Federal elections in the US have been held on the first Tuesday of November ... US President Barack Obama takes the official oath of office from US Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, as he is ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link During Donald Trump's first term as president, he appointed three ...

The presidential election of 1788, the first under the newly minted Constitution, was unusual and even unique in ways that ...

Five or six of them are in a world where they have a very narrow set of social contacts with America, let alone the outside ...

In all but five, two in this century, the president has won both the popular votes and the Electoral College votes.

The framers envisioned a limited federal government with strong state autonomy, but the modern U.S. government is far more centralized and expansive, reflecting the rise of execut ...

The average lifespan of a constitution, often called a "living document," has not increased to the same extent over the last two centuries. Wars, internal conflicts, economic crises, and political ...

In September 1789, Congress passed the United States Judiciary Act and George Washington signed it. It established the federal court system and committed this country to the rule of law.

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When the U.S. Supreme Court oh, so wrongly somehow saw fit to strike down a century-old law covering gun licensing in State, ...

The Supreme Court,” Frederick Douglass told a civil rights meeting in 1883, “is the autocratic point in our national ...

Donald Trump plans to address illegal immigration by reinstating the ’remain in Mexico’ policy and Title 42, detaining all ...