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Chambre des représentants des États-Unis
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Parti anti-maçonnique
thumb|150px|William Wirt (1772-1834), ancien procureur général des États-Unis, fut le candidat du Parti anti-maçonnique lors de l'élection présidentielle de 1832. thumb|150px|John C. Spencer, qui avait enquêté en tant que procureur sur la disparition de Morgan, fut désigné porte-parole (chairman) du parti en 1831. thumb|150px|L'ancien président John Quincy Adams adhéra au mouvement anti-maçonnique, dont il fut un des représentants au Congrès (1831-39) ainsi qu'un des délégués (1837).
Party conference
The terms party conference (UK English), political convention (US and Canadian English), and party congress usually refer to a general meeting of a political party. The conference is attended by certain delegates who represent the party membership. In most political parties, the party conference is the highest decision-making body of the organization, tasked with electing or nominating the party's leaders or leadership bodies, deciding party policy, and setting the party's platform and agendas.
Speaker (politics)
The speaker of a deliberative assembly, especially a legislative body, is its presiding officer, or the chair. The title was first used in 1377 in England. The title was first recorded in 1377 to describe the role of Thomas de Hungerford in the Parliament of England. The speaker's official role is to moderate debate, make rulings on procedure, announce the results of votes, and the like. The speaker decides who may speak and has the powers to discipline members who break the procedures of the chamber or house.
Contract with America
The Contract with America was a legislative agenda advocated for by the Republican Party during the 1994 congressional election campaign. Written by Newt Gingrich and Dick Armey, and in part using text from former President Ronald Reagan's 1985 State of the Union Address, the Contract detailed the actions the Republicans promised to take if they became the majority party in the United States House of Representatives for the first time in 40 years. Many of the Contract's policy ideas originated at The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank.
History of the Republican Party (United States)
The Republican Party, also known as the GOP (Grand Old Party), is one of the two major political parties in the United States. It is the second-oldest extant political party in the United States after its main political rival, the Democratic Party. In 1854, the Republican Party emerged to combat the expansion of slavery into American territories after the passing of the Kansas–Nebraska Act. The early Republican Party consisted of northern Protestants, factory workers, professionals, businessmen, prosperous farmers, and after the Civil War, former black slaves.
Declaration of war by the United States
A declaration of war is a formal declaration issued by a national government indicating that a state of war exists between that nation and another. A document by the Federation of American Scientists gives an extensive listing and summary of statutes which are automatically engaged upon the United States declaring war. For the United States, Article One, Section Eight of the Constitution says "Congress shall have power to ... declare War.
Committee of the whole
A committee of the whole is a meeting of a legislative or deliberative assembly using procedural rules that are based on those of a committee, except that in this case the committee includes all members of the assembly. As with other (standing) committees, the activities of a committee of the whole are limited to considering and making recommendations on matters that the assembly has referred to it; it cannot take up other matters or vote directly on the assembly's business.
Scrutin direct
Le scrutin direct est une opération de vote dont le système d'élection permet aux électeurs de choisir directement la ou les personnes, qu'ils souhaitent voir élues. Le suffrage direct peut être uninominal (un seul individu est élu) ou plurinominal (plusieurs individus sont élus). Il peut être proportionnel (le nombre d'élus est lié au nombre de votes obtenus), comme pour les élections du Parlement européen, ou majoritaire (un ou plusieurs candidats emportent l'élection s'il emporte le plus de voix) comme pour le deuxième tour des élections présidentielles françaises où la majorité absolue est requise pour le futur président.
Term limits in the United States
In the United States, term limits, also referred to as rotation in office, restrict the number of terms of office an officeholder may serve. At the federal level, the 22nd Amendment to the United States Constitution limits the president of the United States to two four-year terms. State government offices in some, but not all, states are term-limited, including executive, legislative, and judicial offices. Term limits date back to the American Revolution and prior to that, to the democracies and republics of antiquity.
Compromis des trois-cinquièmes
Le compromis des trois-cinquièmes (Three-fifths compromise) est un compromis établi lors de la Convention de Philadelphie de 1787 entre les colonies du Nord et du Sud. Ce compromis considère, dans les règles de comptage des personnes représentées à la Chambre des représentants, qu'un esclave est comptabilisé à hauteur de trois cinquièmes d'un homme libre.