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Constitutionality of house of Congress passing separate bills and then combining them without vote on full bill
On April 20, 2024, the US House of Representatives passed a foreign aid package for Ukraine, Israel, Indo-Pacific, and miscellaneous other matters, which it plans to send to the Senate as one bill. ...
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Why is Spain not legislating vaccine-status check measures, after executive attempts to impose those were defeated in courts?
According to The Local (ES):
The reasoning of [Spanish] judges, both regional and national, is that having to prove Covid vaccination, testing or recovery status to enter a bar or visit a museum ...
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Why does H.R.335 not mention the nominee's name?
To my understanding, H.R.335 which became Public Law No: 117-1. was a bill before the United States House of Representatives which would provide an exception to 10 U.S. Code § 113 (a) in order to ...
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Why can the Legislative Branch delegate its confirmation authority of inferior officers, but not its impeachment authority of said officers?
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In the United States, all "Inferior officers" must be confirmed by the Senate, unless the confiring authority is delegated as per Article 2 Section 2 Clause 2 of the constitution:
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If Boris Johnson announces his resignation on 19 October 2019 what happens?
From this BBC article Could a no-deal Brexit still happen on 31 October?
Could the government scrap the law?
The bill states that it is the prime minister himself who would have to request an ...
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Is there precedent for proceedings on a Bill to be declared void because it should have received Queen's Consent, but didn't?
Wikipedia mentions that
If a bill is mistakenly allowed to progress even though the required [Queen's] consent was not signified and the error is discovered before Royal Assent has been given, the ...
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Has a US Supreme Court Justice ever drafted a bill and submitted it to Congress?
Argentina's Constitution was heavily inspired by the US Constitution. Recently, the biggest piece of Argentine legislation passed in decades was authored by the members of Argentina's Supreme Court, ...
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How is it that the US Senate is issuing "appropriation" bills?
According to the US Constitution all appropriation bills must originate in the House of Representatives.
Yet, I just read a news story that described the Senate as passing a "Senate appropriation ...
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US Constitution: who participates in Constitutional Conventions?
I am trying to understand the process of amending the U.S. Constitution. I believe I understand the usual process of amendments (2/3 of Congress, 3/4 of state legislatures), but I don't quite get how ...
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Did any founding father endorse unicameralism or at least bring up concerns about the deadlock risks of bicameralism?
Overall, the founding fathers of the United States supported bicameralism; after all that's what we actually have today. However, no body of august statesmen and scholars all agree on anything, so:
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