Daniel Webster was one of the seminal figures of 19th century America as an orator and politician. Perhaps less known is…
On March 2, 1824, the Supreme Court ruled in Gibbons v. Ogden, holding that Congress may regulate interstate commerce.
On May 28, 1935, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down an important part of President Franklin Roosevelt’s NIRA plan, when the…
On May 11, 1894, several thousand train workers started an unannounced strike at the Pullman Company in Illinois. Over the next…
One of the broadest acts of presidential power happened on this day in 1917, when President Woodrow Wilson issued an order for the…
The growing concerns about the coronavirus in the United States could lead to government officials considering isolation and…
A decade after enactment of the Affordable Care Act, more commonly known as Obamacare, the U.S. Supreme Court is being asked once…
The late Justice Byron White famously said that with each new justice, there is a new Supreme Court. Americans soon will be able…
The long-running dispute over the constitutionality of the massive federal health insurance law – the Affordable Care Act, or…
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