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• Abortion
  ...', it also provided greater opportunity for state legislatures to regulate the manner in which abortions will be conducted. ...ally does not assert jurisdiction. So strongly do these interests permeate the societal landscape that judicial nominees and elected officials are often e
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• Articles of Confederation (full document)
  == ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION == To all to whom these Presents shall come, we the undersigned Delegates of the States affixed to our Names send greeting.
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• Adams, John
  ...the situation, the geography, the commerce, the population, and the forms of government . . . and consider what further federal powers are wanted, and m ...as hard to negotiate on behalf of a union that lacked the power to enforce the treaties it signed.
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• Fourteenth Amendment
  ...nt concerns of the Republican-dominated thirty-ninth Congress that adopted the amendment. === PROVISIONS OF THE AMENDMENT ===
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• Affirmative Action
  ...that race, creed, color, and/or national origin are ignored in the process of hiring and retaining employees. ...in a year, Johnson believed that it was working to level the playing field of employment, since many minorities had long been hobbled by racism and racis
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• Alien and Sedition Acts
  ...Revolution now seemed likely. With these new laws, Federalists would have the power to deport immigrants who were too prominent in Republican causes and ...sponse was to invoke the countervailing force of the states, an early test of American [[federalism]].
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• American Indians and Federalism
  ...status requiring treaties, to an attempt to assimilate native people into the general society by refusing to recognize sovereignty at all. ...s viewed as states, the placement of Indian nations within the U.S. system of federalism has been continuously changing and evolving.
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• Articles of Confederation
  ...ican [[federalism]] retained and strengthened in the [[U.S. Constitution]] of 1787. ...nce until hostilities with Great Britain officially ceased with the Treaty of Paris, signed September 3, 1783, and ratified by Congress on July 14, 1784.
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• Bill of Rights
  ...an historic speech to the House of Representatives in the first session of the First [[U.S. Congress|Congress]] on June 8, 1789. ...ts by the required two-thirds majority of both houses, and sending them to the state legislatures for ratification on September 24, 1789.
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• Bingham, John A.
  ...t position became instrumental in drafting the [[Fourteenth Amendment]] to the [[U.S. Constitution|Constitution]]. ...ment and guarantee federal protection of the [[Civil Rights|civil rights]] of black Americans.
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• Black, Hugo L.
  ...ition at length in a dissent to ''Adamson v. California'' (1947). Although the Court did not embrace this view, it arrived by increments at a similar resu [[File:Black, Hugo L..png|thumb|Hugo L. Black. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.]]
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• Brandeis, Louis D.
  ...ice in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with Samuel Warren. He became a proponent of labor unions and did much pro bono work for various public causes. He marri ...ects on women of working too many hours. When the Court unanimously upheld the law, it paid tribute to Brandeis’s arguments and, even today, briefs that
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• Burger, Warren Earl
  ...nated Burger to be chief justice. He was confirmed by the Senate by a vote of 74–3. ...as part of a right of privacy guaranteed by the [[Due Process Clause]] of the [[Fourteenth Amendment]].
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• Bush v. Gore (2000)
  ...ion]] and federal statutes can supersede state election laws and decisions of state supreme courts interpreting those state laws. ...rge W. Bush, as the winner of that state and its electoral votes. Al Gore, the Democratic candidate, then sued in various Florida state courts for recount
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• Calhoun, John C.
  ...ed home, practiced law, and served as a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1808 to 1809. ...rotect his country’s fledgling industry. Though unknown to Calhoun then, the tariff issue was soon to ignite an inflammatory controversy.
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• Citizenship
  ...n the U.S. Constitution likewise portray an active citizenry consenting to the government it creates. ...d as part of “We the people” because they were only “three-fifths” of a person and hence not whole enough to be citizens.
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• City of Boerne v. Flores (1997)
  ...v. Verner''. Here it was held that government could refuse an exemption to the law for a religious nonconformist only if a “compelling state interest” ...e interest test. This set the stage for the collision between Congress and the Court in ''Flores''.
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• Civil War
  ...onal arrangements, but the chaos and uncertainty of war blurred the nature of those changes. === POLITICAL AND MILITARY CHALLENGES IN THE NORTH ===
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• Clay, Henry
  ...ship placed him in difficult circumstances to win the presidency and build the national consensus he desired for his Whig program. ...tional government powers as essential for securing the economic prosperity of strong national commercial enterprises.
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• Commerce among the States
  ...res. The power to regulate commerce, therefore, grew out of recognition of the need to create a national economic unit that could bargain as a whole with ...tention was on foreign trade, with little discussion of commerce among the states.
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