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An Act to continue in force, for a limited time, an act passed at the first Session of Congress, intituled “An act to regulate processes in the Courts of the United States.” Sess. 3, ch. 8 1 Stat. 191 (chapter 8) 9: Feb. 25, 1791: Representatives in Congress from Kentucky and Vermont.
The Midnight Judges Act (also known as the Judiciary Act of 1801; 2 Stat. 89, and officially An act to provide for the more convenient organization of the Courts of the United States) expanded the federal judiciary of the United States. [1] The act was supported by the John Adams administration and the Federalist Party. [1]
The National Banking Act of February 25, 1863, Sess. 3, ch. 58, was the 58th Act of the third session of the 37th Congress. The Global Anti-Semitism Review Act of 2004 of October 16, 2004, Pub. L. 108–332 (text), 118 Stat. 1282, was the 332nd Act of Congress (statute) passed in the 108th Congress. It can be found in volume 118 of the U.S ...
March 4, 1801: Thomas Jefferson became President of the United States. May 10, 1801: The pascha of Tripoli declared war on United States by having the flagpole on the consulate chopped down; March 16, 1802: West Point established; February 24, 1803: First time an Act of Congress was declared unconstitutional: U.S. Supreme Court case, Marbury v ...
July – Eli Whitney demonstrates before Congress the advantages of the system of interchangeable parts in the manufacture of firearms. August 1 – Action of 1 August 1801 ( First Barbary War ): United States Navy schooner USS Enterprise (1799) captures the 14-gun Tripolitan corsair polacca Tripoli off the north African coast in a single-ship ...
The District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801, officially An Act Concerning the District of Columbia (6th Congress, 2nd Sess., ch. 15, 2 Stat. 103, February 27, 1801), is an organic act enacted by the United States Congress in accordance with Article 1, Section 8 of the United States Constitution.
A Manual of Parliamentary Practice for the Use of the Senate of the United States, written by Thomas Jefferson in 1801, is the first American book on parliamentary procedure. As Vice President of the United States, Jefferson served as the Senate's presiding officer from 1797 to 1801. Throughout these four years, Jefferson worked on various ...
The University of Chicago Law Review 61 (1994): 775–865. online; Jillson, Calvin C., and Rick K. Wilson. Congressional Dynamics: Structure, Coordination, and Choice in the First American Congress, 1774–1789 (Stanford University Press, 1994) Martis, Kenneth C. (1989). The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress ...