On May 29, 1787, the third day of the Constitutional Convention, Virginia Governor Edmund Randolph submitted a proposal for a new form of government.…
“Police power” refers to the inherent and general authority of a state government to enact laws to protect the health, safety, and welfare of…
The federal government is a government of delegated powers, meaning that it has only those powers delegated to it by the Constitution. All other…
The federal government is a government of delegated powers, meaning that it has only those powers delegated to it by the Constitution. All other…
Instead of a totally unified central government with all legislative power, the U.S. Constitution created a federalist system with power divided between the national…
One of the early and ongoing disputes engendered by federalism was whether the federal government has the constitutional authority to develop economic infrastructure on…
Congress approved the Fifteenth Amendment in February 1869, and the required number of states ratified the amendment by March 1870. The amendment prohibited discrimination…
The first draft of the first amendments to the Constitution of the United States was the work of James Madison, who moved his proposed amendments in an…
One fundamental characteristic of the American constitutional system has been the precept that a law cannot discriminate among individuals who are essentially similar. Americans…
The Eleventh Amendment provides that “the Judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or…
The second and third sections of Article VI of the U.S. Constitution provide, The Constitution and the Laws of the United States which shall…
The Constitution of the United States, as originally written, contained only 7,000 words. However, the authors recognized the necessity of amending the document. The…
The American process for electing presidents is, at its heart, a federalist one. There is no centralized national popular vote for United States president.…
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