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- Under the Constitution , senators serve a year term .
- Women finally received the right to vote in 1920 through the Amendment
- The leader of the House of Representatives is called the
- President- used the pardoning power to give unconditional amnesty to 10,000 men who had avoided the draft during the Vietnam War .
- The Pendleton Act established the principle of in federal hiring
- The judiciary was called the " least dangerous branch " by
- In 1789 there were justices sitting on the Supreme Court
- The president under Article II , has the power to make treaties limited by
- State legislatures lost their control over the selection of senators through the Amendment in 1913 , which provides for the direct election of senators
- In 1957 , a number of black leaders , including Martin Luther King , Jr. , established a new group to fight for civil rights based in the South called the
- The most important power that Congress has is the power to
- Among the devices used in southern states to prevent blacks from voting were
- Laws enacted by southern states that resulted in segregation by race were also known as
- When the NAACP began its litigation strategy to end segregation , it chose to begin by challenging segregation in
- The powers of the president that can be derived from specific powers listed in the Constitution are called powers .
- All cabinet departments are headed by a secretary except for the Department of
- The first major civil rights case to be considered by the Supreme Court was / were
- In 1857 the Supreme Court ruled that slaves were not citizens but property , in the case
- There was a tremendous national reaction to a novel published in 1852 on the evils of slavery The novel was called
- Article 1 , Section 8 gives Congress the power to pass all laws " necessary and proper " to carrying out its enumerated powers . This clause is also known as the