Once the new Constitution was ratified, George Washington was elected to become the United States’ first president. However, even after Washington had been elected, Congress remained unsure about whether it was right to address him as “president.” This was largely because the head of the ...
At a recent company retreat, a colleague and I were nerding out (as is our wont) and debating a question: Just how many elected officials are there in the United States in total? It's an easy question to start answering—you begin with the president and v...
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Themembers of the U.S. Senate-confirmed FRBare considered an independent agency of the federal government.4The Fed has a statutory mandate to maximum employment and stable prices at moderate long-term interest rates, and the FRB chair and other officials frequently testify before Congress. However...
Jan. 20: By noon on this day, the Constitution says a new presidential term begins. If Congress has not yet certified a winner of the presidential election, federal law designates an acting president based on which elected officials are in office. If there is no president or vice ...
What many people don’t understand is that, as the Washington Post put it at the time of the firing, “the First Amendment protects people from adverse actions by the government, but it does not generally apply to actions by private employers.” There is, after all, no guarantee of employ...
aMeanwhile the United States had already had an ongoing census for ten years. It was authorized in the Constitution for the purpose of deciding how many members of Congress would be needed for a fair representation of the American people. 同时美国已经有一次持续的人口调查十年。 它在宪法被批准了...
For example, 54% of Americans back some kind of Confederate monuments reform, including 24% who are strongly in favor, the report found. There was little difference among the states – with 22% of those in Southern states strongly supporting reform, compared to 25% of people in ...
There are many singer/songwriter moments that border on Latin indie:"WELTiTA"is an actual collaboration with Puerto Rican indie band Chuwi; "TURiSTA" is a sensitive bolero sung to a past lover. "En mi vida fuiste turista / tu solo viste lo mejor de mi y no lo que yo s...
The charter of the First Bank of the United States was for 20 years (1791-1811).3 J.P. Morgan and the Panic of 1907 After many decades of lacking a central bank, it was J.P. Morgan who ultimately forced the government into acting on the central banking plans it had been ...