Ottawa County Commissioners voted to amend rules regarding logo usage and “calling the question.” Commissioners will receive ...

The Appropriations Committee’s budget would invest in K-12 schools, higher education and child care — but legally exceed the ...

Under the last Trump administration, Connecticut’s top 1% saved $1.2 billion in federal taxes, while working families saw ...

Upon reaching a compromise, members of both the House ... bodies “whip” their membership trying to get the requisite three-fifths votes to override the governor’s veto.

In the famous compromise known as the three-fifths rule, the Constitution had allowed slave states to add 60 percent of their servile population to their white electorate in order to determine the ...

Piggybacking on the concept behind the three-fifths compromise, which allowed southern states to count three out of every five enslaved people for the purposes of Congressional representation ...

There is something deeper as well about the number five.

Additionally, by encouraging parties to negotiate and compromise early in the legislative ... for all judicial nominees to obtain a three-fifths majority in parliament to secure their place ...

To make this argument, people point to the many racist, xenophobic, and even eliminationist aspects of US history, from the “three-fifths compromise” found in the US Constitution, in which enslaved ...

E urope’s first reserve currency was the tetradrachm, upon which was inscribed an owl. The symbol of wisdom was intended to ...