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Battle for the Constitution: Week of July 5th, 2021 Roundup

by NCC Staff

Here is a round-up of the latest from the Battle for the Constitution: a special project on the constitutional debates in…

Battle for the Constitution: Week of July 5th, 2021 Roundup
Battle for the Constitution: Week of June 21st, 2021 Roundup

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Here is a round-up of the latest from the Battle for the Constitution: a special project on the constitutional debates in American…

Battle for the Constitution: Week of June 21st, 2021 Roundup
Juneteenth Joins List of Federal Holidays

by NCC Staff

President Joseph Biden signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act into law on Thursday, adding Juneteenth to the list of…

Juneteenth Joins List of Federal Holidays
On this day: Supreme Court rejects race-based marriage laws

by NCC Staff

On June 12, 1967, the Supreme Court issued its Loving v. Virginia decision, which struck down laws that banned marriages between…

On this day: Supreme Court rejects race-based marriage laws
Another race case knocks on the U.S. Supreme Court’s door

by Marcia Coyle

Although the U.S. Supreme Court’s term has not ended, its next term is already shaping up as a potential blockbuster with…

Another race case knocks on the U.S. Supreme Court’s door
Battle for the Constitution: Week of May 24th, 2021 Roundup

by NCC Staff

Here is a round-up of the latest from the Battle for the Constitution: a special project on the constitutional debates in American…

Battle for the Constitution: Week of May 24th, 2021 Roundup
Battle for the Constitution: Week of May 17th, 2021 Roundup

by NCC Staff

Here is a round-up of the latest from the Battle for the Constitution, a special project on the constitutional debates in American…

Battle for the Constitution: Week of May 17th, 2021 Roundup
Looking back at the Ku Klux Klan Act

by Nicholas Mosvick

The Ku Klux Klan Act may be a law from the Reconstruction era, but it still relevant today as a way to address modern civil rights…

Looking back at the Ku Klux Klan Act
Elizabeth Freeman, her case for freedom, and the Massachusetts Constitution

by Alexandra "Mac" Taylor

Almost a decade before the U.S. Constitution was signed into law, the first African American woman to successfully file a lawsuit…

Elizabeth Freeman, her case for freedom, and the Massachusetts Constitution
Constitutional powers and issues during a quarantine situation

by Scott Bomboy

The growing concerns about the coronavirus in the United States could lead to government officials considering isolation and…

Constitutional powers and issues during a quarantine situation
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