Findings from the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court indicate that the idea of adding justices would not create a balance in Constitutional interpretation.
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When studying Congress facts, we learn the entity was not established immediately after the end of the American Revolution.
The Constitution requires that the number of members each state sends to the U.S. House of Representatives be based its share of the population.
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Since independence in 1776, there have been more than 10,000 proposals to amend the constitution of the United States.
Part one is taken from the first part of the "Brutus's" 15th essay of The New-York Journal on March 20, 1788; Part two is part one of his 16th of the New York Journal of April 10, 1788.
The following was published in the Maryland Gazette and Baltimore Advertiser, March 7, 1788. The true identity of the author is unknown.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
The document explains the most important rights of the American people, and it is meant to protect citizens against the infringement of those rights by the government.
This essay is an excerpted from a speech of William Grayson, June 11, 1788, in Jonathan Elliot (ed.), The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution.
The writers in the collection were not anti-government as the name might imply; rather, they believed in a small, centralized (federal) government that gave citizens the rights we have today.
I am pleased to see a spirit of inquiry burst the band of constraint upon the subject of the NEW PLAN for consolidating the governments of the United States, as recommended by the late Convention.
These two appeals raise questions as to Pennsylvania and Rhode Island statutes providing state aid to church-related elementary and secondary schools.
“Soft money” contributions are sometimes called “nonfederal” contributions because they are given to political parties for purposes other than supporting candidates for federal office.
