This is a collection of 19 Grade-Leveled texts (6-12) on the topic Modern Democracy in America. How does democracy function in modern-day America? Learn how a bill becomes a law, the role of American presidents, and much more in this...

During the 1984 Republican National Convention, respondent Johnson participated in a political demonstration to protest the policies of the Reagan administration and some Dallas-based corporations. After a march through the city streets,...

Read about the action of Rosa Parks who refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955, triggering a massive bus boycott led by Martin Luther King, Jr. The boycott became the impetus for a Supreme Court ruling that...

This site provides extensive information regarding several American constitutional issues such as: impeachment, war powers, interstate commerce, and the amendment process. Hyperlinks can be found throughout each constitutional issue to...

Resource explains how during the time of the Civil War the Supreme Court used Article I, Section 10, Clause 1 of the U.S. Constitution to show that the Confederation formed by the seceding States had no legal existence. The site also...

Original text of the the 1963 Supreme Court decision that mandated legal representation for the poor.

September 17 is recognized in the United States as Constitution Day and Citizenship Day. The purpose of Constitution Day and Citizenship Day is to commemorate the creation and signing of the supreme law of the land and to honor and...

Everything you might want to know about this historic Supreme Court decision. Included are great teacher directed activities, background summary, and the text of the majority opinion.

This site has just about everything one might want to know in an investigation of the important Supreme Court decision in Sweatt vs. Painter.

In the Progressive Era many states passed laws to protect workers and establish decent working conditions. Read the text of Muller v. Oregon, heard before the Supreme Court in 1908, that upheld Oregon's laws as constitutional.

Read the text of the Supreme Court decision, Cohens v. Virginia, which was limited states' rights.

Read about the Senate hearings on the nomination by President George W. Bush of Samuel Alito in January, 2006. You can find out why the hearings and the nomination were so contentious.

This site looks at the law and history of Supreme Court decisions concerning in the Roe v Wade decision of 1973, Casey v Planned Parenthood and, most recently, Gonzales v Carhart in 2007.

A chilling account of the ways Virginia lawmakers attempted to subvert the Supreme Court decision in Brown v Board of Education in 1958. Read about the Southern Manifesto, and the group of laws known as Massive Resistance.

A profile of Raul A. Gonzalez, Jr., a Hispanic American who served on the Texas Supreme Court.

Full syllabus and decision from the Dennis v. United States Supreme Court case.

A comprehensive overview of the Fourth Amendment, on the legality of searches and seizures of persons or property, makes note of Supreme Court rulings on the subject of unreasonable searches and searches.

At the Cornell Law School you can read a very simple definition of the legal term "tort" and read about the 1993 Supreme Court case "Smith v. United States."

Two journalists debate Samuel Alito's nomination, his impact on the Supreme Court, hot button issues, and other topics surrounding the Senate confirmation hearings. Transcript, audio, and video are available for this report from January,...

Photo of Supreme Court judges who decided Plessy v Ferguson

Learn about this landmark Supreme Court case on the issue of racial discrimination . Provides an image of a document from the case files and a transcript of the opinion delivered in 1896 by Justice Henry Brown "which sustained the...

Read this brief overview of child labor and exploitation and the attempt at reform before delving into the Supreme Court case, Hammer v Dagenhart, which overturned the Keating-Owen Child Labor Act. Included are six lesson plans based on...

Find background information on the Constitution of the United States of America, and learn the three basic principles upon which the Constitution was written. Additional content includes a look at the text of the Constitution, the events...

A complete and in-depth history of the 1966 U.S. court case of Miranda v. Arizona.