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2. Government procurement in the United States - Wikipedia

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   In the United States, the processes of government procurement enable federal, state and local government bodies in the country to acquire goods, services (including construction), and interests in real property. [1] Contracting with the federal government or with state and local public bodies enables interested businesses to become suppliers in ...

3. Contract Clause - Wikipedia

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   Common good constitutionalism. v. t. e. Article I, Section 10, Clause 1 of the United States Constitution, known as the Contract Clause, imposes certain prohibitions on the states. These prohibitions are meant to protect individuals from intrusion by state governments and to keep the states from intruding on the enumerated powers of the U.S ...

4. Article Five of the United States Constitution - Wikipedia

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   Constitutionof the United States. Article Five of the United States Constitution describes the procedure for altering the Constitution. Under Article Five, the process to alter the Constitution consists of proposing an amendment or amendments, and subsequent ratification. Amendments may be proposed either by the Congress with a two-thirds vote ...

5. Consideration under American law - Wikipedia

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   Consideration is the central concept in the common law of contracts and is required, in most cases, for a contract to be enforceable. Consideration is the price one pays for another's promise. It can take a number of forms: money, property, a promise, the doing of an act, or even refraining from doing an act. In broad terms, if one agrees to do ...

6. Changes clause - Wikipedia

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   The Changes clause allows the contractor to propose changes to the work. This can result in more efficient contract performance. The Changes clause permits the government to ask for something new without the overhead of conducting a new procurement. The limitation of the government's right to make changes to those changes deemed to be "within ...

7. Lochner v. New York - Wikipedia

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   Lochner v. New York, 198 U.S. 45 (1905), was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court holding that a New York State statute that prescribed maximum working hours for bakers violated the bakers' right to freedom of contract under the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. [1]