The Council of Forty (Italian: Consiglio dei Quaranta), also known as the Quarantia, was one of the highest constitutional bodies of the Republic of Venice, with both legal and political functions as the supreme court.
The CouncilofForty (Italian: Consiglio dei Quaranta), also known as the Quarantia, was one of the highest constitutional bodies of the Republic of Venice...
assemblies: the Great Council, with legislative functions, which was supported by the Minor Council, the councilofForty and the Councilof Ten responsible...
decision-making of government took place in smaller councils, more capable of action. In the 13th century, the most important of these was the CouncilofForty, which...
1854 member of the CouncilofForty-four and chief of the Wotapio band of Southern Cheyenne, killed by George Armstrong Custer at Battle of Washita River)...
institutions of traditional Cheyenne tribal governance are the CouncilofForty-Four and the military societies, the Dog Soldiers. The CouncilofForty-Four is...
as Starving Bear, was a Cheyenne peace chief. He was a member of the CouncilofForty-four, a tribal governance devoted to maintaining peace with encroaching...
the traditional Cheyenne power structure, because of the deaths of eight members of the CouncilofForty-Four. White Antelope, One Eye, Yellow Wolf, Big...
of the two central institutions of traditional Cheyenne native American tribal governance, the other being the CouncilofForty-four. While council chiefs...
presidents, and managed by the CouncilofForty, all of whom are democratically elected by the people. The CouncilofForty is based on the parliamentary...
The prophet Sweet Medicine organized the structure of Cheyenne society, including the CouncilofForty-four peace chiefs and the warrior societies led by...
Minor Council, 25 members of the CouncilofForty, and two thirds of the Great Council; The Provision had to be verified and ratified with a Council vote...
a councilofforty bishops at Constantinople on November 8, 448, to resolve a dispute between the metropolitan bishop of Sardis and two bishops of his...
Minor Council, Senate and the CouncilofForty. Unlike other Italian cities, Venice retained some vestiges of their previous institution of the monarchy...
during the late 1870s. He was brought into the Chiefs CouncilofForty-four during the summer of 1864. He actively participated during Chief Little Wolf’s...
who served as the Doge of Venice from 1178 to 1192. He was elected by the CouncilofForty in 1178 following the retirement of Sebastiano Ziani. Prior...
an 18th-century New York street gang The Forty Thieves (New York City Common Council 1852–1853) the Forty Elephants, an all-female London criminal gang...
restored – a consiglio maggiore ("grand council") of four hundred members and a consiglio minore ("small council") offorty members – and it formed a league...
Dandolo became the new doge. He was the second doge to be chosen by a councilofforty electors. Already aged and blind, but deeply ambitious, he displayed...
Little is known of Black Kettle's life prior to 1854, when he was made a chief of the CouncilofForty-four, the central government of the Cheyenne tribe...
As chief, he signed the Treaty of Fort Laramie. He was chosen one of the "Old Man" chiefs among the CouncilofForty-four, a high honor in traditional...
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