Themes & Threads: Rights and Liberties
Lochner v. New York
Source: 198 U.S. 45; https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/198/45 Justice PECKHAM delivered the Opinion of the Court, joined by…
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…
Brown v. Board of Education
Source: 347 U.S. 483; https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/347/483 Chief Justice WARREN delivered the unanimous opinion of the Court,…
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…
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…
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…
The Supreme Court: Core Cases
This volume presents 25 core decisions of the Supreme Court. Arranged in chronological order, they…
The American Revolution
Captain John Parker, commander of the Lexington militia, had received Paul Revere’s warning. Great Britain’s…
Philadelphia Welcomes the First Continental Congress
Source: Dunlap’s Pennsylvania Packet or, the General Advertiser (Philadelphia), September 19, 1774. On Friday last[1]…
The Association Enacted by the First Continental Congress
Source: Worthington Chauncey Ford, et al., eds., Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774–1789, 34 vols.…
We Shall be under the Domination of a Riotous Mob
Source: Peter Force, ed., American Archives: A Documentary History of the English Colonies, 4th ser.,…
Resolutions of the Stamp Act Congress
Source: Hezekiah Niles, ed., Principles and Acts of the Revolution in America… (Baltimore: William Ogden…
Charleston Nonimportation Agreement
Source: Charles McLean Andrews, “Boston Merchants and the Non-Importation Agreement,” Publications of the Colonial Society…
Treaty of Paris
Source: Richard Peters, et al., eds., The Public Statutes at Large of the United States…