Themes & Threads: Constitution
Roth v. US
Source: 354 U.S. 476; https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/354/476 Justice BRENNAN delivered the opinion of the Court, joined by…
Abington School District v. Schempp
Source: 374 U.S. 203; https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/374/203 Justice CLARK delivered the opinion of the Court, joined by…
Gideon v. Wainwright
Source: 372 U.S. 335; https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/372/335 Justice BLACK delivered the opinion of the Court, joined by…
Gregg v. Georgia
Source: 428 U.S. 153; https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/428/153#writing-ZS Justice STEWART announced the judgment of the Court, joined by…
US v. Lopez
Source: 514 U.S. 549 (1995); https://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/93-1260.ZO.html Chief Justice REHNQUIST delivered the opinion of the Court,…
Katz v. US
Source: 389 U.S. 347; https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/389/347#writing-ZS Justice STEWART delivered the opinion of the Court, joined by…
District of Columbia v. Heller
Source: https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/07-290 Justice SCALIA delivered the opinion of the Court, joined by Chief Justice ROBERTS and…
Miranda v. Arizona
Source: 384 U.S. 436; https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/384/436 Chief Justice WARREN delivered the opinion of the Court, joined…
Reynolds v. Sims
Source: 377 U.S. 533; https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/377/533 Chief Justice WARREN delivered the opinion of the Court, joined…
Roe v. Wade
Source: 410 U.S. 113; https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/410/113. For Justice White’s dissent, issued with Doe v. Bolton, 410…
University of California Regents v. Bakke
Source: 438 U.S. 265; https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/438/265 For Justice Stevens’s opinion, see https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/438/265.html#tt10 Justice POWELL announced the…
The Supreme Court: Core Cases
This volume presents 25 core decisions of the Supreme Court. Arranged in chronological order, they…
Cato No. 5
Source: The New-York Journal, November 22, 1787. But with respect to the first objection, it…
Debates on the Legislative Branch
Source: Gordon Lloyd, ed., Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 by James Madison, a…
Chapter 14: John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry
A. Lydia Maria Child, Governor Henry Wise of Virginia, and John Brown, Correspondence, October 1859…
Chapter 12: The Peculiar Institution: Positive Good or Pernicious Sin?
A. American Anti-Slavery Society, Declaration of Sentiments, December 6, 1833 https://document-readings.s3.amazonaws.com/Documents+and+Debates/Volume+1/ch12/ch12+American+AntiSlavery+Society+1833.mp3 The Convention assembled in…
Chapter 7: The Debate over Ratification
A.(Robert Yates), Brutus I, October 18, 1787 https://document-readings.s3.amazonaws.com/Documents+and+Debates/Volume+1/ch7/ch7+Brutus+I.mp3 . . . We have felt the…
Chapter 6: Revolutionary Considerations of Citizenship and Self-Government
A.John Adams to Abigail Adams and James Sullivan, March 31–May 26, 1776 Abigail Adams to…
Religious Liberty: Core Court Cases
Amendment I. Ratified December 15, 1791 Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,…
One-Day Seminar: Supreme Court Cases That Changed America hosted by Fayette County Schools (Fayetteville, GA)
While many Supreme Court cases have shaped American policies and history, this seminar explores cases…
Democratic Party Platforms
Source: 1860 Democratic Party Platform, online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American…
Appeal of the Independent Democrats in Congress to the American People
Source: Congressional Globe, Senate, 33rd Congress, First Session, 281–282, https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage. As senators and representatives in…