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• Alphabetical List of Entries
  * [[Admission of New States]] * [[Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967]]
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• Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967
  ...rcumstances. The issues addressed in these several laws included the types of prohibited practices, entities to which the legislation applied, age limits ...nto their Fair Employment Practices Acts. By 1967, 24 states had some form of prohibition against age bias in the workplace.
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• Calhoun, John C.
  ...ed home, practiced law, and served as a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1808 to 1809. ...nationwide network of roads and canals. Calhoun also supported the Tariff of 1816 to eliminate the increased national debt due to the war and to protect
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• Dual Citizenship
  ...be a citizen of two, or even more, nations. Finally, one can be a citizen of an indigenous group such as Native American tribes. In many respects, then, ...he extension of federal court jurisdiction to disputes between “citizens of different states” (Article III, Section 2).
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• Federal-State Relations
  ...he constitutional clauses structuring the federal-state relationship, some of which are not very clear and some have been the basis for major controversi ...gained by clicking the hyperlinks in this entry and the topics at the end of this entry.
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• Fifteenth Amendment
  ...ce, color, or previous condition of servitude.” While it extended voting rights to African Americans across the nation, it faced a long road to actually be ...unterattack by whites toward the now-freed slaves and believed that voting rights would enable black Americans to act with political force. Finally, some Rep
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• Johnson, Lyndon B.
  ...created a short-lived coalition that led to the rapid passage of an array of new intergovernmental programs to carry out his vision. These programs prod [[File:Johnson, Lyndon B..png|thumb|Lyndon B. Johnson. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.]]
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• Presidency
  ...upreme Court and cabinet officers, recommending measures for consideration of Congress, and approving or vetoing the bills that Congress passes. ...al College, or if there were a tie, the choice was to be made by the House of Representatives from among the five leading candidates, with each state hav
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• States’ Rights
  ...s is the philosophical governing belief, hearkening back to the [[Articles of Confederation]], that [[State Government|state governments]] are equal to, ...Articles of Confederation symbolized the first expression of “states’ rights.”
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• U.S. Congress
  As the legislature of the U.S. government, the Congress both embodies [[federalism]] and influenc === THE SENATE AS REPRESENTATIVE OF THE STATES ===
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• USA PATRIOT Act of 2001
  ...s '''R'''equired to '''I'''ntercept and '''O'''bstruct '''T'''errorism Act of 2001. ...Senate Bill 1510, the “USA Act” (Uniting and Strengthening America Act of 2001) was submitted.
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• Voting Rights Act of 1965
  ...pened voting participation primarily in the American South after a century of legal and social restrictions. The federal government assumed supervision o ...964. The focus of this enforcement was particularly on the southern states of Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, a
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• Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder, 570 U.S. 529 (2013)
  ...Voting Rights Acts of 1982 and 2006 did not make any adjustments in voting rights formulas. Districts that in the 1960's and 1970's had voting tests and low ...claim, Shelby County appealed to the [[U.S. Supreme Court|Supreme Court]] of the United States.
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