Statutory driving while intoxicated in New York permits the Government to accuse you of driving while intoxicated based upon scientific proof of the level of alcohol present in your blood. Under current New York State law, the point at which you are intoxicated is when your blood alcohol level is .08 percent or above. Proof of this blood alcohol level can be accomplished by evidence of any one of a variety of tests a person accused of driving while intoxicated can be asked to take after arrest.
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He also wrote an influential work on the merits of republicanism, known as the Discourses on Livy. Machiavelli grew up in the Italian city-state of Florence, which had been ruled by the Medici family for 60 years. In 1494, the Medicis were expelled from Florence and the city was instead set up as a republic. Machiavelli had been raised with a humanistic education and was an excellent writer and speaker. He was selected to be the Second Chancellor of Florence, and successfully led a militia of civilian-soldiers to victory over Pisa in 1509.