U.S. Laws and Legislation

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First Lady Nancy Reagan expresses her feelings about drugs while riding horses with her husband, President Ronald Reagan.
The Illegalization of Marijuana: A Brief History
Nanci Pelosi standing at a podium with many people behind and beside her
The Contentious ACA
Photo of a smiling doctor
2/11/14: "Body Politics: The History of Health Care Policy"
The front of the National Security Administration in Fort Meade, MD
America’s Big Brother
The futuristic National Security Operations Center occupies a floor of the National Security Agency's headquarters in Fort Meade, Maryland.
America's "Big Brother": A Century of U.S. Domestic Surveillance
Young Child dressed in a Uncle Sam costume
Coming to America to Contribute
2012 United States presidential election results map by county.svg
Blocking the Will of the Majority Is a Fundamental Feature of the U.S. Constitutional System
The Eve of Destruction: How 1965 Transformed America, by James T. Patterson Book Cover.
Capturing a Moment
The Works Progress Administration employed some Spanish-Americans from New Mexico, as seen here, to work in road gangs.
When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America
Logo of General Motors.svg
The Federal Government Should Hold On To General Motors
Elderly Mennonite couple in Pennsylvania.
Should Age Matter? How 65 Came to Be Old and Old Came to Be Ill
School Lunch Politics: The Surprising History of America's Favorite Welfare Program, by Susan Levine Book Cover
Playing Politics with Our Children's Health
Cover of Sexual Injustice Supreme Court Decisions from Griswold to Roe by Marc Stein.
The Sexual Revolution that Wasn’t Quite
The political cartoon that led to the coining of the term Gerrymander.
Re-mapping American Politics: The Redistricting Revolution Fifty Years Later
Children eating a meal as part of the School Lunch program at a classroom in Maryland. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Deputy Under Secretary Dr. Janey Thornton is present for an event to launch International School Meals Day on March 8, 2013. The class is video conferencing to a school in Ayrshire, Scotland, with some of their children visible on the screens.
Today’s School Feeding Programs Grew Out of the “Penny Lunch” Tradition of a Century Ago
Hundreds of people who lost jobs when freezing weather hit California in January 2007 line up to register for the Disaster Unemployment Assistance program funded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Down and Out (Again): America’s Long Struggle with Mass Unemployment
An Honored Medal: 1862-1896 Version of the Medal of Honor. Army Heritage Museum Collection.
Medal of Honor Upgrades Are Rare — And Should Be Rare
"The Magnet Citizenship" March 1917 cartoon by Henry Mayer - Moving Picture Weekly (1915-1920)
U.S. Citizenship Is Based on Principles, Not Heritage
100 and 10 US dollars banknotes.
Inflation — Fighting the Last War
War News from Mexico (1848).
“Hostilities” and War Powers: Let’s Choose the Constitution
Headline in The Philadelphia Inquirer of November 16, 1919, reporting the first use of cloture by the United States Senate.
The Founders Cared about the Majority Principle
Taxation without Representation, Suffrage Collection.
Death, Taxes, and the American Founders
John Quincy Adams.
WikiLeaks Reveals a Professionalism of Recent Vintage in the History of American Diplomacy
A soldier stands guard at the U.S.-Mexican border in 1916.
The Summer of ’10: Federal Power, Local Autonomy, and the Struggle over Immigration Policy