• In the United States, federal grants are economic aid issued by the United States government out of the general federal revenue. A federal grant is an...
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    grants in the United States made in the 1850s to 1870s, were instrumental in the building the nation's railway network in the Central United States west...
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    National holidays in the United States are 11 calendar dates designated by the U.S. federal government as official holidays. On these days non-essential...
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  • The United States federal executive departments are the principal units of the executive branch of the federal government of the United States. They are...
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  • The federal judiciary of the United States is one of the three branches of the federal government of the United States organized under the United States...
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  • the federal level in the United States, legislation (i.e., "statutes" or "statutory law") consists exclusively of Acts passed by the Congress of the United...
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  • Federal tribunals in the United States are those tribunals established by the federal government of the United States for the purpose of resolving disputes...
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  • A Pell Grant is a subsidy the U.S. federal government provides for students who need it to pay for college. Federal Pell Grants are limited to students...
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  • The president of the United States is authorized by the U.S. Constitution to grant a pardon for a federal crime. The other forms of the clemency power...
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    The federal government of the United States (U.S. federal government or U.S. government) is the national government of the United States, a federal republic...
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    The Federal Reserve System (often shortened to the Federal Reserve, or simply the Fed) is the central banking system of the United States. It was created...
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    In the United States, a federal crime or federal offense is an act that is made illegal by U.S. federal legislation enacted by both the United States...
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    prescribes the foundation of the federal government of the United States, as well as various civil liberties. The Constitution sets out the boundaries...
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    The United States has separate federal, state, and local governments with taxes imposed at each of these levels. Taxes are levied on income, payroll, property...
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    The United States budget comprises the spending and revenues of the U.S. federal government. The budget is the financial representation of the priorities...
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  • In the United States, federal assistance, also known as federal aid, federal benefits, or federal funds, is defined as any federal program, project, service...
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    seq. The federal government also gives grants to the states to enable them to provide similar services. The precursor to WITSEC was the Federal Witness...
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  • the United States is a grant-in-aid of a specified amount from the federal government of the United States to individual states and local governments to...
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  • explicitly granted in the Constitution or any federal statute. The Supreme Court of the United States found in Nixon v. Fitzgerald (1982) that the president...
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    This is a list of federally recognized tribes in the contiguous United States. There are also federally recognized Alaska Native tribes. As of January 8...
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    In the United States, federalism is the constitutional division of power between U.S. state governments and the federal government of the United States...
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    territories, proposed and failed states, unrecognized breakaway states, international and interstate purchases, cessions, and land grants, and historical military...
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    the United States is one of the 50 constituent entities that shares its sovereignty with the federal government. Americans are citizens of both the federal...
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  • The United States federal government shutdown from midnight EST on December 22, 2018, until January 25, 2019 (35 days) was the longest government shutdown...
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  • countries; the process of awarding land grants are not limited to the countries named below. The United States historically gave out numerous land grants as Homesteads...
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    The United States courts of appeals are the intermediate appellate courts of the United States federal judiciary. They hear appeals of cases from the...
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    United States federal probation and supervised release are imposed at sentencing. The difference between probation and supervised release is that the...
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    superseding tribal or federal law. The Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 granted U.S. citizenship to all Native Americans born in the United States who had not yet...
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  • The National Grants Management Association (NGMA) is a professional association dedicated to grants management. Founded in 1978, NGMA has over 5,000 members...
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  • The United States federal civil service is the civilian workforce (i.e., non-elected and non-military public sector employees) of the United States federal...
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