in your own words Choose an Idea—Name the idea for a new law or policy you selected from the spinning wheel. Explain Your Idea—Why would this idea make a good law? Use complete sentences to explain. Summarize the Discussion—Discuss the idea with a trusted adult. Write down some thoughts or details about the idea from your discussion. Use complete sentences. Explain the Process—Finish filling in the steps your idea would have to go through to become a law at both the federal and state levels of government. Federal State 1. You write your federal representative or senator about your idea. 1. You write your state legislator about your idea. 2. 2. 3. 4. 3. Committees debate and edit the bill. 5. The bill goes to the House for action. 4. 6. 5. The state Senate approves the bill. 7. 6. Think Local—How is the lawmaking process at a local level different from the state or federal government? Use complete sentences.

1. temperance, abolitionist, suffragist

the dissolution of the soviet union[a] occurred on december 26, 1991, officially granting self-governing independence to the republics of the soviet union. it was a result of the declaration number 142-н of the supreme soviet of the soviet union.[1] the declaration acknowledged the independence of the former soviet republics and created the commonwealth of independent states (cis), although five of the signatories ratified it much later or did not do so at all. on the previous day, december 25, soviet president mikhail gorbachev, the eighth and final leader of the soviet union, resigned, declared his office extinct, and handed over its powers – including control of the soviet nuclear missile launching codes – to russian president boris yeltsin. that evening at 7: 32 p.m., the soviet flag was lowered from the kremlin for the last time and replaced with the pre-revolutionary russian flag.[2]

previously, from august to december, all the individual republics, including russia itself, had either seceded from the union or at the very least denounced the treaty on the creation of the ussr. the week before formal dissolution, 11 republics signed the alma-ata protocol formally establishing the cis and declaring that the ussr had ceased to exist.[3][4] both the revolutions of 1989 and the dissolution of the ussr also marked the end of the cold war.

several of the former soviet republics have retained close links with the russian federation and formed multilateral organizations such as the commonwealth of independent states, eurasian economic community, the union state, the eurasian customs union, and the eurasian economic union to enhance economic and security cooperation. on the other hand, the baltic states have joined nato and th