Within the same year, 1789, both the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and the American Bill of Rights were drafted.
Even President Bush wouldn't dream of repealing the American Bill of Rights.
They are taking over from Expedition One - American Bill Shepherd and Russians Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei Krikalev - who have been living on the platform for nearly five months.
Federer will play for a sixth consecutive US Open title on Monday, which would American Bill Tilden's record of the 1920s, and a 16th Grand Slam title that would extend his own all-time record.
Federer, 28, was seeking his sixth consecutive U.S. Open win, which would have equaled the feat achieved in 1925 by American Bill Tilden, who then went on to claim his seventh U.S. Open title in 1929.
American Bill Tilden achieved fame and fortune through his tennis exploits and befriended Hollwyood stars such as Charle Chaplin, but he spent over a year in jail in the 1940s on a morals charge, which ruined his reputation before his untimely death in 1953.
The pair join an elite list of those already given the accolade, including rock group U2, Mother Teresa and former American president Bill Clinton.
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After the American farm bill last year, and the EU's anaemic efforts to reform its common agricultural policy, the Doha round had looked set to fail.
You can see a video interview with him here, in which he describes being inspired by the generosity of American billionaires Bill Gates and Warren Buffett.
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These pro-growth solutions, such as Paul Ryan's sound plan to deal with the deficit, include tax relief for individuals, families and small businesses, a comprehensive American energy bill and real health-care reform that lowers costs and improves care.
In addition, he demanded the right to call scores of high-level witnesses in his defence, including former American president Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Britain's prime minister, Helmut Kohl, former Chancellor of Germany, Kofi Annan, the UN General Secretary, and Madeleine Albright, the former American secretary of state.
Because otherwise, we're going to be selling the American people a bill of goods.
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Later this month the American president, Bill Clinton, is due to visit the country.
So too, alas, does the incrementalist approach of that other American actor, Bill Clinton.
It repeats the aims expressed by the two previous American presidents, Bill Clinton in December 2000 and George Bush in April 2004.
To be fair, American individuals are big givers (witness the generosity of Bill Gates and many American churches).
And it ignores a far greater unfairness: sticking the American taxpayer with the bill.
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"There's still plenty of time in the leasing season, " American Campus Chief Executive Bill Bayless pointed out.
Only one (implausible) event might bring about rapid, and real, competition: a sudden surge of interest by the average American in his electricity bill.
Nor is he yet a great philanthropist: his pledge to leave 10% of his estate to charity pales beside the promise to give away most of their wealth made by signatories of the Giving Pledge for American billionaires launched by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett.
Ford is working on its third North American turnaround effort since Bill Ford took over as chief executive in 2001. (Last week, he handed over the chief executive s title to former Boeing executive Alan Mulally , but Ford remains executive chairman.) Bill Ford conceded in July that his latest plan, launched in January, didn t go far enough or fast enough.
The House of Representatives had a buy-American provision in the stimulus bill, which, thankfully, the Senate diluted.
An American patriot knows that the Bill of Rights is not a suicide pact.
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Russia even got the American taxpayer to foot the bill through IMF and other loans.
And by giving money to rich American farmers, the farm bill does little for the poor here.
Actress Eve Myles returns as Gwen Cooper, and American actors Mekhi Phifer, Bill Pullman and Alexa Havins join the cast.
Now, there are a lot of other ways that this jobs bill, the American Jobs Act, will help this economy.
And secondly, on your jobs bill, the American people are sick of games -- and you mentioned games in your comments.
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"We're involved because of our work on the retirement savings of American workers, " says Bill Patterson, director of the union's office of investment.
President Bill Clinton barred American companies from doing business with Sudan in a 1997 executive order establishing U.S. trade sanctions that remain in force.
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