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Budgetary Accounts
Budgetary Accounts in the United States Budgetary Accounts in the Federal Budget Process Meaning of Budgetary Accounts in the congressional and executive budget processes (GAO source): See under Standard General Ledger (SGL) Chart of Accounts. Resources See Also Federal Appropriations […]
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Brokers
Brokers in the United States Brokers are people in the business of selling stock to investors. They are generally different from Dealers, who buy and sell stock for themselves, though Broker-Dealers do both. Brokers Definition Those who are engaged for others in the negotiation of contracts […]
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Budgetary Resources
Budgetary Resources in the United States Budgetary Resources in the Federal Budget Process Meaning of Budgetary Resources in the congressional and executive budget processes (GAO source): An amount available to enter into new obligations and to liquidate them. Budgetary resources are made up […]
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Budget Amendment
Budget Amendment in the United States Budget Amendment in the Federal Budget Process Meaning of Budget Amendment in the congressional and executive budget processes (GAO source): A revision to a pending budget request that the President submits to Congress before Congress completes […]
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Black Criminology
Black Criminology in the United States Black Criminology in relation to Crime and Race Black Criminology is included in the Encyclopedia of Race and Crime (1), beginning with: Katheryn K. Russell-Brown coined the term Black criminology in a seminal 1992 article that appeared in Justice […]
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Businesses
Businesses in the United States Businesses Cases The growing reputation of the Roberts Court as being pro-business drew force from several key rulings in 2010. In Citizens United v. FEC (130 S. Ct. 876 (2010)), the conservative bloc ruled broadly that a federal statute restricting corporate […]
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Bastard
Bastard in United States Bastard Definition (has or bast, abject, low, base; aerd, nature). One born of an illicit connection. It includes children begotten and born out of lawful wedlock, whose parents do not subsequently marry, and children born in wedlock, but begotten of an adulterous […]
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Bipartisan
Bipartisan in the United States Bipartisan Definition in the Legislative Process The following is a definition of Bipartisan, by the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL): Having an affiliation or association with (or representatives of) both political parties or caucuses in a two […]
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Broad Constructionist
Broad Constructionist in the United States Broad Constructionist in the Legislative Process A constitutional viewpoint that argues for a broad interpretation of the powers granted by the Constitution to the federal government. Resources See Also Legislative Power Legislative History […]
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Backdoor Spending
Backdoor Spending in the United States Backdoor Authority/Backdoor Spending in the Federal Budget Process Meaning of Backdoor Spending in the congressional and executive budget processes (GAO source): A colloquial phrase for budget authority provided in laws other than appropriations acts, […]
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Bill Of Rights Meaning
Bill of Rights Meaning in the United States Bill of Rights: Debate Over the Constitution The original Constitution drafted in 1787 did not include a bill of rights because the delegates to the Constitutional Convention did not think it necessary to set down a list of rights. Most of the […]
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Breast-feeding
Breast-feeding in the United States Breast-feeding in Public, Sexual Behaviour and the Law Further Reading Breast-feeding in Public in the Encyclopedia of Sexual Behavior and the Law
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Bicameral Legislature
Bicameral Legislature in the United States Bicameral Legislature in the Legislative Process A lawmaking body divided into two chambers. The United States Congress is a bicameral legislature, consisting of an upper house (the Senate) and a lower house (the House of Representatives). […]
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Budget Resolution
Budget Resolution in the United States Legislative Definition of Budget Resolution This Congressional concept is provided by the United States Congress website as a a basic reference document: A measure (provided for by the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, as amended) that sets forth a […]
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Bigamy
Bigamy in United States Bigamy Definition At Common Law. The willfully contracting a second marriage when the contracting party knows that the first is still subsisting. The state of a man who has two lives, or of a woman who has two husbands, living at the same time. When the man has more […]