official recognition

Examples of official recognition in the following topics:

• Confederate Diplomacy

  • During its four-year existence, the Confederate States of America actively sought official recognition and aid from European powers, particularly Britain and France.
  • The United States government considered the Southern states to be in rebellion and refused to grant formal recognition of the Confederacy as a sovereign state.
  • Mid-war parlays between the two sides occurred without formal political recognition despite the fact that laws of international war governed military relationships on the ground.
  • They were unofficially interviewed, but neither secured official recognition for the Confederacy.
  • Throughout the early years of the war, British Foreign Secretary Lord John Russell, Emperor Napoleon III of France, and, to a lesser extent, British Prime Minister Lord Palmerston, showed interest in recognition of the Confederacy or at least in mediation of the war.

• International Diplomacy

  • Seward, worked to block this and threatened war if any country officially recognized the existence of the Confederate States of America.
  • Recognition of the Confederacy seemed at hand, but Lincoln released two detained Confederate diplomats, tensions cooled, and the Confederacy gained no advantage.
  • But the Union victory at the Battle of Antietam and internal opposition of British abolitionists resulted in no British recognition.
  • Representatives to Britain and France were unofficially interviewed but did not offer official recognition for the Confederacy.
  • Confederate offers late in the war to end slavery in return for diplomatic recognition were not seriously considered by London or Paris.

• The Development of Holidays

  • Following Jackson's election as president, the day earned official national recognition.
  • The Eighth continued as an official national holiday from 1828 until the Civil War.
  • The establishment of official federal holidays acted as a cultural signifier that both mirrored other areas of the world and distinguished the United States as its own country.
  • By marking an official day to celebrate people (such as the first president of the United States) and events (such as the day Americans gained independence from Britain and formed the new nation, and the day Andrew Jackson was victorious over the British army in New Orleans), these holidays fostered a sense of patriotism in the American public.

• Religious Denominations

  • In Christianity, non-denominational institutions or churches are those not formally aligned with an established denomination or those that remain otherwise officially autonomous.
  • Non-denominational congregations may establish a functional denomination via mutual recognition by other congregations with commonly held doctrine, policy, and worship—without formalizing external direction or oversight in such matters.

• Diplomacy

  • Diplomatic recognition is an important element of diplomacy because recognition often determines whether a nation is an independent state.
  • Receiving recognition is usually difficult, even for countries which are fully sovereign.
  • This was not always the case, with the U.S. maintaining official diplomatic ties with the ROC.
  • On some occasions a former holder of an official position might continue to carry out an informal diplomatic activity after retirement.
  • Explain how diplomatic recognition and informal diplomacy are tools of foreign policy

• The Power of Incumbency

  • The incumbent often has more name recognition because of their previous work in the office they occupy.
  • For most political offices, the incumbent often has more name recognition due to their previous work in the office.
  • An anti-incumbent vote is one exercised against elected officials currently in power.
  • It allows the voters to register their discontent with sitting government officials, particularly when protesting against certain actions taken by the government or the elected officials in question.

• Interstate Relations

  • Four states use the official name of Commonwealth, rather than State.
  • The states are required to give full faith and credit to the acts of each other's legislatures and courts, which is generally held to include the recognition of legal contracts, marriages, criminal judgments, and before 1865, slavery status.

• Peace Overtures and the Evacuation of Philadelphia

  • The commission was authorized to negotiate with the Continental Congress as a body, representing a change in official British government policy, which had previously been willing to treat only with individual colonies.
  • Congress rejected the peace terms, which did not include recognition of the Declaration of Independence.

• Japanese Art in the Meiji Period

  • In 1907, with the establishment of the Bunten exhibition under the aegis of the Ministry of Education, both competing groups found mutual recognition and co-existence and even began the process towards mutual synthesis.
  • Western style painting (Yōga) was officially promoted by the government, who sent promising young artists abroad for studies.
  • In the 1880s, western style art was banned from official exhibitions and was severely criticized by critics.

• Landrum-Griffin Act

  • The Landrum-Griffin Act of 1959 is a U.S. labor law regulating labor unions' internal affairs and officials' relationships with employers.
  • The Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 (also "LMRDA" of the "Landrum-Griffin Act"), is a United States labor law that regulates labor unions' internal affairs and their officials' relationships with employers.
  • Congress also amended the National Labor Relations Act, as part of the same piece of legislation that created the LMRDA, by tightening the Taft-Hartley Act's prohibitions against secondary boycotts, prohibiting certain types of "hot cargo" agreements, under which an employer agreed to cease doing business with other employers, and empowering the General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board to seek an injunction against a union that engages in recognitional picketing of an employer for more than thirty days without filing a petition for representation with the NLRB.
  • Ultimately, the act's technical failures were exploited by both the courts and union officials—most famously the Teamsters, whose president, Jimmy Hoffa, among others, notably raided the union pension coffers for his own personal investments.