This Video Explains Judicial Branch and Making Law

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This Video Explains Obscene Speech and the 1st Amendment

This Video Explains the Rational Basis Review - Minimum Rationality

This Video Explains Public Law and Private Law

This Video Explains Standards of Constitutional Review

Role of Appellate Court in Judicial System

This Video Explains Checks and Balances

This Video Explains Intermediate Scrutiny or Quasi-Strict Scrutiny

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This Video Explains Appeals to the US Supreme Court

Discover the courage of Claudette Colvin and Ruby Bridges, two young girls who stood against segregation. Learn how their actions during the Civil Rights era helped pave the way for school desegregation and inspired a movement for...

The U.S. Supreme Court decides if laws made in the United States violate the Constitution or not. It’s called judicial review and it’s a power that was granted to the Supreme Court by the Supreme Court itself – thanks to a landmark case...

Every country on Earth is run by some form of government – but there are many different kinds, from autocracies and oligarchies to direct and representative democracies.

"The Living Guide for Freedom" examines the U.S. Constitution as a living document by analyzing its evolution through the fifteenth, nineteenth, twenty-fourth, and twenty-sixth amendments.

In episode 34 of Supreme Court Briefs, state troopers find an illegal sawed-off shotgun in the car of two gangsters, which leads to the only Supreme Court case about the Second Amendment of the 20th century.

In episode 20 of Supreme Court Briefs, high school students want to start a Bible Study Club, but their principal won't let them, saying it breaks the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.

Historian David Hollinger (UC Berkeley) disagrees with those who claim that the United States is a counter-example to Weberian secularization theory.

In his video, UC Berkeley's David Hollinger explains why the United States remains more religiously oriented than its industrialized counterparts in Europe. He argues that despite similarities in industrialization, the US maintains a...

The Living Guide for Freedom examines the U.S. Constitution as a living document by analyzing its evolution through the Fifteenth, Nineteenth, Twenty-Fourth, and Twenty-Sixth Amendments.

Plessy v. Ferguson was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that established the legal doctrine of “separate but equal”. It was a ruling that enabled many states to enact racial segregation laws for decades to come.

The U.S. Supreme Court decides if laws made in the United States violate the Constitution or not. It’s called judicial review and it’s a power that was granted to the Supreme Court by the Supreme Court itself – thanks to a landmark case...

Every country on Earth is run by some form of government – but there are many different kinds, from autocracies and oligarchies to direct and representative democracies.

My teacher stab at explaining the argument for the 14th amendment being used in relationship to the Debt Ceiling. "An educated citizenry is a vital requisite for our survival as a free people." ~Thomas Jefferson