People
Politicians use these to win public support for their policies.
Public opinion polls
Sexual harassment was first declared against federal law in this place.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964.
The Bill of Rights only applied to the Federal Government, not State Governments.
Barron v. Baltimore (1833)
Obergefell v. Hodges (2015) invokes this clause of the Constitution.
The Full Faith and Credit Clause
The Court found that men and women, because of combat restrictions on women, were not "similarly situated" for the purposes of draft registration.
Rostker v. Goldberg
He used civil disobedience to call attention to injustice, even from behind bars.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Plessy v. Ferguson was overturned in this place.
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
The Federal Government has no authority to prohibit slavery within any federal territory.
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
This case began with a feature-length film entitled, "Hillary: The Movie."
Citizens United v. FEC (2010)
The Court reasoned that illegal aliens and their children, though not citizens of the United States or Texas, are people "in any ordinary sense of the term" and, therefore, are afforded Fourteenth Amendment protections.
Plyler v. Doe
These people consume more political news than any others.
Old People
The central constitutional issue of Brown v. Board can be found in this place.
The Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.
Implied powers were a central feature of this case.
McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
This case incorporated the 2nd Amendment.
McDonald v. Chicago (2010)
Does the Fifth Amendment’s protection against self-incrimination extend to the police interrogation of a suspect?
Miranda v. Arizona
These people will be less than half the U.S. population by 2050.
White People
If you thought you were being treated unfairly to a racial quota system, you would look for support in this place.
Regents v. Bakke
The Judiciary Act of 1789 is unconstitutional.
Marbury v. Madison)
Did Congress have the power to pass the Gun-Free School Zones Act?
U.S. v. Lopez (1995)
A Virginia resident could not pay the state-imposed poll tax of $1.50. She filed suit, alleging the poll tax deprived indigent Virginia residents of their rights under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Harper v. VA State Board of Elections
Demographic changes among U.S. people is measured by this.
The Census
Reserved Powers are described in this place.
The 10th Amendment
Commerce can include all phases of buying and selling activity, including navigation.
Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)
Racial quotas are illegal.
Regents v. Bakke (1978)
The Idaho Probate Code specified that "males must be preferred to females" in appointing administrators of estates. Does this violate the 14th Amendment?
Reed v. Reed