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Supreme Court to Hear Arguments on the Constitutionality of the US ConstitutionJohn Moffett
During the Supreme Court's first term (1790) it had no docket & made no decisions. When the nation's capitol moved to Washington D.C., in 1800 it did not even have a courtroom. Congress provided a small committee room in the basement of the Capitol, where the Court remained until the...
the Supreme Court held in 1978 that a college or university could lawfully consider an applicant’s race without violating Title VI or the US Constitution if the university were seeking to further student
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“With fear for our democracy, I dissent,”wroteJustice Sonia Sotomayor in response to the majority’s decision, which made “a mockery of the principle, foundational to our Constitution and system of Government, that no man is above the law," she said. "The relationship between the...
Test your knowledge of the U.S. Constitution, Supreme Court, Articles of Confederation, Founding Fathers and Declaration of Independence! Choose one of the following five Treasure Hunts to print out and then search constitutionfacts.com to find the answers....
Writing for the majority in the decision concerning juvenile offenders, Justice Elena Kagan said the Constitution forbids “requiring that all children convicted of homicide receive lifetime incarceration without possibility of parole, regardless of their age and age-related characteristics and the nature...
A large majority of France’s two parliamentary chambers took the historic vote on Monday at the palace of Versailles to add to the constitution a specific article that guarantees the “freedom . . . of women to have recourse to a voluntary termination of pregnancy”. ...
US Supreme Court provides new reason to fear a Trumpian return In a scathing dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote that the majority’s decision “reshapes the institution of the presidency” and “makes a mockery of the principle, foundational to our constitution and system of government, that...