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Abigail Adams (1744-1818)
John Adams (1735-1826)
John Quincy Adams (1767-1848)
Samuel Adams (1722-1803)
Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906)
Hugo Black (1886-1971)
Sir William Blackstone (1723 – 1780)
William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925)
Aaron Burr (1756-1836)
John C. Calhoun (1782-1850)
Charles Carroll of Carrollton (1737-1832)
Carrie Chapman Catt (1859-1947)
Henry Clay (1777-1852)
Bill Clinton (b1946)
Clarence Darrow (1857-1938)
Jefferson Davis (1808-1889)
John Dickinson (1732-1808)
Stephen Douglas (1813-1861)
Frederick Douglass (1817-1895)
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
Angelina Grimke (1805 - 1879)
Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804)
Patrick Henry (1736-1799)
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)
Sam Houston (1793-1863)
Andrew Jackson (1767-1845)
John Jay (1745-1829)
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
Andrew Johnson (1808-1875)
Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973)
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929 - 1968)
Richard Henry Lee (1732-1794)
Robert E. Lee (1807-1870)
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
John Locke (1632-1704)
Matthew Lyon (1749-1822)
Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964)
James Madison (1751-1836)
John Marshall (1755-1835)
Thurgood Marshall (1908-1993)
George Mason (1725-1792)
Baron de Montesquieu (1689 – 1755)
Gouverneur Morris (1752-1816)
Robert Morris (1734-1806)
Richard Nixon (1913-1994)
Sandra Day O’Connor (b1930)
James Otis (1725-1783)
Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
Alice Paul (1885-1977)
William Penn (1644-1718)
Ronald Reagan (1911-2004)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1802 –1945)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)
Benjamin Rush (1745-1813)
Roger Sherman (1721-1793)
Upton Sinclair (1878-1968)
Melancton Smith (1744-1798)
Mary Beth Tinker (b1952)
Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859)
Mercy Otis Warren (1728-1814)
George Washington (1732-1797)
Daniel Webster (1782-1852)
Ida B. Wells (1862-1931)
James Wilson (1742-1798)
Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924)
John Witherspoon (1723 – 1794)
John Peter Zenger (1697-1746)
Constitution
Ancient Republics
Magna Carta (1215)
Mayflower Compact (1620)
Petition of Right (1628)
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut (1639)
Massachusetts Body of Liberties (1641)
Leviathan (1651)
English Bill of Rights (1689)
Second Treatise of Civil Government (1689)
The Spirit of the Laws (1748)
Albany Plan of the Union (1754)
Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765-1769)
Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania (1767 – 1768)
“Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death” (1775)
Common Sense (1776)
Lee Resolution (1776)
Virginia Declaration of Rights (1776)
Declaration of Independence (1776)
The American Crisis (1776-1783)
Articles of Confederation (1781)
Northwest Ordinance (1787)
Virginia Plan
New Jersey Plan
Connecticut Compromise (or Great Compromise)
Federalist No. 10 (1787)
Federalist No. 51 (1788)
Federalist No. 70 (1788)
Preamble (1787)
Article I: Definition (1789)
Article I, section 7: A Bill Becomes Law
Article I, Section 8: Powers of Congress
Article I, section 8: The Commerce Clause
Article I, section 9: Limitations on Congress
Article I, Section 9: Habeas Corpus
Article I, section 10: Limitations on States
Article I, section 2: House of Representatives
Article I, section 3: The Senate
Article II: Definition (1787)
Article II, Section 1: Election of the President (1787)
Electoral College
Article II, Section 2: President as Commander in Chief
Article II, Section 2: Other Powers of the President
Article II, Section 3: Duties of the President
Article II, Section 4: Executive Impeachment
Article III: Definition (1787)
Article III, Section 1: The Court System
Article III, Section 2: Judicial Power
Article III, Section 3: Treason
Article IV, Section 1: Full Faith and Credit Clause
Article IV, Section 2: Privileges and Immunities Clause
Article IV, Section 2: States and Fugitives
Article IV, Section 3: New States
Article IV, Section 4: Republican State Governments
Article V: Amending the Constitution
Article VI: The Supremacy Clause
Article VI: No Religious Test
First Amendment: General
First Amendment: the Establishment Clause (1791)
First Amendment: Free Exercise Clause (1791)
First Amendment: Freedom of Speech (1791)
First Amendment: Freedom of the Press (1791)
First Amendment: Freedom of Assembly (1791)
First Amendment: Freedom of Petition (1791)
Second Amendment (1791)
Third Amendment (1791)
Fourth Amendment: (1791)
Fifth Amendment: General
Fifth Amendment: Right Against Self-Incrimination (1791)
Fifth Amendment: Double Jeopardy (1791)
Fifth Amendment: Grand Juries (1791)
Fifth Amendment: Due Process
Fifth Amendment: Just Compensation (1791)
Sixth Amendment: Right to Counsel (1791)
Sixth Amendment: Speedy Trial by an Impartial Jury (1791)
Seventh Amendment (1971)
Eighth Amendment (1791)
Ninth Amendment (1791)
Tenth Amendment (1791)
Eleventh Amendment (1798)
Twelfth Amendment (1804)
Thirteenth Amendment (1865)
Fourteenth Amendment: General
Fourteenth Amendment: Definition of Citizens (1868)
Fourteenth Amendment: Incorporation (1868)
Fourteenth Amendment: Privileges and Immunities (1868)
Fourteenth Amendment: Due Process (1868)
Fourteenth Amendment: Equal Protection (1868)
Fourteenth Amendment: Sections 2-4 (1868)
Fifteenth Amendment (1870)
Sixteenth Amendment (1913)
Seventeenth Amendment (1913)
Eighteenth Amendment (1919)
Nineteenth Amendment (1920)
Twentieth Amendment (1933)
Twenty-First Amendment (1933)
Twenty-Second Amendment (1951)
Twenty-Third Amendment (1961)
Twenty-Fourth Amendment (1964)
Twenty-Fifth Amendment (1967)
Twenty-Sixth Amendment (1971)
Twenty-Seventh Amendment (1992)
Checks and Balances
Compact Theory
Economic rights
Equality
Federalism
Individual rights
Liberty
Limited Government
Limits on rights
Majority Rule versus Minority Rights
Natural Rights
Political rights
Popular Sovereignty
Republican Government
Reserved and Concurrent Powers
Separation of Powers
Documents
“Join or Die” cartoon (1754)
Treaty of Paris (1783)
Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom (1786)
Constitution of the United States (1787)
George Washington’s First Inaugural Address (1789)
Judiciary Act (1789)
Autobiography of Ben Franklin (1791)
Bill of Rights (1791)
George Washington’s Farewell Address (1796)
Alien and Sedition Acts (1798)
Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions (1798)
Letter to Danbury Baptists (1802)
Louisiana Purchase Treaty (1803)
Missouri Compromise (1821)
Hayne-Webster Debate (1830)
Indian Removal Act (1830)
Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions (1848)
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848)
Compromise (1850)
Fugitive Slave Act (1850)
Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
Abraham Lincoln’s Cooper Union Address (1859)
Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address (1863)
Emancipation Proclamation (1863)
Abraham Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address (1865)
Interstate Commerce Act (1887)
Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890)
William Jennings Bryan “Cross of Gold” (1896)
Pure Food and Drug Act & Meat Inspection Act (1906)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s First Inaugural (1933)
Social Security Act (1935)
Executive Order 9066 (1942)
Executive Order 10730 (1957)
John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address (1961)
Douglas MacArthur's “Duty, Honor, Country” (1962)
Letter from Birmingham Jail (1963)
Martin Luther King, Jr.'s “I Have a Dream” (1963)
Civil Rights Act (1964)
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (1964)
Voting Rights Act (1965)
War Powers Resolution (1973)
Sections of PATRIOT Act (2001)
Full Document - George Washington's First Inaugural Address
Full Document - the Gettysburg Address
Top Docs - Magna Carta
Top Docs - Massachusetts Body of Liberties
Top Docs - the Bill of Rights
Top Docs - Virginia Declaration of Rights
Landmark Supreme Court Cases
Marbury v. Madison (1803)
Dartmouth College v. Woodward (1818)
McCullough v. Maryland (1819)
Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)
Barron v. Baltimore (1833)
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
ex parte Milligan (1866)
Slaughterhouse Cases (1873)
Plessy v. Furgeson (1896)
Schenck v. United States (1919)
Gitlow v. New York (1925)
Near v. Minnesota (1931)
Minersville v. Gobitas (1940)
West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette (1943)
Korematsu v. United States (1944)
Everson v. Board of Education (1947)
Youngstown Company v. Sawyer (1952)
Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
Mapp v. Ohio (1961)
Engel v. Vitale (1962)
Gideon v. Wainwright (1963)
New York Times v. Sullivan (1964)
Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)
Miranda v. Arizona (1966)
Loving v. Virginia (1967)
Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969)
Tinker v. Des Moines (1969)
Lemon v. Kurtzman (1971)
New York Times v. United States (1971)
Wisconsin v. Yoder (1972)
Roe v. Wade (1973)
US v. Nixon (1974)
Buckley v. Valeo (1976)
Gregg v. Georgia (1976)
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978)
Stone v. Graham (1980)
New Jersey v. T.L.O. (1985)
Bethel School District v. Fraser (1986)
Edwards v. Aguillard (1986)
South Dakota v. Dole (1987)
Hazelwood School District v. Kuhlmeier (1988)
Texas v. Johnson (1989)
United States v. Lopez (1995)
Washington v. Glucksberg (1997)
Boy Scouts of America v. Dale (2000)
Santa Fe Independent School District v. Doe (2000)
United States v. Morrison (2000)
Board of Education of Pottawatomie County v. Earls (2002)
Zelman v. Simmons-Harris (2002)
Lawrence v. Texas (2003)
Hamdi v. Rumsfeld (2004)
Kelo v. New London (2005)
Civic Values and Skills
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