Barack Hussein Obama II served as the 44th President of the United States (2009-2017). Barack Obama’s presidency continued and strengthened the trend of executive-federalism…
President Ronald Reagan’s (1911–2004) importance in the consideration of American federalism is attributable to executive branch policies that diminished the federal government’s funding and…
Born on January 9, 1913, in Yorba Linda, California, Richard M. Nixon would become the thirty-seventh president of the United States. Nixon attended Whittier…
See Civil Rights Act of 1875; Civil Rights Act of 1964
As chief justice of the United States from 1801 until his death in 1835, John Marshall of Virginia played a formative role in establishing…
A national power to regulate commerce, along with the closely connected need for national revenues, was the most immediate cause of the Philadelphia Convention…
From June 18 to July 14, 1798, the Federalist Party in Congress passed four acts regulating the press and controlling the activities of aliens,…
See Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions
The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) represented the first significant effort by the federal government to directly improve the earnings of American farmers. Enacted on…
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…
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…
The Social Security Act of 1935 was actually titled the Economic Security Act but rather quickly came to take on the name of its…
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