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The Speaker of the House is second in the presidential line of succession, after the Vice President and ahead of the President pro tempore of the Senate.…
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You've heard of the CIA and NSA... how about the NGA? That's the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency by the way (formerly known as the National…
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Article II of the U.S. Constitution gives the President the power to grant pardons. Does this power have limits? Or did the founders give the the…
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What is a U.S. territory? What is the status of its citizens with regard to the Constitution and U.S. law? Doug Mack, author of The Not-Quite States of…
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“Obstruction of Justice” has been a term swirling around in the headlines lately, but what does the charge actually mean? And how do you prove it? We’re…
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The separation of church and state is widely considered to be a building block of American democracy, but what did the founders really have in mind when…
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When discussing the political power of special interest groups, you can't help but talk about lobbying. But what does a lobbyist actually do? We know they…
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When a monarch dies, power stays in the family. But what about a president? It was a tricky question that the founders left mostly to Congress to figure…
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The United States is described as a republic, a federation, and a constitutional democracy. So, what is it? Are those terms interchangeable? And, while…
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Presidential job approval. It seems we get a weekly report from news organizations on how citizen’s think the President is doing, so we're digging into…