Love, Publius
This essay explains why constitutional checks and balances will create a more limited government.
Federalist Papers, No. 51
Written by James Madison, this document contains the first changes made to the U.S. Constitution.
The Bill of Rights
This SCOTUS case granted the least powerful branch branch the power of judicial review.
Marbury v. Madison
This SCOTUS case overturned a previous case entitled Plessy v. Ferguson.
Brown v. Board, 1954
This amendment gives BLM protestors the right to protest, but not the right to riot.
The 1st Amendment
This essay explains why RBG dying in office might actually be good for the republic--- SCOTUS should in fact have life terms.
Federalist Papers, No. 78
This document contains the phrase "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."
The Declaration of Independence
This case determined that the Executive branch cannot use prior restraint against the press, even in matters of classified information.
NYT v. US
This Amendment gave men like Barack Obama the right to vote, but not his wife
The 15th Amendment
“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
The 10th Amendment
In contrast to Federalist Papers, No 10: This essay argued that the Constitution was a bad idea and required a specific Bill of Rights.
Brutus, No. 1
This document contains the phrase "We the people..."
The Constitution of the United States
This case established that the right to "keep and bear arms" is enforceable at the state level, by way of the 14th Amendment's Equal Protections Clause.
McDonald v. Chicago
This Case established that congressional district boundaries cannot be determined by racial patterns.
Shaw v. Reno
This Amendment gives me the right to be represented by an attorney, even if I cannot pay dues.
The 6th Amendment
"If men were angels..."
Federalist Papers, No. 51
This foundational document allowed the new United States to wage a successful war against the British, but did not allow the new government to pay for its successful war...
The Articles of Confederation
This case defined the scope of the Congress' legislative power by noting that a national bank falls under the N&P clause of the Constitution.
McCulloch v. Maryland
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly."
Letter from Birmingham Jail
This amendment led to the establishment of selective incorporation.
The 14th Amendment
This essay explains why Sleepy Joe Biden might not make for the best executive.
Federalist Papers, No. 70
This essay argued for the ratification of the Constitution and defended a republican form of government.
Federalist Papers, No. 10
This part of the U.S. Constitution gives the U.S. Congress the power to tax and create an Army.
Article I (Section VIII)
Citizens United v. FEC
This Case ruled that public schools cannot encourage the recitation of prayer sin public schools, as it is a violation of the first amendment's establishment clause.
Engel v. Vitale