With Trump’s win, some women wonder: Will the US ever see a female president? Voters had the chance this election to break the highest glass ceiling in American politics by electing Kamala Harris the nation’s first female president. November 7 Harris says nation must accept election results...
They are named to the court by the chief justice of the United States Supreme Court, chosen from the nation's approximately 677 federal judges. Judge Saylor named to top secret intelligence court Judge John Roberts has been nominated to succeed the late William Rehnquist as chief justice of th...
His majority over Jefferson, who was elected to the vice-presidency, was very slight. An effort of this administration to negotiate a commercial treaty with France resulted in the celebrated “X Y Z” correspondence. In portions of the country there was opposition to the new taxes. A graver ...
resident of the state in which he or she is elected. The Senate is presided over by the vice president of the United States, who has no part in its deliberations and may vote only in case of a tie; in his absence his duties are assumed by a president pro tempore, elected by the ...
Executive power belongs to a governor, who is popularly elected for a term of two to four years; judicial power belongs to the state supreme court. All legislatures are bicameral, with the exception of Nebraska’s single-house legislature. Each state has set up its own system of local ...
Under the original plan, the person receiving the largest number of votes, provided it was a majority of the number of electors, would be elected president, and the person with the second largest number of votes would become vice president. If no one received a majority, the presidency of ...
The President of the United States is the leader of the free world, the President of the United States is the most sought after elected office in the world. The United States of America is the leading democratic society in the global conglomerate. The Office of the President has been held ...
It called for a president and a vice president, to be elected by the states (each state having one vote); a supreme court composed of the district judges; a unicameral congress (with the existing convention to continue as that body); the capital to be at Montgomery until the congress ...
The United States legislative branch of government is a bicameral Congress, which consists of the Senate (100 seats, 2 members are elected from each state by popular vote to serve six-year terms; one-third are elected every two years) and the House of Representatives (435 seats; members are...
Two Northern antislavery judges on the court bitterly attacked Taney’s logic and his conclusions. Acclaimed in the South, the Dred Scott decision was condemned and repudiated throughout the North. William H. SewardWilliam H. Seward, photographby Mathew Brady.(more) By this point many Americans...