Forests cover about 26 percent of North America's land area and represent more than 12 percent of the world's forests. The United States is the fourth most forested country in the world with 226 million hectares. Canada's forest area has not grown during the past decade but forests in the United States have increased by almost 3.9 million hectares.
The promise of a Bill of Rights to do just that helped to assuage the Anti-Federalistsâ concerns. The newly elected Congress drafted the Bill of Rights on December 25, 1789. Virginiaâs ratification on this day in 1791 created the three-fourths majority necessary for the ten amendments to become law.
President Lyndon Baines Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in the East Room of the White House before an audience that included Attorney General Robert Kennedy, Senator Hubert Humphrey (D-MN), Senator Everett Dirksen (R-IL), Martin Luther King, Jr., A.