The volume is a facsimile of Acts Passed at a First Congress of the United States of America 1789. Published that year, its colophon declares that the book is “prefixed” with “a correct Copy ...

The First Congress of the United States, which met in New York between March 4, 1789, and March 3, 1791 , was the most consequential in the nation's history. It proposed 12 constitutional ...

As Congress — the 117th Congress, to be precise — speeds toward a government shutdown, we slowed down to look back at the first Congress. Are things really all that different now than they were at the ...

The average age of Congress has been climbing since the early 1980s. ... of all of the Congresses since 1789, ... The median age in the United States is 38.8 years old, ...

On this date in 1789, the first Congress submitted to the states for ratification the original 12 amendments to the U.S. Constitution. They had been approved by two-thirds of the lawmakers in both ...

Congress establishes the State Department, July 27, 1789 The Department of State, as seen in Washington on July 31, 2014. | Getty Images By Andrew Glass 07/27/2017 12:01 AM EDT ...

Preliminary inventory of the records of the United States House of Representatives, 1789-1946 (Record group 233) Compiled by Buford Rowland ... Rowland, Buford Subject United States Congress House ...

On July 27, 1789, Congress established the Department of Foreign Affairs, forerunner of the State Department.In 1824 novelist Alexander Dumas was born in Paris.In 1866 the first underwater ...

(THE CONVERSATION) If there are any limits to a president’s power, it wasn’t evident from Donald Trump’s speech before a joint session of Congress on March 4, 2025. In that speech, the first ...

Today’s U.S. Congress may be a bunch of hot-aired do-nothings, but the first session conducted under the U.S. Constitution shows how much Congress is capable of getting done. On March 4, 1789 ...

In the Nov. 1, 1787, edition of The Independent Gazetteer, one reader wrote, ‘The office of President of the United States appears to me to be clothed with such powers as are dangerous.’ ConSource ...