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These presidential candidates didn’t need to secure more popular votes to win election, due to the Electoral College. Read more How the Electoral College Was Nearly Abolished in 1970 The House approved a constitutional amendment to dismantle the indirect voting system, but it was killed in the ...
Senate Dems and Republicans have just agreed to jettison a $50 billion fund in the financial reform bill that would have been used to wind down operations of a failing bank. Republicans had created a smokescreen by alleging that the fund could be used for more bailouts. They don’t want th...
1920: The Nineteenth Amendment women's right to vote On Aug. 18, 1920, women were empowered like never before in the United States after the 19th Amendment was passed. After a fight for women's rights that began more than a century before, the Nineteenth Amendment the women's right to v...
U.S. legislation in 1919 passed the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution to prohibit the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages. The National Prohibition Act was ratified Jan. 16 and originally vetoed by President Woodrow Wilson, only to be overruled by Congress with a 287...
The amendment added new parameters determining what technology is banned from being sold to China, and some of those additions seem tailored to measuring how advanced chiplets are. While chip factories around the world are not restricted from producing less-advanced chips for China, the Commerce ...
PART I-THE 'WHY' An analysis of the legislation and case law which has created the needfor an Equal Rights Amendment By MARGUERITE RAWALT* The United States SupremeCourt is the final interpreter of what the Constitution means.Rwalt, Marguerite...
When it was over last night in Iowa City, the Hawkeyes had scored more runs than they had in any previous Big Ten game in history. The scoreboard read Iowa-30 Indiana-16. A baseball game with a score that read like it was played at Kinnick Stadium instead of Duane Banks Field....
On March 22, 1972, the Equal Rights Amendment was passed in the Senate. Some women who will inspire you Summersalt creators on why female founders shouldn't be too 'realistic' Throughout the month of March,TODAY.comis celebrating women across generations who have made history and continue to...
Because of the serious nature of codicils and their power to change the entire will, two witnesses are usually required to sign when a codicil is added, much like when the original will was created. Some states, however, have loosened the legal regulations surrounding codicils and now allow...