“Have You Gentlemen Any Idea When You’re To Get Off?”
The second session of the 62nd Congress began on December 4, 1911, and as the 1912 election neared, there was no end in sight. This cartoon has Uncle Sam dressed as a...
A balcony for the President
A month after the new national Government moved into New York City the Mayor of New York City wrote to Congress transmitting a resolution of the city’s Common...
Bill of Rights
The Constitution was ratified without an explicit guarantee of individual rights. During the Constitution’s ratification debates, the absence of a bill of rights...
Certification of 27th Amendment
This document is verification from the Archivist of the United States that the 27th Amendment was ratified by the appropriate number of states. This amendment...
Congratulations, Congress!
For nearly five years, Congress struggled to create a “Confederation of the United States.” When the Articles of Confederation were finally ratified on March 1,...
Congress comes to the aid of Maine
Maine government officials believed that British lumberjacks had invaded U.S. soil by logging timber in the Aroostook Valley. So they sent a land agent to evict the...
Congressional compensation ledger
This ledger was used to clarify a proposed reduction in compensation for Congress in 1843, thus reducing the Congressional budget. Congress sets the budget for its...