While many Supreme Court cases have shaped American policies and history, this seminar explores cases…
This volume of primary documents on the causes of the Civil War presents the history…
Study a selection of essential Supreme Court cases from the 20th Century at this…
Study a selection of essential 20th Century Supreme Court cases through original documents, deeply exploring…
Study a selection of essential Supreme Court cases through original documents, deeply exploring the historical,…
Source: Harold H. Burton to Earl Warren, and Felix Frankfurter to Warren, May 17, 1954,…
Source: United States Reports. Volume 553, Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at October Term,…
Source: United States Reports. Volume 343, Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at October Term,…
Source: Samuel I. Rosenman, ed., Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt. 1937 Volume:…
Source: United States Reports. Volume 299, Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at October Term,…
Source: United States Reports. Volume 295, Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at October Term,…
Source: United States Reports. Volume 272, Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at October Term,…
Source: Gordon Lloyd, ed., Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 by James Madison, a…
Source: Vital Speeches of the Day 3:11 (March 15, 1937), p. 386. Never in my…
Source: Online from “FDR and the Supreme Court,” The New Deal Network (Columbia University: Institute…
Source: Online from “FDR and the Supreme Court,” The New Deal Network (Columbia University: Institute…
Source: 323 U.S. 214 (1944). Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School. https://goo.gl/eMj7eS Mr. Justice Black1…
Source: The Slaughterhouse Cases, 83 U.S. 36 (1872). Available online from Legal Information Institute, Cornell…
Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States, 379 U.S. 241 (1964). Available online from…
Buck v. Bell, 274 U.S. 200 (1927). Available online at Justia. https://goo.gl/mn3RFr Mr. JUSTICE HOLMES…
This collection of documents presents American history from 1865 to 2009 as a series of…
This collection of documents on the creation of the Constitution attempts to accomplish five objectives.…
Opinion DOUGLAS, J., Opinion of the Court MR. JUSTICE DOUGLAS delivered the opinion of the…
In the wake of Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U. S. 436, in which the Court…
The petitioner was indicted for robbery in the Circuit Court of Carroll County, Maryland. Due…
A teacher at a New Jersey high school, upon discovering respondent, then a 14-year-old freshman,…
Petitioners, three public school pupils in Des Moines, Iowa, were suspended from school for wearing…
[ Footnote * ] Together with No. 760, Vignera v. New York, on certiorari to…
Charged in a Florida State Court with a noncapital felony, petitioner appeared without funds and…
A pregnant single woman (Roe) brought a class action challenging the constitutionality of the Texas…
MARSHALL, C.J., Opinion of the Court Mr Chief Justice MARSHALL delivered the opinion of the…
[This is an abridged version of the document.] Brown v. Board of Education of…
Source: Franklin D. Roosevelt, “Fireside Chat,” March 9, 1937. Online by Gerhard Peters and John…
… II. Instructions to the Jury. Petitioners contend that the instructions to the jury were…
MR. JUSTICE HOLMES, dissenting. MR. JUSTICE BRANDEIS and I are of opinion that this judgment…
…As to the doctrine of slavery and the right of Christians to hold Africans in…
MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WARREN delivered the opinion of the Court. These cases were decided on…
It's a pizzazzy topic: Constitutional Interpretation. It is however an important one. I was vividly…
Appellant, a Ku Klux Klan leader, was convicted under the Ohio Criminal Syndicalism statute for…
Source: Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States, December Term,…
This was a petition for writs of prohibition and certiorari originally filed in the supreme…
Source: United States v. Cruikshank, 92 U.S. 542 (1876). Available online from Legal Information Institute,…
MR. JUSTICE BLACK delivered the opinion of the Court. The respondent Board of Education of…
Under 3210 of the New York Education Law and the regulations thereunder, New York City…
A New Jersey statute authorizes its local school districts to make rules and contracts for…
Mr. President, Mr. Speaker, Members of the Congress of the United States: For the first…
The report of the commission recommends provisions for the imposition of a graduated tax on…
[On the Anti-Trust Statute] To the Senate and House of Representatives: This message is the…
To the Senate and House of Representatives: FINANCES. The financial standing of the Nation at…
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