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2 days ago · The 115th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States of America federal government, composed of the Senate and the House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D.C., from January 3, 2017, to January 3, 2019, during the final weeks of Barack Obama's presidency and the first two years of Donald Trump's ...
5 days ago · The Center for the Study of Federalism is a nonpartisan, interdisciplinary research and education institution dedicated to supporting and advancing scholarship and public understanding of federal theories, principles, institutions, and processes as practical means of organizing power in free societies. Among other things, the Center publishes ...
4 days ago · Board of Education v. Earls, 536 U.S. 822 (2002) Coercive drug testing imposed by school districts upon students who participate in extracurricular activities does not violate the Fourth Amendment. Georgia v. Randolph, 547 U.S. 103 (2006) Police cannot conduct a warrantless search in a home where one occupant consents and the other objects.
4 days ago · Kentucky (1908) Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), [1] was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality. The decision partially overruled the Court's 1896 ...
- Warren, joined by unanimous
- Oliver Brown, et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka, et al.
2 days ago · v. t. e. Politics (from Ancient Greek πολιτικά (politiká) 'affairs of the cities') is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status. The branch of social science that studies politics and government is ...
1 day ago · The party favored centralization, federalism, modernization, industrialization, and protectionism. [2] [9] The Federalists called for a strong national government that promoted economic growth and fostered friendly relationships with Great Britain in opposition to Revolutionary France.
4 days ago · This can be understood as part of a broader constitutional drift away from competitive federalism towards cartel federalism (Blankart, 2000; Brennan & Buchanan, 1980; Greve, 2012, 2015; Salter, 2017; Wagner, 2014). While this shift has typically been analyzed in terms of reduced fiscal competition and therefore increased monopoly power when it ...
