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.
There are two methods of curing the mischiefs of faction: the one, by removing its causes; the other, by controlling its effects. 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. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. On the 25th Day of Wikileaks, My Government Gave to Me. Rulers. Fascist America: Have We Finally Turned The Corner? | Tea Party and the Right. 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. Research by Political Research Associates estimates that, at any given time in our history, roughly 10-12 percent of the country's population has been bred-in-the-bone right-wing authoritarians -- the people who are hard-wired to think in terms of fascist control and order.
Our latter-day Christian Dominionists, sexual fundamentalists and white nationalists are the descendants -- sometimes, the literal blood descendants -- of the same people who joined the KKK in the 1920s, followed Father Coughlin in the 1930s, backed Joe McCarthy in the early '50s, joined the John Birch society in the '60s, and signed up for the Moral Majority in the 1970s and the Christian Coalition in the 1990s. But it's also true that this faction's influence on the larger American culture ebbs and flows broadly over time. 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. A lot of people presume a lot of things about the Constitution. One critique of this page is that it is full of nit-picks. The Air Force The Constitution was ratified in 1787, long, long before the advent of the airplane.
Congressional Districts Congressional Districts divide almost every state in the United States into two or more chunks; each district should be roughly equal in population throughout the state and indeed, the entire country. The Electoral College The concept of the presidential elector is certainly in the Constitution, but never is the group of people collectively referred to as "The Electoral College. " Executive Orders Executive Privilege God Marriage. My District. Time Machine Take a trip through our data!
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