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The Clara Barton Homestead, where Barton was born in Massachusetts is open to the public as a museum. A stamp with a portrait of Barton and an image of the American Red Cross symbol was issued in 1948.
In 2006, two additional amendments to the Tennessee State Constitution were passed. The Tennessee Marriage Protection Amendment specifies that only marriages between a man and a woman can be legally recognized in the state of Tennessee. The amendment was approved by 81% of Tennesseans participating in the vote, which was 30.91% of eligible ...
The Clara Barton National Historic Site, which includes the Clara Barton House, was established in 1974 to interpret the life of Clara Barton (1821–1912), an American pioneer teacher, nurse, and humanitarian who was the founder of the American Red Cross. The site is located 2 miles (3.2 km) northwest of Washington D.C. in Glen Echo, Maryland.
A dedication ceremony was held Tuesday along the Hagerstown Cultural Trail for the new Clara Barton Memorial by sculptor Toby Mendez.
The Government of Tennessee is organized under the provisions of the 1870 Constitution of Tennessee, first adopted in 1796. [1] As set forth by the state constitution, administrative influence in Tennessee is divided among three branches of government: executive , legislative , and judicial .
The East Tennessee Convention was an assembly of Southern Unionist delegates primarily from East Tennessee that met on three occasions during the Civil War.The convention most notably declared the secessionist actions taken by the Tennessee state government on the eve of the war unconstitutional, and requested that East Tennessee, where Union support remained strong, be allowed to form a ...
If Tennessee's amendment 1 passes, it would cement the state's right-to-work law in the constitution, a move unions oppose and business leaders support.
The Tennessee Constitutional Amendment: 1, commonly known as Amendment 1 or the No State Constitutional Right to Abortion and Legislative Power to Regulate Abortion Amendment, is an approved legislatively referred constitutional amendment to the Constitution of Tennessee that appeared on the ballot on November 4, 2014. [2]