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The United States Congress is the legislative branch of the federal government of the United States. It is a bicameral legislature, including a lower body, the U.S. House of Representatives, and an up
In 1868, this committee of representatives prosecuted U.S. president Andrew Johnson in his impeachment trial, but the Senate did not convict him.
The 1940 portrait Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States, depicting George Washington presiding over the signing of the Constitution of the United States
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The federal government of the United States is the national government of the United States.
Thomas Jefferson, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence, largely wrote the Declaration's first draft in isolation between over a period of two weeks in June 1776 from the second floor of a three-story home he was renting at 700 Market Street in Philadelphia; the document was then reviewed and ultimately unanimously adopted by each of the 56 delegates to the Second Continental Congress.
The United States Capitol, the seat of government for Congress, the legislative branch of the U.S. government
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