Important Laws
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Virginia Plan
New Jersey Plan
The Great Compromise
Necessary and Proper Clause
Supremacy Clause
Commerce Clause
Fugitive Slave Act
Clean Air Act (1970)
Emergency Highway Energy
Conservation Act (1974)
Americans with Disabilities Act
(1990)
Motor Voter Registration Act
(1993)
Unfunded Mandates Reform Act
(1995)
Welfare Reform Act (1996)
Voting Rights Act (1965)
Pendleton Act (1883)
Hatch Act (1939)
Federal Election Campaign Act
(1974)
Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act
(2002)
Ethics in Government Act (1978)
Lobbyist Disclosure Act (1995)
Congressional Rule 22
Congressional Budget and
Impoundment Act (1974)
War Powers Act (1973)
Independent Counsel law
Presidential Succession Act of 1947
Civil Service Reform Act of 1978
Whistle Blower Protection Act
(1989)
Freedom of Information Act (1966)
National Environmental Policy Act
(1969)
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Privacy Act (1974)
Civil Rights Act of 1957
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Open Housing Act of 1968 (Title
VIII)
Higher Education Act of 1972 (Title
IX)
Education of All Handicapped
Children Act of (1975)
Voting Rights Act of 1982
Civil Rights Act of 1988
Civil Rights and Women’s Equity in
Employment Act of (1991)
Family and Medical Leave Act
(1993)
North (and Central) American Free
Trade Agreement (NAFTA,
CAFTA)
Tax Reform Act of 1986
Clinton tax plan (1993)
Social Security Act (1935)
Medicare (1965)
Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act
(1985)
Medicare and Medicaid
Welfare Reform law (1996)
National Security Act (1947)
Goldwater-Nichols Act (1986)
Water Quality Improvement Act
(1970)
Endangered Species Act (1973)