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The Constitutional Right to Protest at Universities

The recent protests about the Israel-Hamas war at universities around the nation are drawing attention to the most basic of First Amendment rights: the ability to speak freely and assemble in public.

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The Delaware Companion Cases to Brown v. Board

In this look back at the landmark Brown v. Board in 1954 decision about desegregation, Ronald K.L. Collins and Judge Thomas L. Ambro recall the case from Delaware…

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How a college term paper led to a constitutional amendment

The 27th Amendment is the most recent amendment to the Constitution, and its existence today can be traced to a college student who proposed the idea in a term…

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Law Day: 10 famous people who were lawyers

May 1 is Law Day, an event that honors “liberty, justice and equality under law which our forefathers bequeathed” to the United States. Learn more about 10…

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The most underrated Founding Father: Oliver Ellsworth?

On the anniversary of Oliver Ellsworth’s birth, Constitution Daily looks back an important founder who helped forge a compromise that led to the Constitution,…

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