Senate Debate on the Platt Amendment
Mr. President, I do not know whether we are proposing to require Cuba to adopt a constitution with such addendum to it in the shape of an amendment or an ordinance, or whether we are making a...
View Article“The Presidency; Making an Old Party Progressive”
Chapter X in An Autobiography On September 6, 1901, President McKinley was shot by an Anarchist in the city of Buffalo. I went to Buffalo at once. The President’s condition seemed to be improving, and...
View ArticleWorcester v. Georgia
MARSHALL, C.J., Opinion of the Court Mr Chief Justice MARSHALL delivered the opinion of the Court. This cause, in every point of view in which it can be placed, is of the deepest interest. The...
View ArticleAddress to Congress on Program for Economic Recovery
Mr. Speaker, Mr. President, distinguished Members of the Congress, honored guests, and fellow citizens: I have no words to express my appreciation for that greeting. I have come to speak to you...
View ArticleAddress to the Nation on Iran Arms and Contra Aid
My fellow Americans: I’ve spoken to you from this historic office on many occasions and about many things. The power of the Presidency is often thought to reside within this Oval Office. Yet it...
View ArticleRemarks at Moscow State University
The President. Thank you, Rector Logunov, and I want to thank all of you very much for a very warm welcome. It’s a great pleasure to be here at Moscow State University, and I want to thank you all for...
View ArticleFireside Chat on the Recovery Program
After the adjournment of the historical special session of the Congress five weeks ago I purposely refrained from addressing you for two very good reasons. First, I think that we all wanted the...
View ArticleRoe v. Wade
A pregnant single woman (Roe) brought a class action challenging the constitutionality of the Texas criminal abortion laws, which proscribe procuring or attempting an abortion except on medical advice...
View ArticleFugitive Slave Act 1850
Section 1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the persons who have been, or may hereafter be, appointed commissioners,...
View ArticleBetts v. Brady
The petitioner was indicted for robbery in the Circuit Court of Carroll County, Maryland. Due to lack of funds [316 U.S. 455, 457] he was unable to employ counsel, and so informed the judge at his...
View ArticleMcCulloch v. Maryland
Congress has power to incorporate a bank. The Act of the 10th of April, 1816, ch. 44, to "incorporate the subscribers to the Bank of the United States" is a law made in pursuance of the Constitution....
View ArticleMarbury v. Madison
At the December Term, 1801, William Marbury, Dennis Ramsay, Robert Townsend Hooe, and William Harper, by their counsel, severally moved the court for a rule to James Madison, Secretary of State of the...
View ArticleFullilove v. Klutznick
Federal law required that a percentage of local public works using federal funds must be awarded to minority groups. The petitioners challenged this law as violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. The...
View ArticleUnited States v. Nixon
Mr. Chief Justice Burger delivered the opinion of the Court. This litigation presents for review the denial of a motion, filed [on] behalf of the [President] in the case of United States v. Mitchell et...
View ArticleBuckley v. Valeo
II. REPORTING AND DISCLOSURE REQUIREMENTS Unlike the limitations on contributions and expenditures imposed by 18 U.S.C. 608 (1970 ed., Supp. IV), the disclosure requirements of the Act, 2 U.S.C. 431 et...
View ArticleAdarand v. Pena Concurrence
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES No. 93-1841 ADARAND CONSTRUCTORS, INC., PETITIONER v. FEDERICO PENA, SECRETARY OF TRANSPORTATION, ET AL. ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS...
View ArticleEverson v. Board of Education of the Township of Ewing Et Al.
A New Jersey statute authorizes its local school districts to make rules and contracts for the transportation of children to and from schools. The appellee, a township board of education, acting...
View ArticleUnited States v. Cruikshank
Source: United States v. Cruikshank, 92 U.S. 542 (1876). Available online from Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School. https://goo.gl/JMfYBc. CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE delivered the opinion of the...
View ArticleDemocracy in Central and Eastern Europe: A Conversation with Peter Schramm
Between October 1989 and October 1991, Mr. Schramm made eight trips to three European countries—Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria—to observe the programs of democratic reform being undertaken there. He...
View ArticleDeclaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
Approved by the National Assembly of France The representatives of the French people, organized as a National Assembly, believing that the ignorance, neglect, or contempt of the rights of man are the...
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