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The first presidential and vice presidential terms to begin on the date appointed by the Twentieth Amendment were the second terms of President Roosevelt and Vice President Garner, on January 20, 1937. As Section 1 had shortened the first term of both (1933–1937) by 43 days, Garner thus served as vice-president for two full terms, but he did ...
The Enforcement Act of 1870, also known as the Civil Rights Act of 1870 or First Ku Klux Klan Act, or Force Act (41st Congress, Sess. 2, ch. 114, 16 Stat. 140, enacted May 31, 1870, effective 1871), is a United States federal law that empowers the President to enforce the first section of the Fifteenth Amendment throughout the United States.
Section 20, fictional branch of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) in the Strike Back universe; Section Twenty of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms; Section 20 of the Indian Penal Code; Significant sections numbered 20 in legislation: Section 20A of the (South African) Sexual Offences Act, 1957; Section 20 of the UK's Children Act 1989
The single-subject rule is a rule in the constitutional law of some jurisdictions that stipulates that some or all types of legislation may deal with only one main issue. One purpose is to avoid complexity in acts, to avoid any hidden provisions that legislators or voters may miss when reading the proposed law.
Section 2 (now 3 U.S.C. § 5) gives each state an opportunity to resolve disputes relating to the appointment of electors if a state has enacted a law before Election Day [20] that provides for a "final determination" of such disputes by "judicial or other methods or procedures," and such "determination" is made "at least six days before the ...
Section 20 provides for leaseholders to be consulted before maintenance and improvement costs can be recovered from leaseholders and assured tenants. Where the landlord is a contracting authority for public procurement purposes, the conduct of compliant consultation needs to be interwoven with a procurement exercise compliant with the Public ...
An Act to establish a new congressional budget process; to establish Committees on the Budget in each House; to establish a Congressional Budget Office; to establish a procedure providing congressional control over the impoundment of funds by the executive branch; and for other purposes. Enacted by: the 93rd United States Congress: Effective
A bill that is passed by both houses of Congress is presented to the president. Presidents approve of legislation by signing it into law. If the president does not approve of the bill and chooses not to sign, they may return it unsigned, within ten days, excluding Sundays, to the house of the United States Congress in which it originated, while Congress is in session.