OpenCongress - 113th Congress - Track bills, votes, senators, and representatives in the U.S. Congress. Supreme Law Library : Reference : White House Constitution : whuscons. The Constitution of the United States of America. We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Article I Section 1. All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives. Section 2. The House of Representatives shall be composed of members chosen every second year by the people of the several states, and the electors in each state shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the state legislature. When vacancies happen in the Representation from any state, the executive authority thereof shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies.
Section 3. The Senate shall have the sole power to try all impeachments. Section 4. Article V. Federal Laws. The Federalist Papers. The Same Subject Continued: The Union as a Safeguard Against Domestic Faction and Insurrection From the New York Packet.
Friday, November 23, 1787. Author: James Madison To the People of the State of New York: AMONG the numerous advantages promised by a well-constructed Union, none deserves to be more accurately developed than its tendency to break and control the violence of faction. The friend of popular governments never finds himself so much alarmed for their character and fate, as when he contemplates their propensity to this dangerous vice.
By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or a minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adversed to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community. The Rick Santorum that America doesn't know. Posted: Wednesday, January 4, 2012, 11:08 PM You’ve probably heard all the good ones about GOP presidential hopeful Rick Santorum by now. The one about his “Google problem.” The one about the “man-on-dog sex” (prompting the greatest journalistic response ever, when the reporter told Santorum that he was “sort of freaking me out.”)
The one about how the Catholic Church’s priest sex abuse scandal was caused by Boston liberalism, or the one about how President Obama should be anti-abortion because he’s black and abortion is like slavery. And so on and so forth. That’s the Rick Santorum that America has come to know over the last 15 years or so – an unapologetic and almost goofy culture warrior whose obsessions – like thinking that gay sex is a gateway drug to bestiality – make him a hero to social conservatives and often a laughing stock to most everyone else.
Here’s a Pennsylvanian’s brief guide to the Rick Santorum you don’t know: 1. 2. 3. 4. On the 25th Day of Wikileaks, My Government Gave to Me. Rulers. Fascist America: Have We Finally Turned The Corner? Photo Credit: JoelInSouthernCA April 30, 2012 | Like this article?
Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. America has never been without fascist wannabes. Given its rather stunning durability, it's probably time to acknowledge that this proto-fascist strain is a permanent feature of the American body politic. But it's also true that this faction's influence on the larger American culture ebbs and flows broadly over time. But the country's overall conservative drift since the Reagan years and the rise of the Internet (which enabled the right's network of regional and single-issue groups to crystallize into a single, unified, national right-wing culture over the course of the '90s and '00s) reenergized the extreme right as a political force.
Now, things are changing again. Fascist America: We Were Very Nearly There The last time I visited this subject in 2010, progressives were reaching a point of maximum despair. The United States House of Representatives · House.gov. CIA FOIA - Overview. Annotated Constitution Prototype TOC. Things That Are Not In the U.S. Constitution. Have you ever heard someone say, "That's unconstitutional!
" or "That's my constitutional right! " and wondered if they were right? You might be surprised how often people get it wrong. You might also be surprised how often people get it right. Your best defense against misconception is reading and knowing your Constitution. My District. Time Machine Take a trip through our data!
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