On June 13, the Supreme Court decided Vidal v. Elster, a case about the constitutionality of the Lanham Act’s Names Clause. The…
On June 13, 1866, the House approved a Senate-proposed version of the 14th Amendment, sending it to the states for approval. Two…
Today marks the 229th anniversary of Benjamin Franklin’s death, which drew many different responses from the citizens of…
The only people who may have actually believed the Supreme Court was getting out of the abortion issue by eliminating the…
On this day in 1793, young inventor Eli Whitney had his U.S. patent for the cotton gin approved, an invention that would…
It was on this day in 1789 that the federal government started to operate under the terms of the U.S. Constitution, as the…
On this day in 1917, President Woodrow Wilson learned of a shocking piece of paper that made America’s entry into World War I…
On this day in 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt issued his most-controversial executive order, an act that sent more than…
On February 5, 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt shocked America by introducing a plan to expand the Supreme Court, to gain…
On February 2, 1848 the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was signed in Mexico without President James K. Polk’s knowledge. The United…
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