Im going to assume its because a "lame duck" session only happened when congress meets after a election.
<span>To ease trade restrictions over a 10-year-old limit
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was an agreement that began in 1994 between the North American nations of Canada, the United States and Mexico. It replaced an older agreement between the US and Canada and created a 3-way trade bloc intended to promote a mutual beneficial relationship of commerce across the continent.
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Because at any given time the soviets could set the missiles off and attack the US from all sides and we would have no way to stop it. It would also be attacking some of the most important places in the US
Direct causality can be drawn between nationalism and war. ... Nationalist groups within a state who desire their own independent state, (one organised to include their ethnic or cultural identity, for example), may conduct regular or irregular warfare in order to forcibly persuade a state to grant them independence
The homestead act was a "law" more rule. and it gave any one the right to own land if they could live on it for a period of time without dieing.
it let settlers into native lands, you can imagein how that impacted native americans.