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vakbonden --- vakbondsgeschiedenis --- Verenigde Staten van Amerika.
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digitale publicaties --- arbeid --- Verenigde Staten van Amerika.
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"Congress is the most open branch of the federal government, and its members labor to provide constituent services and court the news media, but because they speak with many voices they have long operated at a disadvantage against the singular image of the president. This very short introduction to Congress offers a concise explanation of how the Congress operates and provides historical context for its evolution. As a national forum, congressional debates and compromises have sought not only to enact laws but to forge national consensus behind them. Congress writes all federal laws, appropriates all federal funds, and checks and balances the executive and judicial branches. Its constitutional powers, structures, and procedures have remained remarkably consistent for more than two centuries. Yet Congress has often been criticized for obstructing or not standing up to the presidency, and for neglecting or delaying pressing national needs. This short introduction highlights the rules, precedents, and practices of the Senate and House of Representatives. It offers glimpses into their committees and floor proceedings to reveal the complex processes in which they enact legislation. It considers how members are elected and reelected, and the role of campaigns, lobbying, staff, and the media in legislative business. It also examines the changing demography of Congress, with the election of more women and racial and ethnic minorities, and their impact on the legislative process, in an era when a woman serves as Speaker of the House and African Americans chair key committees"-- "Many scholars believe that the framers of the Constitution intended Congress to be the preeminent branch of government. Indeed, no other legislature in the world approaches its power. Yet most Americans have only a murky idea of how it works. In The U.S. Congress, Donald A. Ritchie, a congressional historian for more than thirty years, takes readers on a fascinating, behind-the-scenes tour of Capitol Hill--pointing out the key players, explaining their behavior, and translating parliamentary language into plain English. No mere civics lesson, this eye-opening book provides an insider's perspective on Congress, matched with a professional historian's analytical insight. After a swift survey of the creation of Congress by the constitutional convention, he begins to unscrew the nuts and pull out the bolts. What is it like to campaign for congress? To attract large donors? To enter either house with no seniority? He answers these questions and more, explaining committee assignments (and committee work), the role of staffers and lobbyists, floor proceedings, parliamentary rules, and coalition building. Ritchie explores the great effort put into constituent service--as representatives and senators respond to requests from groups and individuals--as well as media relations and news coverage. He also explores how the grand concepts we all know from civics class--checks and balances, advise and consent, congressional oversight--work in practice, in an age of strong presidents and a muscular Senate minority (no matter which party is in that position). In this sparkling addition to Oxford's Very Short Introduction series, Donald Ritchie moves beyond the cynicism and the platitudes to provide a gem of a portrait of how Congress really works"--
Etats-Unis. Congress --- United States. Congress --- Verenigde Staten. Congress --- 214 Parlement --- Verenigde Staten --- United States.
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"This book begins with the emergence of peoples in North America and traces their stories to the beginning of the early twentieth-first century. The narrative rests on the premise that indigenous nations retain sovereign rights, and it explores the ways in which contests over those rights shaped their histories"-- "When Europeans first arrived in North America, between five and eight million indigenous people were already living there. But how did they come to be here? What were their agricultural, spiritual, and hunting practices? How did their societies evolve and what challenges do they face today? Eminent historians Theda Perdue and Michael Green begin by describing how nomadic bands of hunter-gatherers followed the bison and woolly mammoth over the Bering land mass between Asia and what is now Alaska between 25,000 and 15,000 years ago, settling throughout North America. They describe hunting practices among different tribes, how some made the gradual transition to more settled, agricultural ways of life, the role of kinship and cooperation in Native societies, their varied burial rites and spiritual practices, and many other features of Native American life. Throughout the book, Perdue and Green stress the great diversity of indigenous peoples in America, who spoke more than 400 different languages before the arrival of Europeans and whose ways of life varied according to the environments they settled in and adapted to so successfully. Most importantly, the authors stress how Native Americans have struggled to maintain their sovereignty--first with European powers and then with the United States--in order to retain their lands, govern themselves, support their people, and pursue practices that have made their lives meaningful. Going beyond the stereotypes that so often distort our views of Native Americans, this Very Short Introduction offers a historically accurate, deeply engaging, and often inspiring account of the wide array of Native peoples in America"--
am.n 943 --- geschiedenis --- Verenigde Staten --- indianen --- cultuurgeschiedenis - Verenigde Staten --- Indians of North America
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Politieke campagnes --- Presidenten --- Verenigde Staten --- Verkiezingen --- Verenigde Staten. --- verkiezingen --- 2008. --- Politiek --- 2001-2009. --- Obama, Barack.
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Inhoudsopgave : -- Marbury v. Madison (1803) -- Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1819) -- McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) -- Gibbons v. Ogden (1824) -- Barron v. Baltimore (1833) -- Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) -- Ex parte Milligan (1866) -- United States v. E.C. Knight Co. (1895) -- Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) -- Lochner v. New York (1905) -- Schenck v. United States (1919) -- Near v. Minnesota (1931) -- United States v. Curtiss-Wright Export Corp. (1936) -- National Labor Relations Board v. Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp. (1937) -- Korematsu v. United States (1944) -- Everson v. Board of Ed. of Ewing (1947) -- Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas (1954) -- Mapp v. Ohio (1961) -- Baker v. Carr (1962) -- Gideon v. Wainwright (1963) -- Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States (1964) -- Griswold v. Connecticut (1965) -- Miranda v. Arizona (1966) -- United States v. Nixon (1974) -- Bush v. Gore (2000).
Constitutional law --- Grondwettelijk recht --- Verenigde Staten --- Verenigde Staten --- cases. --- Supreme Court. --- United States.
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