Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions
See Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions
Federalists
The Constitutional Convention elaborated what some of its participants already called “federation” in place of “confederation”; subsequently the new system came to be known…
Albany Plan
The Albany Congress was held in 1754 to bring the colonies together to coordinate with one another and with Britain and Indian allies in…
Franklin, Benjamin
Benjamin Franklin was the most original and versatile of the founders in his Federalist ideas. Impressed by the nearby Iroquois Confederation and by the…
Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933
The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) represented the first significant effort by the federal government to directly improve the earnings of American farmers. Enacted on…
United States v. Butler (1936)
United States v. Butler (1936) involved a challenge to the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933, a major New Deal program that attempted to stabilize…
New Deal
America experienced severe social, political, and economic turmoil in the three years after the onset of the Great Depression (1929). Immediate pressures for economic…
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Wyoming (1983)
In Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Wyoming (1983), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (ADEA) and…
Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967
The federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA–P.L. 90-202) was enacted in 1967 to protect workers against discrimination based exclusively on their age. Age…
Age Discrimination
Age discrimination is like other forms of discrimination (e.g., race, gender, and class) that lead to differential treatment of individuals. Age bias is based…
Social Security Act of 1935
The Social Security Act of 1935 was actually titled the Economic Security Act but rather quickly came to take on the name of its…
