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	Constitution of the United States - MSN Encarta
		Congress enacts laws, leaving enforcement of the laws to the executive branch and interpretation of them to the judicial branch.
		Georgia in favor of the Cherokees in a treaty dispute with the United States.
		United States the court struck down a federal gun control law that required state officials to conduct a background check on gun buyers.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761569008_3/Constitution_of_the_United_States.html (1954 words)

	Segregation in the United States - MSN Encarta
		After the war, the nation adopted three constitutional amendments—the 13th (1865), ending slavery; the 14th (1868), making fls citizens of the United States and prohibiting state laws that denied citizens equal protection under the laws; and the 15th (1870), prohibiting racial discrimination in voting.
		The codes were slightly different from state to state, but they usually contained limitations on fl occupations and property owning, and vagrancy laws under which fls could be forced to work for whites if they were considered unemployed.
		Congress, especially its Republican members, wanted to ensure that the South was rebuilt with the newly freed fls as viable members of society.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761580651/Segregation_in_the_United_States.html (2450 words)

	Congress of the United States - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		The Congress of the United States is the legislative branch of the federal government of the United States.
		The Vice President of the United States is ex officio the President of the Senate; he or she has no vote except in the case of a tie.
		Thus, the current Congress (whose term lasts from 2005 to 2007) is known as the "109th Congress"; the previous Congress (whose term lasted from 2003 to 2005) was the "108th Congress," and so forth.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/u/s/U.S._Congress_7589.html (5154 words)

	ipedia.com: United States Constitution Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Constitution of the United States Supreme law of the United States of America The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States of America and is the oldest written nationa...
		The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States of America and is the oldest written national constitution still in force.
		Congress approved these amendments as a block of twelve in September 1789, and the legislatures of enough states had ratified ten of those twelve by December 1791; they thereupon become part of the nation's highest legal document.
	www.ipedia.com /united_states_constitution.html (3880 words)

	LII: Constitution
		All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.
		No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
		But neither the United States nor any state shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.
	www.law.cornell.edu /constitution/constitution.amendmentxiv.html (219 words)

	1United States vs. 2United States vs.3united States of America (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		United States citizens wherever they reside in the several states, or elsewhere, and their rights are subject to Congress' exclusive legislative authority.
		"United States" means "federal areas" within the fifty states of the Union which are ceded to the "United States" and under the municipal authority of the Congress seated in Washington, D.C., but it does not include the entire geographical areas of the several states of the Union.
		"United States" are: Congress assembled at home (the seat of government), the District of Columbia and its territories (termed States in the IRS Code) and its possessions (ceded areas, military posts, navy yards, etc.) called federal enclaves.
	www.wealth4freedom.com /truth/united_states_defined.htm (2565 words)

	United States Constitution information - Search.com
		Congress lacked any power to impose taxes, and, because there was no national executive or judiciary, it relied on state authorities, who were often uncooperative, to enforce all its acts.
		It also provides for the office of Vice President of the United States, and specifies that the Vice President succeeds to the presidency if the President is incapacitated, dies, or resigns, although whether this succession was on an acting or permanent basis was unclear until the passage of the 25th Amendment.
		Of the 35 states ratifying it, four later rescinded their ratifications prior to the extended ratification period which commenced March 23, 1979 and a fifth—while not going so far as to actually rescind its earlier ratification—adopted a resolution stipulating that its approval would not extend beyond March 22, 1979.
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	The Constitution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Congress may determine the time of choosing the electors, and the day on which they shall give their votes; which day shall be the same throughout the United States.
		A person charged in any state with treason, felony, or other crime, who shall flee justice, and be found in another state, shall, on demand of the executive authority of the state from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the state having jurisdiction of the crime.
		Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
	www.theunitedstatesconstitution.com (4096 words)

	Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution - dKosopedia
		Amendment XIV (the Fourteenth Amendment) of the United States Constitution is one of the post-Civil War amendments and includes the due process and equal protection clauses (Section 1).
		Many states modeled their constitution and laws after the federal government of the United States, but state constitutions did not necessarily entail provisions like the Bill of Rights.
		The second section establishes rules for the apportioning of representatives in Congress to states, essentially making the proportion of that state's representation equal to that state's proportion of the nation's population excluding males under the age of 21, the disenfranchised, and Indians who do not pay taxes.
	www.dkosopedia.com /index.php/14th_Amendment (832 words)

	CITES BY TOPIC: United States
		The term "people," therefore, in that State, means, first, all the citizens of the State in the aggregate (i.e., the members of the body politic), and secondly, the body politic itself; and while in the former sense it is plural, in the latter sense it is singular.
		The original difference between "United States" and "Union" was that, while the former was concrete, the latter was abstract; and hence it is that the latter cannot be substituted for the former when used in its original sense.
		United States — means by default, all places and waters, continental or insular, subject to the sovereign jurisdiction of the United States under Article 1, Section 8, Clause 17 of the Constitution of the United States of America.
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	The United States Constitution - The U.S. Constitution Online - USConstitution.net
		Adjournment) shall be presented to the President of the United States; and before the Same shall take Effect, shall be approved by him, or being disapproved by him, shall be repassed by two thirds of the Senate and House of Representatives, according to the Rules and Limitations prescribed in the Case of a Bill.
		Imposts, laid by any State on Imports or Exports, shall be for the Use of the Treasury of the United States; and all such Laws shall be subject to the Revision and Controul of the Congress.
		The Congress may determine the Time of chusing the Electors, and the Day on which they shall give their Votes; which Day shall be the same throughout the United States.
	www.usconstitution.net /const.html (5137 words)

	Amendments to the Constitution of the United States — FactMonster.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by citizens of another State, or by citizens or subjects of any foreign state.
		This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by convention in the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission thereof to the States by the Congress.
		The right of citizens of the United States, who are 18 years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of age.
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0749825.html (2012 words)

	15th United States Congress at AllExperts
		The Fifteenth United States Congress was a meeting of the United States national legislature, comprised of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives.
		The apportionment of seats in this House of Representatives was based on the Third Census of the United States in 1810.
		In this Congress, Class 1 meant their term began in the last Congress, requiring reelection in 1820; Class 2 meant their term began with this Congress, requiring reelection in 1822; and Class 3 meant their term ended with this Congress, requiring reelection in 1818.
	en.allexperts.com /e/0/15th_united_states_congress.htm (661 words)

	The History Place - A New Nation
		It provides for the eventual establishment of three to five states in the area north of the Ohio River, to be considered equal with the original 13.
		The upper house (Senate) to be composed of nominees selected by state assemblies for six year terms; the lower house (House of Representatives) to be elected every two years by popular vote.
		The state, fearful of consolidated federal power, had refused to send a delegation to the constitutional convention in Philadelphia and had subsequently rejected a state convention to consider ratification.
	www.historyplace.com /unitedstates/revolution/rev-nation.htm (2305 words)

	NationMaster - American Energy statistics
		Puerto Rico and the Northern Marianas are commonwealths of the United States.
		The social structure of the United States, a capitalist country, is highly stratified, with a large proportion of the wealth of the country controlled by a small fraction of the population which exerts disproportionate cultural and political influence.
		The United States is also a great center of higher education, boasting more than 1,500 universities, colleges, and other institutions of higher learning, the top tier of which may be considered to be among the most prestigious and advanced in the world.
	www.nationmaster.com /country/us-united-states/ene-energy (323 words)

	CNN.com - States determine marriage laws - Jan. 13, 2004
		Courts in Alaska followed Hawaii's lead, and in those two states the court decisions were followed by the adoption of constitutional amendments limiting marriage to heterosexual couples.
		The Hawaii ruling prompted several states to pass pre-emptive laws forbidding gays from marrying, often also barring the recognition of a same-sex marriage performed in another state.
		Congress passed DOMA in 1996 and two years later voters in Hawaii approved a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages.
	edition.cnn.com /2003/LAW/11/18/states.marriage.laws (304 words)

	14th United States Congress - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Fourteenth United States Congress was a meeting of the United States national legislature, comprised of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives.
		The apportionment of seats in this House of Representatives was based on the Third Census of the United States in 1810.
		In this Congress, Class 1 meant their term began with this Congress, requiring reelection in 1820; Class 2 meant their term ended with this Congress, requiring reelection in 1816; and Class 3 meant their term began in the last Congress, requiring reelection in 1818.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/14th_United_States_Congress (1179 words)

	Timeline: The United States (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Eventually, Missouri is admitted as a slave state, balanced by the admission of Maine as a free state.
		May 25: in response to petitions calling on Congress to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia, the House of Representatives implements the “gag rule,” automatically tabling abolitionist petitions.
		14th Amendment to the Constitution defines a citizen as anyone born in the U.S. (except Native Americans) or naturalized, thereby extending all rights of citizenship to African Americans.
	amistad.mysticseaport.org /timeline/united.states.html (1956 words)

	United States History - Radical Reconstruction
		Escape from permanent military government was open to those states that established civil governments, took an oath of allegiance, ratified the 14th Amendment and adopted fl suffrage.
		The Radical Republicans in Congress were infuriated by President Johnson's vetoes (even though they were overridden) of legislation protecting newly freed fls and punishing former Confederate leaders by depriving them of the right to hold office.
		In many of these seven reconstructed states, the majority of the governors, representatives and senators were Northern men -- so-called "carpetbaggers" -- who had gone South after the war to make their political fortunes, often in alliance with newly freed African Americans.
	countrystudies.us /united-states/history-68.htm (663 words)

	Constitution for the United States of America
		The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, chosen by the Legislature thereof [Modified by Amendment XVII], for six Years; and each Senator shall have one Vote.
		The conventions of a number of the States having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added.
		For purposes of representation in the Congress, election of the President and Vice President, and article V of this Constitution, the District constituting the seat of government of the United States shall be treated as though it were a State.
	www.constitution.org /cons/constitu.htm (4568 words)

	United States Congress (Harpers.org)
		Congress passed an official secrets act that criminalized the disclosure of any “properly classified” government secrets, including revelations of illegal acts by criminals who happen to be government officials.
		Congress was working to cut "gold plated" items from the administration's request for the reconstruction of Iraq; among the items at issue were 40 new $50,000 garbage trucks and $9 million for a new postal zone system.
		Congress approved a major Medicare bill that permits the elderly to buy prescription drug coverage; few citizens were able to understand the plan, though the health-care industry appeared to be well pleased by it.
	www.harpers.org /Congress.html (4119 words)

	United States House of Representatives, 110th Congress, 1st Session
		United States House of Representatives, 110th Congress, 1st Session
		Access the Laws of the United States »
		Search Thomas by bill text or number, the Congressional Record, or the legislative archive.
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	United States District Court - District of Maine
		Serving as a juror is a fundamental obligation we all share as citizens of the United States.
		Only by having individuals, such as yourself, participating in the process we can be ensured that all litigants in federal court will be afforded the constitutional right of having their case heard by a jury of their peers.
		The United States Constitution guarantees the right to a trial by jury in both criminal and civil cases.
	www.med.uscourts.gov /juror/juryfaq.htm (1823 words)

	14th Amendment to the Constitution Was Ratified
		On July 28, 1868, the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified.
		The amendment grants citizenship to "all persons born or naturalized in the United States" which included former slaves who had just been freed after the Civil War.
		The amendment had been rejected by most Southern states but was ratified by the required three-fourths of the states.
	www.americaslibrary.gov /jb/recon/jb_recon_revised_1.html (97 words)

	List of United States Congresses - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This is a complete list of the individual congresses of the United States Congress.
		Congressional Record dates for all sessions of Congress through the convening of the 108th Congress (January 7, 2003)
		Federal depository library, Library of Congress, The Hill, Roll Call, THOMAS
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_United_States_Congresses (364 words)

	United States Constitution
		States cannot be sued in federal court (appeals can go up to fed court, they just can't start there).
		The Constitution gives exactly zero authority to the federal gov't over public schools, but Congress learned a long time ago that the way around this is to get states hooked on federal subsidies (i.e., highway funds) and then threaten to remove the subsidies for any state that refuses to comply with whatever they want.
		It was perfectly legal for the states to enact, for instance, sedition laws (and many Southern states did just that in the period before the Civil War, making it a crime to advocate abolition of slavery).
	c2.com /cgi/wiki?UnitedStatesConstitution (1997 words)

	14th United States Congress - State Delegations - WikiLeasing.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The 'Fourteenth United States Congress' was a meeting of the United States national legislature, comprised of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives.
		It met in the old Brick Capitol in Washington, DC from March 4, 1815 to March 3, 1817, during the last two years of the second administration of.S. President James Madison.
		The apportionment of seats in this House of Representatives was based on the Third CCensus of the United States in 1810.
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