As they are today. Alaska and Hawaii were the last to be granted statehood in 1959
Pinckney's Treaty
The Treaty of Paris (1783)
The 13th Amendment
After the Philippine-American War, the US governed the Philippines as a US possession. As it had promised to do before the war, after World War 2 the US granted independence to the Philippines.
(in the US) there isn't one nationwide standard for attaininig adult legal status. This is left to the individual states to decide.
The US has borrowed the word Senate from Rome, but apart from that there is very little similarity. America has a bicameral representative government elected by universal adult franchise and a leader with proscribed powers appointed by an electoral college. Rome had a hereditary senate augmented by ex-magistrates, with three popular assemblies each with different areas of authority, based on adult male franchise.
It was never granted, the US fought for it (and succeeded).
Howmany dollar does it cost to open a Mister Donut franchise in the US?
Universal Airlines - US - was created in 1966.
Mcdonald's
One can find information about franchise opportunities in the US by going to a website such as Entrepreneur and reading all the information about franchises and how to register as a franchise. Other websites include specific businesses such as Subway, which offer a Franchise program.
There isn't a procedure because Toys R Us doesn't franchise. All its stores are company-owned.
yes
"Extending the franchise" in the U.S. meant giving more people the right to vote.
As of the 2007 NFL Season the Dallas Cowboys are the world's richest sports franchise with $1.5 Billion.
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