American Constitutional Law provides a comprehensive account of the nations defining document. Based on the premise that the study of the Constitution and constitutional law is of fundamental importance to understanding the principles, prospects, and problems of America, this text puts current events in terms of what those who initially drafted and ratified the Constitution sought to accomplish.
American Constitutional Law provides a comprehensive account of the nations defining document. Based on the premise that the study of the Constitution and constitutional law is of fundamental importance to understanding the principles, prospects, and problems of America, this text puts current events in terms of what those who initially drafted and ratified the Constitution sought to accomplish.
Supreme Decisions: Great Constitutional Cases and Their Impact covers twenty-three Supreme Court cases that have shaped American constitutional law. Interpretive chapters shed light on the nuances of each case, the individuals involved, and the social, political, and cultural context at that particular moment in history.
Chronicles key documents during the revolutionary era. Included are founding documents, speeches and political tracts, political sermons, and letters. Also included are Native American and African slave narratives.
This title examines the in-depth history of the first Continental Congress in 1774 and the first Federal Congress in 1789. Coverage dives into the impact and role in the shaping and foundation of early American Society and government.
Covers a wide spectrum of American history and culture, including political events, military history, sports, arts, entertainment, landmark legislation, and business. The book's concise entries, arranged from A to Z, bring the United States' past into sharp focus while also offering just plain useful facts about the well known and not so well known
From The American Economy: A Historical Encyclopedia
The Louisiana Purchase opened up the western expansion of the United States. In 1803, Thomas Jefferson instructed his special envoy Robert Livingston to negotiate with the French for access to the port of New Orleans once it was learned that the Spanish were in the process of ceding the territory back to the French.
From The American Economy: A Historical Encyclopedia
On January 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln declared that all slaves in areas of open rebellion were free. Although the Emancipation Proclamation did not have any immediate effect on the status of slaves in the Confederacy, after the Civil War the United States abolished slavery with the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution.
From The American Economy: A Historical Encyclopedia
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), established as an independent government agency in 1915, enforces antitrust laws and ensures that American businesses engage in fair competition. The five-member commission focuses on the prevention of interlocking directorates, monitors the acquisition of capital stock, and deals with issues such as false advertising. The FTC also enforces the Trust in Lending Act. The only industries that the commission does not have jurisdiction over are banks and common carriers.
From Conspiracy Theories in American History
In the following exchanges recorded on his secret tape recorder in the Oval Office, President Nixon and his advisors discuss what to do about the leak of the “Pentagon Papers,” a classified account of the development of the Vietnam War supplied to the New York Times by Daniel Ellsberg. Nixon considered that the leak was part of a conspiracy against his administration, and in order to stop such leaks, he initiated a group of agents called the “Plumbers.” As well as breaking and entering the office of Ellsberg’s psychoanalyst, the Plumbers later went on to carry out the Watergate burglary.
From the Library of Congress, this collection consists of a linked set of published congressional records of the United States of America from the Continental Congress through the 43rd Congress, 1774-1875
From The American Economy: A Historical Encyclopedia
Passed on July 13, 1787, the Ordinance of the Northwest Territory, commonly referred to as the Northwest Ordinance, established the procedures by which the western lands ceded to the national government by the states would form territorial governments. Congress appointed a governor, secretary, and three judges to administer the territory until the number of voting citizens reached 5,000.
Signed into law by the Northern Republican Congress during the Civil War, the Homestead Act allowed individuals who never raised arms against the United States to acquire 160 acres of public land for a nominal filing fee after five years of residency or for $1.25 per acre after just six months of residency.
From The American Economy: A Historical Encyclopedia
The Federal Reserve Act established the modern banking system of the United States. Designed to provide elasticity of the money supply and as a lender of last resort for banks, the Federal Reserve (Fed) regulates the money supply by increasing or decreasing interest rates. The Fed also acts as a clearinghouse for financial transactions. During its nine decades of operation, the policies of the Fed helped stabilize the U.S. economy.
From The American Economy: A Historical Encyclopedia
On January 3, 2008, President George W. Bush and Congress attempted to jumpstart the stalled U.S. economy with the passage of the Economic Stimulus Act. Under Title I of the Act, Congress authorized the payment of rebates to individual taxpayers (not estates, trusts, or corporations), ranging in amounts from $300 to $1,200 per household at an estimated cost from $50 to $150 million, as well as through incentives for business investment in the form of credit allowances for certain assets of up to either $250,000 or $800,000, depending on Internal Revenue Service classification.
Understanding the U.S. Constitution: the app from JSTOR
Understanding the U.S. Constitution is a free experimental app that links each section of the U.S. Constitution to the academic scholarship on JSTOR that quotes or cites it. Now available for iOS and Android, from JSTOR Labs.