Amendment 14
Under the guise of granting citizenship to all persons, this unconstitutional amendment was one of three amendments passed during the Reconstruction era to abolish slavery …
Rights / Laws
Vidal v. Girard
Stephen Girard, a French immigrant, died in Philadelphia. His estate of over $7 million dollars was left with the stipulation that it be used to …
Firearm Registration
As any student of history knows, gun control figures prominently in the designs of totalitarian states. These features recur: (1) Centralization of the police force …
Scopes Monkey Trial
This trial was an important educational milestone regarding the teaching of the theory of evolution in public schools. Scopes, who was conned into being the accused teacher (claims he …
Amendment 1
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the …
Roe v. Wade
On January 22, 1973, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in Roe v. Wade. That same day, the Court also decided Doe v. Bolton. …
Amendment 2
The amendment was ratified by the States and authenticated by Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson as: “A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of …
Molon Labe
meaning “come and take them“, is a classical expression of defiance. The origin of the phrase is intricately tied to the Battle of Thermopylae. There, …
Freedom of Information Act
The Congress enacted FOIA to allow the public to gain information about governmental agency operations and to prevent the government from operating under a veil …
Impeachment and Removal
the two steps in taking a high government official, such as a president or a judge, from his position. The first step, impeachment, is a …