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Commission on the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution, Washington, DC. – 1988
The questions that observers of Congress have posed throughout U.S. history continue to confront citizens: how have the constitutional powers of Congress adapted to new conditions, and how has this affected Congress's relations with the other branches of government. Congress, in its constitutional design, is part of the remedy for the problems of…
Descriptors: Constitutional History, Constitutional Law, Federal Government, Governmental Structure
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Direct linkLandman, James H. – Social Education, 2006
The ABA Division for Public Education asked a panel of experts--Joyce Baugh, Mary Dudziak, Michael Gerhardt, Timothy Johnson, John Maltese, Mark Moller, Jason Roberts, Elliot Slotnick, and David Yalof--to respond to questions about the judicial nomination process. These questions touched on the balance between the president and the Senate, the…
Descriptors: Public Education, Internet, Computer Mediated Communication, Social Studies
Landman, James H. – Social Education, 2006
One week after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the Congress passed an Authorization for the Use of Military Force (The Authorization) that authorized the president--"... to use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist…
Descriptors: Presidents, National Security, Terrorism, Armed Forces
Download full textCommission on the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution, Washington, DC. – 1988
Article III of the U.S. Constitution called for a federal judiciary that would dispense and administer justice in accordance with the principles on which the United States was founded. There was considerable ambivalence among the Founding Fathers as to what was the appropriate role for the judiciary, an ambivalence that has continued to the…
Descriptors: Constitutional History, Constitutional Law, Court Role, Courts
Commission on the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution, Washington, DC. – 1988
Even though the first citizens of the United States were skeptical about singular authority, the Constitution gave the president independent authority and strong powers. But as chief executive, he would be responsible to the people for the exercise of those powers. The modern presidency is a product of 200 years of growth and experience, yet much…
Descriptors: Constitutional History, Constitutional Law, Federal Government, Governmental Structure
Morrison, James D. – 1978
The pressure of removal of all Indians from the eastern states and territories to the undeveloped West caused the Indians of the Five Civilized Tribes to re-frame their basic institutions, including their governments, in an attempt to conform with Anglo American ideas of what was "civilized". Both the Choctaws and Cherokees established…
Descriptors: American Indian Reservations, American Indians, Civil Liberties, Community Control
