“It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.” Petitioner John F. Tinker, 15 years old, and ...

The Tenth Circuit said the program complied with the Supreme Court’s 1990 decision in Employment Division v. Smith, rejecting ...

A challenge to a formula used by a county outside of Washington, D.C., to determine who can attend public magnet schools ...

The National Constitution Center today announced that its Board of Trustees has appointed Hiram E. Chodosh, President ...

This program is presented in partnership with The Journal of the Civil War Era. Robert D. Bland is associate professor of history at the University of Tennessee. He is the author of Requiem for ...

In 1838, Abraham Lincoln delivered this address to the Young Men’s Lyceum, a debating society in Springfield, Illinois, in the wake of growing mob violence, including the 1837 killing of abolitionist ...

The Magna Carta, or “Great Charter,” established that there are laws even the king must obey—an idea we’ve come to call “the rule of law.” JOHN, by the grace of God King of England, Lord of Ireland, ...

John Trenchard (1662-1723) and Thomas Gordon (1692-1750) were co-authors of Cato’s Letters (1720-23). Trenchard was a radical Whig. In the 1690s, during the Standing Army Controversy, he wrote two ...

The joint resolution creating [the Joint Committee on Reconstruction] intrusted them with a very important inquiry, an inquiry involving a vast deal of attention and labor. They were instructed to ...

Mercy Otis Warren was deeply connected in the world of Massachusetts Revolutionary politics. The sibling of James Otis, she became friends and regular correspondents with many of the state’s leaders, ...

William Blackstone (1723-80) was the author of A Discourse on the Study of Law (1758), Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765-69), and other works. These works were for the most part based on ...