPS from ID Software | Requires original datafiles |
Other links
This SIG was created on Feb. 7, 2006, by JasonTibbitts, and has been growing ever since. Nostalgia:
- http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-extras-list/2006-February/msg00478.html
- http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/SIGs/Games?action=recall&rev=1
- ↑ I've contacted Ken Silverman the author requesting to change it, but he doesn't want to do that.
- ↑ This does not mean we exclude emulators completely. Dosbox is an example of a great emulator for old DOS Games, and other DOS software, that has been included in Fedora. But generally, if it requires ROM files, image files, or a copy of the machines BIOS/firmware to work, we won't package it.
- ↑ They are open for discussion [1] Maybe problematic things can be addressed? RolandWolters. Spot has outlined what it takes for the game to be acceptable for Fedora - RahulSundaram


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Lament After Defeat in Battle
1For the leader; according to "The Lily of.…" A miktam of David (for teaching), 2when he fought against Aram-Naharaim and Aram-Zobah; and Joab, coming back, killed twelve thousand Edomites in the Valley of Salt.a
3O God, you rejected us, broke our defenses;
you were angry but now revive us.
4You rocked the earth, split it open;b
repair the cracks for it totters.
5You made your people go through hardship,
made us stagger from the wine you gave us.c
6Raise up a banner for those who revere you,
a refuge for them out of bow shot.
7*Help with your right hand and answer us
that your loved ones may escape.
8*In the sanctuary God promised:
"I will exult, will apportion Shechem;
the valley of Succoth* I will measure out.
9Gilead is mine, mine is Manasseh;
Ephraim is the helmet for my head,
Judah, my own scepter.*
10*Moab is my washbowl;
I will triumph over Philistia."
11Who will bring me to the fortified city?*
Who will lead me into Edom?
12Was it not you who rejected us, God?
Do you no longer march with our armies?e
13Give us aid against the foe;
worthless is human help.
14We will triumph with the help of God,
who will trample down our foes.
* [Psalm 60] The community complains that God has let the enemy win the battle (Ps 60:3–5) and asks for an assurance of victory (Ps 60:6–7). In the oracle God affirms ownership of the land; the invasion of other nations is not permanent and will be reversed ultimately (Ps 60:8–10). With renewed confidence, the community resolves to fight again (Ps 60:11). The opening lament is picked up again (Ps 60:12), but this time with new awareness of God's power and human limitation.
* [60:7–12] These verses occur again as the second half of Ps 108.
* [60:8] I will…apportion…measure out: God lays claim to these places. The valley of Succoth: probably the lower stretch of the Jabbok valley.
* [60:9] Judah, my own scepter: an allusion to the Testament of Jacob, Gn 49:10.
* [60:10] Moab is my washbowl: Moab borders the Dead Sea, hence a metaphor for the country. Upon Edom I cast my sandal: an ancient legal gesture of taking possession of land.
* [60:11] The fortified city: perhaps Bozrah, the fortified capital of Edom, cf. Is 34:6; 63:1; Am 1:12.
a. [60:2] 2 Sm 8:2, 3, 13; 1 Chr 18:2, 3, 12.
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Whilst you will find information here which in many cases will assist in an overall way, the views expressed on this forum may not be the views expressed by NSF founder Peter Andrews.
Whilst we have many experts in their own field as guests and members, it must not be assumed that all answers totally adhere to Peter's NSF ideas or processes.
If one would like a definitive NSF answer to their questions please arrange for an individual consultation when all the answers will be provided by Peter, and they will be specific to your case.
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Several times during the year, training workshops are held at the home of Natural Sequence Farming.
See the famous property where Peter Andrews did all his research and where, without a doubt, he uncovered the reasons why the Australian landscape environment is very different to the European model.
Learn from the experts how it works.
Information will be posted here about dates and courses.
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This is such an important issue which will no doubt effect all of us one way or the other once governments get their way.
The serious introduction of NSF however, would have an incredible positive effect on the numbers being thrown around out there.
Because so many subscribers on this forum have passionate ideas about this subject, I thought we should open an area which would be dedicated to this subject only.
That way, the thousands of visitors we get to to this site, will be able to see quite quickly what postive effects NSF would have if more land owners instigated its principles.
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The forum, its administration and Peter Andrews do not endorse any posts nor have any public statements to make about any theory other than NSF.
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Should Natural Sequence Farming become a part of the next election debate
As elections are one of the only times governments and oppositions take notice of public issues, do you think the potential of Natural Sequence Farming should become an issue.
Over the last years billions of dollars have gone into so called 'fixes' for our problems and now more billions are being poured down possibly another deep hole.
Do you think NSF should be given adequate funds to either prove or disprove it's theories?
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We will be posting letters to government ministers, officials and bureaucrats so that those of you who are interested in seeing NSF taken seriously by those in command of our country's future, can see our efforts in that pursuit.
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Please feel free to ask questions or make any comments concerning the content of this program.
Peter is the only person ever to have 4 ABC Australian Stories and the previous 2 broke all records.
This tells us that Australians are interested in NSF and want to know more about it.
Our forum is your chance to do that. Some of those who know much about NSF may respond to your posts so please take part in this discussion.
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text: Welcome to Africa, AKA the motherland! Check out African Internet Radio while you're scoping the panoramas.The earliest fossil of the homo sapiens family (human beings) was found in Ethiopia, dating back more than 200,000 years. Compared to this length of time, even the "ancient Sumerians" from 6000 B.C. are drooling toddlers.Let's mention a few African heroes you may have heard of, for inspiration in the face of the continued economic inequality and violence which plague Africa today: Nelson Mandela, first democratically elected President of South Africa, who fought against apartheid and served 27 years in prison while advocating freedom and peace. Haile Salassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, who resisted Mussolini and the fascist Italian invasion of WWII, and who is worshipped as an incarnation of God by the Rastafari movement. Kwame Nkrumah, first Prime Minister of Ghana, advocate of uniting Africa in Pan-Africanism. Fela Kuti, inventor of Afrobeat music, who declared his home to be an independent state, ran for president of Nigeria, and to whose funeral ONE MILLION PEOPLE came to pay their respects.In June 2001 the African Union was formed, consisting of 53 African States organized, like in the EU, around common economic and political development.Text by Steve Smith.


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LOS ANGELES — Growing concern that problems with the new electronic Oscar voting system could lead to record-low turnout has prompted the motion picture academy to extend the deadline for members to vote for Oscar nominations.
But with next week's highly anticipated announcements looming, the extension is only for a day, until Friday. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Monday any votes received after the new deadline will not be counted.
"By extending the voting deadline we are providing every opportunity available to make the transition to online balloting as smooth as possible," said the academy's chief operating officer, Ric Robertson, in a statement. "We're grateful to our global membership for joining us in this process."
Reports of difficulty accessing the Oscars' first-ever online voting system and fears that it could be hacked have raised questions about balloting for the 85th annual contest. Earlier this year, the academy and its longtime accountants, PricewaterhouseCoopers, partnered with the electronic voting firm Everyone Counts Inc. to develop the system.
"There's considerable concern from many members that voter participation will be at record lows this year because the people who wanted to take a chance on this new cutting-edge system are either giving up on it or worried they won't be able to cast their votes," said Scott Feinberg, awards analyst and blogger for The Hollywood Reporter.
In the past, Oscar voting has been compiled strictly through paper ballots sent through the mail. The new system allows members to choose between voting online or sticking with a traditional mail-in ballot.
Morgan Spurlock, the documentary filmmaker whose 2004 film "Super Size Me" was nominated for best documentary, posted on Twitter last week that he wasn't able to log on to vote electronically and his ballot was instead mailed to him.
"The password they sent didn't work for my log-in — and they couldn't email me a new log-in, only snail mail," tweeted the 42-year-old director.
The academy said it has made several voting resources available to members, including assisted voting stations in Los Angeles, New York and London, and a 24-hour support line.
A spokesman for Everyone Counts didn't immediately respond to a request seeking comment.
Besides online voting, a retooled nomination period could also affect the competition.
Organizers moved up the unveiling of the Oscar nominations to Jan. 10. That change puts the announcement three days before Hollywood's second-biggest awards ceremony, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association's Golden Globes, which are scheduled for Jan. 13.
Oscar overseers originally said the switcheroo would give the academy's nearly 6,000 members more time to see nominated films before the Feb. 24 awards ceremony, but Feinberg of The Hollywood Reporter noted that the change gave voters less time to see potential contenders during the first phase of voting, when members decide on nominees.
"If the turnout is lower among older members, more traditional Oscar contenders will probably receive fewer votes, and otherwise edgier films that appeal more to younger people could fare better," said Feinberg. "Because of the way that best-picture voting works, it could increase the chances of a movie like 'The Master' or 'Moonrise Kingdom' getting in."
Ultimately, because of the inherent secrecy involved in selecting Oscar winners, Feinberg said it will be impossible to know what effects — if any — this year's voting changes have on the ceremony, where as many as 10 films could be vying for the best-picture award.


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The Real Character of the Executive
From the New York Packet
Friday, March 14, 1788.
Author: Alexander Hamilton
To the People of the State of New York:
I PROCEED now to trace the real characters of the proposed Executive, as they are marked out in the plan of the convention. This will serve to place in a strong light the unfairness of the representations which have been made in regard to it.
The first thing which strikes our attention is, that the executive authority, with few exceptions, is to be vested in a single magistrate. This will scarcely, however, be considered as a point upon which any comparison can be grounded; for if, in this particular, there be a resemblance to the king of Great Britain, there is not less a resemblance to the Grand Seignior, to the khan of Tartary, to the Man of the Seven Mountains, or to the governor of New York.
That magistrate is to be elected for FOUR years; and is to be re-eligible as often as the people of the United States shall think him worthy of their confidence. In these circumstances there is a total dissimilitude between HIM and a king of Great Britain, who is an HEREDITARY monarch, possessing the crown as a patrimony descendible to his heirs forever; but there is a close analogy between HIM and a governor of New York, who is elected for THREE years, and is re-eligible without limitation or intermission. If we consider how much less time would be requisite for establishing a dangerous influence in a single State, than for establishing a like influence throughout the United States, we must conclude that a duration of FOUR years for the Chief Magistrate of the Union is a degree of permanency far less to be dreaded in that office, than a duration of THREE years for a corresponding office in a single State.
The President of the United States would be liable to be impeached, tried, and, upon conviction of treason, bribery, or other high crimes or misdemeanors, removed from office; and would afterwards be liable to prosecution and punishment in the ordinary course of law. The person of the king of Great Britain is sacred and inviolable; there is no constitutional tribunal to which he is amenable; no punishment to which he can be subjected without involving the crisis of a national revolution. In this delicate and important circumstance of personal responsibility, the President of Confederated America would stand upon no better ground than a governor of New York, and upon worse ground than the governors of Maryland and Delaware.
The President of the United States is to have power to return a bill, which shall have passed the two branches of the legislature, for reconsideration; and the bill so returned is to become a law, if, upon that reconsideration, it be approved by two thirds of both houses. The king of Great Britain, on his part, has an absolute negative upon the acts of the two houses of Parliament. The disuse of that power for a considerable time past does not affect the reality of its existence; and is to be ascribed wholly to the crown's having found the means of substituting influence to authority, or the art of gaining a majority in one or the other of the two houses, to the necessity of exerting a prerogative which could seldom be exerted without hazarding some degree of national agitation. The qualified negative of the President differs widely from this absolute negative of the British sovereign; and tallies exactly with the revisionary authority of the council of revision of this State, of which the governor is a constituent part. In this respect the power of the President would exceed that of the governor of New York, because the former would possess, singly, what the latter shares with the chancellor and judges; but it would be precisely the same with that of the governor of Massachusetts, whose constitution, as to this article, seems to have been the original from which the convention have copied.
The President is to be the "commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States, and of the militia of the several States, when called into the actual service of the United States. He is to have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, EXCEPT IN CASES OF IMPEACHMENT; to recommend to the consideration of Congress such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; to convene, on extraordinary occasions, both houses of the legislature, or either of them, and, in case of disagreement between them WITH RESPECT TO THE TIME OF ADJOURNMENT, to adjourn them to such time as he shall think proper; to take care that the laws be faithfully executed; and to commission all officers of the United States." In most of these particulars, the power of the President will resemble equally that of the king of Great Britain and of the governor of New York. The most material points of difference are these: First. The President will have only the occasional command of such part of the militia of the nation as by legislative provision may be called into the actual service of the Union. The king of Great Britain and the governor of New York have at all times the entire command of all the militia within their several jurisdictions. In this article, therefore, the power of the President would be inferior to that of either the monarch or the governor. Secondly. The President is to be commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States. In this respect his authority would be nominally the same with that of the king of Great Britain, but in substance much inferior to it. It would amount to nothing more than the supreme command and direction of the military and naval forces, as first General and admiral of the Confederacy; while that of the British king extends to the DECLARING of war and to the RAISING and REGULATING of fleets and armies, all which, by the Constitution under consideration, would appertain to the legislature. [1] The governor of New York, on the other hand, is by the constitution of the State vested only with the command of its militia and navy. But the constitutions of several of the States expressly declare their governors to be commanders-in-chief, as well of the army as navy; and it may well be a question, whether those of New Hampshire and Massachusetts, in particular, do not, in this instance, confer larger powers upon their respective governors, than could be claimed by a President of the United States. Thirdly. The power of the President, in respect to pardons, would extend to all cases, EXCEPT THOSE OF IMPEACHMENT. The governor of New York may pardon in all cases, even in those of impeachment, except for treason and murder. Is not the power of the governor, in this article, on a calculation of political consequences, greater than that of the President? All conspiracies and plots against the government, which have not been matured into actual treason, may be screened from punishment of every kind, by the interposition of the prerogative of pardoning. If a governor of New York, therefore, should be at the head of any such conspiracy, until the design had been ripened into actual hostility he could insure his accomplices and adherents an entire impunity. A President of the Union, on the other hand, though he may even pardon treason, when prosecuted in the ordinary course of law, could shelter no offender, in any degree, from the effects of impeachment and conviction. Would not the prospect of a total indemnity for all the preliminary steps be a greater temptation to undertake and persevere in an enterprise against the public liberty, than the mere prospect of an exemption from death and confiscation, if the final execution of the design, upon an actual appeal to arms, should miscarry? Would this last expectation have any influence at all, when the probability was computed, that the person who was to afford that exemption might himself be involved in the consequences of the measure, and might be incapacitated by his agency in it from affording the desired impunity? The better to judge of this matter, it will be necessary to recollect, that, by the proposed Constitution, the offense of treason is limited "to levying war upon the United States, and adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort"; and that by the laws of New York it is confined within similar bounds. Fourthly. The President can only adjourn the national legislature in the single case of disagreement about the time of adjournment. The British monarch may prorogue or even dissolve the Parliament. The governor of New York may also prorogue the legislature of this State for a limited time; a power which, in certain situations, may be employed to very important purposes.
The President is to have power, with the advice and consent of the Senate, to make treaties, provided two thirds of the senators present concur. The king of Great Britain is the sole and absolute representative of the nation in all foreign transactions. He can of his own accord make treaties of peace, commerce, alliance, and of every other description. It has been insinuated, that his authority in this respect is not conclusive, and that his conventions with foreign powers are subject to the revision, and stand in need of the ratification, of Parliament. But I believe this doctrine was never heard of, until it was broached upon the present occasion. Every jurist [2] of that kingdom, and every other man acquainted with its Constitution, knows, as an established fact, that the prerogative of making treaties exists in the crown in its utmost plentitude; and that the compacts entered into by the royal authority have the most complete legal validity and perfection, independent of any other sanction. The Parliament, it is true, is sometimes seen employing itself in altering the existing laws to conform them to the stipulations in a new treaty; and this may have possibly given birth to the imagination, that its co-operation was necessary to the obligatory efficacy of the treaty. But this parliamentary interposition proceeds from a different cause: from the necessity of adjusting a most artificial and intricate system of revenue and commercial laws, to the changes made in them by the operation of the treaty; and of adapting new provisions and precautions to the new state of things, to keep the machine from running into disorder. In this respect, therefore, there is no comparison between the intended power of the President and the actual power of the British sovereign. The one can perform alone what the other can do only with the concurrence of a branch of the legislature. It must be admitted, that, in this instance, the power of the federal Executive would exceed that of any State Executive. But this arises naturally from the sovereign power which relates to treaties. If the Confederacy were to be dissolved, it would become a question, whether the Executives of the several States were not solely invested with that delicate and important prerogative.
The President is also to be authorized to receive ambassadors and other public ministers. This, though it has been a rich theme of declamation, is more a matter of dignity than of authority. It is a circumstance which will be without consequence in the administration of the government; and it was far more convenient that it should be arranged in this manner, than that there should be a necessity of convening the legislature, or one of its branches, upon every arrival of a foreign minister, though it were merely to take the place of a departed predecessor.
The President is to nominate, and, WITH THE ADVICE AND CONSENT OF THE SENATE, to appoint ambassadors and other public ministers, judges of the Supreme Court, and in general all officers of the United States established by law, and whose appointments are not otherwise provided for by the Constitution. The king of Great Britain is emphatically and truly styled the fountain of honor. He not only appoints to all offices, but can create offices. He can confer titles of nobility at pleasure; and has the disposal of an immense number of church preferments. There is evidently a great inferiority in the power of the President, in this particular, to that of the British king; nor is it equal to that of the governor of New York, if we are to interpret the meaning of the constitution of the State by the practice which has obtained under it. The power of appointment is with us lodged in a council, composed of the governor and four members of the Senate, chosen by the Assembly. The governor CLAIMS, and has frequently EXERCISED, the right of nomination, and is ENTITLED to a casting vote in the appointment. If he really has the right of nominating, his authority is in this respect equal to that of the President, and exceeds it in the article of the casting vote. In the national government, if the Senate should be divided, no appointment could be made; in the government of New York, if the council should be divided, the governor can turn the scale, and confirm his own nomination. [3] If we compare the publicity which must necessarily attend the mode of appointment by the President and an entire branch of the national legislature, with the privacy in the mode of appointment by the governor of New York, closeted in a secret apartment with at most four, and frequently with only two persons; and if we at the same time consider how much more easy it must be to influence the small number of which a council of appointment consists, than the considerable number of which the national Senate would consist, we cannot hesitate to pronounce that the power of the chief magistrate of this State, in the disposition of offices, must, in practice, be greatly superior to that of the Chief Magistrate of the Union.
Hence it appears that, except as to the concurrent authority of the President in the article of treaties, it would be difficult to determine whether that magistrate would, in the aggregate, possess more or less power than the Governor of New York. And it appears yet more unequivocally, that there is no pretense for the parallel which has been attempted between him and the king of Great Britain. But to render the contrast in this respect still more striking, it may be of use to throw the principal circumstances of dissimilitude into a closer group.
The President of the United States would be an officer elected by the people for FOUR years; the king of Great Britain is a perpetual and HEREDITARY prince. The one would be amenable to personal punishment and disgrace; the person of the other is sacred and inviolable. The one would have a QUALIFIED negative upon the acts of the legislative body; the other has an ABSOLUTE negative. The one would have a right to command the military and naval forces of the nation; the other, in addition to this right, possesses that of DECLARING war, and of RAISING and REGULATING fleets and armies by his own authority. The one would have a concurrent power with a branch of the legislature in the formation of treaties; the other is the SOLE POSSESSOR of the power of making treaties. The one would have a like concurrent authority in appointing to offices; the other is the sole author of all appointments. The one can confer no privileges whatever; the other can make denizens of aliens, noblemen of commoners; can erect corporations with all the rights incident to corporate bodies. The one can prescribe no rules concerning the commerce or currency of the nation; the other is in several respects the arbiter of commerce, and in this capacity can establish markets and fairs, can regulate weights and measures, can lay embargoes for a limited time, can coin money, can authorize or prohibit the circulation of foreign coin. The one has no particle of spiritual jurisdiction; the other is the supreme head and governor of the national church! What answer shall we give to those who would persuade us that things so unlike resemble each other? The same that ought to be given to those who tell us that a government, the whole power of which would be in the hands of the elective and periodical servants of the people, is an aristocracy, a monarchy, and a despotism.
1. A writer in a Pennsylvania paper, under the signature of TAMONY, has asserted that the king of Great Britain owes his prerogative as commander-in-chief to an annual mutiny bill. The truth is, on the contrary, that his prerogative, in this respect, is immemorial, and was only disputed, "contrary to all reason and precedent," as Blackstone vol. i., page 262, expresses it, by the Long Parliament of Charles I. but by the statute the 13th of Charles II., chap. 6, it was declared to be in the king alone, for that the sole supreme government and command of the militia within his Majesty's realms and dominions, and of all forces by sea and land, and of all forts and places of strength, EVER WAS AND IS the undoubted right of his Majesty and his royal predecessors, kings and queens of England, and that both or either house of Parliament cannot nor ought to pretend to the same.
2. Vide Blackstone's "Commentaries," vol i., p. 257.
3. Candor, however, demands an acknowledgment that I do not think the claim of the governor to a right of nomination well founded. Yet it is always justifiable to reason from the practice of a government, till its propriety has been constitutionally questioned. And independent of this claim, when we take into view the other considerations, and pursue them through all their consequences, we shall be inclined to draw much the same conclusion.


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Link to the DfE statutory guidance for schools, academies, local authorities and police. This guidance covers the use of parenting orders, parenting contracts and penalty notices
As a parent you have a legal duty to make sure that your child receives education. A child is of compulsory school age between the ages of 5 and 16 - this runs from the start of the term after a child's 5th birthday until the last Friday in June in the school year in which they turn 16.
Schools must take an attendance register twice a day. Any absences will be recorded with a specific code depending on the type of absence. Absences fall into two main categories; authorised or unauthorised. Only the school, not parents can authorise absence. If you want leave of absence for your child you must ask for permission in advance. If your child is sick or for other unforeseen absence, you should let the school know as soon as possible.
Your child's headteacher can only authorise leave during term time in exceptional circumstances. it is unlikely that a request for a holiday during term time will be authorised unless you can show that there are exceptional circumstances in your case. Put your request in writing as early as possible. If the head refuses to authorise the absence and you go anyway, this will be an unauthorised absence. You may then risk a fine or prosecution for non-attendance.
If your child is sick, the absence should be authorised unless the school have genuine concern about the validity of the absence. Schools should accept parents' notes and not routinely ask for doctors' letters. However if the absence is long-term or repeated they may want proof that your child is genuinely unwell and unable to attend school. Keep copies of any appointment letters or medical reports.
If your child is too ill to attend school for more than 15 working days your local authority should be providing some education for them.
Often a problem at school or at home can lead to a child being reluctant to go to school or completely refusing to go. It's important to keep talking both to the school and to your child. Check whether any of the following reasons apply to your child as you may be able to get extra help:
Mental health problems including anxiety or depression. Ask the special educational needs co-ordinator about extra help in school. If the difficulties are severe your child might get alternative education as a child not well enough to attend school.
Things like family breakdown, bereavement, illness, housing problems, or being a young carer can affect your child. The school may be able to provide additional pastoral support.
There are a number of legal and other avenues that the school can pursue if your child fails to attend regularly. These range from a voluntary parenting contract to a fine or prosecution with a possibility of a custodial sentence in some cases.
Regular school attendance is important. By law all children of compulsory school age (five to sixteen) must receive a suitable full-time education. This could be at a school or other arrangements such as home schooling.
If your child is registered at a school, you are legally responsible for making sure they attend regularly. If you fail to do this, you risk getting a penalty notice or prosecution.
If you are having difficulties getting your child to attend regularly, talking to the school as early as possible and can help to solve any problems.
Your local authority can also help if you are struggling to ensure that your child goes to school. This is usually through the Education Welfare Service.