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Here are 15 significant cases interpreting the Constitution by the US Supreme Court with their case citations and key holdings: Marbury v. Madison (1803) Established the principle of judicial review,…
Article V: Amendment Process (1787) The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures…
The Federalist Papers, a cornerstone of American political philosophy, are a collection of 85 articles and essays written under the pseudonym “Publius.” Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay were…
A Step Back in Time Imagine traveling back to the summer of 1787 in Philadelphia, where significant history was unfolding. The Pennsylvania State House, now known as Independence Hall, served…
Although the Confederation Congress may have had little authority and did very little, it did one thing very well in passing the Northwest Ordinance to set up the future states…
In a room where ostensibly nothing happened, the Annapolis Convention of 1786 quietly set the stage for a monumental shift in American history. In the aftermath of the Revolutionary War,…
Document 5 on our path to the Founding of the American Republic was Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense.” But, Document 6 in our list, the Declaration of Independence, was America’s point…
Introduction “Common Sense,” a pamphlet by Thomas Paine published in January 1776, stands as one of the most influential writings in American history. Amidst the tumultuous events of the American…
This is the fourth installment of historical antecedents to the Constitution of the United States. Prior documents were: the Magna Carta, the Mayflower Compact, the English Bill of Rights, and…
This is my third article on the historical antecedents of the United States Constitution. The Magna Carta and the Mayflower Compact have previously been addressed, plus a stop-over into the…