DOGE was the brainchild of billionaire Elon Musk, who once promised he could find $1 trillion in budget cuts in the Trump ...

In Stinson, a unanimous Court gave great deference to the commentary in sentencing decisions, holding that “the Guidelines ...

Abraham Baldwin represented Georgia at the Constitutional Convention in 1787, and he helped resolve the controversy over large state versus small state representation in the new government. Born in ...

St. John claims the zoning decision placed a “substantial burden” on its First Amendment free exercise rights, citing a ...

The Historic Documents in this set include the primary texts of moral and political philosophy that influenced the Founding generation—written by philosophers and political theorists from classical ...

Jefferson and Madison: From Independence to the Constitution and Bill of Rights Thomas Jefferson, principal author of the Declaration of Independence, and James Madison, a leading architect of the U.S ...

The 1735 trial of John Peter Zenger later shaped the Founding generation’s commitment to a free press. In the 1730s, Zenger published an article criticizing the Royal Governor of New York for removing ...

The Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the Year one thousand eight hundred and ...

President Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969) had served in World Wars I and II, rising through the ranks to become the third five-star General in U.S. history. His popularity exceptional, he was ...

Majority: Gray (author), Brewer, Brown, Shiras, White, Peckham Dissent: Fuller (author), Harlan Justice McKenna took no part in this case. Ratified in 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment opens with the ...

The Historic Documents in this set cover the Civil War and Reconstruction from 1861 to 1877. During this period, Americans engaged in a bloody Civil War and debated how best to reconstruct the nation ...

The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require ...