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A political union is a type of political entity which is composed of, or created from, smaller polities, or the process which achieves this. These smaller polities are usually called federated states and federal territories in a federal government; and prefectures, regions, or provinces in the case of a centralised government.
The nature and power of organized labor in the United States is the outcome of historical tensions among counter-acting forces involving workplace rights, wages, working hours, political expression, labor laws, and other working conditions.
[35] [37] On the political front, the shrinking unions lost influence in the Democratic Party, and pro-Union liberal Republicans faded away. [38] Union membership among workers in private industry shrank dramatically, though after 1970 there was growth in employees unions of federal, state and local governments.
Creation of a "Union Party" was a frequent proposition in the decade preceding the American Civil War. During the presidency of Millard Fillmore, Daniel Webster and others envisioned the Union Party as a vehicle for political moderates to support the Compromise of 1850 against attacks from abolitionists and secessionist Fire-Eaters.
Personal union (Iberian Union) with Kingdom of Portugal (1580–1640). Personal union with the Free and Independent State of Cundinamarca (modern-day Colombia ) (1810–1813), according to the Constitution of this country, which was not recognized by the Spanish Crown , which still considered these territories to be part of the Viceroyalty of ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Constitution spells it out clearly in Article II, Section 3: The president “shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the union, and ...
A continental union is a regional organization which facilitates pan-continental integration. [citation needed] Continental unions vary from collaborative intergovernmental organizations, to supranational politico-economic unions. Continental unions are a relatively new type of political entity in the history of human government.
A confederation, in modern political terms, is usually limited to a permanent union of sovereign states for common action in relation to other states. [5] The closest entity in the world to a confederation at this time is the European Union.