US Government and Politics

There are exactly 100 United States senators, two from each of the 50 states. This total has been fixed by the Constitution and Senate rules since 1913, when the Seventeenth Ame...

Enumerated powers of Congress are the specific authorities explicitly listed in the U.S. Constitution, primarily in Article I, Section 8, while implied powers are unlisted autho...

The Three-Fifths Compromise counted three-fifths of the enslaved population for congressional apportionment and the Electoral College. This boosted the number of seats and presi...

Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States, was never impeached. Although questions about his conduct and controversies such as the Bank War and the Nullificatio...