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The sovereign citizen movement originated from a combination of tax protester ideas, 1960s-70s radical and racist anti-government movements [20] and pseudolaw, which has existed in the U.S. since at least the 1950s. [6] Their belief in the illegitimacy of federal income tax gradually expanded to challenging the legitimacy of the government. [3] The concept of a "sovereign citizen" whose rights ...
Online shopping is a form of electronic commerce which allows consumers to directly buy goods or services from a seller over the Internet using a web browser or a mobile app. Consumers find a product of interest by visiting the website of the retailer directly or by searching among alternative vendors using a shopping search engine, which displays the same product's availability and pricing at ...
A spinoff in television is a new series containing characters or settings that originated in a previous series, but with a different focus, tone, or theme. For example, the series Frasier was a spinoff of the earlier series Cheers: the character Frasier Crane was introduced as a secondary character on Cheers, and became the protagonist of his own series, set in a different city, in the spinoff ...
The Black Codes, also called the Black Laws, were racially discriminatory U.S. state laws that limited the freedom of Black Americans but not of White Americans. The first Black Codes applied to " free Negroes," i.e., black people who lived in states where slavery had been abolished or who lived in a slave state but were not enslaved. After chattel slavery was abolished throughout the United ...
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) fired about 6,000 to 7,000 probationary employees. [97] These layoffs, occurring during the peak tax-filing season, have raised concerns about potential delays in tax return processing, reduced customer service, and diminished enforcement capabilities [98] during a critical period. [97]
8coupons' augmented reality view on the iPhone app Users can receive alerts regarding nearby deals based on the categories they select or switch to an augmented reality view on an iPhone that overlays a brief description of the offer and its relative location to the user. Registered users can view deals/coupons and opt to receive coupon alerts via text message from merchants in categories they ...
Kyoto International Conference Center The Kyoto Protocol (Japanese: 京都議定書, Hepburn: Kyōto Giteisho) was an international treaty which extended the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) that commits state parties to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, based on the scientific consensus that global warming is occurring and that human-made CO 2 emissions are ...
Three students in Indonesia wearing uniforms Although often used interchangeably, there is an important difference between dress codes and school uniforms: according to scholars such as Nathan Joseph, clothing can only be considered a uniform when it " (a) serves as a group emblem, (b) certifies an institution's legitimacy by revealing individual's relative positions and (c) suppresses ...