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4 days ago · Second Amendment, amendment to the Constitution of the United States, adopted in 1791 as part of the Bill of Rights, that provided a constitutional check on congressional power under Article I Section 8 to organize, arm, and discipline the federal militia. The Second Amendment reads, “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security ...
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U.S. National Guard, reserve group organized by the U.S....
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Anti-Federalists, in early U.S. history, a loose political...
- John G. Roberts, Jr
John G. Roberts, Jr., 17th chief justice of the United...
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Samuel A. Alito, Jr. (born April 1, 1950, Trenton, New...
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Under Chief Justice Earl Warren in the 1960s, the concept of...
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2 days ago · The Civil Rights Act was a highly controversial issue in the United States as soon as it was proposed by Pres. John F. Kennedy in 1963. Although Kennedy was unable to secure passage of the bill in Congress, a stronger version was eventually passed with the urging of his successor, Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson, who signed the bill into law on July 2 ...
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- The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was intended to end discrimination based on race, color, religion, or national origin in the United States. The act ga...
- The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed into law on July 2, 1964, by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.
- The Civil Rights Act of 1964 had been proposed by U.S. President John F. Kennedy in 1963.
2 days ago · On June 11, President Kennedy made the decision to give a televised evening speech announcing his civil rights bill proposal. Although Kennedy delivered part of the talk extemporaneously, it was one of his best speeches--a heartfelt appeal in behalf of a moral cause that included several memorable lines calling upon the country to honor its ...
2 days ago · The Civil Rights Act of 1964 ( Pub. L. 88–352, 78 Stat. 241, enacted July 2, 1964) is a landmark civil rights and labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, [a] and national origin. [4] It prohibits unequal application of voter registration requirements, racial segregation in schools and ...
5 days ago · President Lyndon B. Johnson Meets with Martin Luther King Jr. in the White House, 1963. President Lyndon B. Johnson Meets with Martin Luther King Jr., December 3, 1963. Photograph by Yoichi R. Okamoto. Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library and Museum.
6 hours ago · Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital has secured $25 million after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the state budget last week.
2 days ago · e. Lyndon B. Johnson 's tenure as the 36th president of the United States began on November 22, 1963, upon the assassination of president John F. Kennedy, and ended on January 20, 1969. He had been vice president for 1,036 days when he succeeded to the presidency. Johnson, a Democrat from Texas, ran for and won a full four-year term in the 1964 ...
