Most citizens in the United States have the right to vote. It did not start out that way. The Constitution let states pick who could vote. Most only allowed men who owned property to vote. Today, laws have been passed that make sure most people have a say in who governs them. Who gets to vote? Who does not get to vote, and why? When do people get to vote? Does voting really matter? What is the Electoral College and how does it work? These questions...

At the end of fifth grade, Fara decides to wear mismatched socks as a statement of individuality, but once middle school starts and she wants to be known for her ideas rather than her clothing, she feels burdened by an image that she no longer wants.

"Druga część czterotomowej opowieści o mieszkańcach Gradowa, ich radościach i smutkach, niespełnionych marzeniach i zawiedzionych nadziejach, rodzących się lub gasnących uczuciach, o na pozór spokojnym, zwyczajnym życiu, które w rzeczywistości wcale nie jest takie, jakie się wydaje. Gradów ogarnęła przedwyborcza gorączka. Chętnych do rządzenia wsią nie brakuje, każdy, kto marzy o zdobyciu władzy, walczy, nie przebierając...

A television production of the William Alfred play that revolves around the tensions in a marriage of a convent-bred woman to an Irish immigrant whose years of political loyalty have finally made him the prime candidate for mayor of Brooklyn.

"El Día de las Elecciones está a la vuelta de la esquina, ¿y adivina quiénes se postulan para presidente de la clase? ¡A.J. y Andrea! El alcalde Arturo les enseñará a los niños los entresijos de la política, y cada voto cuenta. ¿Quién va a ganar? ¿Quién va a perder? ¿Y quién va a besar a un bebé mocoso? ¡Uy, qué asco!"-- A.J. and Andrea are running for third grade class president, and Mayor Hubble is stopping by the school just...

"In the first half of this volume gathers what we and the editors at the Brookings Institution Press believe to be the most important legal documents in the Bush-Gore confrontation...The book begins with the early advisory rulings on the recounts by Florida state officials. It moves on to the intermediate court rulings and ends with the critical decisions in early December by the Florida Supreme Court and the United States Supreme Court. We have...