Generally speaking the War Powers Resolution of 1973 negatively affected the power of the US president by making it so that the President could not commit troops beyond a certain point without Congressional approval.
<span>Although most of the settlers were Protestants, Maryland soon became one of the few regions in the British Empire where Catholics held the highest positions of political authority. Maryland was also one of the key destinations of tens of thousands of British convicts. The Maryland Toleration Act of 1649 was one of the first laws that explicitly dictated religious tolerance, though toleration was limited to Trinitarian Christians. </span><span>
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