The Constitution and Government Classification of Secrets
Questions surrounding news that President Joe Biden and former Vice President Mike Pence have disclosed possession of classified...
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HumanitiesND
- 2 days ago
- 4 min
Tinker v. Des Moines: Anchoring Students’ Free Speech Rights
Half a century later, Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District (1969) remains the Supreme Court’s authoritative ruling...
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- 2 days ago
- 4 min
Buck v. Bell: The Supreme Court Upholds Forced Sterilization
In a tragic, landmark ruling of historic dimensions, the Supreme Court, in 1927, in an opinion written by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes,...
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- 2 days ago
- 4 min
Powell v. McCormack: Confining Congress to the Constitution
Congressman-Elect, Ron Santos’s (R-NY) sweeping distortions of his personal and professional biography has triggered nationwide calls for...
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HumanitiesND
- Jan 5
- 4 min
At Year’s End: A Duty to Protect our Constitutional Democracy
In this season of peace, remembrance and celebration, we are beckoned by the ghosts of 1776 and 1787 to recall the historic work of this...
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HumanitiesND
- Dec 27, 2022
- 4 min
Constitutionally Speaking, A Former President May Be Prosecuted
It is unclear if the Department of Justice will charge former President Donald Trump with four crimes referred by the January 6...
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HumanitiesND
- Nov 28, 2022
- 4 min
Near v. Minnesota: Bulwark of Press Freedom
At this juncture in American history, when the citizenry seems to require frequent reminders of the landmark decisions and actions that...
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HumanitiesND
- Nov 17, 2022
- 4 min
Blaisdell: Constitutional Flexibility in the Face of Crisis
The enormous pressures and hardships—financial, medical and psychological-- inflicted on the citizenry by the Great Depression required...
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HumanitiesND
- Nov 17, 2022
- 4 min
Before the Court: The Future of National Unity
Two hundred years ago, in the landmark case of Cohens v. Virginia (1821), the future of our Constitution, the aspirations of national...
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HumanitiesND
- Oct 27, 2022
- 4 min
Presidents and Former Presidents are Subject to Subpoenas
The 1807 treason trial of Aaron Burr, lost in the mists of early American legal history stirs, at most, only feint recollections among...
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HumanitiesND
- Oct 20, 2022
- 4 min
“Equal Protection: Serving Sons and Daughters”
In 1996, the Supreme Court delivered a landmark opinion in United States v. Virginia that exalted women’s rights under the Equal...
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HumanitiesND
- Oct 12, 2022
- 4 min
“Muller v. Oregon: Protection for Women in the Workplace”
The U.S. Supreme Court’s long, tortured road to recognizing women’s constitutional rights in the late 20th Century was preceded by...
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HumanitiesND
- Oct 6, 2022
- 4 min
“Supreme Court in 1873: Women Unfit to Practice Law”
Not every landmark Supreme Court decision champions the rights of Americans or limits governmental power in a manner that preserves and...
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HumanitiesND
- Sep 28, 2022
- 3 min
U.S. v. Smith: No Presidential Power to Initiate War
American legal history firmly rejects the view advanced by some commentators and politicians that the president, not Congress, may decide...
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HumanitiesND
- Sep 23, 2022
- 4 min
A Little-Known Landmark Ruling of Historic Dimensions
Little v. Barreme, decided by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1804, may be among the least familiar landmark rulings ever rendered, but it...
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HumanitiesND
- Sep 15, 2022
- 4 min