The right to sit in the United States refers to state and local laws guaranteeing workers the right to sit at work when standing is not necessary. The...

Montserrat. Almost all states of the United States and Australia, as well as the majority of Canadian provinces passed right to sit legislation for women...

The Nineteenth Amendment (Amendment XIX) to the United States Constitution prohibits the United States and its states from denying the right to vote to...

political issue throughout United States history. Eligibility to vote in the United States is governed by the United States Constitution and by federal...

States and Alaska Natives. The United States Census Bureau defines Native American as "all people indigenous to the United States and its territories, including...

designated as the Army of the United States in the U.S. Constitution. The Army is the oldest branch of the U.S. military and the most senior in order of precedence...

Potty parity in the United States refers to laws and policies granting women the right to equitable access to restrooms in public places and workplaces...

The Northeastern United States, also referred to as the Northeast, the East Coast, or the American Northeast, is a geographic region of the United States...

campaigns, and vigils, relating to the Israel–Hamas war have occurred nationwide across the United States since the conflict's start on 7 October 2023...

In the United States, education is provided in public and private schools and by individuals through homeschooling. State governments set overall educational...

in the United States in order to push the issuance of long-delayed regulations regarding Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Prior to the 1990...

passed in most Northern states and a movement developed to abolish slavery. The role of slavery under the United States Constitution (1789) was the most...

Sit-down strikes peaked in the United States in 1937, and rapidly declined as workers began to face criminal prosecution for occupations while the National...

In the United States, the Miranda warning is a type of notification customarily given by police to criminal suspects in police custody (or in a custodial...

rebellions involving the United States of America. Currently, there are 108 wars on this list, 4 of which are ongoing. 12 major wars include the American Revolutionary...

The sit-in movement, sit-in campaign, or student sit-in movement, was a wave of sit-ins that followed the Greensboro sit-ins on February 1, 1960, led by...

A sit-in or sit-down is a form of direct action that involves one or more people occupying an area for a protest, often to promote political, social, or...

The Fifteenth Amendment (Amendment XV) to the United States Constitution prohibits the federal government and each state from denying or abridging a citizen's...

The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States. It superseded the Articles of Confederation, the nation's first constitution...

One of the United States Constitution. The House is composed of representatives who, pursuant to the Uniform Congressional District Act, sit in single...

is to sit "in Congress" the first debate was which chamber a delegate would sit in. Resolutions that he sit in both chambers and that his right to debate...

In the United States, human rights comprise a series of rights which are legally protected by the Constitution of the United States (particularly the...

of events related to Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections. It includes events described in investigations into the myriad links between...

In the United States, the number of homeless people on a given night in January 2023 was more than 650,000 according to the Department of Housing and...

The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress. The United States Senate and the lower chamber of Congress, the United States...

excluded felon jurors have failed consistently. The United States Supreme Court does not recognize the right to sit on a jury as fundamental. It has been pointed...

The history of the lands that became the United States began with the arrival of the first people in the Americas around 15,000 BC. Numerous indigenous...

subsequent legislation. The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (ratified in 1870), explicitly prohibited denying the right to vote based on race...

The United States Armed Forces are the military forces of the United States. The armed forces consist of six service branches: the Army, Marine Corps,...

The Southern United States, sometimes Dixie, also referred to as the Southern States, the American South, the Southland, Dixieland, or simply the South...