Legislatures can sometimes overturn referendum results, as Schleswig-Holstein's did for the spelling reform, and courts have modified them.
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In the 18th century, Denmark was a great power, controlling much of Scandinavia, all of Schleswig-Holstein, and Iceland.
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Schleswig-Holstein plans to generate three times as much renewable energy as it consumes and to export the surplus south and west.
But it defied expectations, winning more than 8% of the vote in Schleswig-Holstein on May 6th and in NRW a week later.
The ceremony marked the exact time on 1 September 1939 when the German battleship Schleswig-Holstein opened fire at point-blank range on the fort.
Petri-Dom, originated in the twelfth century as a Romanesque basilica, and gradually grew in physical stature as the province of Schleswig-Holstein increased in worldly power.
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Her Christian Democrats (CDU) party was defeated in the Schleswig-Holstein elections.
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TenneT, which operates the grid in Schleswig-Holstein, wants to extend the wind park idea to the transmission network, offering stakes in a line along the west coast.
There has already been some consolidation among Landesbanks: the state banks in Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein joined forces earlier this month, and Bayerische Landesbank has swallowed the tiny Landesbank Saar.
State-level initiatives deal mainly with education and culture (a referendum in Schleswig-Holstein rejected German spelling reform) or the mechanics of democracy (Bavaria voted to abolish its Senate in 1998).
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At the time of the attack by the Schleswig-Holstein - which was moored in the Polish harbour on a friendship visit - Gdansk was known as the free city of Danzig.
Writing in the Lancet, Professor Martin Schrappe of the University Medical Centre Schleswig-Holstein said the 20% difference seen between the two groups was "one of the largest improvements ever achieved by a single modification of treatment".
And the Christian Democrats no longer seem so confident of continuing their string of electoral successes next spring, when they had been hoping to wrest control of both Schleswig-Holstein and North Rhine-Westphalia from the Social Democrats.
Indeed, he has upset many conservatives in Schleswig-Holstein, by opposing their campaign to curb immigration, by backing the retention of mixed-ability secondary schools, and by arguing that drug addicts should be treated as sick people rather than as criminals.
But this northernmost German state came back into the news when Thilo Weichert, the state's privacy commissioner, raised an issue of such complexity that it will make the first Schleswig-Holstein question look like a dot-to-dot coloring book in comparison.
Few survive to tell the tale of the German battleship, Schleswig-Holstein, unleashing a barrage of 280mm and 170mm shells at a Polish fort and shattering the dawn breaking over the Westerplatte peninsula in the free city of Danzig on 1 September 1939.
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