“The road goes on forever and the party never ends.” —Robert Earl Keen Jr.

Why doesn’t the overall popular vote carry any weight in the presidential election? All states are important, but it really ...

A group of 538 electors are the only people who actually cast their ballot for President due to the Electoral College.

What about the slave population? And this is where the Three-Fifths Compromise comes in. The North did not want to count the slaves. The South did. And since slaves could not vote, this would give ...

Soon to be in the minority, Senate Democrats are ready to use whatever tactics are at their disposal to put up roadblocks for ...

Since it would give the southern states excessive authority, the northern states were against this. After the Three-Fifths Compromise was established, each enslaved person was considered three-fifths ...

On November 6, Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election in a landslide, winning all Swing States and the popular vote.

Republicans are currently on track to win control of the presidency, the U.S. House of the Representatives, and the U.S.

This desire led to a compromise known as the “three-fifths compromise,” where each enslaved person would be counted as three-fifths of a person for purposes of representation in Congress.

Michael Lee of Wrightsville Beach turned back Wilmington Democrat David Hill. Thirty is the magic number for a three-fifths majority in the chamber, the minimum needed to be successful in a veto ...

In 1974, the Senate further limited the use of the filibuster by agreeing that when using a process called “ reconciliation ” ...